Krasnodar, Russia News

The editor of a paper in south Russia's Krasnodar Territory is to stand trial on charges of extremism after publishing an allegedly racist poem, prosecutors said on Friday.

The bank's comments came as a federal commission was announcing its plans for modernizing Russia's ailing auto industry and two days before President Dmitry Medvedev's second state-of-the-nation address, which is widely expected to focus on economic and political modernization.

Routine falsification of evidence. Pressure to arrest the innocent. Poor working conditions.

Alexei Dymovsky, a police major in the Krasnodar region city of Novorossiisk, said Sunday on Ekho Moskvy radio that he fears for his life and his family after his video addresses to the prime minister became an Internet sensation over the weekend.

African swine fever hit Russia's southern Rostov Region in late September, and then spread to the neighboring Republic of Kalmykia.

The issue is the largest Russian secondary share offering since the financial crisis hit in the summer of last year, and only the second to take place after steelmaker Evraz raised $315 million in July.

Carrefour/Russia: Two stores and you're out. The decision by Carrefour to pull out of Russia comes as a surprise.

The surprise announcement came as the Paris-based retailer reported a third straight drop in quarterly sales and amid reports that it was under pressure from shareholders to sell assets in emerging markets.

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky . OREANDA-NEWS . October 14, 2009. Vladivostok Air has held yet another fourth presentation of its plans.

One of the few things that all residents of the South Caucasus have in common is a love of tea.

Russian farmers have harvested 77.4 million tonnes of grain up to date, which is 19.7 million tonnes less than by the same date in 2008, an official at the Russian Agriculture Ministry said on Wednesday.

The VIII International Investment Forum will open in Sochi on Thursday. 'Exhibition pavilions have already been installed,' a source at the forum's technical direction told Itar-Tass. By tradition, the opening ceremony will be held in the Winter Theatre.

Russian Grain Union and APE-Inform Agency offer an invitation to take part in the third international conference "Grain of Russia - 2009" Despite the crisis, Russia continues strengthening own positions on the world market of grains.

Novorossiisk prosecutors have embraced a fictitious CIA document to justify their case to close a small human rights group on extremism charges.

During January-August of 2009, the port Temruk decreased transshipment of cargoes by 7.68% compared to the same period of the previous year - to 1.48 mln tonnes, declared Taman subsidiary of the Federal state unitary enterprise "Rosmorport" . During the reporting period, the port overloaded 74.972 tonnes of saw-timber, 88.688 tonnes of products of ...

Rice growers of Krasnodar Krai , which produce over 80% of Russian rice, offer to limit imports of milled rice grits and increase imports of unpolished rice.

France's Carrefour launched its second Russian store on Thursday with a pledge to pursue acquisitions in the country, and said the crisis had not changed its long-term vision of the market.

The board of directors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development approved on Tuesday a loan of up to 240 million euros to LUKoil, Russiaa s largest independent crude producer.

Russia's newest airline launched this week with four destinations from Moscow Vnukovo - Rostov-On-Don, Samara, Sochi/Adler and Krasnodar.

Senior Military Officer Gets 6 Years for Spying for Georgia The Moscow Times A senior military officer was sentenced to six years in a maximum-security prison in the Krasnodar region on Friday for spying for Georgia ahead of last year's brief war.