Russian Robots Lack Investment - TV
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The Russian government does not allocate enough money for the Russian space robotics, said Vitaliy Lopota, the director and chief constructor of the St Petersburg Institute of Robotics and Technical Cybernetics, as shown by Russian RBK TV "Intrigue of the Day" programme on 29 January.
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MOSCOW -- President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that Russian television was polluting young people's minds with cheap imports and urged broadcasters to embrace wholesome home-grown entertainment instead.
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MOSCOW  - A Russian mob boss, fed up  with the "unrealistic mafia shows" usually shown on television  has taken matters into his own hands by creating his own  series.
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Russia on Wednesday expressed regret  that Europe's main election watchdog turned down concessions in  a dispute with Moscow over the monitoring of next month's  presidential vote, Itar-Tass news agency reported.
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A Russian mob boss fed up with "unrealistic mafia shows" has written his own TV series - starring himself.  Plus other entertainment news in brief.
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Ukrainian First Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Mykola Azarov said the state budget has failed to receive about 1.15 billion hryvni in revenues due to the current political crisis.
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Industry experts say that the financial trouble of one of the biggest Chinese makers of television sets will not affect the market much.
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MOSCOW  - A politically charged attack on the Yukos oil company and the government's apparent indecision over the country's economic course have hampered investment in Russia, the World Bank said Monday in a report that stopped short of blaming the government for a summer slowdown in the economy.
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Children's television is back  on the agenda in Russia thanks to booming advertising sales  that now are worth about $3 billion annually, plus the growth  of niche channels and a helpful shove from the Kremlin.
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Jailed tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, believed to be Russia's richest man, says he doesn't have enough cash to bail out the Yukos oil company from its back taxes troubles.
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Russia&#39;s Svobodny space centre, used in recent years to launch US and Israeli satellites, will be shut down Russian media reported on Wednesday.
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âMoreover, these will be things which do not exist and are unlikely to exist in other nuclear powers,â he added. Putin failed to specify what type of systems he was referring to but Russia has been seeking
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While few people in the region see any imminent prospect of Russian tanks roaring back towards central Europe, there is a sense of unease about the direction chosen by Mr Putin.
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Investor's Business Daily - Could Russia's hypergrowth in cellular subscribers start slowing?
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One of the biggest complaints made by opposition candidates in Ukraine's presidential election campaign has been lack of access to mass media.
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Russia is to invest more than $5bn extra in its security services to help combat terrorism. Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, who announced the move, said the fight against terror would be a top budget priority in 2005.
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The picture is grainy and the technology won't last, but TV programming is here to stay.