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Russia to Test Whether Its Internet Can Be Disconnected From the Rest of the World Photo: Thomas Kronsteiner (Getty) Internet providers in Russia are preparing to conduct exercises that will help the nation build a path toward possible internet independence, according to Russian news reports. Russian news outlet RosBiznesKonsalting reported the tests were set in motion by a proposed law called the Digital Economy National Program, which parliament introduced last December. The tests should help Russian authorities determine if data used by Russian users can stay within the Russian borders. ZDNet and BBC …

Russia-China trade hits record $59bn in first half of 2014 Reuters / Sergei Ilnitsky / Pool 895210 The EU remains Russia's biggest trading partner and made up half of all trade worth $263.3 billion in the first half of 2014, but China remains the strongest single trade partner at $59.1 billion, Russia’s statistics bureau announced Monday.Russia’s recent trade figures show strengthening ties eastwards, not westwards. Trade with the 28-nation European Union declined 3.2 percent from the same period last year, whereas trade with China increased by 3.4 percent. China is Russia’s second-biggest trading partner after the EU, and total trade between the …

Russia's Seaborne Oil Flows Jump to 4 Million Barrels a Day Crude flows from Russian ports soared in the week to April 22 The Kremlin’s revenue from crude oil export duty jumped by 25% Source: Getty Images By Julian Lee Asia is still snapping up cheap Russian oil that European buyers don’t want. Seaborne exports of the nation’s crude rebounded in the seven days to April 22. One-fifth of the volume shipped from ports on the Black Sea, Baltic and Arctic coasts is on tank…

Russia’s Defence Ministry Revealed More Details on Ukraine’s Biolabs Yesterday, on May 11, Russia’s Ministry of Defence had a briefing on the results of the analysis of documents related to the US military biological activities on the territory of Ukraine, as the Ministry continues to study materials on the implementation of military biological programs of the US and its NATO allies on the territory of the country. The Ministry reminded that earlier, Robert Pope, director of the Cooperative Threat Reduction Programme and author of the idea of the Central Depository of Highly Dangerous Microorganisms in Kiev has already been mentioned in…

Russian banks are planning a switch to China's card payment system after Mastercard and Visa halted operations, reports say A credit card with UnionPay and VISA logos. Martin Chan/South China Morning Post via Getty Images Russian banks are making the switch as Mastercard and Visa suspended operations. China's card system, UnionPay, provides access to making payments in over 180 countries. Some banks could issue cards with UnionPay alongside the …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Exclusive With India Today's Geeta Mohan

The Sinhala Navy was enthusiastically arranging sporting and cultural events for the crew of Perekop, a naval training vessel of the Russian Baltic fleet, which docked at Hambantota port operated by China, a day after Gotabaya Rajapaksa was sworn in as the SL President. “India is likely to welcome this decision since it has been concerned over the use of the strategically located port by the Chinese Navy and has been desirous of Russia expanding its presence in the Indo-Pacific region to make it more inclusive,” observed Mumbai-based The Economic Times in a news report published on Friday. Perekop, with the 399-member crew, started its four-ocean visit from Kronstadt…

MOSCOW/WASHINGTON - Russia sent the United States medical equipment on Wednesday to help fight the coronavirus pandemic, a public relations coup for Russian President Vladimir Putin after he discussed the crisis with U.S. President Donald Trump. Trump, struggling to fill shortages of ventilators and personal protective equipment, accepted Putin's offer in a phone call on Monday. A Russian military transport plane left an airfield outside Moscow and arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy airport in late afternoon on Wednesday. A Russian Aerospace Forces plane carrying medical equipment lands at John F. Kennedy International Airport on April 1, 2020.TASS / TASS…

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Sri Lanka's government is one of the world's worst perpetrators of enforced disappearances, US-based pressure group Human Rights Watch (HRW) says. An HRW report accuses security forces and pro-government militias of abducting and "disappearing" hundreds of people since 2006. Many of the missing are young Tamil men targeted on suspicion of links to Tamil Tiger rebels, HRW says. Sri Lanka's government says HRW has exaggerated the scale of the problem. Foreign Secretary Palitha Kohona says there has been a "steady decline in disappearances over the last 12 months" because of new measures taken by the government. "Unfortunately Human Rights Watch…

United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPF) member of Parliament and Government Minister S B Dissanayake today blamed former President Mahinda Rajapaksa for the loss suffered by the UPFA at the last election. Dissanayake said that Rajapaksa should not have contested the Parliamentary election which the UPFA eventually lost by a slim margin. He noted that Rajapaksa failed to get the full support of the Muslims, Tamils and Catholics. The Minister, speaking to reporters in Kandy today, said that if President Maithripala Sirisena led the UPFA campaign instead of Rajapaksa the UPFA would have secured more votes and regained the votes it lost even at the Presidential election. …

EXCLUSIVE - S.Lanka monitors fear more violence, blame both sides Sat Apr 15, 2006 2:32 PM IST By Peter Apps BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Sri Lanka faces the spectre of worsening violence and neither government nor Tamil Tiger rebels have shown commitment to peace talks, the head of the international truce monitoring team said on Saturday. The Nordic-staffed unarmed Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM), tasked with monitoring a strained 2002 truce, was to have escorted a convoy of Tamil Tiger leaders to their de facto capital but the rebels cancelled the trip and announced they would not go to planned talks in Switzerland. "I'm worried about the sit…

S.Lanka president may ban rebels if attacks go on 17 Dec 2007 16:48:04 GMT Source: Reuters (Updates with analyst comment, details) By Simon Gardner COLOMBO, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka may outlaw the Tamil Tigers if the rebels continue to mount large-scale attacks, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said on Monday, a move that would put the prospect of renewed peace talks further out of reach. "One or two more attacks, we have no option," Rajapaksa told reporters after hosting a Christmas gala in the capital Colombo. "(We will) have to ban." "There is a limit to our patience, our tolerance." He said he would seek peace while continuing to fi…

By Shihar Aneez COLOMBO, June 10 (Reuters) - A little known Sri Lankan rebel group claimed responsibility on Tuesday for recent bomb attacks on transport vehicles as revenge for what it said were government attacks and aerial bombings on innocent Tamil civilians. The military has blamed Tamil Tiger rebels for a series of train and bus blasts in capital Colombo and central Sri Lanka in which at least 32 people were killed and over 100 wounded. "We want to claim that we are responsible for the bomb attacks on the transport vehicles and other attacks," Ellalan Force, which the military says is a Tiger-linked group, said in an e-mail to Reuters. The attack…

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's ruling party unveiled devolution proposals on Monday aimed at ending the island's two-decade civil war, but Tamil Tiger rebels dismissed them and analysts said they were doomed to fail. President Mahinda Rajapaksa's ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) wants to devolve power at district rather than a higher level and insists on rebel disarmament, according to the text seen by Reuters. By contrast, Tamil Tiger rebels fighting for an independent state want a separate homeland for minority Tamils -- which Rajapaksa flatly rules out -- and have repeatedly warned they will not lay down arms. The rebels and the military are locked…

Sack The Political Thug! The year 2007 ended for the country in a tragicomedy. Tragic it was because the scenes at the Rupavahini studios on Thursday involving a minister of state accompanied by his 'bodyguard' - a double murder suspect released on bail - was a disgrace to any self-respecting nation, particularly one which boasts of an ancient civilisation and culture. The comedy was that the pint-sized comedian and his bodyguard were served their just desserts however unpalatable it may have been by the staff of the government's main propaganda institution which has the most trusted personnel of the ruling party. While violence in any form cannot be condoned …

Saddam must be hanged within 30 days:- Court. Iraq's highest appeals court on Tuesday upheld Saddam Hussein's death sentence and said he must be hanged within 30 days for the killing of 148 Shiites in the central city of Dujail. The sentence "must be implemented within 30 days," chief judge Aref Shahin said. "From tomorrow, any day could be the day of implementation." On Nov. 5, an Iraqi court sentenced Saddam to the gallows for ordering the 1982 killings following an attempt on his life. Under Iraqi law, the appeals court decision must be ratified by President Jalal Talabani and Iraq's two vice presidents. Talabani opposes the death penalty but h…

DHARMAPURAM ADHINAM SAIVA SIDDHANTHAM An Explication And Assessment By Scholars The World Over Edited by Sekkizhaar Adi-Podi T.N.RAMACHANDRAN MAX MULLER AND SAIVA SIDDHANTHAM (Gold needs no gilding; neither does liy, painting. It will be presumptuous on our part to introduce Max Muller to scholars. Max Muller was born in Germany; he chose to settle down in England; his heart, however, was ever in India. By the time he became alive to the glories of Tamil Saivism he was too old to master it. Hence his exhoratation, extracted hereunder. Ed.) ... ... Such journals as the Pandit, the Brahmavadin, the Light of Truth, and lately the Journal…

[size="7"]SAIVA THIRUMURAIS[/size] The Pallava period in the history of Tamil land is a period of religious revival of Hinduism by the Saiva Nayanmars who by their bhakti-cult captured the minds of people. They made a tremendous impression on the people by singing the praise of Lord Siva in soul-stirring devotional hymns. The Saiva Tirumurais are twelve in number and the word Tirumurai means 'sacred book'. The first seven Tirumurais are the hymns of the three great Saivite saints. These hymns were the best musical composition of their age. The first three Tirumurais are the extempore compositions ofSt. Thirugnana Sambanthar. The fourth, the fifth and the sixth Tirumu…

உ SIVAMAYAM THIRUCHITRAMBALAM Saiva Vinna Vidai Sri Arumuga Navalar Nature of God 1. Who is God of the world? Shivaperuman 2. Of what nature is Shivaperuman? He is eternal, omnipresent, beginninglessly taintless, omniscient, doer of everything, always blissful and independent. 3. What are the meanings of the Tamil words "Nithiyar" etc? "Nithiyar" = eternal "Saruvaviyaapakar"= omnipresent "Anaathimalamuththar" = by nature without "paasa" or taint "Saruvaggnar" = omniscient "Saruvakarththaa" = doer of everything "Niththiyaananthar" = always blissful "Suvathanthirar" = independent …

Nature of God 1. Who is God of the world? Shivaperuman 2. Of what nature is Shivaperuman? He is eternal, omnipresent, beginninglessly taintless, omniscient, doer of everything, always blissful and independent. 3. What are the meanings of the Tamil words "Nithiyar" etc? "Nithiyar" = eternal "Saruvaviyaapakar"= omnipresent "Anaathimalamuththar" = by nature without "paasa" or taint "Saruvaggnar" = omniscient "Saruvakarththaa" = doer of everything "Niththiyaananthar" = always blissful "Suvathanthirar" = independent 4. What are the activities of Shivaperuman? They are five, namely, creation, mai…

Samantha Shanthini Ratnam's inaugural speech to the Victorian Parliament

Sambanthan and Vigneswaren reach out to President Rajapakse by Harim Peiris Photo courtesy @PresRajapaksa On Monday 7th October, the Tamil National Alliance, the only political party in the country to have comprehensively defeated the UPFA and captured power in the Northern Province, creating the first ever opposition controlled provincial council since the Peoples’ Alliance victory in the Southern Provincial Council in 1993, which also heralded the end of UNP rule an year later, politically reached out and magnanimously decided that it’s Chief Minister designate, retired Supreme Court Justice CV Wigneswaren should take his oath of office before President Mahinda …

Sampanthan off to India TNA Parliamentary group leader R. Sampathan left for India yesterday after the Indian Government wanted him and a few others to come over to India immediately. It is learnt that MP Mavai Senadhiraja is scheduled to meet Mr. Sampathan there Thanks http://www.dailymirror.lk/