Main News of May 11

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

*Rescuers brought out twelve bodies on Friday from a crash site where a Sukhoi Superjet 100 airliner went down in Indonesia on Wednesday, a minister coordinating the search teams said.

*The United States and NATO will proceed with its European missile defense program despite Russia’s concerns while continuing to seek Moscow’s cooperation on the issue, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Gordon said.

*The Russian Foreign Ministry criticized Estonian authorities who annulled a Shengen visa of Russian journalist Igor Korotchenko after he arrived in Tallinn last week to participate in a media conference, the ministry said.

 

RUSSIA

*The U.S. penitentiary authority has ordered transferring convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout from his Brooklyn jail to a super maximum security prison in Colorado, defense lawyer Andrei Garkusha told RIA Novosti.

*When Occupy activists began setting up camps across world capitals last fall, there seemed little prospect of the movement spreading to Russia, where a no-nonsense police force and a weak and divided opposition – not to mention the weather – appeared to present insurmountable obstacles to any form of prolonged, public protest.

*Billionaire and past presidential hopeful Mikhail Prokhorov weighed in on the ongoing standoff between the opposition and authorities in Moscow, calling it “a dialogue between the deaf and the blind.”

*A Russian election official said less than one-fifth of voter complaints over alleged electoral violations during March's presidential polls has been confirmed.

*Grim graphic images depicting the impact of smoking on human health will appear on all cigarette packs in Russia starting in May 2013, the Health and Social Development Ministry said.

 

BUSINESS

*Vnukovo-Invest, a co-owner of Moscow’s Vnukovo airport, is ready to invest 27 billion rubles ($893.1 million) in construction of a second runway at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport, and wants to establish joint management of Domodedovo with the current operator, Kommersant business daily reported.