Archive for May, 2007
A new videoblog signed by George Moisescu (the 2006 winner of the Romanian PR Awards)
Click here to see what Geo has to say about the local wine brands…
BOEING
Russian airline S7, formerly called Sibir, has signed a $2.4 billion contract for 15 Boeing 787 “Dreamliner” (BA.N: Quote, Profile, Research planes, Russia’s Interfax news agency quoted a company statement as saying on Tuesday.
It said the deal also included an option for 10 more Dreamliners.
Last month the company signed a $705 million deal with Boeing, ordering 10 Boeing 737-800s and securing purchase rights for another 10 of the same model.
A spokesman for S7 told Reuters he was unaware that any press release had been issued and declined to make any comment. S7 is scheduled to hold a news conference later on Tuesday | more…
AIRBUS
Finnair took delivery from Airbus of its first long-range A340-300E (E for Enhanced), the first of an initial order of three placed in December 2005. Since, Finnair has increased its order for Airbus long haul aircraft, adding seven A330/A340s and 11 A350XWBs. The A350XWB is Airbus’ latest medium capacity long range airliner and will join Finnair’s fleet in 2014.
The A340-300Es will replace Finnair’s MD11 fleet and will be put into service on its long-haul destinations to Asia. Finnair’s new A340-300E will accommodate 269 passengers in a very comfortable two-class cabin configuration (42 in Business, 227 in Economy).
Finnair started operating a pre-owned A340-300 in June 2006 | more…
First…
A senior British diplomat has been beaten by two unidentified assailants while on an official trip in provincial Russia. Nigel Gould-Davies, first secretary at the British embassy in Moscow, was attacked at 1am on Saturday as he walked across the theatre square in the Siberian city of Chita, police said.
Mr Gould-Davies needed hospital treatment for bruises to his face. His glasses were broken in the attack and he was unable to see his assailants, police said.The beating is the second assault on Britons in Russia in two days, and follows an attack on Sunday by anti-homosexual protesters on the British human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell. Mr Tatchell was punched, knocked to the ground, and kicked while protesting about gay rights with a group of European parliamentarians. Yesterday embassy officials described the attack on Mr Gould-Davies as a random assault carried out by drunken teenagers celebrating the end of the school year… The Guardian
And then…
Britain’s ambassador to Moscow yesterday delivered a request for the extradition of the man suspected of murdering former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in London.
Last week the Crown Prosecution Service said there was enough evidence to charge Russian businessman Andrei Lugovoi with the murder.Mr Litvinenko, a vehement critic of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, died on November 23 2006, after being poisoned with radioactive polonium-210.
The British ambassador, Anthony Brenton, submitted the extradition request to the foreign ministry in Moscow, a spokesman said. “I can confirm that today the ambassador submitted to the Russian foreign ministry papers requesting the extradition of Mr Lugovoi,” an embassy spokesman said… The Guardian
