RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – July 25, 2011
TODAY: Kremlin offers support to Norway, bomber praises Putin; Quadriga prize for PM; helicopter crash kills 3, final Bulgaria death toll; Berezovsky praises English justice following divorce; party myths; city managers; Chelyabinsk seeks to mask poor ecology record; Solzhenitsyn short stories to be published in English; synchronized swim winnings.
The Kremlin has offered Norway its assistance in investigating the ultranationalist bomber who killed 93 people last Friday. A manifesto written by Anders Breivik, who orchestrated the attack, apparently praises Vladimir Putin as a ‘fair and decisive leader, deserving of respect’. Putin has been awarded Germany’s Quadriga prize for state wisdom and bravery, giving Alexei Bayer ‘a good laugh’. Three people were killed this morning in a Mi-8 helicopter crash in Kamchatka. The final death toll of the Bulgaria is 122, after rescuers removed the last remaining bodies from the wreckage; further details of the tragedy have emerged. President Dmitry Medvedev apparently wants to create a computer game that would mingle World of Warcraft with Russian history.