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MEAN STREETS MEDIA
Saturday, March 21, 2015
Drills on liquidation of simulated subversive group start in Russia's Kuriles
MOSCOW, March 20. /TASS/. Russian military are conducting anti-sabotage military drills in Russia's Far-Eastern Kuril Islands as part of command and staff exercises, head of the Eastern Military District's press service Oleg Gordeyev told TASS.
Around 500 servicemen and 100 units of military hardware, including four Mil Mi-8AMTSH are taking part in the drills.
Russia to upgrade 10 multi-purpose nuclear submarines by 2020 — Navy chief
MOSCOW, March 19. /TASS/. Russia’s Zvyozdochka shipyard in the country’s northwest and the Zvezda Far Eastern plant will be able to modernize about ten project 971 and project 949A nuclear submarines, Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Chirkov said on Thursday.
"This actually means recommissioning a grouping of multi-purpose nuclear submarines with upgraded characteristics, which will operate in the Northern and Pacific Fleets," the Navy chief said on occasion of Submariner Day, which Russia is celebrating on Thursday.
The requirements for modernizing these submarines were clearly formulated by the Defense Ministry and the Navy’s command and work is proceeding under the Navy’s daily control, Chirkov said.
Profound modernization will leave only the hulls of these submarines intact, the Navy chief said.
100-Year-Old Woman Released from Kenyan Prison after Campaign for Her Release
NAIROBI – A 100-year-old woman was released from prison in the central Kenyan town of Embu, where she was serving a three-month sentence for illegal appropriation of land, after a campaign on social media platforms called for her release, local media reported on Friday.Hundreds of users from social networks showed their solidarity with the campaign by sharing the hashtag, #SaveJailed100yrGranny, calling for her release.
The old woman was jailed on March 10 for failing to implement a court order requiring her to give away two hectares (just under 5 acres) of land to an individual who filed a claim that she had illegally taken the plot.
After spending nine days in jail, a Nairobi County senator, Mike Sonko, paid her bail of 100,000 shillings (just over $1,000) to release the elderly woman, who was able to leave the prison on Thursday, said local newspaper Daily Nation.
The Sonko Rescue Team, a group of volunteers who work under the senator for community service in Nairobi, will perform a complete medical checkup on the woman to ensure that she is stable.
Imprisoning a woman of her age was described as “immoral” and “embarrassing” by many Kenyans on various Twitter accounts.
Meanwhile, an Embu County senator, Lenny Kivuti, announced that he will donate another 100,000 shillings (about $1,000) to the elderly.
Iran: security forces opened indiscriminate fire at the people
Based on video clips uploaded on the social networks, mullahs’ regime criminal security forces have fired real bullets at protesting youth in Ahwaz.
The brave people and youth of Ahwaz staged a widespread demonstration against mullahs’ religious fascism rulling in Iran, following a football match between Foulad, Khuzestan and Al-Helal of Saudi Arabia. The demonstrators expressed their anger and antipathy at the criminal and suppressing acts of regime especially against people of Khuzestan. The demonstrators burnt 2 police vehicles. The police replied by beating and shooting at the protester arresting a number of them.
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