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RPT-Fitch affirms Russias Eurasia Drilling Company at BB outlook stable
Fri May 24, 2013 7:50am EDT May 24 (Reuters) - (The following statement was released by the rating agency) Fitch Ratings has affirmed Eurasia Drilling Company Limited's (EDC) Long-term foreign currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDR) at 'BB' with a Stable Outlook. Fitch also affirmed the 'BB' senior unsecured ratings of the RUB5bn domestic bonds due in 2018 issued by EDC's ...
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Russian social network site banned by mistake
Russia 's leading online social network was banned briefly on Friday in a move dismissed as a "mistake" but which follows intensifying official pressure on the company as ...
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Pyotr Todorovsky Filmmaker Who Broke Taboo Dies at 87
Pyotr Todorovsky, an Academy Award-nominated director whose films explored World War II and broke a Soviet-era taboo against portraying prostitutes, died Friday after a long illness. He was 87. Several of Todorovsky's more than 20 films drew on his experience as a platoon commander during World War II. Voenno-Polevoi Roman ("Wartime Romance," 1983), which tells the story of ...
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50000 Schools Shut for Summer
Eleventh-graders are in for a day of mixed emotions as the summer semester draws to a close in schools across the country. More than 800,000 students are taking leave to prepare for their final examinations, which are due to begin next week. In Moscow, about 3,000 police have been mobilized to provide security for school leavers who traditionally mark the day with boat trips and strolls around ...
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Large earthquake strikes Russias Far East
An earthquake of at least 6.7-magnitude struck the Sea of Okhotsk off the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's Far East Friday, officials said. The quake, which the U.S. Geological survey estimated might have been closer to 8.2-magnitude, could be felt in Moscow, 4,000 miles away and two buildings in the city were evacuated, but there were no reports of injuries or damage at any location. A ...
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Ring Of Fire Earthquake Hits Russia And US
Two earthquakes have hit the Ring of Fire area, registering magnitudes of 8.2 and 5.7 and prompting a tsunami warning. Moscow felt tremors from the more powerful quake, causing some people to evacuate buildings despite the epicentre being more than 4,000 miles to the east. The US Geological Survey said the epicentre of Thursday's quake was in the Kuril-Kamchatka arc, one of the most ...
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Russian’s Mayon caper cost gov’t P520 K
LEGAZPI CITY, Philippines--Russian tourist Mark Yuchyugyaev’s fascination with Mayon Volcano proved costly to the Philippine government. In order to rescue the Russian tourist, who went on an unsanctioned Mayon climb and was injured in the process, the government had to spend more than half a million pesos. Raffy Alejandro, regional direct of the Office of Civil Defense in Bicol, said ...
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Russia Says Syria Will Attend Geneva Peace Talks
MOSCOW -- The Syrian government has agreed to participate in an international peace conference coordinated by Russia and the United States, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said on ...
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Police Bust Carjacking Equipment Makers
A gang that manufactured and sold sophisticated electronic equipment for carjacking has been thwarted by Voronezh region police and cyber-crime officers, the Interior Ministry said Friday. The criminal group provided criminals with "code-grabbers" at prices ranging from 50,000 rubles ($1,600) to 250,000 rubles. Code-grabbers are electronic devices that intercept signals from ...
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Russian Lawmaker Slams Condom Handout at WWII Eternal Flame
MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti) – A prominent Russian lawmaker called on Friday for public condemnation of a recent handout of condoms by AIDS activists at an monument in honor of soldiers who died in World War Two. "The most serious reaction to such things is not the introduction of new administrative bans, but a sharp condemnation by society," said Olga Batalina, head of the ...
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Russian Navy Shipbuilding Program ‘at Risk’ - Deputy PM
MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian government is ready to step in to sort out the crisis in Russian naval shipbuilding which is threatening to derail the defense procurement program, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday. The government’s direct intervention in the situation is the only way of averting further problems, he said at a meeting with shipbuilding company ...
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Syria is ready for talks - Russia
Moscow - Russia said on Friday that the Syrian government had agreed in principle to attend an international peace conference proposed by Russia and the United States, and criticised what it called attempts to undermine peace ...
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Regulator Bans Vkontakte by Mistake
The accidental inclusion of popular social network Vkontakte on a list of banned online resources on Friday was "caused by human error." Vladimir Pikov, a Federal Mass Media Inspection Service official, told Digit.ru that they wanted to block links to several other potentially harmful sites found on Vkontakte, but that blacklisting the entire service was a mistake. Vkontakte has ...
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Tornado Caught on Tape Over Worlds First Nuclear Plant
Video footage showing a tornado over the Obninsk nuclear station late Thursday. (Anton Lunev / YouTube) A tornado caused a scare outside Moscow when it passed over the decommissioned site of the world's first civilian nuclear power plant. No injuries or major damage was reported after the storm Thursday evening in the Kaluga region town of Obninsk, 110 kilometers southwest of Moscow. But ...
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RPT-Fitch Publishes Russian Banks 4M13 Datawatch
Fri May 24, 2013 5:44am EDT (Repeat for additional subscribers) May 24 (Reuters) - (The following statement was released by the rating agency) Fitch Ratings has published the latest edition of its 'Russian Banks Monthly Datawatch', a monthly publication of spreadsheets with key data from Russian banks' statutory accounts. The new issue includes numbers as of 1 May 2013, as well as ...
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Russia Syria Agrees to Participate in Conference
Russia says the Syrian government has agreed in principle to attend aproposed international peace conference on the country's future. A spokesman for the Russian foreign ministry said Friday that Syria has agreed to participate in the conference that Russia and the U.S. have proposed next month in Geneva. But he said it is impossible to set a date yet because it is not clear yet who will ...
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Russian regulator blacklists social media site VK
The future of Russia's biggest social media site was thrown into a state of flux Friday after the country's communications regulator moved to shut it down.The site, VKontakte, is similar to Facebook and has roughly 200 million registered users. On Friday a notice on the website of Russia's Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass ...
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Debilitated Russian cruise ship disappears off Newfoundland coast
Four months after an empty Russian cruise ship snapped a tow line and drifted into the North Atlantic off Newfoundland, its trail has gone cold.The Canadian Coast Guard says it has received no reported sightings of the Lyubov Orlova since March 12.At the time, one of the empty vessel's emergency radio beacons flashed an unconfirmed location almost 1,300 kilometres off Newfoundland. The ...
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Russia tsunami warning cancelled
A massive earthquake deep under the sea in Russia's Far East was felt in cities including Moscow but emergency services called off a tsunami warning issued for the Pacific Sakhalin ...
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Strong Quake Shakes Russias Far East
An 8.2-magnitude earthquake struck Russia's Far East on Friday, with slight tremors felt thousands of miles away in Moscow. There were no reported injuries or damage, RIA Novosti informs. The earthquake occurred in the Sea of Okhotsk off the Kamchatka Peninsula, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported. Emergency agencies in the Far East issued a tsunami warning for Sakhalin and the ...
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Azerbaijani and Russian defense ministers meet in Moscow
APA ’s Moscow correspondent reports that at the 20-minute meeting, the ministers discussed military relations between Azerbaijan and Russia. The meeting behind closed doors was also attended by Russia Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov and head of the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry's International Military Cooperation Department, Major General Ramiz Najafov. Azerbaijani ...
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The Torture of Children in a Russian Orphanage is Not Specific to Russia but a Result of the Secular System
On the 17th of May 2013, Russian TV, the UK Guardian and other media agencies reported on the publishing of a horrific video showing several boys under the age of ten, beaten with a belt and kicked by two teenage caretakers in a Russian orphanage. The appalling incident happened in the Mazanovsky orphanage in the region of ...
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One Russian sailor injured in ship fire at Wakkanai port discharged from hospital
TOKYO, May 24 (Itar-Tass) - One of the Russian sailors who were injured in a fire that broke out on the Taigan ship anchored at the Japanese port of Wakkanai, has been discharged a local hospital, Attache of the Russian Consulate General in Sapporo Valery Kaminsky told Itar-Tass on ...
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Russian reporter presents evidence of use of chemical weaponry by Syrian militants
UNITED NATIONS, May 24 (Itar-Tass) - A Russian reporter who has visited Syria has handed video footage on a chemical attack presumably organized by the irreconcilable Syrian opposition near Aleppo March 19 to the UN ...
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Putin hopes all Arab countries to be consuming Russian turkey soon
VORONEZH, May 23 (Itar-Tass) - Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said Thursday he hopes the entire Arab world will be consuming the turkey produced in Russia ...
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New business centre in St Petersburg remains contraversial
Okhta Centre has become one of the most contentious development projects in all of Russia. It is a project that offers St Petersburg two options that can’t be matched, either to embrace the modern world and allow a world-class business centre to be built, or maintain the city’s historic skyline, architecture and reputation as a major tourist destination with huge historical significance.
Before 2007, Okhta Centre was called Gazprom City and was promoted as such in Russian and St Petersburg news media, but from the start the project was a contentious issue, due primarily to the fact that the development calls for a massive tower to be built in its centre, a tower that will be the tallest in Europe and one of the largest in the world. Read more
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