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Russian Dash Cam Catches Insane Car Flip VIDEO
Just when you thought Russian dash cams couldn’t possibly catch anything more insane than we’ve already seen, this clip, dated May 13th, comes along and forces a complete O_O. If you want to skip right to it, go to about 30 seconds in. There, you’ll see a car launched at least 20 feet into the air, flip, and land ...
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Europe Slams Russia on Human Rights
Russia is facing a renewed barrage of international criticism, led by the European Union, over its human rights record in connection with an ongoing clampdown on non-governmental organizations and a State Duma proposal to ban so-called "homosexual propaganda." The EU on Friday expressed growing concerns about the situation, including the impact of a July law that requires NGOs that ...
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Russia Assad foes must come to Syria meeting without conditions
Russia (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday it is crucial for Syrian opposition envoys to engage in peace talks without setting preconditions, apparently referring to demands for ...
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Russian special forces say they killed 2 militants planning a terrorist attack in Moscow
MOSCOW - Russia's counter-terrorism agency says it killed two militants it believes were planning a terrorist act in Moscow and detained a third. The National Anti-Terrorist Committee said Monday in a statement that one of its special forces was lightly wounded in the operation in the Moscow suburb of Orekhovo-Zuevo. It said the militants were Russian citizens who had received training in ...
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Competition between Russian Muslim communities attracts extremists
Special services tightly and rigidly control Muslim centers of Moscow and St. Petersburg, conducting raids to prevent religious extremism. However, the hidden struggle between various official Muslim organizations to increase their administrative and lobbying abilities, as well as social influence, remains unnoticed. Activities of radical Muslim organizations in Russia grow. Intelligence ...
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Russian roulette Luxembourg new offshore hotspot Cyprus abandoned
Russians pulled $9.7 billion in investments from Cyprus in the last 2 years, and moved their wealth to 'safer' offshore banking in Luxembourg, Ireland, the Netherlands, and the British Virgin Islands. According to the Central Bank of Cyprus, the once offshore paradise lost out on Russian accounts, as investors pulled their money as they sensed the banking crisis looming.In ...
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Russia Peru to Sign MiG-29 Jet Upgrade Deal
Russia and Peru will sign a contract to upgrade Lima's fleet of Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum fighters by the end of May, Konstantin Biryulin, deputy head of Russia’s Federal Military-Technical Cooperation Service, said on Monday. Belarus sold around twenty of the fighter jets to Peru in 1997. According to defenseindustrydaily.com, Peru signed a contract in 2008 for Russia's UAC MiG to ...
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Car bomb and second explosion killed at least 3 people in Russias province of Dagestan
MAKHACHKALA, Russia - An official says two explosions have occurred outside a court building in Russia's restive province of Dagestan, killing at least three people and wounding about a dozen. The first was caused by a car bomb and the second occurred after police arrived on the scene in Makhachakala, the provincial capital, according to Interior Ministry spokesman Vyacheslav Gasanov. He ...
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Russian spacecraft returns to Earth with most of its furry crew dead
The low survival rate among rodents "was to be expected," according to Vladimir Sychov, deputy director of the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems, the agency conducting the experiment. The Bion-M satellite was equipped with internal cameras so that scientists could visually monitor the animals during flight, which orbited at an altitude of about 357 miles (575 km). This is ...
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Boston Bomber Spent 6 Months in Russia’s Most Violent Republic
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Russia calls for patience on new Syria conference
Moscow did not want to rush into a new international conference on Syria unprepared and risk an embarrassing failure, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday."It could be a trap to act in a hurry. On May 7 in Moscow (during a visit of US Secretary of State John Kerry), we agreed to initiate that conference only if very thorough preparations were made," Lavrov said in an interview ...
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E.On Russia to transfer 100 of 2012’s net profit into dividends
Russia E.On Russia, the Russian subsidiary of Germany's E.On power company, will transfer 100% of the net profit the energy company made in 2012, some $583 million into dividends, marking a record for the Russian domestic electricity market. The company has recommended a dividend of 0.29 roubles per share for 2012, worth 18.3 billion roubles ($583 million), General Director Maxim ...
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Sochi 2014 the most expensive Olympics in history and whos paying the bill Russian tycoons of course
The mountains of Sochi are now home to Potanin's slope, Gazprom's gondola lift and Sberbank's ski jump. The nicknames used by locals and an army of construction workers leave no doubt about who is paying for the 2014 Winter Games: Russia's business powerhouses.Other countries that have hosted the Olympics have overwhelmingly used public funds to pay for the construction of ...
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Svyaznoi Mulls $200M Private Placement
Russian cell phone retailer Svyaznoi plans to attract $200 million in a private placement organized by Sberbank CIB with businessman Leonard Blavatnik believed to be interested, a news report said Monday. The deal between Nogotkov and an investor, whose name has not been disclosed, had entered an active phase, a bank official told Vedomosti. The newspaper says business structures controlled by ...
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Court Rules to Subpoena Polonsky in Lebedev Trial
Alexander Lebedev on charges of hooliganism and political hatred. At a hearing held Monday, Polonsky's lawyers said their client was not able to attend the trial because he was abroad and asked the court to consider evidence given by him at the preliminary inquiry, Interfax reported. But the judge agreed with Lebedev's lawyers, who said the trial could not continue without Polonsky. ...
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Spain Rated as Top Destination for Travel With Kids
Spain is the leading destination for Russian tourists traveling abroad with their children during the summer break, according to a list of the top 10 hot spots for summer travel with children published Monday by online hotel reservation site Oktogo.ru. The list also includes Italy, France, Great Britain, Greece, Portugal, Germany, Turkey, Montenegro and the U.S. According to the website, ...
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Lada Breakdown Ends Ex-Porn Stars Roadtrip
she was driving broke down three days after the start. Grey, escorted by several other cars, began her several weeks' journey from Vladivostok in Russia's Far East to Moscow on Thursday and managed to reach another far eastern city of Khabarovsk. "Participants of the car rally took Lada Kalina for a drift in Khabarovsk," Drom.ru automobile website reported. "The car ...
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Norilsk Vice President Quits Following Shareholder Feud
Norilsk Nickel vice president Vladimir Strzhalkovsky announced plans on Monday to quit the world's largest nickel miner, which has been at the center of a shareholder battle for control of the company for several years. "I'm quitting the company. I'll work till the end of June and leave. I'm considering [job] offers," Strzhalkovsky said. Strzhalkovsky, who was ...
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Russia Delivers Enhanced Yakhont
WASHINGTON [MENL] -- Russia has delivered to Syria an enhanced variant of acoastal defense system meant to repel any sea-based offensive against the regimePresident Bashar Assad. Officials said the U.S. intelligence community has determined that theKremlin approved and oversaw the deliveries of an upgraded variant of theYakhont coast-to-sea missile in 2013. They said the enhanced ...
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Fakhriya Khalafova comments on “zero” points for Russia from Azerbaijan
Azerbaijani member of jury Fakhriya Khalafova has commented on "zero" points for Russia from Azerbaijan. The statement made by Head of the Public Television of Azerbaijan Jamil Guliyev that Russia was to get a high score from Azerbaijan has caused a great resonance. Head of the Public Television made a statement on the fact of counting votes of Azerbaijani viewers in Russia's ...
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Eight killed in twin blasts in Russias Dagestan
Eight people were killed by twin blasts in Russia's North Caucasus Monday, law enforcement authorities said.The blasts took place near the court bailiffs service headquarters in Makhachkala, capital city of the Dagestan republic, a spokesperson for Dagestan's top investigative agency told local media."Two cars were blown up one after another. At least eight people were killed. ...
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Black Boxes Found From U.S. Plane Crash in Kyrgyzstan
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - Flight recorders from a U.S. military plane that crashed in northern Kyrgyzstan in early May have been found, the Kyrgyz Transportation and Communication Ministry said Monday. The Boeing KC-135 aerial refueling tanker, carrying three American crew members, crashed into a mountain gorge on May 3 some 60 kilometers west of the capital, Bishkek, about 10 minutes after taking ...
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Only City Center Will Have Paid Parking Authorities Say
City authorities have said that paid parking will only be introduced within the city center, Vedomosti reported. Initial plans to introduce paid parking within the 3rd Transportation Ring by 2015 won't be implemented, and only within the Boulevard Ring will car owners have to pay 50 rubles (close to $2) per hour starting from next month. "We want to organize a system for the city ...
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Former U.S. Diplomat Barred From Russia
A retired U.S. diplomat and expert on the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act was banned from entering Russia earlier this month, The New York Times reported. Moscow-based Thomas Firestone, who works for Baker & McKenzie law firm, was declared persona non grata when returning to Russia from a trip abroad on May 5, the report said Sunday. No official explanation for the incident was ...
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Kickboxer Gets 11 Years for Killing Locksmith
SARATOV - A Russian kickboxer has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for killing a man with a single punch, a court official said Monday. Rasul Gaitamirov, 23, who competed in various Thai boxing events, taunted a passer-by in the center of the southern city of Saratov and then punched him in the head. The victim, identified in local media as 25-year-old locksmith Rasim Nurmamyatov, struck ...
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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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