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Opposition Activist Detained After Bolotnaya Raid
Left Front activist Vasily Kuzmin has been taken in for questioning after investigators raided his apartment as part of the Bolotnaya case on Thursday. Initially there was some confusion as to how many Left Front activists' homes had been searched by Investigative Committee agents. "Searches in relation to Bolotnaya, Left Front, 3 people, Moscow. Our lawyer is on his way," ...
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Fitch Assigns JSC Russian Standard Banks Subordinated Eurobonds B Rating
Fitch: Recession Concern Dampens European Investor Sentiment An increasing number of investors expect fundamental credit conditions will deteriorate across sectors, according to a Fitch Ratings investor survey. The more circumspect sentiment was most notable for the sovereign segment, where the proportion of survey respondents anticipating worsening conditions more than doubled to 55%, from 24% ...
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Cuban parliament leader says ties with Russia under full expansion
The relations between Cuba and Russia are under full expansion, Esteban Lazo, president of Cuban parliament, said on Friday. Lazo made the remarks after signing an agreement with the visiting leader of Russian Senate, Valentina Matviyenko, to boost the parliamentary cooperation between the two countries. The delegation of the Russian Senate arrived Thursday in Havana, headed by Matviyenko. ...
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Russia to cut strategic arms if US does the same - RF Chief of General Staff
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Conceptum Sport Logistics at the SportAccord Convention 2013 in Russia Global support for sports from German special ...
Frankfurt/St. Petersburg (ots) - The SportAccord Convention in St. Petersburg, Russia, (www.sportaccordconvention.com) is one of the most important events in Eastern Europe and the world, especially this year, when it comes to sporting events and all associated services. The German cultural project logistics company Conceptum Sport Logistics (CSL - www.conceptum-sport-logistics.com) will be ...
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Prosecutors Send Case Against Bolotnaya Protesters to Court
Prosecutors have sent to court a criminal case against 12 opposition activists allegedly involved in clashes with police at an opposition rally on Bolotnaya Ploshchad last May. "A list of charges in the ...
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Emergency Declared After Windstorm in Tula Town
Tula region Governor Vladimir Gruzdev arrived in the town of Yefremov to personally coordinate the cleanup operation in the aftermath of the hurricane that hit the area on Wednesday. The governor declared a state of emergency in the town, 300 kilometers south of Moscow, as twenty people suffered injuries, and one person was hospitalized. The hurricane left more than 200 buildings without gas ...
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Taxes and Rules Block Business Aviation in Russia U.S. Lawyer Says
GENEVA - Russia, long touted as an engine of growth for the stuttering global business aviation industry, needs radical changes in its taxation and regulatory system if it is to fulfill that promise, a U.S. expert said. But the downbeat assessment from Moscow-based lawyer Derek Bloom was challenged at the industry's European showcase gathering EBACE by Russian sectoral leaders who argued ...
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Attitudes to Russia Worsening Poll Says
People's attitudes to Russia's global role continue to deteriorate, particularly in the U.S., according to a poll conducted in 25 countries by the BBC. Respondents in only eight of the countries polled had predominantly positive perceptions of Russia, while in 15 countries people expressed negative views, Gazeta.ru said. Overall, only 30 percent of the international respondents ...
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Russias Vozrozhdenie Q1 net profit down 36.7 pct yy
MOSCOW | Thu May 23, 2013 4:43am EDT MOSCOW May 23 (Reuters) - Vozrozhdenie, a mid-sized listed Russian bank, posted on Thursday a 36.7-percent decline in net profit for the first quarter of the year due to a rise in provisioning on bad loans. Vozrozhdenie, one of a handful of listed Russian banks that are not owned by the state, said its net profit came to 333 million roubles ($10.6 ...
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FMS plans to limit inflow of migrants from CIS countries to Russia
According to the Federal Migration Service’s data, one of every five crimes in Moscow is committed by non-residents. It became known at the FMS board meeting on Wednesday that Russia intends to tighten up the immigration laws. A proposal was presented to oblige CIS citizens to receive an invitation to arrive in the Russian Federation. Experts believe it will not complicate life of illegal ...
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Russian commando killed in shootout with gunmen in Dagestan
MAKHACHKALA, May 23 (Itar-Tass) - A law enforcer was killed in a shootout with gunmen in the Karabudakhkent district of Dagestan near the settlement Gubden on Thursday morning. "A commando of the task force Vityaz has got a lethal wound," a spokesman of the republican investigation department of the Russian Investigative Committee told Itar-Tass. The special operation near Gubden was ...
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Bolotnoye Case Sent to Court
Prosecutors have sent to court a criminal case against 12 opposition activists allegedly involved in clashes with police at an opposition rally on Bolotnaya Ploshchad last May. "A list of charges in the so-called 'Bolotnoye case' against 12 people has been approved," the Prosecutor General's Office said in a statement late Wednesday. According to investigators, the 12 ...
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Norway Suggests Raising Magnitsky at UN
Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eider has recommended that his country's lawmakers bring the issue of Magnitsky sanctions against Russia before the UN Security Council. Eider said discussion in front of the council would be much more effective than Norway acting alone because any decisions taken by the council are binding on all member states. The sanctions, which would include the ...
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Hurricane Hits Tula Region
Tula region Governor Vladimir Gruzdev arrived in the town of Yefremov to personally coordinate the cleanup operation in the aftermath of the hurricane that hit the area on Wednesday. The governor declared a state of emergency in the town, 300 kilometers south of Moscow, as twenty people suffered injuries, and one person was hospitalized. The hurricane left more than 200 buildings without gas ...
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Level of relations between Azerbaijan and Russia high - foreign minister
In an exclusive interview with columnist of "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" Victoria Panfilova, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister spoke about the state of Russian-Azerbaijani relations, issues of the Karabakh conflict, and also answered a number of questions. "We, with the Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov, had a constructive exchange of views. If there is a need for our intervention ...
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What the Papers Say May 23 2013
Kommersant 1. Petr Netreba and Dmitry Butrin article headlined "Not to wait three years for promised things" says that the Russian government has begun to revise the 2014-16 budget because the budget deficit may rise to 0.6 percent of GDP in 2014; pp 1, 8 (746 words). 2. Roman Rozhkov et al. article headlined "defense Ministry surrounds CSKA" says that the defense ...
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Patrushev Delivers Putins Letter to Obama
Vladimir Putin to U.S. President Barack Obama, the Russian Embassy in Washington said. The letter is a response to Obama's message that U.S. national security adviser Tom Donilon brought to Moscow in April. Obama's message has not been made public, but Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov said last month that it contained a number of proposals to deepen bilateral dialogue and ...
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Ukrainian Prime Minister Expels Reporters
KIEV - Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov ordered a dozen reporters to be barred from covering government meetings after they staged a protest over attacks on journalists at a rally. When reporters at the Cabinet meeting stepped in front of television cameras and turned their backs, emblazoned with slogans, on Azarov and his colleagues Wednesday, the prime minister reacted sharply. ...
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UN asks Russia for more peacekeepers
New York, May 23 : Russia has been asked to increase the level of staff it commits to UN peacekeeping missions around the world, Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev ...
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Obama discusses Syria with senior Russian official
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday discussed with visiting Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev the need for a negotiated settlement of the protracted conflict in Syria.Dropping by a White House meeting between Patrushev and Thomas Donilon, his national security advisor, Obama discussed the need for a negotiated political settlement in Syria as well as the importance of ...
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Turkey Jails 4 for Alcohol Deaths of 5 Russians
ANKARA, Turkey - A Turkish court has sentenced four people to 83 years in prison each for the deaths of five Russians from bootleg alcohol poisoning. The Russians died in 2011 after consuming bootleg liquor during a yacht tour in the Aegean Sea. They were in Turkey training to be tour guides. The Anadolu news agency said Wednesday that a court convicted four people of murder for producing the ...
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Workers Body Found After 5 Months in Mariinsky Theater
A. Savin / Wikicommons A view of the Mariinsky Theater in May 2012. A body was found in its attic this week. A workman who disappeared in December was found dead in an attic at St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theater, investigators said. The body of the 22-year-old man was found hanging from a rope on Tuesday. Investigators believe he hung himself. The legendary Mariinsky Theater ...
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Kadyrov Awarded Medal for Unselfish Work for Children
Ramzan Kadyrov has been awarded a medal "for unselfish work in the name of children." Children's rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov announced the award on Wednesday, writing on social network Twitter that "not one child in the Chechnya republic was left by a mother in a maternity hospital in the last three years." All newly discovered orphans in Chechnya find their new ...
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Kadyorv Hosts U.S. Actor Steven Seagal in Grozny
kadyrov_95 / Instagram Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov posing with Steven Seagal in a photo on Kadyrov's Instagram account. Hollywood star Steven Seagal has spent time with Chechen ...
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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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