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Russian mice gerbils dead in 30-day space ordeal lizards live
LOS ANGELES -- A crew of Mongolian gerbils may have gone where no Mongolian gerbil has gone before, but they did not come back alive. A Russian spacecraft filled with mice, lizards and other animals has returned to Earth -- but with the majority of its furred passengers apparently dead. The Bion-M experiment, launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on April 19, carried 45 mice, 15 geckos, 18 ...
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Russia to scrap Cold War-era nuclear submarines
Russia will decommission and scrap two Cold War-era nuclear submarines, a navy official said Tuesday. The official told RIA Novosti the submarines, among the largest ever made, are too old to remain on active duty and too expensive to retrofit. The Typhoon class vessels both carry nuclear missiles and are based in the White Sea. The Russian navy said they would be withdrawn by year's end ...
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Boston Bombing Probe Heads to Russia
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (Image credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MOSCOW – A delegation of American lawmakers will travel to Russia next week in part to investigate last month’s Boston Marathon bombings, ABC News has learned. The group, led by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., wants to find out why a 2011 Russian request that the United States investigate Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of ...
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Russian confidence growing in its vision for ending Syrian war
This citizen journalism image shows Syrian citizens gather over destroyed houses that were damaged from a Syrian forces air strike in the town of Qusair, near the Lebanon border, Homs province, Syria, Tuesday. Russia believes that its long-held vision of how to achieve peace in civil war-torn Syria has at last become ...
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Russia- Rostelecoms net profit down 49 in Q1
(MENAFN) Russia's Rostelecom announced that its net income plunged by 49 percent in the first quarter from a year before to USD205 million, reported Reuters.The state-controlled telecoms operator added that the decline resulted from one-off gains in 2012's same period when the government ordered live video surveillance at polling stations during elections, in addition to higher ...
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North Caucasus Russia kills 2 suspected militants
In a house raid turned gunfight Russian security forces killed two suspected militants outside the capital of Ingushetia, west of Chechnya, on Tuesday. A spokesman for ...
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Wealth Fund Trio Each Investing $500 Million in VTB
expects to close its $3.3 billion offering of new shares by the end of the week, with three sovereign wealth funds investing about $500 million each, chief executive Andrei Kostin said. Azerbaijan's state oil fund SOFAZ, Norges Bank Investment Management and Qatar Holding are buying more than 50 percent of the offering of 2.5 trillion VTB shares on the Moscow stock market at 4.1 kopecks ...
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Lavrov Blasts Vote Theft at Eurovision
Jessica Gow / Reuters Dina Garipova of Russia performing at the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, on Saturday. Russia's point man on Syria and on its relations with the U.S. on Tuesday turned his attention toward a subject close to Russian hearts - alleged vote theft at the Eurovision Song Contest. Foreign ...
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Joint probe into Russias Eurovision votes stolen in Azerbaijan
17/05/2013 11:07 CET Russia and Azerbaijan are joining forces to investigate a Eurovision scandal that saw votes for Russia’s entry vanish. Moscow’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has described as ';outrageous'; the revelations by Azerbaijan that although its country’s voters had put Dina Garipova’s ballad second, she got ';nul points'; instead of ...
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Russia’s Yekaterinburg needs to win over 80 votes to host EXPO 2020
MOSCOW, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - More than 80 votes are needed for Russia to have its city of Yekaterinburg win a bid to host EXPO-2020, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich told journalists on ...
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Russia allows 90 Georgian wines on its market
ST. PETERSBURG, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - Ninety Georgian wines have been allowed on the Russian market, Russian chief sanitary doctor and head of the federal consumer rights protection authority Gennady Onishchenko said on ...
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No crisis expected on Russian gain market in 2013 - Russian deputy prime minister
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Russia probes Moscow terror attack ‘plot’
Russia was Tuesday set to question the sole survivor of a deadly police raid outside Moscow that authorities said had prevented a major attack in the capital.The operation in the Moscow region town of Orekhovo-Zuyevo took place shortly after twin car bombs killed four and injured more than 40 in the Dagestan region, a province bordering Chechnya to the east."The decisive actions of the law ...
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Terrorist ‘military emir’ killed in Russia’s North Caucasus
Terrorism A key militant leader, described as the right-hand man of the Chechen warlord Doku Umarov, was killed by special operations soldiers in a shootout in the North Caucasus, the Russian National Anti-Terrorist Committee said. Dzhamaleil Mutaliev, also known by the nickname 'Adam,' was killed in Nazran District of the North Caucasus Republic of Ingushetia on Tuesday. Mutaliev ...
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‘Rubber band’ bill Russian parliament passes ‘legally indefinable’ anti-blasphemy law
Scandal The Russian Duma has passed a second reading of a religious offense law that has provoked a firestorm of controversy. The legislation has been softened, but still represents a significant ramping up of punishments compared to existing laws. The second reading was approved overwhelmingly, with 304 Duma deputies voting for, only 4 against and 1 abstention. Still, several leading ...
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Council of Europe Head Calls for Visa-Free Russia-EU Travel
MOSCOW, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - The visa requirement for travel between the European Union (EU) and Russia should be scrapped as soon as possible, Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland said Tuesday."My personal opinion is that Greater Europe without visas should be the common European idea," Jagland said in the State Duma, the lower house of Russia's ...
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Russian Soldier Has Bullet Pulled From Forehead with Pliers
MOSCOW, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - A soldier has been nicknamed "the Russian Terminator," after a video was recently posted on the internet showing a bullet being removed from his forehead with pliers.The footage, believed to have been shot during the Second Chechen War in 2000, was published on LiveLeak and YouTube a few days ago and has since gone viral.It shows a piece of metal, thought ...
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Pakistan Roots Seen in Moscow Plot
Suspected militants targeted this week in a deadly raid outside Moscow as they purportedly plotted an attack on the city received training in the troublesome border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan, law enforcement said Tuesday - an allegation that experts called a reminder of the threat posed by Russian radicals coached and sometimes financed from abroad. Special forces officers killed ...
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Booted U.S. Lawyer Backed Magnitsky
The lack of an official explanation for the abrupt expulsion from Russia of U.S. lawyer and former Justice Department official Thomas Firestone earlier this month has led to a flurry of speculation about what may have prompted it. Firestone, an expert on corruption in Russian law enforcement agencies who worked as a lawyer for the Moscow office of the Baker & McKenzie law firm, was detained ...
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Nikiforov Says States Weight Is Behind IT
Nikolai Nikiforov told business representatives at the Leaders' Club forum on Tuesday. Information technology is important for the Russian economy, Nikiforov said. It accounts for 4.6 percent of the nation's GDP and is growing three times faster than the economy overall. He said that the ministry is committed to push ahead with introduction of electronic identification cards, mobile ...
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Russia angry over stolen Eurovision votes
BAKU/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow has clashed with the European Union over human rights and with NATO over security. Now another longstanding European institution is causing anger in the Kremlin and tension between Russia and Azerbaijan: the Eurovision Song ...
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RPT-UPDATE 1-Wealth fund trio to invest $500 mln each in Russias VTB
Tue May 21, 2013 12:48pm EDT * Russian state bank raising $3.3 bln * Share sale to close by weekend * Loan book to grow 15-20 pct - CEO * Sees 2013 net profit at over 100 bln rbls LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - Russia's second-largest bank VTB expects to close its $3.3 billion offering of new shares by the end of the week, with three sovereign wealth funds investing about $500 million each, ...
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Six Russian sailors killed in fire on crab boat in Japan
The bodies of six Russian sailors were recovered on board the ship that burned this morning in a port on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Seventeen people managed to escape, three of them were rushed to ...
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Russia Says Senior Islamist Insurgent Killed
MOSCOW -- The right-hand man of Russia's most wanted insurgent was killed by security forces on Tuesday, officials said, as Moscow tries to contain militancy in its Caucasus region before it hosts the Winter Olympics near there next February. Dzhamaleil Mutaliyev, a senior figure in a group fighting to establish an Islamist state, was killed along with another militant in a shootout in ...
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Russian International Olympic University signs cooperation agreement with Kazakhstan
Frank Kugler won four Olympics medals in freestyle wrestling, weightlifting and tug of war at St Louis in 1904, making him the only competitor to win a medal in three different sports at the same Games. He claimed a silver medal in the heavyweight category in wrestling, bronze in the two hand lift and all-around dumbbell events in weightlifting and another bronze in the tug of war competition as ...
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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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