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Schneerson collection to be house at new branch of Russian State Library in Jewish Museum
MOSCOW, May 25 (Itar-Tass) - The collection of ancient Jewish books and manuscripts, known as the Schneerson collections, will soon be placed with a new branch of the Russian State Library at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center. Experts have already inspected the museum’s premises that will house the collection, the museum’s press service said on ...
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Scores Evacuated as Moscow Feels First Tremors in 35 Years
The scare came as a strong earthquake off the coast of Sakhalin in the Far East sent shockwaves throughout Russia, causing buildings to lightly shake in Moscow, about 7,000 kilometers ...
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Russia Japan try to bridge gaps on thorny issues
MOSCOW, April 29 (Xinhua) -- Russia and Japan managed to move their positions closer on certain issues, pledging to speed up talks on reaching a peace treaty for the first time since the end of WWII, as leaders of the two countries met here on Monday. Following his talks with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters that they have instructed ...
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Tsunami warning cancelled after 8.2 quake off Russia
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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Russia Gay Rights Activists To Defy Rally Ban
Activists will attempt to hold a gay pride march in Moscow despite being banned by authorities and warned they will be breaking the law. City officials have promised the action will be "thwarted" and protesters face being arrested and fined. But they say they are determined to make their voices heard. The torture and murder of a young man in Volgograd has focused attention on the ...
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Russia nabs US envoy for bid to recruit CIA spy
Russia expelled a United States diplomat yesterday after saying he had been caught red-handed with disguises, special equipment and wads of cash as he tried to recruit a Russian agent to work for the Central Intelligence Agency. The announcement came at an awkward time for Washington and Moscow as they try to improve ties and bring the warring sides in Syria together for a peace conference. ...
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Russia welcomes DPRK willingness to resume talks
Moscow welcomed Pyongyang's willingness to return to the negotiating table over the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, a senior Russian diplomat said Friday."Pyongyang deserves a positive mark for its readiness to return to the negotiating table following weeks of nuclear threats, orders to prepare for missiles strikes and other belligerent rhetoric," Interfax news agency ...
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Russia’s Birth Rate up 5.6 in 2012 - Health Minister
MOSCOW, May 25 (RIA Novosti) - The birth rate in Russia grew by 5.6 percent year-on-year in 2012, Russian Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova said on Friday. "In 2012, birth rate increased by 5.6 percent - from 12.6 to 13.3 [births] per 1,000 people," she said. She added that the number of abortions fell by 5.5 percent, or by 53,900, due to state measures to support pregnant women ...
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World Briefing | Europe Russia Earthquake Hits Eastern Coast
An 8.3-magnitude earthquake struck ...
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Georgia Ready to Assist Russia in Sochi Olympics Security
TBILISI, May 25 (RIA Novosti) - Georgia is ready to provide all assistance that Russia needs to ensure security during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili said on Friday. "The Georgian side will provide maximum assistance; we should ensure that no incident takes place during the Olympics," Ivanishvili told journalists. The first Winter Games in ...
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News Wrap Russia Says Syria Has Agreed to Peace Conference
In other news Friday, Russian officials announced that Syria has agreed "in principle" to attend an international peace conference on outlining a transition for new leadership. Also, in Kabul, Afghanistan, a guest house used by an international aid group was targeted by a suicide car bomber and five armed ...
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Interpol Rejects Russia’s Bid for Help in Browder Case
PARIS, May 25 (RIA Novosti) - The international police agency Interpol has deleted from its database all information in relation to UK-based investor William Browder, the organization said in a statement on Friday. Browder, who heads the Hermitage Capital equity fund, is a former boss of deceased lawyer Sergei Magnitsky and a prominent campaigner for justice in his case. Magnitsky’s 2009 ...
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Russian fed agency asking tour operators to inform tourists on coronavirus
MOSCOW, May 24 (Itar-Tass) - Russia’s Federal Agency for Tourism /Rostourism/ has asked the tour companies across the country to inform the customers planning trips to Qatar, Jordan, the UK, the United Arab Emirates, France, Tunisia, and Saudi Arabia on the importance of observing safety precautions in the wake of the outbreak of diseases caused by a new strain of ...
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Rescue of Russian mountaineer from Mt. Mayon proved costly
LEGAZPI CITY, Philippines--Russian tourist Mark Yuchyugyaev's fascination with the majestic beauty of the Mayon Volcano proved to be costly, in more ways than one. To rescue the Russian tourist who went on an unauthorized Mayon Volcano climb and was injured in the process, the government had to shell out at least half a million pesos. Raffy Alejandro, regional direct of the Office of ...
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Syria regime to attend peace talks Russia
Syria's most powerful ally Russia on Friday said the Damascus regime had agreed to attend an international peace conference on the crisis that world powers hope will take place in Geneva in ...
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Interpol rejects Russia bid to locate UK investor
PARIS (AP) — The international police agency Interpol has rejected a Russian push to locate and arrest a Britain-based investor who is a vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin's regime.France-based Interpol said in a statement Friday it has "deleted all information in relation to William Browder."A special Interpol-related committee decided at a meeting Friday that ...
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How One Russian Got A Trip To Outer Space With Leo DiCaprio
Leonardo DiCaprio. Off to space next year. A wealthy Russian oligarch living in Monaco spent over a million dollars to sit -- and then float -- alongside him while they orbit the planet in a Virgin Galactic space ship. This is one easy how-to article. How do you get to go into outerspace with an A-lister, in this case Leonardo DiCaprio? Well, first you have to be go to the Cannes Film ...
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NY to Host US-Russia ‘Battles On Ice’
WASHINGTON, May 24 (By Maria Young for RIA Novosti) – Next month firefighters from New York, Boston and Russia will trade in their flame-resistant gear for shoulder pads and ice skates and team up against each other – and some of the best known names in hockey – for the third annual ‘Battles On Ice,’ a two-part annual competition in New York that organizers say ...
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Russia says Syrian government agrees to peace talks but skepticism persists on both sides
Demonstrators shout Islamic slogans as they wave Syrian opposition flags during a protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad at the courtyard of Fatih mosque in Istanbul May 24, 2013. (MURAD ...
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Aide Obama Putin to meet twice over security missile defense
Barack Obama will meet twice in the next four months, a Kremlin aide said Friday. Yury Ushakov said the first meeting would in June during the Group of Eight summit in Northern Ireland and the second will take place before the Group of 20 meeting in Russia in September, RIA Novosti reported. The meetings are expected to discuss proposals by Putin that were presented in a letter to Obama ...
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Prosecutors want Gerard Depardieu to pay $5200 fine and lose license
Actor Gerard Depardieu arrives at the Rome Film Festival in Rome on October 21, 2007. Depardieu is in Rome with his film "Labbuffata". (UPI Photo/David ...
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US Lawmakers Head to Russia Will Ask About Boston Bomber
Brothers Tamerlan Tsarnaev, left, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are accused of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing. Tamerlan was closely monitored while in Dagestan last ...
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Arctic Ice Melting Too Fast to Measure Russian Researchers Find the Hard Way
A Russian deep-diving miniature submarine is lowered from the research vessel Akademik Fyodorov moments before performing a dive in the Arctic Ocean beneath the ice at the North Pole in August 2007. (Vladimir ...
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Putin Wants Better Russian Movies
SOCHI, May 26 (RIA Novosti) – Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed on Friday to continue supporting the domestic film industry, but called on Russian filmmakers to produce movies that promote patriotic and moral values. "I have said many times that the state can help produce movies, but it cannot force people to go and watch them," Putin said at a meeting on the development of ...
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8.2 Quake Hits Eastern Russia No Deaths Reported
USGS ), the epicenter of the quake was located just off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, in the far eastern part of the country. The massive quake was followed by a smaller (but still very large) magnitude 6.8 aftershock further out in the Sea of Okhotsk. The quakes occurred deep in the Earth, with both centered at a depth of more than 600 km (about 372 miles). Neither the ...
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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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