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Chisinau From Exile to Evolution
Hans Poldoja / flickr The Cathedral of the Nativity in central Chisinau, designed by Abram Melnikov, was built in 1830 and is the main cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church in Chisinau, ...
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The Dish Easy Does It
Other than a huge greasy breakfast, nothing tames a hangover quite like a dim sum brunch. The combination of sweet, salty and sour cuts through the fog of a muzzy head while providing a boatload of calories in easy to manage, bite-sized ...
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Lighting Up the White Nights
The 21st annual Stars of the White Nights music festival opens on Friday and will be held for the first time at all three Mariinsky theater venues. The long-awaited stage of Mariinsky II will finally be christened with its first premiere, up-and-coming young director, Vasily Barkhatov, will open the festival with his rendition of ...
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City Alive With The Sound of reMusik
Composers from around the world have arrived in St. Petersburg to take part in the launch of the first St. Petersburg International New Music ...
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Pet Food Profitable in Russia
The state-of-the-art robotized production line, located in the Vorsino techno park near the border between the Kaluga and Moscow regions, took under two years to complete. It will use 90 percent locally made ingredients and packaging and will produce cat food under the brand name ...
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Petersburg Marks 310th Anniversary
This weekend, St. Petersburg will celebrate its birthday early with citywide festivities on Saturday and Sunday preceding the ...
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Local Fish Celebrated and Eaten
The annual Korushka Festival was held on the weekend, marking the start of spring in St. Petersburg. Fans of the fish, more commonly known abroad as smelt, headed to the Lenexpo Exhibition Complex on Vasilievsky Island, where thousands of kilograms of the popular fish were prepared for visitors to ...
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Russia moves closer to jail terms for offending religion
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian lawmakers on Tuesday took a step toward imposing jail terms for offending religious feelings, approving legislation proposed after punk band Pussy Riot performed a raucous protest song in Moscow's main Orthodox Christian ...
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St. Petersburg on List of World’s Best Travel Spots
WASHINGTON, May 21 (RIA Novosti) – Nestled on the Baltic Sea and often described as one of the most Western cities in Russia, St. Petersburg has a new place of honor as one of the top travel destinations in the world, according to the 2013 Travelers’ Choice Destinations awards released Tuesday by the popular online travel website TripAdvisor. "St. Petersburg is a fantastic ...
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Visa-free travel between Russia and the EU
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 ...
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Depardieu Newly a Russian Will Play a Chechen in Films
MOSCOW -- The French-born actor Grard Depardieu, who renounced his French nationality and became a citizen of Russia as a protest against high taxes, said Tuesday that he would turn into a Chechen, in two new films to be set in Moscow and in ...
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Russias Putin out to silence independent voices pollster
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a meeting on shipbuilding industries in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, May 21, ...
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US lawmakers seek to block transfer of missile defence data to Russia
WASHINGTON - Republicans are trying to block Obama administration overtures to Russia on missile defence, creating a potential obstacle to arms control talks. Lawmakers are proposing a measure that would bar the administration from sharing classified missile defence data with Russia. That would undercut a path that arms control advocates have urged to restart nuclear talks, which have been set ...
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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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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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