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Russian Intelligence Agency Warns of Rise in Terror Threat
MOSCOW, May 23 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU, expects the Taliban influence in Afghanistan to grow after international coalition forces are pulled out, while rising radicalism in Syria could lead to the country's disintegration, the GRU chief said on Thursday. Lt. Gen. Igor Sergun said the situation in Afghanistan poses a "serious challenge to ...
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Russia US Perceptions Hit 4-Year Low – Poll
MOSCOW, May 23 (RIA Novosti) – Russian and US perceptions of each other’s role in the world have deteriorated over the past year, hitting their lowest point since 2009, according to a new survey commissioned by the BBC World Service. According to the 2013 Country Ratings poll conducted by GlobeScan/PIPA, 23 percent of those surveyed in America have a "mainly positive" view ...
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No foreign movies to be shown on Russia’s Public Television - says PRT chief Lysenko
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Ecuador satellite collides with Russian space junk
A small Ecuadoran satellite collided in orbit with the remains of a Russian rocket, but it is too soon to know how much damage it might have sustained, Quito's space agency said ...
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Crimean Tatars Rally to Expel Russian Consul
SIMFEROPOL, May 23 (RIA Novosti) – About 300 people, mostly Crimean Tatars, are rallying outside the Russian Consulate in the Ukrainian city of Simferopol, demanding that the Russian Consul there be stripped of diplomatic status and declared persona non grata. The protests broke out after Russian Consul Vladimir Andreyev criticized a movie about the 1944 deportation of Crimean Tatars to ...
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Russia Will Avoid Recession This Year – Shuvalov
MOSCOW, May 23 (RIA Novosti) – Russia is demonstrating "insufficient" economic growth rates but the country will be able to avoid even a technical recession this year, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said on Thursday. "We consider GDP growth of 2 to 3 percent to be insufficient for us," Shuvalov said, but added that "there will be no recession this ...
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Russian court denies parole for punk group
In this Oct. 1, 2012 file photo, feminist punk group Pussy Riot members, from left, Maria Alekhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova sit in a glass cage at a court room in Moscow, Russia. Alekhina went on hunger strike May 22, 2013, in protest at not being allowed to attend her own parole hearing in Perm ...
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Tanzania Makes $206 Million Atomic Tax Claim
Tanzania is demanding almost $206 million in taxes from Russian state uranium company ARMZ, which has won a license to build the East African country's first uranium mine, the energy minister said on Thursday. Atomredmetzoloto, or ARMZ is the mining arm of Rosatom, which also builds nuclear reactors. Tanzania's tax claim relates to the Mkuju River project in southern Tanzania, which ...
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Luxoft Files for IPO in New York
Russian software developer Luxoft has filed for an initial public offering in New York under the ticker LXFT. According to a regulatory filing, the company is hoping to raise as much as $80 million. The amount, however, may change in the future. Luxoft's parent company, IBS Group, chose UBS, Credit Suisse Group, JPMorgan Chase & ...
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Audi Launch Shows Promise of Premium Segment
Daniel Kolodin / For MT Audi executives presenting a new entrant on the growing premium car market in Russia on Thursday. Audi on Thursday presented a new premium model in the country as sales of this class of cars are bucking the downward trend on the domestic auto market. Sales of the new A3 sedan will begin toward the end of September in a bid to win over clients that might be ...
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Paul McCartney supports Pussy Riot in letter to Russian judge
posted online , McCartney asks for parole to be granted to Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, currently serving two-year sentences for an impromptu protest in Moscow's main cathedral. McCartney wrote that he was making the request "in a spirit of friendship for my many Russian acquaintances who, like me, believe in treating people - all people, with compassion and ...
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Estonian government approves of draft border treaty with Russia
TALLINN, May 23 (Itar-Tass) - Estonia’s Cabinet of Ministers on Thursday approved of a draft border treaty with Russia, the government’s press-service has ...
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Russia to evacuate its North Pole - 40 station because of decaying ice
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Bolotnaya case continues Russian police search homes of more opposition activists
Russia Russian police have searched the homes of two opposition activists as part of an investigation into the criminal case against protesters allegedly involved in unrest during the anti-Kremlin rally on Moscow's Bolotnaya Square on May 6 last year. Early Thursday, after law enforcers searched the home of Vasily Kuzmin - the head of the Moscow branch of the Left Front movement - he was ...
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Russia Set to Evacuate Drifting Polar Research Station SP-40
MOSCOW, May 23 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Natural Resources Minister Sergei Donskoi ordered preparation of an evacuation plan on Thursday for the country’s North Pole 40 (SP-40) drifting polar research station, due to the break-up of the ice floe it is located on. The break-up of the ice floe poses a threat not only to the station itself and the 16 scientists working there, but could also ...
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Russian S-300 Deliveries to Syria ‘Destabilizing’ - Kerry
TEL AVIV, May 23 (RIA Novosti) – The sale by Russia of S-300 air defense systems to Syria would be "destabilizing" for the region, US Secretary State John Kerry said on Thursday. "S-300 missiles coming from Russia, or other countries, Iranian missiles, are destabilizing to the region," Kerry said. "The United States is committed, not only in its defense of Israel, ...
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Russian Police Raid Homes of Leftist Activists
MOSCOW, May 23 (RIA Novosti) – Police carried out searches on Thursday at the homes of two members of Russia’s Left Front movement, which played a key role in last year’s mass protests against the rule of President Vladimir Putin. Police detained Vasily Kuzmin, head of the Moscow branch of Left Front, and raided the home of Denis Kuraishi, a former bodyguard for the ...
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Russian Police Fired After Road Activists Skirmish
MOSCOW, May 23 (RIA Novosti) - Two police officers in Russia’s second largest city St. Petersburg were fired after failing to intervene when members of a motorists advocacy group were assaulted and beaten, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday. On the night of May 19, activists from the Blue Buckets group got into a conflict with several unidentified individuals in St. Petersburg’s ...
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Life Under the KGBs Watchful Eye in 1980s Russia
A Russian policeman guards a protest rally in central Moscow October 30, 2005. (Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters) Last week, Russia expelled an American diplomat, accusing him of being a spy for the CIA. Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said that U.S. Embassy Third Secretary Ryan Fogle had been caught red-handed with disguises, spy equipment, and wads of cash, trying to recruit a Russian ...
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Minority Holders Mull Suing Former TNK-BP Management
Minority shareholders are considering suing the former management of TNK-BP in an attempt to recover the dividends earned by their shares prior to March 21, ...
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Russias top military officer skeptical about further nuclear arms cuts
Gen. Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the Russian military's General Staff, speaks during a security conference in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, May 23, 2013. The top Russian military officer has warned the West that Moscow reserves the right to take steps in response to the U.S.-led NATO missile defense plans for Europe if it sees it as a threat. (AP Photo/Mikhail ...
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Opposition group raided in Moscow
Russian police said Thursday they arrested a Moscow leader of the opposition Left Front movement and raided a bodyguard for party chief Sergei Udaltsov. Human rights officials in Moscow said city police arrested and later released party official Vasily Kuzmin. He was detained in a raid that also targeted Denis Kuraishi, a former bodyguard for Udaltsov, the Left Front leader, Russian news agency ...
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St.Petersburg environment forum embraces new agenda
St.Petersburg environment forum embraces new agenda 05.24.2013 16:30 Saint Petersburg is hosting the Sixth Nevsky International Ecological Congress. This year the agenda focuses on green energy industry, ecological insurance, recycling of household and industrial waste. The forum is organized by the Russian Federation Council and the International Assembly of the CIS member states. The ...
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Russia wary of deeper nuclear arms cuts
Gen. Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the Russian military's General Staff, speaks during a security conference in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, May 23, 2013. The top Russian military officer has warned the West that Moscow reserves the right to take steps in response to the U.S.-led NATO missile defense plans for Europe if it sees it as a threat. (AP Photo/Mikhail ...
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No grounds to revise Russian int’l ratings - 1st 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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