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Top Cop Says Moscow Safer Than New York
Vladimir Kolokoltsev said at a meeting with U.S. police that Moscow is safer than New York for certain types of crime. Moscow has fewer burglaries and rapes, factoring in the number of its residents, Kolokoltsev said during a meeting with New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly in the U.S. city. "I am stating with gratification that Moscow is not inferior to New York in terms of the ...
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Russia says kills senior Islamist insurgent
MOSCOW (Reuters) - 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 ...
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Russias FSB prevents terrorist attacks in Moscow
In Orekhovo-Zuevo, the Moscow region, special services blocked three terrorists, who planned to conduct a terrorist attack in Moscow. Two militants were killed, one was detained. The National Anti-Terrorist Committee said that all three of them were citizens of the Russian Federation. The successful operation of the FSB helped to prevent a tragedy like the one that occurred in the Moscow subway ...
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Relations between Azerbaijan and Russia are very positive – FM
Moscow and Baku have reviewed the agenda of Russian-Azerbaijani relations and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict - the biggest problem facing Azerbaijan. The statement came from Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov after talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow. "Relations between Azerbaijan and Russia are very positive from the point of view of different areas. ...
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Russia Azerbaijan prepare to sign new agreement on Azeri oil transit - Lavrov
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Russia’s oil output reaches 518 mln tonnes in 2012 exceeding indicator of 1990
MOSCOW, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - Russia’s oil production grew to 518 million tonnes in 2012, thus hitting the record high of 1990, the Russian Energy Ministry underlined in its documents drafted by the ministry’s board meeting, which was held in Moscow on ...
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Eurovision song contest Russian foreign minister wades into voting row
Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, has taken time out of a busy schedule that includes defending arms sales to Syria and criticising US policy around the world to wade into a growing scandal over ...
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Iraq Reopens Russian Arms Deal Probe
DUBAI, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - Iraq's Central Criminal Court has resumed an investigation into officials suspected of corruption in a $4.2 billion deal to purchase Russian weapons, the head of the Iraqi Parliament's Integrity Committee, Bahaa al-Araji, said on Tuesday."The investigation will go ahead. The witnesses and suspects will give evidence, and Defense Ministry experts will ...
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2018 FIFA World Cup stadium may be delayed until 2017
St. Petersburg, May 21 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The completion date for Zenit St. Petersburg's $1.1 billion stadium has been put back again and it may not open until 2017, a decade after construction work began, the head of the government agency auditing the project said. The stadium is to host a 2018 World Cup semifinal, but the new date means there could be a rush to prepare it for scheduled ...
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Putin Creates a New Holiday Polar Explorer Day
Vladimir Putin has introduced a new professional holiday, Polar Explorer Day, on May 21 to celebrate the establishment of the world's first drifting ice station in the North Pole in 1937, the Kremlin said Tuesday. The Severny Polyus-1 research station was opened on a drifting ice floe and was used by four explorers who drifted for nine months from the North Pole toward southern Greenland, ...
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Tymoshenko Starts Online Prison Diary
Yulia Tymoshenko has started an online diary, titled "Truth From Behind the Bars," published on the website of the Ukrainska Pravda newspaper. Tymoshenko, who is currently serving a seven year sentence for exceeding her authority in signing a gas contract with Russia in 2009, now faces charges of murdering a local politician in 1996. She has been undergoing treatment in hospital for ...
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Trade Officials Could Be Sent to China India UAE
The Industry and Trade Ministry representatives could be placed in Russian embassies in China, India, United Arab Emirates and Cuba, according to a draft presidential decree published on the government's official website. The ministry's trade representatives would promote Russian businesses abroad and assist in fulfilling Russia's international obligations to their host ...
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Russia Suspects killed during anti-terror raid
26/04/2013 16:45 CET Two suspects have been killed during an anti-terror raid near Moscow. According to Russian authorities, gunfire erupted when officers surrounded a house in Orekhovo Zuyevo. Officials said they were targeting a group which was planning to carry out an attack in the capital. ';We saw people in camouflage near a two-storey building. There were snipers on garages ...
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Journalist visits Russian sect of exorcists
The journalist did not specify the name of the village, as he promised not to disclose this information. We only know that the settlement is located about 80 kilometers far from the city of Saratov and is unofficially known as "Spring" ...
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No deteriorated relations with Azerbaijan – Russian minister
"Any deterioration in relations between the two countries is out of the question," Lavrov said. In a joint press conference with Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov answered journalists’ questions as to Russia’s suspension of the use of Gabala radar and export of Azerbaijan’s oil via Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline. ...
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Top Russian security official visits US ‘plays mailman’ for Obama and Putin
USA The head of Russia's National Security Council has arrived in the US on a two-day visit for top-level talks on key stumbling blocks in bilateral relations. He may also be carrying a response from President Putin to a letter President Obama sent in April. Among the US officials Nikolay Patrushev will meet during his trip is National Security Advisor Thomas Donilon, who brought ...
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Russia asks Interpol to monitor movements of British hedge fund boss Bill Browder
Russia has applied to Interpol to monitor the travel and whereabouts of a British hedge fund boss wanted by Moscow who is at the heart of a diplomatic stand-off over the alleged killing of whistle-blowing lawyer Sergei ...
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Surkov Ridicules Governments New Website
Dmitry Medvedev on Monday. Surkov posted in his Twitter blog a screenshot of the new site's introductory page with comments pointing to obvious grammatical errors as well as awkward translation into English. "There is more stupidity on the second page of the Russian government's new site than on the first … I will not check it any further. I am scared," ...
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Emergencies Ministry Offers U.S. Aid After Tornado
The Emergency Situations Ministry has offered to assist the U.S. in dealing with the aftermath of a devastating tornado that struck the state of Oklahoma on Monday, causing massive damage and claiming the lives of nearly 100. Emergency Situations ...
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Hotel entertainer stabs Russian boy 20 times in Crete
11-year-old Russian boy Nikita Onishchenko, who was wounded in a hotel on Crete, still remains in a serious condition. In this regard, the transportation of the child to Russia has been delayed. The boy is being treated at Aglayya Kyriakou Children's Hospital in Athens, ...
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Turkish poisoners of Russian tourists sentenced to 360 years
Two years after the scandal with the poisoning of Russian citizens in Turkey, a Turkish court announced the verdict on the case. Four defendants, who produced and sold low-quality alcohol, were sentenced to 90 years in prison. In addition, two owners of the yacht, where the poisoning occurred, and their employee, were sentenced to a seven years in prison. The news message about ...
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Stability in the Caucasus is a priority of Russias foreign policy - FM
Both Azerbaijan and Armenia are our neighbours and stability in the Caucasus is a priority of the foreign policy of Russia. This was announced in Moscow by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during a joint press conference with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar ...
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FM explained way SMS for Russia given by Azerbaija in Eurovision distributed
Azerbaijani FM explained the way SMS for Russia given by Azerbaijan in Eurovision were distributed. During a joint press conference with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, Azerbaijani FM Elmar Mammadyarov answered the journalists’ questions regarding the incident related to the zero points from Azerbaijan to Russia during Eurovision 2013. According to Mammadyarov, when the points ...
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Lavrov finds dynamics of Russia-Azerbaijan economic relations positive
MOSCOW, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - The dynamics of trade and economic relations between Russia and Azerbaijan is positive, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said after the negotiations with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mamedyarov here on ...
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Russian lawmakers differ on law on protection of believers feelings
MOSCOW, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - Russian lawmakers differed in their views on wordings in the resounding bill on the protection of believers' feelings, whose main, 2nd reading is under review in parliament. A Just Russia leader Sergei Mironov said a number of definitions might get many citizens into trouble, while the Liberal Democratic Party /LDPR/ believes it is better to slightly overreact. ...
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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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