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UPDATE 1-Greeces Hellenic issues tender to buy Russian oil
Mon May 20, 2013 8:56am EDT (Adds details, effects of financial crisis on Hellenic) LONDON May 20 (Reuters) - Hellenic Petroleum, Greece's largest refiner, has issued a tender to buy an 80,000 tonne cargo of Russian Urals crude oil for early June delivery, a trading source said, the first in months as its finances improve. The tender was issued on Friday and closes today. The payment will be ...
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President ordered to deal with the issue of voting for Russia at Eurovision
For many, both in Azerbaijan and in Russia, it was a surprise to see that not a single vote came from Azerbaijan to Russian contestant Dina Garipova at the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. Azerbaijani Ambassador to Russia Polad Bulbuloglu in his interview to Vestnik Kavkaza said that in fact it is not so. Azerbaijan gave a high vote to Russia but these voices have gone missing. What exactly ...
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Former minister says United Russia should take responsibility for stagnation
MOSCOW, May 20 (Itar-Tass) - Former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said United Russia should take "full responsibility for the stagnation in which the country ...
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8 killed in double blast in Dagestan Russia
Eight people have been killed as two car bombs exploded outside the headquarters of the court bailiffs' service in the capital of Russia's Dagestan Republic, Makhachkala. The first car loaded with explosives reportedly went off causing no fatalities or injuries. Once law enforcements got to the scene, the second bomb detonated, Interfax reported citing local investigative ...
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US Anti-Corruption Expert Expelled from Russia – Report
MOSCOW, May 20 (RIA Novosti) - A retired US diplomat and expert on the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act was banned from entering Russia earlier this month, the New York Times said on Sunday.Moscow-based Thomas Firestone, who works for Baker & McKenzie law firm, was declared persona non grata when returning to Russia from a trip abroad on May 5, the report said.No official explanation for the ...
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Russian High-Tech Hub Boss Quizzed on Opposition Funding
Skolkovo Foundation , billionaire businessman Viktor Vekselberg has been questioned by the Investigative Committee over an alleged misuse of funds to support the opposition, the foundation’s deputy head Alexander Chernov said on Monday. "Viktor Feliksovich [Velselberg] provided exhaustive answers to the questions he was asked," Chernov said. Velselberg denied allegations on ...
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Putins Ex-Bodyguard Took Snaps in Kremlin to Impress Women
Vladimir Putin took photos of himself sitting in Putin's office in an effort to attract women, the Moskovsky Komsomolets tabloid reported Monday. The newspaper published a couple of photographs to back up its claims. According to MK, the man in the pictures is Alexei Ustimchuk, who worked between 2004 and 2011 at the Federal Guard Service, the agency tasked with protecting Putin and a ...
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Russian Billionaire to Fund Johansson Movie
Russian billionaire and president of gaming operator Ritzio International Oleg Boiko is set to produce Scarlett Johansson's directorial debut, a film adaptation of Truman Capote's novel "Summer Crossing." Boiko will work alongside Aldamisa co-chairman Sergei Bespalov and oscar-winner Barry Spikings, with production set to start in the first half of 2014, Vedomosti reported. ...
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Modern geopolitics in the West has always targeted Russia. Russia is seen of course as an evil empire also as the Heartland of Eurasia heir of the Mongols enjoying so the biggest and most strategic position on earth. Twice invaded and destroyed by the
Modern geopolitics in the West has always targeted Russia since the famous thesis of Halford Mackinder. Russia is seen of course as an evil empire, also as the Heartland of Eurasia, heir of the Mongols, enjoying so the biggest and most strategic position on earth. Twice invaded and destroyed by the troops of Napoleon and Hitler, Russia is still considered the land of Asiatic invaders! As stated ...
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Russia and the Arctic Ocean in the next century
Modern geopolitics in the West has always targeted Russia since the famous thesis of Halford Mackinder. Russia is seen of course as an evil empire, also as the Heartland of Eurasia, heir of the Mongols, enjoying so the biggest and most strategic position on earth. Twice invaded and destroyed by the troops of Napoleon and Hitler, Russia is still considered the land of Asiatic invaders! As stated ...
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Large-scale operations launched in regions of Azerbaijan bordering Russia
The operations are underway on north and north-west of Azerbaijan, APA reports. It involves bodies Azerbaijani and Russian law enforcement agencies. Posts have been created in Zaqatala, residents say. The police check both outgoing and incoming cars. Though Gakh Police Department confirmed the launch of operations, it declined to provide details citing its confidentiality. Guba Police ...
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Relations with Russia occupy important place in Azerbaijan’s foreign policy
Ali Hasanov visits Astrakhan. Head of the Azerbaijani delegation arriving in Astrakhan for participation in ceremonies on occasion of the 90th jubilee of national leader, Heydar Aliyev, chief of the public policy department of the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan Ali Hasanov met the governor of Astrakhan, Alexander Zhilkin on 20 May. Special correspondent of AzerTag, governor of the ...
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Russia was to get high score from Azerbaijan – chief of Public TV
Director of the Public Television of Azerbaijan Jamil Guliyev made a statement on the calculation of Azerbaijani votes for Russia in Eurovision 2013 song contest? AzerTag reports. The statement says: "Russia is a country that has much in common with Azerbaijan-these are common interests, common human values and common history. Today, cultural and artistic ties of Azerbaijan and Russia ...
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Egypt breaks ammunition development contract with Russia - Izvestia newspaper
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SK ready to open criminal case against State Duma lawmaker from A Just Russia faction Ilya Ponomaryov the newspaper Izvestia writes
The SK will insist that Ponomaryov be stripped of lawmaker's immunity. SK spokesman Vladimir Markin told the Izvestia that the SK would pass all the necessary documents to the Prosecutor General's Office which would request the State Duma to strip the lawmaker of ...
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Open Government Partnership says Russia is not joining the Kommersant reports
Russia officially refused to join the international organization Open Government Partnership /OGP/. The membership bid was personally initiated by Dmitry Medvedev in the spring of 2012, the OGP said a report on Twitter. This will not affect the work of Russia's Open Government. "OGP confirms that Russia withdrew its letter of intent to join the Partnership," the report ...
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Russia Needs 3-5 Years to Build Efficient Economy – Kudrin
MOSCOW, May 20 (RIA Novosti) – Russia will need from three to five years to exit stagnation and build an efficient economy, former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Monday. "Even if we roll up our sleeves and set to work right now, we’ll need from three to five years to achieve new elements of efficiency," Kudrin said at an Open Tribune meeting held by the State Duma, ...
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Putin Puts OGP Entry on Hold
Vladimir Putin has postponed Russia's entry into the Open Government Partnership planned for the second half of this year, a news report said Monday. "We are not talking about winding up plans to join, but corrections in timing and the scale of participation are possible," presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Kommersant. OGP is an international partnership with over 50 ...
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Ghaddafi thanks Germany Russia and China
Colonel Ghaddafi today in an interview thanked the governments of Germany, Russia and China for opposing a no-fly zone over Libya, promising new oil ...
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Will USA approve Russia shipping missiles to Syrian rebels
The U.S. suspects Russia of delivering missiles to the Syrian government. According to U.S. intelligence, Moscow intends to supply Damascus with advanced anti-ship missiles called Yakhont. Such a move, experts say, would help President Bashar al-Assad to effectively struggle with any attempts to intervene, prevent arms supplies to rebels and avoid the naval blockade of the ...
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For Russia Syria is not in the Middle East
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with (clockwise, starting in top left.) U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, British Prime Minister David Cameron, next Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. REUTERS/FILES A string of leaders and senior emissaries, seeking to prevent further escalation of the Syria crisis, has headed to Moscow recently to meet with ...
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Deputy Premier Dvorkovich Surkov Left Voluntarily
Vladislav Surkov left the government earlier this month of his own accord. Surkov, who worked as deputy prime minister and Cabinet chief of staff, resigned two weeks ago, with some observers saying he was forced to do so by the Kremlin. The Kremlin, however, said Surkov left voluntarily after disputing ...
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St. Pete Stadium Completion Date Put Back Again
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 Monday. 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 Confederations Cup games in 2017. ...
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Russia wants US to pay for astronaut flights to Space Station
Russia will ask the United States to contribute more toward the costs of flying US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), a spokesman for the Russian space agency said Thursday.Roskomos spokesman Vyacheslav Davydenko told AFP that since the US space shuttles stopped supplying the jointly manned station in the wake of the February 2003 Columbia disaster Russia had been shouldering ...
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Elsevier and Russian Ministry of Education and Science Announce 2013 Scopus Award Winners
Elsevier , the world-leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, and the Russian Ministry of Education and Science announced the winners of the 2013 Scopus Awards Russia. The Scopus Award program, first held in Russia in 2005, aims to support scientific research in Russia and honor its outstanding scientists. This year's event has been ...
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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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