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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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UPDATE 1-Wealth fund trio to invest $500 mln each in Russias VTB
Tue May 21, 2013 6:18am EDT * Russian state bank raising $3.3 bln * Share sale to close by weekend * Loan book to grow 15-20 pct - CEO * Sees 2013 net profit at over 100 bln rbls LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - Russia's second-largest bank 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, ...
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Russia slams outrageous Eurovision vote
MOSCOW has reacted angrily as its neighbour Azerbaijan admitted its vote at the Eurovision Song Contest awarding no points to Russia's song appears to have been falsified. The scandal topped the agenda at a televised briefing between the countries' foreign ministers in Moscow, as Azerbaijan's top diplomat admitted that the votes submitted for Russia via mobile phone had somehow been ...
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The Russian Terminator Incredible footage captures moment a grinning soldier has an AK-47 machine gun bullet removed from forehead with a pair of pliers
The video clip has gone viral, with YouTube users dubbing the soldier 'the Russian Terminator' after comparison him to the Arnold Schwarzenegger ...
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3 Drowning Deaths Recorded in Moscow in 24 Hours
Moscow medics have documented three deaths by drowning over the past 24 hours. Medics told Interfax that the three victims were aged between 14 and 40. The deaths took place in the Borisovo Ponds, in a pond on Dnepropetrovskaya Ulitsa and in the Shkolnoye Lake in the Moscow region city of Zelenograd. Since record temperatures came to Moscow on May 13, seven drowning fatalities have been ...
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Investigation Opened Into Mass Brawl in Kamchatka Penal Colony
Investigators have opened a criminal investigation into a mass brawl that broke out among inmates in a Kamchatka penal colony in March, a news report said Tuesday. The fight broke out in Penal Colony No. 6 on March 23 when over 30 convicts from squads four and five teamed up to attack seven inmates from the first squad, Interfax reported. "A total of about 100 people participated in the ...
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New Case Into Politkovskaya Killing Goes to Court
A case against five men suspected of being involved in the 2006 high-profile murder of Russian investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya has been sent to court, prosecutors said Tuesday. Politkovskaya, who was a journalist with the opposition-leaning Novaya Gazeta newspaper, was shot dead in the elevator of her apartment building on October 7, 2006. Investigators suspect she was killed over ...
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U.S. Says Russian Policies Restrict Religious Freedom
WASHINGTON - Russia is among several countries around the world including Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Cuba, Iran, and China that imposed restrictions on freedom of religion last year, according to an annual report released Monday by the U.S. State Department. "This report is a clear-eyed, objective look at the state of religious freedom around the world. And when necessary, yes, it does ...
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Qatar to get $500m of shares in Russian bank VTB
The sovereign wealth funds of Qatar, Norway and Azerbaijan will each get about $500m of the new shares being issued by VTB, the Russian bank's chief executive Andrei Kostin said on Tuesday.The $500m allocation is the "kind of ticket we are thinking of" Kostin told Reuters in London. The allocations will give the investors more than half the new shares being sold in VTB's ...
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Russian Azerbaijani FMs discuss Eurovision points scandal
This disgraceful action will get a response, Lavrov said. Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov and Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov spoke about the scandal around points in Eurovision during the negotiations in Moscow, the Facebook page of the Russian Foreign Ministry says. The source of RIA Novosti in the Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed that 'during the ...
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Kudrin accuses United Russia of economic stagnation
Head of the Civil Initiatives Committee, former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin stated at a session of Open Tribune on Monday that the government and United Russia should bear responsibility for the present stagnation in the economy. United Russia retaliated by accusing him of poor performance when he was in civil ...
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Olympics Investors Get More Honor than Profit
's gondola lift and Sberbank's ski jump. The nicknames used by locals and an army of construction workers leave no doubt about who is paying for the 2014 Winter Games: Russia's business powerhouses. Other countries that have hosted the Olympics have overwhelmingly used public funds to pay for the construction of needed venues and new infrastructure. The Russian government, ...
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Levada Center Fears Closure After Warning
Independent pollster Levada Center has said that it could have to close after prosecutors warned the organization against violating legislation governing foreign-funded NGOs. "The warning puts the Yury Levada Center in a very difficult situation, practically forcing it to cease its activities as an independent research organization conducting regular public opinion polls," Lev Gudkov, ...
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U.S. Prison Ordered to Hand Over Tsarnaev Files
BOSTON - A U.S. judge approved a request by accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's lawyers that his jailers hand over their files on him, including suicide watch logs and psychological data, according to newly released court documents. The defense has said it wants to track 19-year-old Tsarnaev's injuries and mental state while he is held in federal prison to provide ...
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Dash cam video of real Russia and its real people explodes Internet
The video that you are about to see has collected nearly four million views in four days. It shows real Russia and real Russians, which became a revelation to many foreigners ...
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Russia USA should jointly confront spreading terrorism - minister
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Russia Announces Cash Prizes for Its Universiade Medalists
MOSCOW, May 21 (R-Sport) – Russia’s federal government will pay out roughly $5,400 to Russian gold medalists at this summer’s University Games in the Russian city of Kazan, according to a decree signed Tuesday by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Silver medalists, meanwhile, will receive a bonus of just over $2,600, while bronze medalists will earn about $1,600, as Russia looks ...
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Moscow Terror Plot Foiled by Special Forces
Special forces officers killed two men and detained one more outside Moscow on suspicion that they were plotting a terror attack in the city, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee said. The officers came under fire when they surrounded a house with the suspects on Monday in the city of Orekhovo-Zuyevo, roughly 80 kilometers from Moscow, and demanded that they surrender. In the ensuing ...
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Russia says two rebels killed in North Caucasus
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian security forces killed two suspected militants in the North Caucasus during a night-time sweep in the region plagued by an Islamist insurgency, investigators said on ...
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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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