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Russian Stadiums Below Par for 2018 World Cup - Official
MOSCOW, June 20 (R-Sport) - Every one of Russia’s stadiums being built for the 2018 World Cup is having trouble meeting the standards set by world football’s governing body FIFA, the official in charge of compliance said on Thursday. FIFA sets out a wide range of requirements for each World Cup arena, with standards covering everything from total capacity to media and VIP ...
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Russia hosts FIFA World Cup 2018
Every one of Russia's stadiums being built for the 2018 World Cup is having trouble meeting the standards set by world football's governing body FIFA, the official in charge of compliance said on ...
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Reports about resignation of Russian Railways president proved to be provocation
Late on Wednesday, several Russian and foreign news agencies have at once received information that the president of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin, had been dismissed and First Vice President of Russian Railways Alexander Misharin was appointed instead of him. Half-an-hour later the news was disproved. Information came from the email address made to look like the official mail address of ...
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St. Petersburg International Economic Forum LIVE UPDATES
Russia and the global economy The International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg has kicked off. More than 4,000 business leaders, policy makers, and economic experts from around the world have come together to brainstorm ways out of the global economic crisis. This year's theme is 'Finding Resolve to Build the New Global Economy'. 11:51 MST: Russian President Vladimir ...
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Obamas Berlin wall US Prez calls on Russia to revive a world without nuclear weapons from behind bulletproof glass
U.S. President Barack Obama used a speech in Berlin on Wednesday to call on Russia to revive the push for a world without nuclear weapons, offering to cut deployed nuclear arsenals by a third, but Moscow immediately poured scorn on his proposal.Speaking in Berlin where U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan gave rousing Cold-War speeches, Obama urged Russia to help build on the ...
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Moscow rebuffs Obama nuclear arms proposal
Obama 's call for steep nuclear weapons reductions, with a Defense Ministry adviser calling the proposal "absolutely unacceptable." "We cannot allow the balance of the strategic deterrence system to be broken, or the effectiveness of our nuclear forces to be diminished," Russian President Vladimir Putin said in St. Petersburg around the same time Obama said in Berlin he ...
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Obama challenges Russia over nuclear weapon cuts
Source: Breakfast US President Barack Obama used a speech in Berlin to call on Russia to revive the push for a world without nuclear weapons, offering to cut deployed nuclear arsenals by a third, but Moscow immediately poured scorn on his proposal. Speaking in Berlin where US Presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan gave rousing Cold-War speeches, Obama urged Russia to help build on the ...
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Russias Birth Rate up 30 Since 2007
Maxim Topilin said on Wednesday. In his interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio station, the minister attributed the trend in part to the introduction of the so-called "maternity capital" on January 1, 2007. "During this period, the birth rate increased by 30 percent," Topilin said without giving the exact figures. Growth was attributed "to the introduction of the ...
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Today in History June 20
132 years ago on June 20, 1881, Russia's first public telephone cable was installed in Nizhny Novgorod. Spanning 1,547 meters, the phone line linked Georgievskaya pier with the offices of a local steamship ...
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21 of Russians Worry about Environment
About 21 percent of Russians are "seriously worried" about environmental issues in their country, according to a survey published by an independent Russian pollster on Wednesday. The Levada Center pollster said the figure is four percentage points less than during its previous poll on the issue held last year. Almost 62 percent of respondents, however, are convinced that polluted ...
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U.S. Human Trafficking Report Downgrades Russia to Lowest Level
WASHINGTON - In a move that opens the door to sanctions, the U.S. State Department named Russia and China among the world's worst countries in terms of forced labor and sex trafficking in its 2013 Trafficking in Persons Report. This year's report states that the government "does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking." According to ...
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Aeroflot Russian Airlines suspends first deputy director general
MOSCOW, June 20 (Itar-Tass) - The administration of Aeroflot Russian Airlines suspended Deputy Director General Andrei Kalmykov, who is under investigation on suspicion of abuse of authority. "Andrei Kalmykov has been suspended for the period of the investigation into the criminal case opened by the Moscow regional investigation department on the transport. The company's press service ...
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Tarkovsky Archives Opened at Russian Film Festival
Mosfilm A 'Stalker' from the 1979 Tarkovsky film of the same name guides two of his clients through the unpredictable, mysterious 'Zone' of ...
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Boutique Business Tests Entrepreneurial Spirit
Miladus Edenensis / flickr Specialty shops, like the Mariage Freres tea boutique, face daunting challenges when trying to do business in ...
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Russia invests heavily in ecological innovations
The grounds are more than tangible. Up to 15 percent of Russia reside in cities and industrial agglomerations. Billions of tons of garbage and wastes have been accumulated, more and more garbage arrives daily, whereas separate collection and recycling - the basics of modern waste processing technologies - still remain a non-Russian phenomenon. Landfills, including unauthorized ones, poison ...
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Chinese vice premier in Russia to strengthen ties energy cooperation
Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli arrived here Wednesday to strengthen ties and energy cooperation with Russia, aiming to give a new impetus to the unprecedented high level of relations between the two neighboring giants.Zhang's visit, a swift follow-up to the successful summit in Moscow between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in March, is designed to ...
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Russia loses $25b due to shell firms
The network of the fly-by-night companies has illegally funneled 760 billion rubles (about $25 billion) from Russian economy in the past three years, the outgoing chief of the Central Bank said Wednesday."This May, we received an official inquiry from the Interior Ministry about some organizations that were used for the illegal financial transactions by suspects in one of criminal ...
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Russia rejects Obamas nuke cut proposal
US Navy guided-missile frigate USS Vandegrift (background) and a Russian diesel submarine take part in a naval parade at the harbour of Russia's far eastern city of Vladivostok in this July 25, 2010 file photo. Russia marks Navy Day on Sunday. US President Barack Obama said on June 19, 2013, he will pursue a new reduction in deployed nuclear weapons by up to a third below the level ...
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11-year-old Lucia Li wins international piano award
Sydney Conservatorium of Music's Rising Stars program, has taken out the people's choice award as well as third prize in her age category at the Steps to Mastery competition in St Petersburg, ...
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Rebels Syrian forces used chemical weapons in attack on Zamalka
Syrian rebels and their supporters accused government forces of launching a chemical weapons attack on Zamalka Wednesday, killing three people. The Syrian Network for Human Rights in London said three people died in the alleged chemical attack. The group, whose figures were not independently confirmed, said a total of 83 people were killed in fighting across the war-torn country Wednesday. ...
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Russias Putin criticises U.S. over missile defences
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed concern about U.S. missile defences and high-precision weapons on Wednesday, before a speech in which Barack Obama was expected to call for nuclear arms cuts. "High-precision conventional weapons systems are being actively developed States possessing such weapons strongly increase their offensive ...
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One Killed Thousands Evacuated in Ammo Depot Explosions
Video showing people's reactions as they watch several explosions occur at the ammunition depot. One person was killed, over 30 sought medical help, 11 were hospitalized and more than 6,000 local residents were evacuated Tuesday from a village near an ammunition depot in central Russia after a fire caused massive explosions of stored artillery shells, the Emergency Situations Ministry ...
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Udaltsov Hit With New Charges
Investigators on Wednesday charged leftist opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov and his ally Leonid Razvozzhayev with staging "riots" at an authorized opposition rally on Bolotnaya Ploshchad in Moscow last May. In October, the two activists were charged with plotting the "riots," a term disputed by the opposition. In late April, a public inquiry held by human rights activists ...
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Slavery US gives bad marks to China and Russia in its annual report
The State Department report on slavery notes that more countries are prosecuting traffickers and providing services to rescued victims. But China and Russia are failing to make progress, the US ...
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Obama Asks Russia to Join in Reducing Nuclear Arms
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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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