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Taxes and Rules Block Business Aviation in Russia U.S. Lawyer Says
GENEVA - Russia, long touted as an engine of growth for the stuttering global business aviation industry, needs radical changes in its taxation and regulatory system if it is to fulfill that promise, a U.S. expert said. But the downbeat assessment from Moscow-based lawyer Derek Bloom was challenged at the industry's European showcase gathering EBACE by Russian sectoral leaders who argued ...
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Attitudes to Russia Worsening Poll Says
People's attitudes to Russia's global role continue to deteriorate, particularly in the U.S., according to a poll conducted in 25 countries by the BBC. Respondents in only eight of the countries polled had predominantly positive perceptions of Russia, while in 15 countries people expressed negative views, Gazeta.ru said. Overall, only 30 percent of the international respondents ...
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Russias Vozrozhdenie Q1 net profit down 36.7 pct yy
MOSCOW | Thu May 23, 2013 4:43am EDT MOSCOW May 23 (Reuters) - Vozrozhdenie, a mid-sized listed Russian bank, posted on Thursday a 36.7-percent decline in net profit for the first quarter of the year due to a rise in provisioning on bad loans. Vozrozhdenie, one of a handful of listed Russian banks that are not owned by the state, said its net profit came to 333 million roubles ($10.6 ...
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FMS plans to limit inflow of migrants from CIS countries to Russia
According to the Federal Migration Service’s data, one of every five crimes in Moscow is committed by non-residents. It became known at the FMS board meeting on Wednesday that Russia intends to tighten up the immigration laws. A proposal was presented to oblige CIS citizens to receive an invitation to arrive in the Russian Federation. Experts believe it will not complicate life of illegal ...
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Russian commando killed in shootout with gunmen in Dagestan
MAKHACHKALA, May 23 (Itar-Tass) - A law enforcer was killed in a shootout with gunmen in the Karabudakhkent district of Dagestan near the settlement Gubden on Thursday morning. "A commando of the task force Vityaz has got a lethal wound," a spokesman of the republican investigation department of the Russian Investigative Committee told Itar-Tass. The special operation near Gubden was ...
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Bolotnoye Case Sent to Court
Prosecutors have sent to court a criminal case against 12 opposition activists allegedly involved in clashes with police at an opposition rally on Bolotnaya Ploshchad last May. "A list of charges in the so-called 'Bolotnoye case' against 12 people has been approved," the Prosecutor General's Office said in a statement late Wednesday. According to investigators, the 12 ...
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Norway Suggests Raising Magnitsky at UN
Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eider has recommended that his country's lawmakers bring the issue of Magnitsky sanctions against Russia before the UN Security Council. Eider said discussion in front of the council would be much more effective than Norway acting alone because any decisions taken by the council are binding on all member states. The sanctions, which would include the ...
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Hurricane Hits Tula Region
Tula region Governor Vladimir Gruzdev arrived in the town of Yefremov to personally coordinate the cleanup operation in the aftermath of the hurricane that hit the area on Wednesday. The governor declared a state of emergency in the town, 300 kilometers south of Moscow, as twenty people suffered injuries, and one person was hospitalized. The hurricane left more than 200 buildings without gas ...
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Level of relations between Azerbaijan and Russia high - foreign minister
In an exclusive interview with columnist of "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" Victoria Panfilova, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister spoke about the state of Russian-Azerbaijani relations, issues of the Karabakh conflict, and also answered a number of questions. "We, with the Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov, had a constructive exchange of views. If there is a need for our intervention ...
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What the Papers Say May 23 2013
Kommersant 1. Petr Netreba and Dmitry Butrin article headlined "Not to wait three years for promised things" says that the Russian government has begun to revise the 2014-16 budget because the budget deficit may rise to 0.6 percent of GDP in 2014; pp 1, 8 (746 words). 2. Roman Rozhkov et al. article headlined "defense Ministry surrounds CSKA" says that the defense ...
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Patrushev Delivers Putins Letter to Obama
Vladimir Putin to U.S. President Barack Obama, the Russian Embassy in Washington said. The letter is a response to Obama's message that U.S. national security adviser Tom Donilon brought to Moscow in April. Obama's message has not been made public, but Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov said last month that it contained a number of proposals to deepen bilateral dialogue and ...
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Ukrainian Prime Minister Expels Reporters
KIEV - Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov ordered a dozen reporters to be barred from covering government meetings after they staged a protest over attacks on journalists at a rally. When reporters at the Cabinet meeting stepped in front of television cameras and turned their backs, emblazoned with slogans, on Azarov and his colleagues Wednesday, the prime minister reacted sharply. ...
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Russias VTB seeks to sell Rosbank stake paper
MOSCOW | Thu May 23, 2013 2:00am EDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's second largest bank VTB (VTBR.MM) wants to sell its stake in Societe Generale's (SOGN.PA) Russian unit Rosbank and may part with it by the end of the year, the Kommersant daily on Thursday cited an executive as saying. State-controlled VTB owns a 10 percent stake in Rosbank, and stated its wish to exit after ...
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UN asks Russia for more peacekeepers
New York, May 23 : Russia has been asked to increase the level of staff it commits to UN peacekeeping missions around the world, Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev ...
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Obama discusses Syria with senior Russian official
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday discussed with visiting Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev the need for a negotiated settlement of the protracted conflict in Syria.Dropping by a White House meeting between Patrushev and Thomas Donilon, his national security advisor, Obama discussed the need for a negotiated political settlement in Syria as well as the importance of ...
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Turkey Jails 4 for Alcohol Deaths of 5 Russians
ANKARA, Turkey - A Turkish court has sentenced four people to 83 years in prison each for the deaths of five Russians from bootleg alcohol poisoning. The Russians died in 2011 after consuming bootleg liquor during a yacht tour in the Aegean Sea. They were in Turkey training to be tour guides. The Anadolu news agency said Wednesday that a court convicted four people of murder for producing the ...
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Workers Body Found After 5 Months in Mariinsky Theater
A. Savin / Wikicommons A view of the Mariinsky Theater in May 2012. A body was found in its attic this week. A workman who disappeared in December was found dead in an attic at St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theater, investigators said. The body of the 22-year-old man was found hanging from a rope on Tuesday. Investigators believe he hung himself. The legendary Mariinsky Theater ...
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Kadyrov Awarded Medal for Unselfish Work for Children
Ramzan Kadyrov has been awarded a medal "for unselfish work in the name of children." Children's rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov announced the award on Wednesday, writing on social network Twitter that "not one child in the Chechnya republic was left by a mother in a maternity hospital in the last three years." All newly discovered orphans in Chechnya find their new ...
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Kadyorv Hosts U.S. Actor Steven Seagal in Grozny
kadyrov_95 / Instagram Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov posing with Steven Seagal in a photo on Kadyrov's Instagram account. Hollywood star Steven Seagal has spent time with Chechen ...
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Today in History May 23
File Photo The Order of Lenin. Eighty-three years ago today, on May 23, 1930, the first Order of Lenin was awarded to a group of military officers, ordinary workers and the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper for its assistance in the development of socialism. The Order of Lenin - first mooted in 1926 and meant to reward those who displayed great merit in their service to the revolution, ...
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Slain Russian ‘intimidated’ neighbors
Former Cambridge neighbors of a Russian mixed martial arts ?brawler shot dead by an FBI agent early yesterday in Florida - after ?being questioned about his ties to ?the marathon bombing and a Waltham triple murder - said he was nasty.Ibragim Todashev, 27, also hung around with slain marathon bombing mastermind Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26 - swilling beer and eating chicken on a stoop on Harding ...
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Patrushev Delivered Putin Reply to Obama – Russian Embassy
letter from President Vladimir Putin to US President Barack Obama, the Russian Embassy in the United States said. The letter is a response to ...
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Obama at meeting with Patrushev calls for strengthening US-Russia relations
WASHINGTON, May 23 (Itar-Tass) - U.S. President Barack Obama confirmed the intention to strengthen U.S.-Russian relations, including economic relations, as he talked with Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev. The White House press service reported on Wednesday that Obama had joined Patrushev's meeting with Thomas Donilon, the national security advisor to the U.S. ...
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Intl Ecological Conference held in St. Petersburg
Around 2,000 delegates from 26 countries have descended on St. Petersburg's Tauride Palace for the 6th Nevsky International Ecological ...
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Obama Reaffirms Hope for Stronger Ties with Russia
WASHINGTON, May 22 (RIA Novosti) – US President Barack Obama reaffirmed on Wednesday his desire to strengthen the bilateral relationship with Russia during talks with Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, National Security Council Spokesperson Caitlin Hayden said. Obama briefly joined a meeting between Patrushev and National Security Advisor Tom Donilon in Washington. ...
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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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