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One Russian sailor injured in ship fire at Wakkanai port discharged from hospital
TOKYO, May 24 (Itar-Tass) - One of the Russian sailors who were injured in a fire that broke out on the Taigan ship anchored at the Japanese port of Wakkanai, has been discharged a local hospital, Attache of the Russian Consulate General in Sapporo Valery Kaminsky told Itar-Tass on ...
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Russian reporter presents evidence of use of chemical weaponry by Syrian militants
UNITED NATIONS, May 24 (Itar-Tass) - A Russian reporter who has visited Syria has handed video footage on a chemical attack presumably organized by the irreconcilable Syrian opposition near Aleppo March 19 to the UN ...
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Putin hopes all Arab countries to be consuming Russian turkey soon
VORONEZH, May 23 (Itar-Tass) - Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said Thursday he hopes the entire Arab world will be consuming the turkey produced in Russia ...
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Tsunami warning in Russia’s Far East after 8.2 quake
MOSCOW--Russia on Friday issued a tsunami warning for the Sakhalin Island region in its Far East after a deep sea earthquake measured at a magnitude of 8.2 by the USGS. ';Inhabitants need to leave dangerous regions and go to higher ground,'; the Sakhalin branch of the Russian emergencies ministry said in the warning. The USGS placed the epicenter of the quake in the Sea of Okhotsk of ...
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Dozens Evacuated as Moscow Feels First Tremors in 35 Years
A strong earthquake off the coast of Sakhalin in the Far East sent shockwaves throughout Russia on Friday morning, causing buildings to lightly shake in Moscow, about 7,000 kilometers away, Interfax reported. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, but about 850 people were evacuated from buildings 10 and 44 on Lesnaya ulitsa, near Moscow's Belorusskaya metro station, Ria ...
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Reputed Georgian Mobster Nabbed in Tula Region
Tula region police said Friday that they have detained a reputed Georgian-born mobster known by the nickname "Chuto Khonsky." David Kurasbediani, 44, who also goes by "Chutala," was detained during an anti-mob operation after police learned that he had been living illegally in Tula and carrying out criminal activities, police said in a statement. A search of ...
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New Map to Appear on Moscow Metro
Transportation authorities are introducing a new metro map to be used across the city's subway network by the middle of next week. News reports said the new maps, which were designed by the Art. Lebedev Studio, have already started appearing on metro cars serving the Sokolnicheskaya Line. A competition to design the new map was held in November and featured entries from as far a field as ...
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11 Russian Cities to Get Tolerance Centers
Tolerance centers are to be opened in 11 Russian cities by 2015, the Regional Development Ministry said Friday. The program is estimated at some 1,5 billion rubles ($48 billion), and construction is set to get underway in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and the other selected cities in 2014. The centers will provide a basis for exploring the culture and traditions of the Russian people, ...
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Earthquake hits Russias Far East tremors felt as far away as Moscow
MOSCOW - A powerful earthquake on Friday hit Russia's Far East with tremors felt as far away as Moscow, about 7,000 kilometres (4,400 miles) west of the epicenter. Marina Kolomiyets, spokeswoman for Obninsk's seismic station of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told The Associated Press the epicenter was in the Sea of Okhotsk, east of the Russian coast and north of Japan. She said the ...
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Russia Syrias govt agrees to take part in US-Russia proposed conference in Geneva
MOSCOW - The Syrian government has agreed to a conference on the country's future proposed by Russia and the United States, Russia's foreign ministry said Friday Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said in televised remarks that the Syrian government had "agreed in principle" to participate in the conference in Geneva which is expected within two weeks. ...
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Russian cult film director Balabanov dies at 54
Russian cult film director Balabanov dies at 54 05.20.2013 16:14 Alexei Balabanov, a director who captured the essence of Russia's early post-Soviet years with cult films about crime and the war in Chechnya, has died at the age of 54 following a long illness."The films of Alexei Balabanov are a collective portrait of our country at its most dramatic time in history," Prime ...
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‘Russia’s Facebook’ Put on Internet Blacklist by Mistake
MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti) - Vkontakte, Russia's biggest social networking site, was put on a state registry of blacklisted websites by mistake earlier today, a spokesman forRussia's telecoms watchdog Roskomnadzor said."This was a mistake. Our employee put a tick in the wrong place," said Vladimir Pikov, as reported by Digit.ru. "We will remove VKontakte from the ...
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Russia US to Boost Law Enforcement Cooperation
WASHINGTON, May 24 (RIA Novosti) – Russia and the United States may set up joint working groups to counter emerging crime threats, Russia’s Interior Minister said at the end of a working visit to the United States. US and Russian officials agreed the two nations need to create working groups to help stand against "new international challenges and threats," including ...
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Russia says Syrian government agrees in principle to conference
Russia and the United States , and criticized what it called attempts to undermine peace efforts. "Damascus has expressed its readiness in principle to participate in ...
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Earthquake hits Russias Sakhalin region tsunami warning lifted
Russian emergency authorities lifted a tsunami warning on Friday several minutes after they announced one, following an earthquake in the Sea of Okhotsk off Russia's eastern coastThe main city of Kamchatka is home to a nuclear submarine base and Russia's largest liquefied natural gas project is in Sakhalin.A regional branch of the Emergency Situations Ministry issued the warning for ...
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5.7-magnitude earthquake strikes Northern California- Powerful earthquake rocks Russias Far East
GREENVILLE, Calif. – A magnitude 5.7 earthquake hit Northern California Thursday night that was widely felt across the region, but there were no reports of serious damage. The temblor struck at 8:47 p.m. and was centered near Greenville, about 25 miles southwest of Susanville in far northeastern California, said Rafael Abreu, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey's National ...
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Sochi Olympics to Outdo Vancouver in Doping Tests
Sochi Olympics organizers said 2,500 doping tests will be conducted at the Winter Games next February, surpassing the total at the Vancouver Games four years ago. Alexei Slautin, the head of the Sochi 2014 doping control committee, said 13 doping control sites will operate during the games, with 10 stationed at various venues and three in the Olympic Village. According to the International ...
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Russias oldest human rights group fights foreign agent tag
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's oldest human rights group went to court on Friday to try to stop state prosecutors forcing it to register as a "foreign agent" under a law it says is intended by President Vladimir Putin to silence ...
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Russian nurses pose with seriously ill patients
A nurse poses with a seriously ill patient.(Photo:Agencies) Work in a hospital is never easy. To withstand difficult days at work, nurses have to treat it differently, to pose around people so bad ill that can't move and then post it online. This is how these medical workers from the Perm region of Russia explained these photos which had appeared in social networks. ...
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Russias top social network banned by regulator
/enpproperty--> MOSCOW - Russia's top online social network, VKontakte, has been put on a 'black list' that bans it from distributing content in the country, according to a posting on the web site of the national communications regulator on Friday. VKontakte has 210 million registered users, of whom 47 million log on daily. Founder Pavel Durov fled Russia last month after ...
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8.2 quake off Russia coast sparks tsunami scare
Earthquake measuring 5.7 strikes northwest Pakistan A magnitude 8.2 earthquake struck off Russia's eastern coast on Friday, briefly prompting a tsunami scare but causing no casualties or substantial damage, Russian emergency authorities said. The epicentre of the quake was located at a depth of 620 km in the Sea of Okhotsk, 390 km west of the nearest city, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the US ...
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Russia’s Sakhalin region rattled by 8.2 quake Moscow hit by aftershocks
Natural disasters Russian authorities have lifted a tsunami warning for the Sakhalin region and Kuril Islands following a strong 8.2-magnitude earthquake that rattled the Sea of Okhotsk. The aftershocks were felt as far away as Moscow, over 9,000 kilometers away. Moscow residents called security services, informing them of vibration and tremors that caused furniture and kitchen utensils to ...
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Quake prompts tsunami warning in Russia
Moscow - Russia on Friday issued a tsunami warning for the Sakhalin Island region in its far east after a deep-sea earthquake measured at a magnitude of 8.2 by the ...
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Russias Cherkizovo posts Q1 net loss of $0.6 mln
MOSCOW | Fri May 24, 2013 3:08am EDT MOSCOW May 24 (Reuters) - Russian meat producer Cherkizovo said on Friday it had a net loss in the first quarter as high grain prices and low pork prices weighed on its results. The company reported a net loss of $0.6 million against a year-ago profit of $39.8 million despite an 8 percent increase in revenues to $385 million. "In the first ...
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Norway Has No Plans for Magnitsky Sanctions
Norway has reiterated its concern about an investigation into the 2009 prison death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky but said it has no plans to impose any sanctions. "Norway has no tradition of introducing unilateral actions against individual countries or persons. This policy remains also in the Magnitsky case," the Norwegian Embassy in Moscow said in a statement. Norwegian Foreign ...
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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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