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Volcanoes ready to erupt in Russia World Cup Sevens
The Philippine Volcanoes hope to continue their remarkable rise in the international level with a strong showing in their maiden participation in the Rugby World Cup Sevens in Moscow, Russia, late this month. Having made an impact in the 15-a-side game, where they are now in Asia's top-flight, the Volcanoes have high hopes in their biggest, most important tournament yet. The Philippines, ...
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Obama Urges Further US-Russian Nuclear Cuts
BERLIN, June 19 (RIA Novosti) – US President Barack Obama proposed on Wednesday to cut another one-third of US and Russian nuclear arsenals, stressing that it was possible to ensure a strong deterrent while also limiting nuclear weapons. "After a comprehensive review I have determined that we can ensure the security of America and our allies, and maintain a strong and credible ...
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Russia says U.S. missile defence a big barrier to nuclear cuts
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - A senior Russian official said on Wednesday that the U.S. deployment of anti-missile shields was a huge hurdle to any further cuts in the offensive nuclear arsenals of the former Cold War foes, because of concerns the interceptors could shoot down Russian missiles. "How can we take the idea of strategic nuclear weapons reductions seriously when the United ...
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Climate change is the threat of our time Obama renews calls to reduce US-Russia nuclear weapons and to confront global warming
Issuing an appeal for a new citizen activism in the free world, President Barack Obama renewed his call to reduce US and Russian nuclear stockpiles and to confront climate change, a danger he called "the global threat of our ...
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Historian Presents Plan for State Textbook
Prominent historian Alexander Chubaryan, who heads a working group to develop a standardized history textbook for secondary schools, said Wednesday that he hopes the eventual content of the book will not be overly politicized. At the same time, Chubaryan, who is director of the World History Institute at the Academy of Sciences, acknowledged that the book would have an important role to play in ...
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Skolkovo Reality Becoming Less Virtual
Hovercraft, bionic arms, space tourism and nuclear laptop batteries may all be products of the future to be created and brought to market by Skolkovo - the business education and technology center taking shape on the outskirts of Moscow. Despite a bumpy start, that has included typical Russian corruption scandals, construction delays and political intrigues, the formerly sleepy dacha community ...
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Central Bank Head in Parting Shot Warns on Inflation
The Central Bank's departing chairman sought on Wednesday to anchor his inflation-fighting legacy, warning of the risks to price stability that the government's push for a weaker ruble could entail. Sergei Ignatyev's comments highlighted the Central Bank's focus on low inflation as the basis for long-term economic stability and growth and contrasted with ...
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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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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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USA arms Syrian rebels Russia arms Syrian government
The United States has made a decision to supply arms to Syrian insurgents. Expert of the Institute of Strategic Studies and Analysis, Sergey Demidenko, said in an interview with Pravda.Ru that the USA had not specified what kind of weapons exactly will be shipped to Syrian ...
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Russia Shares Kabuls Concerns Over US-Taliban Talks
MOSCOW, June 19 (RIA Novosti) – Moscow supports Kabul’s position that peace efforts in the war-torn country should be led by the government of Afghanistan, instead of the United States, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday. The Afghan government earlier on Wednesday suspended security talks with Washington over a dispute regarding the opening of a Taliban representative ...
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Russian Lawmaker Calls for Global Internet Regulation
MOSCOW, June 19 (RIA Novosti) – There is a pressing need for an international agency like the United Nations to regulate the Internet, a Russian lawmaker in charge of cyberspace issues said Wednesday. After World War II, all countries decided to establish the United Nations, which regulates international issues, and a similar organization is needed today to regulate the Internet, said ...
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St. Petersburg Open Plans to Double Prize Fund to $1M
MOSCOW, June 19 (R-Sport) – In an attempt to stock its draws with big-name tennis stars, the St. Petersburg Open is planning to double its prize fund to $1 million, organizers said on Wednesday. Since 2008, when then-world No. 4 Andy Murray won the title, only one top-10 player – Russian Mikhail Youzhny, who was ranked ninth at the time – has appeared at the hard-court ...
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Todashevs body brought to Russia for burial
GROZNY, Russia (AP) -- The father of a Russian man killed while being questioned about ties to the Boston Marathon bombing suspects says he has brought the body to Russia for ...
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SoGen Sees 15 Profit in Russia by 2015
French bank Societe Generale aims to deliver a sustainable return on equity of more than 15 percent at its Russia operations by 2015, SocGen chief executive Frederic Oudea said Wednesday. The target would mean almost doubling annual returns in a fragmented, state-dominated banking market that for years has failed to deliver meaningful profits for SocGen and that chased out many international ...
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Ikea Growing Humility in Russia One Employee at a Time
With the coveted title of Russia's biggest shopping mall operator, Ikea Shopping Centres leads in a market that is expected to become Europe's second largest in the next 18 months. It recently celebrated its 10th anniversary and is making big plans for the future. The milestone closes a decade fraught with disputes with local authorities and legal conflicts, some of which are still ...
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Investors Follow Putin to St. Pete
St. Petersburg is drawing scores of business leaders to a forum where they are hoping to get the latest tips on the course that the government and major companies might take. Opening Thursday at the exhibition center LenExpo, the three-day event will host ...
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Putin criticizes U.S. over missile defenses
Russia's President Vladimir Putin holds a news conference at the end of a G8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland June 18, ...
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Two Russian soldiers injured by explosive device
An explosive device apparently detonated by militants Wednesday in the Russian federal republic of Ingushetia injured two soldiers, officials said. The Interior Ministry of the Russian North Caucasus said the blast occurred in the village of Alkun that borders the North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, the Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported. Both servicemen were hospitalized in ...
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Russia will spend $437.4 million closing down Baikal paper mill
A Russian paper mill blamed by environmentalists for damaging the world's deepest freshwater lake will finally be shut down, Russia's prime minister ...
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Attention called to Russian rights record
The International Federation for Human Rights said the U.N. Human Rights Council needs to weigh in on the targeting of civil organizations in Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin backed legislation last year requiring non-governmental organization to register as "foreign agents" if they receive some of their funding from foreign countries. The rights federation, known by its ...
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UPDATE 3-Russian cbank head in parting shot warns on inflation
Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:12am EDT * Growth push should jeopardise price stability - Ignatyev * Veteran central banker stepping down * FinMin backs weaker rouble to boost revenues, growth (Adds Kremlin comment) By Maya Dyakina MOSCOW, June 19 (Reuters) - The Russian central bank's departing chairman sought on Wednesday to anchor his inflation-fighting legacy, warning of the risks to price ...
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Russia to take measures to preserve global strategic deterrence system
ST. PETERSBURG, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Russia will take measures to preserve the global strategic deterrence system in balance, President Vladimir Putin said. "We cannot allow the strategic deterrence system to be upset or the effectiveness of our nuclear forces to be decreased," he said at a meeting on the aerospace defence system, held on Wednesday, June 19. "The creation of ...
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ONF and United Russia nominate common candidate for regional governor post
VIDNOYE, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - The All Russia People's Front (ONF) and the United Russia party have nominated Acting governor of the Moscow region Andrei Vorobyov a candidate for the post of the Governor of the Moscow ...
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Russian Japanese diplomats to meet in Moscow ahead of Lavrov’s visit to Tokyo
MOSCOW, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Russian and Japanese diplomats will hold consultations in Moscow in August ahead of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s visit to Tokyo, presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said on Wednesday, June 19. He recalled that the agreement on Lavrov’s visit to Japan was reached between President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Lough Erne 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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