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US Defense Secretary Meets Russian Security Council Chief
MOSCOW, May 22 (RIA Novosti) - US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel held a meeting with Russian National Security Council chief Nikolai Patrushev on Tuesday discussing bilateral and international issues, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said. "Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel met with Russian Federation Security Council Secretary General Nikolai Patrushev today at the Pentagon to ...
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U.S. Lawmakers Seek Limits on Russia Cooperation
WASHINGTON - U.S. Republican lawmakers are trying to block President Barack Obama's overtures to Russia on missile defense, creating a potential obstacle to arms control talks. Lawmakers are proposing a measure that would bar the administration from sharing classified missile defense data with Russia. That would undercut a path that arms control advocates have urged to restart nuclear ...
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Former Georgian Prime Minister Detained
Mikheil Saakashvili - a former prime minister and a provincial governor - have been charged with embezzlement and abuse of office in another sign of an ongoing power struggle between the country's top two officials. Former Prime Minister Vano Merabishvili, who currently leads Saakashvili's party, is accused among other things of taking on the payroll in the Labor Ministry nearly ...
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Today in History May 22
Wikicommons Ilya Repin's portrait of Pavel Tretyakov (1883). 157 years ago today, on May 22, 1856, Pavel Tretyakov acquired a series of paintings that came to mark the founding of the Tretyakov Gallery. Tretyakov's collection, which comprised of more than 1,200 paintings, 518 drawings and nine sculptures, was moved to Moscow in 1892 and has since expanded to include more than ...
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Aleksei Balabanov Russian Film Director Dies at 54
Aleksei Balabanov, a Russian director whose films fused grisly violence, sardonic humor and rock music to convey a darkly compelling vision of his chaotic society after ...
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Russian nuclear rocket to facilitate interplanetary travel after 2025
A new Russian nuclear rocket will multiply the speed of movement through space: a flight round trip to Mars will take two to four months, while the current rocket requires a year and a half to two years to accomplish the same trip. With new ship, a flight round trip to Mars will take 2 to 4 months which is absolutely ...
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Russia opposes forced Syria regime change
Hezbollah in Syria and the potential regional fallout, Zasypkin also assured that Russian missiles supplied to Syria will not reach Hezbollah. "I don’t know the details of the contracts [for supply of weapons to Syria] but I can confirm that the contract states those missiles must not reach a third party," he said. "Our utmost priority is stability and security in ...
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Who pays puppets without borders to slander Russia
Reporters Without Borders Calls Putin a Predator and Control Freak - Mikhail Doubik, Publisher at Vedomosti is the director of the Moscow Times. Vedomosti was conceived by Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal, the One Percent. The "news" outlet which calls itself the Moscow Times today published an article with this ...
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Kyrgyz President Against Banning Russia’s Zhirinovsky
BISHKEK, May 22 (RIA Novosti) - Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev said he saw no reasons to declare populist Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky persona non grata in the central Asian state following his remarks on Kyrgyzstan. Last week Kyrgyzstan's parliament voted to recommend their nation's Foreign Ministry declare Zhirinovsky persona non grata after remarks he made about a ...
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Russian PM Medvedev Says Against Cabinet Reshuffle
MOSCOW, May 22 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said he was not ready to part with any of the current ministers, but dismissals are possible in connection with the recently introduced law banning officials from keeping their money in foreign banks. "The government is a team. I have proposed their [ministers'] candidacies to the president and the president ...
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Russian mom detained after babies found in fridge
Police in a small town in Russia's Urals have detained a woman suspected of killing her newborn sons by freezing them to death. The bodies were discovered in the freezer of a local food store where they have been kept for five years. The bodies were found on Tuesday in Verkhnyaya Pyshma in the Sverdlovsk region by staff at the store. Past inspections of the store by local officials had ...
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Russia rejects creation of no-fly zone over Syria
Russia opposes the initiatives of the west to create a no-fly zone over Syria, the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said on Tuesday. "Unfortunately, these destructive ideas keep popping up over time, but no one ever bothered to think about the consequences," said Gatilov. It is worth mentioning that on March 19, the Supreme Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty ...
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Kerry Presses US-Russian Plan for Syrian Peace Talks
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets Wednesday in the Jordanian capital with senior diplomats from 11 nations, as part of a U.S.-Russian push to end Syria's civil ...
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Russia’s ex-finance minister stresses role of private investments in Russian economic growth
LONDON, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - A key role in Russia’s economic growth should be played by private rather than government investments, Russian former Finance Minister Alexei Kurdin said on Tuesday at the Russia Calling! Investment conference organized here by one of Russia’s biggest banks, ...
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Russia blocked Kiwi apples at port
Officials scramble to lift block on NZ meat in China A shipment of New Zealand apples was held up by Russian authorities in March because of export certification issues, it was revealed yesterday - a day after officials denied anyone but China had raised concerns. It emerged last week that Chinese officials were blocking New Zealand beef and sheep meat from entering the country, apparently ...
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Abrupt End for Approved Gay Rally
St. Petersburg authorities abruptly ended a previously authorized LGBT protest rally against homophobia and ...
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Discovery of alleged Russian plot points to growing jitters
OREKHOVO-ZUYEVO, Russia (Reuters) - As Russia congratulated its forces for foiling an alleged Islamist plot on Moscow, the discovery of the plan also pointed to the growing security threat before the 2014 Winter ...
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Chinese language contest held in St Petersburg
/enpproperty--> ST PETERSBURG - A Chinese language proficiency competition featuring student teams from five Russian regions was held here on Tuesday, with the winners set to sail into an international contest to be held in China. In the city's iconic Hermitage Theater, university teams from St Petersburg, Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Vladivostok and a joint Siberian team took turns ...
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Chisinau From Exile to Evolution
Hans Poldoja / flickr The Cathedral of the Nativity in central Chisinau, designed by Abram Melnikov, was built in 1830 and is the main cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church in Chisinau, ...
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The Dish Easy Does It
Other than a huge greasy breakfast, nothing tames a hangover quite like a dim sum brunch. The combination of sweet, salty and sour cuts through the fog of a muzzy head while providing a boatload of calories in easy to manage, bite-sized ...
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Lighting Up the White Nights
The 21st annual Stars of the White Nights music festival opens on Friday and will be held for the first time at all three Mariinsky theater venues. The long-awaited stage of Mariinsky II will finally be christened with its first premiere, up-and-coming young director, Vasily Barkhatov, will open the festival with his rendition of ...
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City Alive With The Sound of reMusik
Composers from around the world have arrived in St. Petersburg to take part in the launch of the first St. Petersburg International New Music ...
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Pet Food Profitable in Russia
The state-of-the-art robotized production line, located in the Vorsino techno park near the border between the Kaluga and Moscow regions, took under two years to complete. It will use 90 percent locally made ingredients and packaging and will produce cat food under the brand name ...
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Petersburg Marks 310th Anniversary
This weekend, St. Petersburg will celebrate its birthday early with citywide festivities on Saturday and Sunday preceding the ...
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Local Fish Celebrated and Eaten
The annual Korushka Festival was held on the weekend, marking the start of spring in St. Petersburg. Fans of the fish, more commonly known abroad as smelt, headed to the Lenexpo Exhibition Complex on Vasilievsky Island, where thousands of kilograms of the popular fish were prepared for visitors to ...
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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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