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The behavior of Russians abroad has long been a topic of dirty jokes. A collective image of a Russian tourist is a cad who likes to drink and arrange scandals. Changing a stereotype is hard and many Russian vacationers notice cool attitude to themselves
The quality of hotel rooms, restaurant service, attention to wishes of guests and the speed of response to their requests are not always the same for Russian and non-Russian guests. There are many complaints saying that hotel managers save rooms facing construction sites or other unpleasant facilities primarily for Russian tourists. A Russian tourist may often have to fight for a room with a sea ...
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Sweden Russia Nato and the theatre of military-industrial complex
Dateline Dalarna, Sweden: Sometimes truly extraordinary events occur, events which impact an entire nation's people, though, the word 'surreal' perhaps fits better than 'extraordinary' in describing events here during the last third of April. Of course, too much has too long been overblown, the strongest of adjectives too frequently employed to mask the weakest of ...
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Russias Uralkali plans no H2 potash contract with China
MOSCOW | Fri May 24, 2013 11:07am EDT MOSCOW May 24 (Reuters) - Russia's Uralkali, one of the world's largest potash producers, does not plan to sign a contract with China to supply potash in the second half of 2013 due to unfavourable market conditions, a company spokesman said on Friday. Potash producers around the world keenly look out for signs of flagging demand in China, ...
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Arsenal striker Andrey Arshavin fails to impress Zenit St Petersburg
Arsenal expires at the end of the month."He hasn't played much for lately. Why? You would have to ask him that question," their coach Luciano Spalletti said in reference to the former Russia captain, who joined Arsenal from Zenit for 15m in early 2009.Arshavin, who turns 32 next week, rejoined Zenit on a three-month loan from Arsenal in February last year after but failed to ...
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Human rights group Memorial ‘has signs of foreign agent’ – Russian prosecutors
Russia A Moscow court has ruled that prosecutors' inspection of human rights group Memorial was lawful. The inquiry, held after the 'foreign agents' law was enacted, revealed that the NGO received $3 million from abroad to shape public opinion in Russia. On Friday, the Zamoskvoretsky District Court rejected Memorial's appeal against the off-schedule inspection carried out ...
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JPMorgan wins contract from Russian government to boost its credit rating
Russian economy Beating out a number of other investment banks, JP Morgan will consult Russia in its effort to boost the country's sovereign credit ratings. Deputy Finance Minister Sergey Storchak said JP Morgan will act as a liaison between the Ministry of Finance and rating agencies, RIA Novosti reported. Storchak also hinted that Russia will be reviewed by one of the major ...
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Syria agrees to take part in peace talks says Russia
The Syrian government will attend a US and Russian-sponsored peace conference next month, despite President Bashar al-Assad publicly doubting the prospects of success for such a ...
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UPDATE 1-Russian rail freight operators in merger talks -sources
Fri May 24, 2013 10:14am EDT By Gleb Stolyarov MOSCOW May 24 (Reuters) - The owners of rail freight operators Globaltrans and NefteTransService are in talks on a merger that would create a business with sales of $2.7 billion and a 10 percent share of the Russian market, industry sources told Reuters on Friday. "They started (talks) several months ago and have been unable to agree on pricing ...
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Syria opposition skeptical as Russia says regime will talk
A member of the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, Faruq Tayfur, attends a meeting on May 23, 2013, in Istanbul. AFP PHOTO/BULENT ...
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American philanthropist honored for bolstering US-Russia cultural ties
USA American philanthropist Susan Lehrman has received the Fulbright Award for contributing to international diplomacy, specifically Russia-US cultural ties. A month ago, her efforts were warmly saluted by the Russian Foreign Ministry. Since 1991, public organization One to World has annually bestowed the Fulbright Award on individuals who make outstanding contributions to promoting ...
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Russian Defense Contracts Up for Review
MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti) - Defense Ministry contracts signed under former Minister Anatoly Serdyukov are to be thoroughly examined and if necessary, audited, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday. Serdyukov, who had held the post of Defense Minister since 2007, was sacked in November and replaced by Sergei Shoigu amid a series of ongoing corruption scandals that have rocked ...
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JP Morgan Hired to Consult Finance Ministry
U.S. lender JP Morgan will act as a consultant to Russia's Finance Ministry with the aim of boosting the country's credit rating and improving the image of the economy as a whole. The firm was selected based on a number of criteria such as experience and quality of work, including in the Russian market and the proposed strategy of interaction with rating agencies, Vedomosti reported. ...
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Russias oldest rights group fights foreign agent tag
Russia's oldest rights group began a legal battle on Friday to avoid being branded a "foreign agent" under a new law it sees as a tool of repression by ...
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Russian businessman to fly into space with Leonardo DiCaprio
Russian businessman Vasily Klyukin paid $1.5 million for a chance to fly into space with famous Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio. A charity auction was held on May ...
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Update-Moodys assigns provisional ratings to notes to be issued by Closed Joint Stock Company Mortgage Agent Raiffeisen 01 Russian RMBS
Fri May 24, 2013 9:10am EDT Closed Joint Stock Company Mortgage Agent Raiffeisen 01 For the full text of this story please click the following ...
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Huge underwater quake hits Russian Far East
A massive undersea earthquake with an estimated 8.3 magnitude shook Russia Friday, with tremors recorded in Moscow - almost 4,400 miles west of the epicenter of the temblor. The quake hit in the Sea of Okhotsk at a depth of over 370 miles off the shore of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, according to ...
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Syrian Opposition Accused of Derailing Peace Conference
The prospects of an international peace conference on Syria being held in Moscow before the end of May look slim because of the Syrian opposition's stubborn stance, the Interior Ministry said Friday. Alexander Lukashevich, the ministry's spokesman, accused the Syrian opposition of making unreasonable demands that "dilute" the effectiveness of the conference and go against ...
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Russia welcomes North Koreas readiness for dialogue
North Korea's declaration of readiness to return to talks with world powers, a senior Russian diplomat was cited by the Interfax news agency as saying on Friday. "The fact that Pyongyang has declared its readiness and desire to return to the negotiating tabledeserves a positive assessment," Interfax quoted Russian Foreign Ministry special envoy Grigory Logvinov as saying. A ...
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Black archeologists uncover remains of Nazi soldiers in Russias Rostov region
In the Rostov region, on the territory of the former village of Privolnoe, "black archaeologists" discovered skeletal remains of Nazi soldiers during unauthorized excavation ...
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Strong earthquake shakes Russia
A powerful earthquake on Friday hit Russia's Far East with tremors felt as far away as Moscow, about 7,000 kilometres west of the epicentre. Marina Kolomiyets, spokeswoman for Obninsk's seismic station of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told The Associated Press the epicentre was in the Sea of Okhotsk, east of the Russian coast and north of Japan. She said the quake registered a ...
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Huge earthquake hits Russias east coast with tremors felt as far away as Moscow
A huge earthquake has hit Russia's Far East resulting in tremors being felt as far away as Moscow, about 7,000 kilometres (4,400 miles) west of the ...
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RPT-Fitch affirms Russias Eurasia Drilling Company at BB outlook stable
Fri May 24, 2013 7:50am EDT May 24 (Reuters) - (The following statement was released by the rating agency) Fitch Ratings has affirmed Eurasia Drilling Company Limited's (EDC) Long-term foreign currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDR) at 'BB' with a Stable Outlook. Fitch also affirmed the 'BB' senior unsecured ratings of the RUB5bn domestic bonds due in 2018 issued by EDC's ...
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Russian social network site banned by mistake
Russia 's leading online social network was banned briefly on Friday in a move dismissed as a "mistake" but which follows intensifying official pressure on the company as ...
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Pyotr Todorovsky Filmmaker Who Broke Taboo Dies at 87
Pyotr Todorovsky, an Academy Award-nominated director whose films explored World War II and broke a Soviet-era taboo against portraying prostitutes, died Friday after a long illness. He was 87. Several of Todorovsky's more than 20 films drew on his experience as a platoon commander during World War II. Voenno-Polevoi Roman ("Wartime Romance," 1983), which tells the story of ...
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50000 Schools Shut for Summer
Eleventh-graders are in for a day of mixed emotions as the summer semester draws to a close in schools across the country. More than 800,000 students are taking leave to prepare for their final examinations, which are due to begin next week. In Moscow, about 3,000 police have been mobilized to provide security for school leavers who traditionally mark the day with boat trips and strolls around ...
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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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