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Putin Creates a New Holiday Polar Explorer Day
Vladimir Putin has introduced a new professional holiday, Polar Explorer Day, on May 21 to celebrate the establishment of the world's first drifting ice station in the North Pole in 1937, the Kremlin said Tuesday. The Severny Polyus-1 research station was opened on a drifting ice floe and was used by four explorers who drifted for nine months from the North Pole toward southern Greenland, ...
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Tymoshenko Starts Online Prison Diary
Yulia Tymoshenko has started an online diary, titled "Truth From Behind the Bars," published on the website of the Ukrainska Pravda newspaper. Tymoshenko, who is currently serving a seven year sentence for exceeding her authority in signing a gas contract with Russia in 2009, now faces charges of murdering a local politician in 1996. She has been undergoing treatment in hospital for ...
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Trade Officials Could Be Sent to China India UAE
The Industry and Trade Ministry representatives could be placed in Russian embassies in China, India, United Arab Emirates and Cuba, according to a draft presidential decree published on the government's official website. The ministry's trade representatives would promote Russian businesses abroad and assist in fulfilling Russia's international obligations to their host ...
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Russia Suspects killed during anti-terror raid
26/04/2013 16:45 CET Two suspects have been killed during an anti-terror raid near Moscow. According to Russian authorities, gunfire erupted when officers surrounded a house in Orekhovo Zuyevo. Officials said they were targeting a group which was planning to carry out an attack in the capital. ';We saw people in camouflage near a two-storey building. There were snipers on garages ...
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Journalist visits Russian sect of exorcists
The journalist did not specify the name of the village, as he promised not to disclose this information. We only know that the settlement is located about 80 kilometers far from the city of Saratov and is unofficially known as "Spring" ...
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No deteriorated relations with Azerbaijan – Russian minister
"Any deterioration in relations between the two countries is out of the question," Lavrov said. In a joint press conference with Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov answered journalists’ questions as to Russia’s suspension of the use of Gabala radar and export of Azerbaijan’s oil via Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline. ...
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Top Russian security official visits US ‘plays mailman’ for Obama and Putin
USA The head of Russia's National Security Council has arrived in the US on a two-day visit for top-level talks on key stumbling blocks in bilateral relations. He may also be carrying a response from President Putin to a letter President Obama sent in April. Among the US officials Nikolay Patrushev will meet during his trip is National Security Advisor Thomas Donilon, who brought ...
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Russia asks Interpol to monitor movements of British hedge fund boss Bill Browder
Russia has applied to Interpol to monitor the travel and whereabouts of a British hedge fund boss wanted by Moscow who is at the heart of a diplomatic stand-off over the alleged killing of whistle-blowing lawyer Sergei ...
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Surkov Ridicules Governments New Website
Dmitry Medvedev on Monday. Surkov posted in his Twitter blog a screenshot of the new site's introductory page with comments pointing to obvious grammatical errors as well as awkward translation into English. "There is more stupidity on the second page of the Russian government's new site than on the first … I will not check it any further. I am scared," ...
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Emergencies Ministry Offers U.S. Aid After Tornado
The Emergency Situations Ministry has offered to assist the U.S. in dealing with the aftermath of a devastating tornado that struck the state of Oklahoma on Monday, causing massive damage and claiming the lives of nearly 100. Emergency Situations ...
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Hotel entertainer stabs Russian boy 20 times in Crete
11-year-old Russian boy Nikita Onishchenko, who was wounded in a hotel on Crete, still remains in a serious condition. In this regard, the transportation of the child to Russia has been delayed. The boy is being treated at Aglayya Kyriakou Children's Hospital in Athens, ...
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Turkish poisoners of Russian tourists sentenced to 360 years
Two years after the scandal with the poisoning of Russian citizens in Turkey, a Turkish court announced the verdict on the case. Four defendants, who produced and sold low-quality alcohol, were sentenced to 90 years in prison. In addition, two owners of the yacht, where the poisoning occurred, and their employee, were sentenced to a seven years in prison. The news message about ...
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Stability in the Caucasus is a priority of Russias foreign policy - FM
Both Azerbaijan and Armenia are our neighbours and stability in the Caucasus is a priority of the foreign policy of Russia. This was announced in Moscow by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during a joint press conference with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar ...
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FM explained way SMS for Russia given by Azerbaija in Eurovision distributed
Azerbaijani FM explained the way SMS for Russia given by Azerbaijan in Eurovision were distributed. During a joint press conference with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, Azerbaijani FM Elmar Mammadyarov answered the journalists’ questions regarding the incident related to the zero points from Azerbaijan to Russia during Eurovision 2013. According to Mammadyarov, when the points ...
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Lavrov finds dynamics of Russia-Azerbaijan economic relations positive
MOSCOW, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - The dynamics of trade and economic relations between Russia and Azerbaijan is positive, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said after the negotiations with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mamedyarov here on ...
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Russian lawmakers differ on law on protection of believers feelings
MOSCOW, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - Russian lawmakers differed in their views on wordings in the resounding bill on the protection of believers' feelings, whose main, 2nd reading is under review in parliament. A Just Russia leader Sergei Mironov said a number of definitions might get many citizens into trouble, while the Liberal Democratic Party /LDPR/ believes it is better to slightly overreact. ...
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UPDATE 1-Wealth fund trio to invest $500 mln each in Russias VTB
Tue May 21, 2013 6:18am EDT * Russian state bank raising $3.3 bln * Share sale to close by weekend * Loan book to grow 15-20 pct - CEO * Sees 2013 net profit at over 100 bln rbls LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - Russia's second-largest bank VTB expects to close its $3.3 billion offering of new shares by the end of the week, with three sovereign wealth funds investing about $500 million each, ...
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Russia slams outrageous Eurovision vote
MOSCOW has reacted angrily as its neighbour Azerbaijan admitted its vote at the Eurovision Song Contest awarding no points to Russia's song appears to have been falsified. The scandal topped the agenda at a televised briefing between the countries' foreign ministers in Moscow, as Azerbaijan's top diplomat admitted that the votes submitted for Russia via mobile phone had somehow been ...
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The Russian Terminator Incredible footage captures moment a grinning soldier has an AK-47 machine gun bullet removed from forehead with a pair of pliers
The video clip has gone viral, with YouTube users dubbing the soldier 'the Russian Terminator' after comparison him to the Arnold Schwarzenegger ...
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3 Drowning Deaths Recorded in Moscow in 24 Hours
Moscow medics have documented three deaths by drowning over the past 24 hours. Medics told Interfax that the three victims were aged between 14 and 40. The deaths took place in the Borisovo Ponds, in a pond on Dnepropetrovskaya Ulitsa and in the Shkolnoye Lake in the Moscow region city of Zelenograd. Since record temperatures came to Moscow on May 13, seven drowning fatalities have been ...
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Investigation Opened Into Mass Brawl in Kamchatka Penal Colony
Investigators have opened a criminal investigation into a mass brawl that broke out among inmates in a Kamchatka penal colony in March, a news report said Tuesday. The fight broke out in Penal Colony No. 6 on March 23 when over 30 convicts from squads four and five teamed up to attack seven inmates from the first squad, Interfax reported. "A total of about 100 people participated in the ...
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New Case Into Politkovskaya Killing Goes to Court
A case against five men suspected of being involved in the 2006 high-profile murder of Russian investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya has been sent to court, prosecutors said Tuesday. Politkovskaya, who was a journalist with the opposition-leaning Novaya Gazeta newspaper, was shot dead in the elevator of her apartment building on October 7, 2006. Investigators suspect she was killed over ...
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U.S. Says Russian Policies Restrict Religious Freedom
WASHINGTON - Russia is among several countries around the world including Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Cuba, Iran, and China that imposed restrictions on freedom of religion last year, according to an annual report released Monday by the U.S. State Department. "This report is a clear-eyed, objective look at the state of religious freedom around the world. And when necessary, yes, it does ...
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Qatar to get $500m of shares in Russian bank VTB
The sovereign wealth funds of Qatar, Norway and Azerbaijan will each get about $500m of the new shares being issued by VTB, the Russian bank's chief executive Andrei Kostin said on Tuesday.The $500m allocation is the "kind of ticket we are thinking of" Kostin told Reuters in London. The allocations will give the investors more than half the new shares being sold in VTB's ...
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Russian Azerbaijani FMs discuss Eurovision points scandal
This disgraceful action will get a response, Lavrov said. Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov and Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov spoke about the scandal around points in Eurovision during the negotiations in Moscow, the Facebook page of the Russian Foreign Ministry says. The source of RIA Novosti in the Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed that 'during the ...
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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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