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U.S. says it will buy Russian helicopters for Afghan military
One of the Russian-made Mi-17 helicopters purchased by Alabama-based Defense Technology Inc (DTI) is seen in Ulan Ude, Russia in this picture taken January 3, ...
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U.S. Russia not in sync on Syria
>Read a version of this story in Arabic.(CNN) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin says he still doesn't see eye to eye with the United States on Syria. But "all of us have the intention to stop the violence in Syria and to solve this situation peacefully," Putin said Monday after a meeting with US President Barack Obama at the Group of Eight Summit in Northern Ireland. Putin said he and ...
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Canada’s PM Harper dubs summit ‘G7+1’ as Russia only one not to side with Syrian rebels
USA The G8 summit is in fact G7 plus one, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper contends, slamming Russia for "supporting" the Syrian regime. His words mark the split at the summit, where Russia is set to oppose arming Syrian rebels. Tensions ran high at the sidelines of the G8 summit, as the leaders of the eight world nations gathered in Northern Ireland for Syria-dominated ...
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US Returns Rare Documents to Russia
US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul and the head of Russia's State Archive agency, Andrei Artizov, at a ceremony to return rare historical documents to ...
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Russian billionaires amazing $300M yacht calls at Port Everglades
Maybe money can't buy happiness, but $300 million can buy a floating palace where you can be miserable in staggeringly luxurious style. That's how much the "A" cost, a 394-foot-long behemoth of a mega-yacht owned by reclusive Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko. Resembling a military sub - or futuristic star cruiser, or Bond villian's seagoing lair - the ultra-sleek ...
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Evgeny Donskoy rallies over John Isner in the Netherlands
John Isner Monday in first-round play of the grass-court Topshelf Open. Donskoy rallied after dropping the first set to bounce the 6-foot-9 Isner 6-7 (3-7), 6-3, 6-4 at Autotron Rosmalen in the Netherlands. Joining Isner in the ranks of Day 2 upset victims at the Wimbledon tune-up were No. ...
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Will gays steal Russia with its moral values
The killers of the British soldier confessed that they took revenge for the deaths of Muslim people in the operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Somalia. Was it an act of terrorism, as British law enforcement bodies said? Not really. The killers are full-fledged citizens of the United Kingdom. They were not members of extremist organizations (although there are suspicions about it). The ...
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Video Obama We will consult closely with Russia on North Korea
xPresident Obama said he and Russian President Vladimir Putin had "very productive" discussions about North Korea, and expressed some hope that as a result of Iran's recent election "we may be able to move forward on a dialogue that allows us to resolve the problems with Iran's nuclear ...
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Putin Obama find common ground in Northern Ireland
Obama and Vladimir Putin discussed some of the world's hottest issues in Northern Ireland Monday and found some common ground, if no solutions. After the two world leaders met privately at Lough Erne Resort where the Group of Eight meeting is taking place, they told reporters they didn't always agree on the issues, particularly the civil war in Syria, but said they found areas where ...
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U.S. and Russia in Showdown Over Syria
broach with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, during this week's Group of Eight summit in Northern Ireland. As the United States prepares to send arms and ammunition to the rebel forces, Russia has disputed the claims of Western nations that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons, and Moscow appears unlikely to yield to U.S. urging that it cease its support of the Assad ...
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Cubans Win First Awards in International Jazz Festival in Russia
Havana, Jun 17 (Prensa Latina) Cuban musicians Alexis Bosch (piano), Yissy Garca (drums) and Roberto Garca (trumpet) obtained, each one in his (her) instrument, the first award at the Master Jam of Odessa, Russia, as confirmed by local sources here Monday. This is the first edition of the event, which uses the tools of the new technologies of communication to attract young jazz performers with ...
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Russian Gays in US Call for Boycott of Sochi Games
WASHINGTON, June 17 (By Maria Young for RIA Novosti) – A group of gays from Russia and the former Soviet republics living in the United States has a message for gay athletes and others planning to attend the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi: Don’t go. The group is calling for a boycott of the games, saying the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community is not safe in ...
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Russia US to Boost Cooperation in Countering Terrorism
US President Barack Obama meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the G8 Summit at Lough Erne in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, June 17, ...
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Putin Obama Admit Split on Syria But Pledge Cooperation
US President Barack Obama meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the G8 Summit at Lough Erne in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, June 17, ...
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G8 No agreement between Russia and America over Syrian civil war
Greece's deeply divided governing coalition has avoided collapsing in a dispute over prime minister Antonis Samaras's closure of state ...
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Cameron tells Russia join the club or face isolation on Syria
David Cameron on Monday evening made a final attempt to bounce Russia into supporting a future for Syria without President Bashar ...
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Tense Talks Expected at G8 Summit
The G8 summit opened Monday at the remote Lough Erne resort in Northern Ireland with "hard talks" expected in the late evening between the Russian and U.S. president on the Syria conflict. The summit follows on the heels of the U.S. announcement last week that it would arm the Syrian opposition - an initiative Russia strongly opposes. The resulting schism between Russia and the West ...
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Navalny Defiant in KirovLes Testimony
Yevgeny Feldman / AP Navalny, left, testifying in court in Kirov on Monday. The opposition leader called the charges he ...
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Sobyanin Submits Paperwork for Mayoral Bid
Sergei Sobyanin has submitted his passport, declaration of candidacy as an independent and statement of income for last year to the Election Committee, Interfax reported Monday. These, along with other necessary documents, were checked by the committee's president, Valentin Gorbunov, who then presented Sobyanin with a receipt and permission to open an electoral bank account. Each ...
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Ministry Funding Healthy Lifestyle Advertisements
The Health Ministry is pushing ahead in its efforts to wean Russians off tobacco and drugs through a series of television advertisements that promote healthy lifestyles, although this year the number of ads has been cut in half. The ministry has allocated 55 million rubles ($1.7 million) for a media plan to place healthy lifestyle ads on a variety of television channels. The goal of the ...
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US-Russia positions on Syria dont coincide Putin says
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland – Russian President Vladimir Putin told President Barack Obama on Monday that their positions on Syria do not "coincide" but the two leaders said during the G-8 summit that they have a shared interest in stopping the violence that has ravaged the Middle Eastern country during a two-year-old civil war. Obama acknowledged in a bilateral meeting with ...
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On Syria U.S. and Russia have different perspectives shared goals says Obama
Despite tensions between the United States and Russia on how best to address the ongoing violence in Syria, President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday declared their shared interests in "reducing violence" in the war-torn country, even while both acknowledged their differences on the issue. Speaking after a bilateral meeting at the G8 Summit in Northern Ireland, Mr. ...
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Russia to slow pace of privatisation report
Russia plans to delay its privatisation programme and hold on to stakes in state companies such as Rosneft for longer, a report said on Monday, compounding disappointment for investors who have been pulling money from the country.In 2010 Russia announced plans to raise $50-billion (U.S.) in five years from reducing its stakes in the likes of oil major Rosneft and the country's two biggest ...
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Russia under pressure over Syria
Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin are meeting on the sidelines of the G8, as Russia faces criticism from other nations over its stance on ...
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Russia US Espionage to Affect Bilateral Relations
Moscow, Jun 17 (Prensa Latina) Russian Senator Igor Morozov assured Monday that the filtrations on spionage by the United Kingdom and the US against Russia in the summit of the Group of the 20 (G-20) in 2009, might affect the bilateral relations between Moscow and Washington. The British and US secret services intercepted telephone conversations by then Russian President Dmitri Medvedev during ...
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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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