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Tarkovsky Archives Opened at Russian Film Festival
Mosfilm A 'Stalker' from the 1979 Tarkovsky film of the same name guides two of his clients through the unpredictable, mysterious 'Zone' of ...
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Boutique Business Tests Entrepreneurial Spirit
Miladus Edenensis / flickr Specialty shops, like the Mariage Freres tea boutique, face daunting challenges when trying to do business in ...
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Russia invests heavily in ecological innovations
The grounds are more than tangible. Up to 15 percent of Russia reside in cities and industrial agglomerations. Billions of tons of garbage and wastes have been accumulated, more and more garbage arrives daily, whereas separate collection and recycling - the basics of modern waste processing technologies - still remain a non-Russian phenomenon. Landfills, including unauthorized ones, poison ...
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Chinese vice premier in Russia to strengthen ties energy cooperation
Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli arrived here Wednesday to strengthen ties and energy cooperation with Russia, aiming to give a new impetus to the unprecedented high level of relations between the two neighboring giants.Zhang's visit, a swift follow-up to the successful summit in Moscow between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in March, is designed to ...
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Russia loses $25b due to shell firms
The network of the fly-by-night companies has illegally funneled 760 billion rubles (about $25 billion) from Russian economy in the past three years, the outgoing chief of the Central Bank said Wednesday."This May, we received an official inquiry from the Interior Ministry about some organizations that were used for the illegal financial transactions by suspects in one of criminal ...
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Russia rejects Obamas nuke cut proposal
US Navy guided-missile frigate USS Vandegrift (background) and a Russian diesel submarine take part in a naval parade at the harbour of Russia's far eastern city of Vladivostok in this July 25, 2010 file photo. Russia marks Navy Day on Sunday. US President Barack Obama said on June 19, 2013, he will pursue a new reduction in deployed nuclear weapons by up to a third below the level ...
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11-year-old Lucia Li wins international piano award
Sydney Conservatorium of Music's Rising Stars program, has taken out the people's choice award as well as third prize in her age category at the Steps to Mastery competition in St Petersburg, ...
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Rebels Syrian forces used chemical weapons in attack on Zamalka
Syrian rebels and their supporters accused government forces of launching a chemical weapons attack on Zamalka Wednesday, killing three people. The Syrian Network for Human Rights in London said three people died in the alleged chemical attack. The group, whose figures were not independently confirmed, said a total of 83 people were killed in fighting across the war-torn country Wednesday. ...
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Russias Putin criticises U.S. over missile defences
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed concern about U.S. missile defences and high-precision weapons on Wednesday, before a speech in which Barack Obama was expected to call for nuclear arms cuts. "High-precision conventional weapons systems are being actively developed States possessing such weapons strongly increase their offensive ...
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One Killed Thousands Evacuated in Ammo Depot Explosions
Video showing people's reactions as they watch several explosions occur at the ammunition depot. One person was killed, over 30 sought medical help, 11 were hospitalized and more than 6,000 local residents were evacuated Tuesday from a village near an ammunition depot in central Russia after a fire caused massive explosions of stored artillery shells, the Emergency Situations Ministry ...
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Udaltsov Hit With New Charges
Investigators on Wednesday charged leftist opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov and his ally Leonid Razvozzhayev with staging "riots" at an authorized opposition rally on Bolotnaya Ploshchad in Moscow last May. In October, the two activists were charged with plotting the "riots," a term disputed by the opposition. In late April, a public inquiry held by human rights activists ...
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Slavery US gives bad marks to China and Russia in its annual report
The State Department report on slavery notes that more countries are prosecuting traffickers and providing services to rescued victims. But China and Russia are failing to make progress, the US ...
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Obama Asks Russia to Join in Reducing Nuclear Arms
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US Criticizes China Russia in Fight Against Human Trafficking
The United States has declared China and Russia among the worst countries in fighting human trafficking, a designation that could lead to sanctions against both nations. In its annual report on human trafficking released Wednesday, the U.S. State Department downgraded China and Russia, along with Uzbekistan, to the lowest possible U.S. rating, known as Tier Three. Iran, North Korea, Cuba, ...
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Russian Man Films Own Death in Demolition Accident
MOSCOW, June 20 (RIA Novosti) - A man filmed his own death while recording demolition works in Lipetsk, Central Russia, regional broadcaster Most TV reported on Wednesday. Yevgeny Titov, a 29-year-old shop assistant, took a break to capture the demolition of a two-storey building near his workplace on a mobile phone camera. Workers tried to tear the brick structure down by making a bulldozer ...
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Video Russia not sold on idea of nuclear warhead reduction
Russia and congressional Republicans are not yet sold on President Obama's proposal to cut America's nuclear arsenal by a third if Russia does the same. Russian President Vladimir Putin said he won't reduce his arsenal without concessions from the U.S. on missile defense systems. Major Garrett ...
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China and Russia’s Human Trafficking Leads to Sanctions
Playing cards showing details of missing children are displayed in 2007 in Beijing, China. The cards showing photographs and information of 27 missing children were created by Shen Hao, the founder of a missing persons website to be handed out in areas notorious for child trafficking. China has just been put on a list of countries of serious concern for human trafficking. (China Photos/Getty ...
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Iran Has No Plan to Sell Crude Oil to Russia
Iranian Oil Ministry spokesman Alireza Nikzad-Rahbar has said Iran has not been in talks with Russia for the sale of crude oil to its northern neighbour, ISNA reported. Referring to some news which has been published by some media outlets, Nikzad-Rahbar said that there is basically no infrastructure for transferring crude oil from southern Iran to the Caspian Sea. On Tuesday, the Mehr ...
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Russia-linked Firm Develops Video App to Help Solve Crime in US
WASHINGTON/MOSCOW, June 19 (RIA Novosti) – The US affiliate of a Russian software company has developed a database for the city of Baltimore that would help its police department track down private surveillance video that could solve crimes, an executive from EastBanc Technologies’ (EBT) Washington office said Wednesday. "We’ve almost completed development of a database ...
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Russia could stand in way of Obamas nuclear plan
By saying he intends to bargain with Russia over reductions in nuclear weapons, rather than make cuts on his own, President Barack Obama is asking for cooperation from a former Cold War foe that's in no mood to ...
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Media hoaxed FSB looking into fake press release about Russian Railways boss dismissal
Transport A fake government press release about Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev "sacking" the head of Russian Railways has caused a quite stir in the Russian media and among bloggers. The Federal Security Service is already looking for the perpetrator of the prank. The news of Vladimir Yakunin's "dismissal" broke on Wednesday afternoon when top news agencies - both in ...
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Vologda Governor Leverages the Hockey Puck
Oleg Kuvshinnikov knows how to send the hockey puck towards the goal, and uses the same energy and drive to try to make the region he governs a ...
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Depeche Mode Never Let Me Down
As a part of their Delta Machine Tour, cult band Depeche Mode will take to the stage in St. Petersburg for the fifth time on June 24, to the delight of many local ...
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US Scrambles to Keep Afghan Taliban Plan on Track Russia Backs Karzai
WASHINGTON, June 19 (RIA Novosti) – The United States scrambled Wednesday to salvage plans to bring the Taliban into Afghan peace talks while Russia threw its support squarely behind President Hamid Karzai after he angrily cancelled crucial security talks with Washington. Speaking at a news conference in Germany, President Barack Obama acknowledged early "friction" in the US ...
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Hiring of Young Professionals Challenged By Generation Gap
Freedom loving, soul searching and socially conscious are some of the hallmarks of young professionals from Generation Y, an age group born in the period from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s. ...
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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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