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Armenian government conducts talks with Russia and Iran over gas price
Armenian government conducts talks with Russia and Iran over gas price, said Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, APA-Economics reports. ‘Armenia is using its leverage to get a low price for imported gas and is holding negotiations with Iran and our strategic ally Russia. We are holding high level political talks with Russia to find ways to lower or subsidize the price’, ...
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Finance Minister does not expect agencies may revise Russia’s rating
MOSCOW, May 22 (Itar-Tass) - Russia’s Finance Minister Anton Siluanov does not expect rating agencies may revise Russia’s sovereign ...
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FSB liquidates group of terrorists from Russia trained in Pakistan
Late on Monday, May 20, Russia’s FSB officers carried out an anti-terrorist operation in Orekhovo-Zuevo outside Moscow, in which two gunmen were killed and one more was seized. The investigators believe all three were trained for a terrorist act in the Afghan-Pakistan region and intended to stage a blast at a public place in ...
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Police Smash South Russia Money Laundering Ring
MOSCOW, May 22 (RIA Novosti) – Police in south Russia have arrested nine people suspected of laundering large sums of money in illegal financial operations, Russia’s Interior Ministry said on Wednesday. The criminal group may have laundered over 2.5 billion rubles ($80 million) in transactions by fly-by-night firms in the Stavropol and Rostov Regions, the ministry said. The group ...
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Lawmaker Submits Bill Targeting Dog Hunters
Just Russia lawmaker Oleg Mikheyev has introduced to the State Duma a bill that would impose steep fines and prison sentences on those convicted of cruelty to animals. Mikheyev's proposal is intended as a means of clamping down on the hobby of "dog hunting," which made headlines in September when up to 70 dogs died in suspicious circumstances in a Moscow park. The dog killings ...
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Duma Approves Blasphemy Bill in 2nd Reading
The State Duma has reacted to mounting criticism of a controversial piece of legislation that introduces tough penalties for offending believers' feelings by passing an updated version of the bill in the crucial second of three stipulated readings. The new draft lowers the maximum prison sentence that future religion offenders will incur to three years, while the maximum fine stays at ...
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Russia Security Council secretary meets pentagon chief
WASHINGTON, May 22 (Itar-Tass) - Missile defence issues, the situation in Syria and ways to expand the US-Russian military cooperation was discussed on Tuesday by Pentagon’s head Chuck Hagel with Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, spokesman for the US Department of Defence George Little said on ...
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Russian Premier Calls For Better Weapons
MOSCOW, May 22 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev called on the country’s defense industry on Wednesday to provide the military with state-of-the-art weapons superior to their Western analogs. "It is essential to offer weapons which are superior to our world counterparts, and pay special attention to strengthening cooperation, primarily with our ...
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Brezhnev Most Popular 20th-Century Leader Poll Says
Communist Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev is the country's most popular leader of the 20th century, according to a poll released Wednesday. Fifty-six percent of respondents told the independent Levada Center pollster that they view Brezhnev's 18-year rule positively, whereas 50 percent said the same about Josef Stalin's 30 years in power, Kommersant reported. Soviet ...
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Tajik Smashes Brazilian Embassy Window
A Tajik citizen who threw stones at the Brazilian Embassy in Moscow faces hooliganism charges after a criminal case was opened against him, a news report said. The man, 22, was supposedly protesting against Brazil's nuclear waste management policy, Moskovsky Komsomolets reported Tuesday. "The incident occurred on Saturday. A citizen of Tajikistan threw stones at the embassy of Brazil ...
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Russian smokers to live in ghettos
Limiting the rights of smokers is not an easy task. As soon as the measures against the "smoky death" are announced, outspoken advocates of tobacco lovers emerge, and the media begins discussing the economic harm of such prohibition. However, everyone is forgetting about the health of ...
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UN gives high marks to level of Russian peacekeeping training
UNITED NATIONS, May 22 (Itar-Tass) - The United Nations gives high marks to the level of Russian peacekeepers training and a major contribution they make to the process of strengthening peace all over the world, UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman said at a meeting with Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev on ...
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UN Asks Russia for More Peacekeepers
NEW YORK, May 22 (RIA Novosti) – Russia has been asked to increase the level of staff it commits to UN peacekeeping missions around the world, Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev said after meeting with the UN Undersecretary General for Political Affairs in New York. "Our peacekeepers are in great demand. We have been asked to increase the number of peacekeepers involved ...
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Worlds biggest Russian nuke-submarines to be scrapped
Russia will decommission and scrap two of the world's largest submarines by 2018, a defence industry source has said.The Severstal and the Arkhangelsk, both Project 841 (Typhoon-class) ballistic-missile submarines, are based at Severodvinsk on the White Sea. They will be withdrawn from the Navy by this year-end and will begin to be dismantled."This process is to be completed before ...
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Russian mountaineer found on Mayon volcano
AP FILE PHOTO LEGAZPI CITY, Albay--Search-and-rescue teams have found a European mountaineer who had called for help after getting lost and breaking a leg while on a solo climb on Mayon Volcano without seeking permission from local authorities. Cedric Daep, head of the Albay Public Safety and Emergency Management Office, said Mark Yuchyugaev, said to be a Russian national, was found by two ...
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Moscow Sees Coldest Day of the Week
After unusually warm spell, the Moscow temperature dipped to 15 degrees Celsius on Wednesday, with forecasters declaring it would be the coldest day of the week. In the Moscow region, the temperature was set to drop even lower, with a daytime forecast of 13 to 18 C, Interfax reported. Last week saw record-breaking temperatures posted in Moscow as the temperature regularly soared above 25 ...
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Bullet Removed From Soldiers Forehead With Pliers
A YouTube video showing "the Russian Terminator." Warning: The clip contains Russian profanity. 18+ A soldier has been nicknamed "the Russian Terminator," after a video was recently posted on the Internet showing a bullet being removed from his forehead with pliers. The footage, believed to have been shot during the second Chechen war in 2000, was published on LiveLeak ...
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U.S. Couple Gives Up Russian Adoptees
A local court in Silsbee, Texas has agreed to relinquish the Deckert couple's parental rights over two of their three adopted Russian children, a news report said Tuesday. Michael and Penny Deckert made the request to the court themselves, Shari Pulliam of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services told Itar-Tass. Earlier in April they told Channel One that they were tired of ...
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Court Authorizes Arrest of Moscow Region Terror Suspect
A Moscow court has sanctioned the arrest of the sole survivor of a raid by special forces officers on a suspected terror cell in the Moscow region. On Monday, special forces officers raided a house in Orekhovo-Zuyevo, about 80 kilometers east of Moscow, shooting and killing two men suspected of plotting a terror attack in Moscow. Officers detained a third, Robert Amirkhanov, who suffered ...
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Insight No more easy pickings in Russias banking market
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Foreign banks that once treated Russia as virgin land where easy money could be made are now finding it a cut-throat market tougher than some bargained ...
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Russian banker has his eye on Europe
Wed May 22, 2013 2:32am EDT * Igor Kim has bought up Russian units of foreign banks * Expobank is already present in Latvia * Now focused on corporate lending but is open to new ideas By Katya Golubkova and Oksana Kobzeva MOSCOW, May 22 (Reuters) - Igor Kim snapped cast-off assets from foreign banks pulling out of Russia and now the banker says he wants to expand into Europe. Kim, 47, emerged ...
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Ambassador hails Chinese Bridge language contest in Russia
Chinese Ambassador Li Hui said Tuesday the success of the Chinese language competition was a living embodiment of the ever-deepening relations between Russia and China."The success of the competition will definitely help the spread of the Chinese language in Russia," Li told Xinhua in an exclusive interview.Li said he believed the success of the competition is a vivid testament to the ...
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Russia says Eurovision snub “outrageous”
Dina Garipova of Russia performs the song "What If" during the final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest at the Malmo Opera Hall in Malmo at the weekend. Photograph: Jessica Gow/Scanpix ...
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Russias slowdown – another domestic demand story
Russia's economic growth continued to slow down for the fifth consecutive quarter posting its weakest figures since 2009: Q1 13 GDP expanded 1.6% y/y after 2.1% growth in the previous quarter. Yet, it exceeded consensus expectations of 1.2% (DBM: 1.3% y/y). Private consumption is still doing well despite a slowdown in growth, but we are worried about fixed investments in the long run. On ...
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Medvedev Not Offended by Being Called Dimon
Dmitry Medvedev said he was not offended when web users referred to him as "Dimon," a diminutive version of his name. "To tell you the truth, it does not offend me at all. There are things that I do not like. It is understandable. But it is absolutely normal when I am called Dimon on the Internet," Medvedev said in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda. Russians ...
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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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