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SoGen Management to Face Investors over Salaries and Russia Operation
PARIS - Societe Generale management was set to face investors on Wednesday for the first time since the shock arrest of the French bank's top Russian executive on charges of bribery. The annual shareholder meeting is also likely to draw ire over a rise bonus payouts for top management last year after a year that saw job cuts and a slump in profits at France's No. 2 listed bank. ...
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Russian Space Agency loses group of mice and gerbils in space
According to him, a failure of one of the blocks immediately killed 15 experimental rodents. Also, due to problems in the "Contour" block of the satellite, scientists also lost the gerbils that had been sent into space. To establish the causes of the incident, a special commission was ...
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Russia hopes to supply Kamov helicopters to India
Russia's defense export giant JSC Rosoboronexport hopes to win the tender for the supply of Ka-226T helicopters for India, the head of the helicopter export department of the company, Grigory Kozlov said. The results of the tender are not yet known, but Rosoboronexport officials believe that the company has good chances to ...
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Special Report The Art of Collecting A Slice of Russia in Amsterdam
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Two Georgian wines return to Russian market but pricey
MOSCOW, May 22 (Itar-Tass) - Dugladze Wine Company, exporting in particular Saperavi and Khvanchkara wine brands, will be the first Georgian company that will return to the Russian market after an embargo imposed in 2006, the head of the Georgian National Wine Agency, Levan Davitashvili, told the Izvestia daily on ...
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Russian Central Bank to increase controls over bankers bonuses and salaries
Russia and the global economy The Russian government is poised to amend 2 banking laws which will authorize the Central Bank to limit banker's salaries and supervise both domestic and international branches. The State Duma Committee on Financial Markets will meet on Friday, and is expected to approve the bill, as they already have support from both government and bank deputies.If ...
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Russia’s Eurovision Contestant Attempts to Calm Vote Row
KAZAN, May 22 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s contestant in this month’s Eurovision song contest said on Wednesday there was no need for an investigation into "lost" Azerbaijani votes for her performance. "To be honest, I don’t know why an investigation is needed," Dina Garipova said. "I am satisfied with the result of the ...
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Governor Backs Navalny in KirovLes Case
Alexei Navalny , his adviser in 2009, could have influenced the terms of financial agreements between the KirovLes company and the state. Belykh said that the charges against Navalny were "dubious" and that all contracts between KirovLes and the region were concluded through official tenders, RIA Novosti reported. Navalny is currently standing trial in Kirov on charges of embezzling ...
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Masha Gessen Considers Leaving Russia
One of Russia's most internationally renowned journalists, Masha Gessen, has said that she will probably move to New York to join her son, who is studying in the U.S. Gessen, 46, moved with her family to the U.S. in 1981, returning to Moscow to establish a career as a journalist covering Russia for The New Republic, Slate and the New York Times. In an interview to New Zealand-based online ...
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Kadyrov Shows Off His Lookalike
Ramzan Kadyrov decided to have a little fun with his thousands of online followers by posting photos of himself posing with someone who appears to be his identical twin. "Dear friends, I will reveal a secret to you, but please don't tell anybody," ...
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Russias Eurovision Entrant Tries to Calm Dispute
KAZAN - Russia's contestant in last weekend's Eurovision Song Contest said Wednesday that there was no need for an investigation into "lost" Azeri votes for her performance. "To be honest, I don't know why an investigation is needed," Dina Garipova said. "I am satisfied with the result of the contest." The dispute has dragged in both the Russia and ...
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Among all leaders of the Soviet Union and the pre-Putin Russia Russians are most positive about Leonid Brezhnev. During Brezhnevs stay in power life was quiet and calm. Many people say now that the Soviet Union was one of the worst countries to li
Among all leaders of the Soviet Union and the pre-Putin Russia, Russians are most positive about Leonid Brezhnev. As many as 56 percent of respondents praised his work and 29 percent said that they shared a negative attitude to his ...
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Sasha Grey sets off on long motor rally across Russia
The former star of adult films, currently a musician, DJ and actress, Sasha Grey, set off on a long car journey across Russia. Sasha left the city of Vladivostok, in Russia's Far East, driving a Lada Kalina ...
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Russia unable to join Europe’s meteorite warning system
MOSCOW, May 22 (Itar-Tass) - Russia is unprepared to join the European system of early warnings of meteorites even if such a proposal is made. Although the country just recently experienced a powerful meteorite strike, such a program has not been given a go ahead and Russia has nothing to contribute to the European "meteorite pool," the chief of the space astrometry department at the ...
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Russia ‘outraged’ over Azerbaijan Eurovision vote blunder
Russia Russia is outraged over how Eurovision votes for its entrant, Dina Garipova, disappeared during a voting mishap in Azerbaijan, the Foreign Minister said. Azerbaijan gave Russia no points, despite the fact its song came second in a phone poll. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov slammed the "outrageous" incident at a press conference in Moscow with his Azerbaijani counterpart, ...
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NYT Russia sends missiles to aid Syrias Assad
WASHINGTON — Russia has sent advanced antiship cruise missiles to Syria, a move that illustrates the depth of its support for the Syrian government led by President Bashar al-Assad, American officials said Thursday. Russia has previously provided a version of the missiles, called Yakhonts, to Syria. But those delivered recently are outfitted with an advanced radar that makes them ...
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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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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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