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What the Papers Say May 23 2013
Kommersant 1. Petr Netreba and Dmitry Butrin article headlined "Not to wait three years for promised things" says that the Russian government has begun to revise the 2014-16 budget because the budget deficit may rise to 0.6 percent of GDP in 2014; pp 1, 8 (746 words). 2. Roman Rozhkov et al. article headlined "defense Ministry surrounds CSKA" says that the defense ...
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Patrushev Delivers Putins Letter to Obama
Vladimir Putin to U.S. President Barack Obama, the Russian Embassy in Washington said. The letter is a response to Obama's message that U.S. national security adviser Tom Donilon brought to Moscow in April. Obama's message has not been made public, but Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov said last month that it contained a number of proposals to deepen bilateral dialogue and ...
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Ukrainian Prime Minister Expels Reporters
KIEV - Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov ordered a dozen reporters to be barred from covering government meetings after they staged a protest over attacks on journalists at a rally. When reporters at the Cabinet meeting stepped in front of television cameras and turned their backs, emblazoned with slogans, on Azarov and his colleagues Wednesday, the prime minister reacted sharply. ...
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Russias VTB seeks to sell Rosbank stake paper
MOSCOW | Thu May 23, 2013 2:00am EDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's second largest bank VTB (VTBR.MM) wants to sell its stake in Societe Generale's (SOGN.PA) Russian unit Rosbank and may part with it by the end of the year, the Kommersant daily on Thursday cited an executive as saying. State-controlled VTB owns a 10 percent stake in Rosbank, and stated its wish to exit after ...
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UN asks Russia for more peacekeepers
New York, May 23 : Russia has been asked to increase the level of staff it commits to UN peacekeeping missions around the world, Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev ...
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Obama discusses Syria with senior Russian official
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday discussed with visiting Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev the need for a negotiated settlement of the protracted conflict in Syria.Dropping by a White House meeting between Patrushev and Thomas Donilon, his national security advisor, Obama discussed the need for a negotiated political settlement in Syria as well as the importance of ...
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Turkey Jails 4 for Alcohol Deaths of 5 Russians
ANKARA, Turkey - A Turkish court has sentenced four people to 83 years in prison each for the deaths of five Russians from bootleg alcohol poisoning. The Russians died in 2011 after consuming bootleg liquor during a yacht tour in the Aegean Sea. They were in Turkey training to be tour guides. The Anadolu news agency said Wednesday that a court convicted four people of murder for producing the ...
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Workers Body Found After 5 Months in Mariinsky Theater
A. Savin / Wikicommons A view of the Mariinsky Theater in May 2012. A body was found in its attic this week. A workman who disappeared in December was found dead in an attic at St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theater, investigators said. The body of the 22-year-old man was found hanging from a rope on Tuesday. Investigators believe he hung himself. The legendary Mariinsky Theater ...
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Kadyrov Awarded Medal for Unselfish Work for Children
Ramzan Kadyrov has been awarded a medal "for unselfish work in the name of children." Children's rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov announced the award on Wednesday, writing on social network Twitter that "not one child in the Chechnya republic was left by a mother in a maternity hospital in the last three years." All newly discovered orphans in Chechnya find their new ...
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Kadyorv Hosts U.S. Actor Steven Seagal in Grozny
kadyrov_95 / Instagram Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov posing with Steven Seagal in a photo on Kadyrov's Instagram account. Hollywood star Steven Seagal has spent time with Chechen ...
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Today in History May 23
File Photo The Order of Lenin. Eighty-three years ago today, on May 23, 1930, the first Order of Lenin was awarded to a group of military officers, ordinary workers and the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper for its assistance in the development of socialism. The Order of Lenin - first mooted in 1926 and meant to reward those who displayed great merit in their service to the revolution, ...
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Slain Russian ‘intimidated’ neighbors
Former Cambridge neighbors of a Russian mixed martial arts ?brawler shot dead by an FBI agent early yesterday in Florida - after ?being questioned about his ties to ?the marathon bombing and a Waltham triple murder - said he was nasty.Ibragim Todashev, 27, also hung around with slain marathon bombing mastermind Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26 - swilling beer and eating chicken on a stoop on Harding ...
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Patrushev Delivered Putin Reply to Obama – Russian Embassy
letter from President Vladimir Putin to US President Barack Obama, the Russian Embassy in the United States said. The letter is a response to ...
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Obama at meeting with Patrushev calls for strengthening US-Russia relations
WASHINGTON, May 23 (Itar-Tass) - U.S. President Barack Obama confirmed the intention to strengthen U.S.-Russian relations, including economic relations, as he talked with Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev. The White House press service reported on Wednesday that Obama had joined Patrushev's meeting with Thomas Donilon, the national security advisor to the U.S. ...
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Intl Ecological Conference held in St. Petersburg
Around 2,000 delegates from 26 countries have descended on St. Petersburg's Tauride Palace for the 6th Nevsky International Ecological ...
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Obama Reaffirms Hope for Stronger Ties with Russia
WASHINGTON, May 22 (RIA Novosti) – US President Barack Obama reaffirmed on Wednesday his desire to strengthen the bilateral relationship with Russia during talks with Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, National Security Council Spokesperson Caitlin Hayden said. Obama briefly joined a meeting between Patrushev and National Security Advisor Tom Donilon in Washington. ...
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US Lawmakers to Visit Russia to Probe Boston Bombings Mend Relations
WASHINGTON, May 22 (RIA Novosti) –A group of US lawmakers is set to travel to Russia to investigate the Boston Marathon bombings, and try to boost cooperation between the former Cold War rivals, the office of Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, who is leading the delegation, said Wednesday. "As Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats, ...
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Russia Hosts European Security Conference
MOSCOW, May 23 (RIA Novosti) – An international conference on European security opens on Thursday in Moscow with Russia hoping to discuss approaches to the new pan-European security architecture in an open dialogue with the European Union and the NATO. The two-day conference, titled Military and Political Aspects of European Security, brings together senior defense officials from Russia, ...
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Cops Slain Russian had history of rage violence
Ibragim Todashev - the Chechen shot dead overnight by the FBI while being questioned in connection with the marathon bombing and a Waltham triple murder - was arrested by Boston police in 2010 after a road rage incident in Downtown Crossing, and by Florida police just weeks ago after a violent parking lot assault.The FBI and law enforcement sources say Todashev, 27, a former Cambridge resident, ...
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Number of injured by tornado in Russia’s Tula region goes up to 20
MOSCOW, May 22 (Itar-Tass) - Number of people who received injuries as a result of a micro-tornado in the town of Yefremov in the Tula region some 300 km to the south of Moscow has reached twenty, a spokesman for the regional branch of the Ministry for Emergency Situations and Civil Defense /EMERCOM/ told ...
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US Lawmakers Try to Block Sharing Missile Defense Data with Russia
WASHINGTON, May 22 (RIA Novosti) – Republican US lawmakers are taking steps to bar the United States from sharing classified missile defense technology information with Russia, draft legislation that was amended in the US Congress Wednesday shows. The lawmakers included language in the proposed Defense Authorization Bill, which was in the early stages of the legislative process in ...
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Russian punk band member starts hunger strike to protest court ruling
1 of 10. Jailed Pussy Riot punk rock group member Maria Alyokhina is seen on a monitor, as she takes part in a video conference from the penal colony, inside the courtroom during a hearing in the town of Berezniki May 22, ...
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Teen girls torture small children in Russian orphanage
Two teenage girls, who beat and abused young boys in a boarding school in Russia's Amur region, were sent to a detention center. The director of the institution, where the scandal broke out, was temporarily dismissed from the ...
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Russia doubted as growth engine for business aviation
Wed May 22, 2013 3:52pm EDT * Radical change said needed to fulfill potential * Taxes, legal issues cited as barriers * Russian officials say reform to come gradually By Robert Evans GENEVA, May 22 (Reuters) - Russia, long touted as an engine of growth for the stuttering global business aviation industry, needs radical changes in its taxation and regulatory system if it is to fulfil that ...
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Russia Annual Inflation Reaches 7.3 Percent
Moscow, May 22 (Prensa Latina) The annual inflation in Russia until May 20 accumulated an increase of 7.3 percent and in the current year it reached an increase of 2.8 percentual points, said the Russian National Statistics Committee (ROSSTAT) Wednesday. In the week from May 14 to 20, the inflation increased 0.2 percent. Since May 1st increased 0.4 percent, compared to 0.3 percent in the same ...
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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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