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Moscow Could Get Hub for Low-Cost Airlines by End of 2014
UTair airlines has announced ambitious plans to turn a Kaluga region airport located less than 100 kilometers from Moscow into a hub for low-cost airlines. The airline has signed a $2 billion agreement with the Kaluga region government to base up to 20 Airbus A320 aircraft at Yermolino Airport, which was exclusively used by the Interior and Defense ministries until recently, Vedomosti reported ...
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Tele2 Says Moscow Needs More Mobile Competition
The poor quality of mobile telephony in Moscow is caused by a lack of competition, said Jere Calmes, head of Tele2 Russia, during the Telecom 2013 conference organized by Vedomosti on Wednesday. "Competition is the key factor and the most effective method to increase [network] accessibility and improve line quality. In my view, five years ago, the quality of the [mobile voice] network in ...
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Putin Strengthening Power Vertical Report Says
Vladimir Putin is building a system of increasingly centralized control, in which he directly manages the government, influential research group Minchenko Consulting said in a report published Wednesday. The report analyzed the first year of Prime ...
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Talks over Vimpelcoms Djezzy at delicate stage source
MOSCOW/CAIRO (Reuters) - Russia-focused telecoms firm Vimpelcom's talks to sell a controlling stake in its Algerian mobile business Djezzy to Algeria are at a delicate stage but have not failed, a source with knowledge of the discussions said on Wednesday.Algeria wants to nationalize Djezzy and has pushed Vimpelcom into discussing a sale of a 51 percent stake.A report by Dow Jones earlier ...
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The Cathedral of the Nativity in central Chisinau designed by Abram Melnikov was built in 1830 and is the main cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church in Chisinau Moldova.
But the settlement on the outskirts of the Russian empire, once considered a place of punishment, is now the economically emerging capital of the independent Republic of Moldova. Renamed Chisinau in Romanian after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the city still preserves its old name in ...
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4 Turkish nationals get 90 years each for poisoning deaths
Four Turkish nationals each received 90 years in prison for serving tainted alcohol to a group of Russian tourists, killing five of them, officials said. A group of approximately 60 Russian tourists were visiting the Turkish Aegean resort of Bodrum in May 2011, when 21 of them fell ill from ingesting the bootlegged alcohol on a yacht tour. Five of them, all tour guides, died from poisoning. ...
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Dutchman who stabbed Russian boy suffers from autism
The 20-year-old Dutchman Sirin Shriver, who attacked 11-year-old Russian Nikita Onishchenko on Crete suffers from autism, the mother of the man, who worked as a hotel entertainer, said. The woman, Alexandra Schriver, said that she would arrive on Crete on Monday to testify on the case and said that she could not arrive earlier due to the strike of air traffic ...
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Russia to launch 12 Proton-M rockets in 2013
Russia would launch 12 Proton-M heavy space rockets this year, Khrunichev space industry center said Wednesday.Three had already been launched and a further nine would be launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, Khrunichev CEO Alexander Seliverstov told reporters.Meanwhile, the new Angara-5 heavy rocket would be launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Far Eastern Amur region ...
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Russia to become next Greece’ with slowing economic growth - Renaissance Capital
Russian economy The Russian economy will not be able to grow faster than 2 percent per year in the coming decade and might become another Greece, says one of Russia's leading investment banking firms Renaissance Capital. This would mean the government increasing national debt just like it was in Greece.The slowing economic growth in Russia to 1.6 percent in the first quarter of 2013 has ...
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Brezhnev Pips Lenin as Russias Favorite 20th Century Ruler
MOSCOW, May 22 (RIA Novosti) – Russians view Leonid Brezhnev as the most positive of all Soviet and Russian leaders in the 20th century, but Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin were close behind in an opinion poll released on Wednesday. Brezhnev, who ruled the Soviet Union from 1964-1982, was viewed positively by 56 percent of respondents in the survey carried out by Moscow’s Levada ...
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Council of Europe head says Russia must protect LGBT rights
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - A gay rights activist holds a placard during a rally to mark the international day against homophobia in St. Petersburg May 17, 2013. The placard reads "Homophobia kills!" ...
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Ex-Senator Malkin Sued Over Noisy Apartment Repairs in New York
Anyone who has lived in Moscow long enough will have encountered the term remont - a byword for the unending refurbishment of apartments in the city. But the term may soon gain currency in the U.S. A landlord in New York is seeking to put a legal end to two-years of "over-the-top loud" refurbishments at a property owned by former Federation Council Senator Vitaly Malkin, the New York ...
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Banker Kim Seeks Foreign Assets
Igor Kim snapped up cast-off assets from foreign banks pulling out of Russia, and now the banker says he wants to expand into Europe. Kim, 47, emerged with his partners as an asset consolidator after the global crash of 2008 forced Western banks to downsize, buying the Russian commercial banking units of Barclays, WestLB, Morgan Stanley and Santander. "We are looking at different assets, ...
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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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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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