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Successive Car Bombs in Russia Kills Eight and Wounds Several Others
By Alexandra Sandacz Impunity Watch Reporter, Europe MOSCOW, Russia - On Monday, two car bombs, which occurred in Russia’s North Caucasus region, killed eight people and left 20 injured. Officials believe the incident was aimed towards law enforcement officers because the explosion occurred outside a local marshal’s ...
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Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said time restriction on Geneva II Conference on Syria would harm solution process
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said time restriction on Geneva II Conference on Syria would harm solution process MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that time restraint on the 2nd International Conference on Syria in Geneva due in June would harm the solution process as a counterproductive attitude.Speaking to the Russian state-owned newspaper "Rossiyskaya Gazeta," ...
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Russia claims to have foiled Moscow terrorism plot
The National Anti-Terrorist Committee said Monday in a statement that one of its special forces was lightly wounded in the operation in the Moscow suburb of Orekhovo-Zuevo.It said the militants were Russian citizens who had received training in Pakistan.It was not clear when the operation took place and no further information was immediately available.Russian special forces regularly announce ...
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Russia FinMin backs down from proposal to raise tax on oil
* No crude extraction tax, fuel oil export duty increase * Excise tax rise lower than proposed By Darya Korsunskaya MOSCOW, May 20 (Reuters) - Russia's Finance Ministry has decided not to push forward a proposal to increase a tax on crude oil production, Deputy Minister Sergei Shatalov said, after oil companies protested that higher taxes would lead to a drop in output. He also said the ...
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Russia claims to have foiled possible terror act
MOSCOW -; Russia's counter-terrorism agency says it killed two militants it believes were planning a terrorist act in Moscow and detained a ...
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Former finance minister Kudrin blames United Russia for economic stagnation
Politics Aleksey Kudrin, addressing the State Duma, stated that the development of Russia's political system is "lagging behind the challenges of the time and doesn't provide the mechanisms to build up the country's modernization." According to the former financial minister "even if we roll up our sleeves right now, we'll have to sweat our guts out for three ...
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Safety warning ‘Golden parachutes’ for Russia’s senior managers to be cut
Russia 'Golden parachutes' for senior managers of state corporations and companies with state participation may be significantly cut as soon as in August, 2013. President Putin earlier requested that the government come up with new legislation on the matter. However, MPs from the United Russia party beat the government to it, and are already expected to make amendments to ...
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St. Petersburg Denies Zenit Arena in New Trouble
ST. PETERSBURG, May 20 (R-Sport) - St. Petersburg's vice governor responsible for construction on Monday denied claims by Russia's federal Audit Chamber that the city's 2018 World Cup football stadium might not be complete until 2017. Audit Chamber head Sergei Stepashin said earlier on Monday that the best-case scenario is for construction of the $1.1 billion arena to be finished ...
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Russian Pollster Told to Register as Foreign Agent
MOSCOW, May 20 (RIA Novosti) - A respected independent Russian pollster may have to close after receiving official notice from prosecutors that they expect the organization to register as a "foreign agent" under a controversial new law, it said on Monday. A new law came into force in November 2012 obliging all non-governmental organizations in Russia to register as "foreign ...
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Russia Concerned Over N.Korea Missile Launches - Minister
North Korea's latest missile tests and hopes that a meeting of intermediaries on the North Korean nuclear issue settlement will be held in the nearest future, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday. South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported earlier in the day that North Korea launched another two short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan on Monday, marking the third ...
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Russia wants Interpol to impose All Points Bulletin on British hedge fund boss Bill Browder
Russia has applied to Interpol to monitor the travel and whereabouts of a British hedge fund boss wanted by Moscow who is at the heart of a diplomatic stand-off over the alleged killing of whistle-blowing lawyer Sergei ...
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Explosions kill at least 3 people in Russia
MAKHACHKALA, Russia -- An official says two explosions have occurred outside a court building in Russia's restive province of Dagestan, killing at least three people and wounding about a dozen.The first was caused by a car bomb and the second occurred after police arrived on the scene in Makhachakala, the provincial capital, according to Interior Ministry spokesman Vyacheslav Gasanov.He ...
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Russian independent pollster targeted in foreign agent crackdown
Russia 's only independent pollster has warned it may have to shut its doors after a government demand that it register as a foreign agent.The Levada Centre, which carries out sociological studies and regularly rates Russia's top politicians, is the latest target for prosecutors seeking to enforce a new law requiring political NGOs that receive foreign funding to stamp themselves with ...
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2 dead 20 injured in explosions in Dagestan Russia
MAKHACHKALA, Russia – Two people are dead and at least 20 are injured after two car bombs exploded Monday in Dagestan, in Russia's North Caucasus region, where armed militias are leading an Islamist insurgency. Both blasts were near the headquarters of the court bailiffs and appeared to have been detonated by remote control, a Russian state agency told Reuters. Police cordoned ...
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Russian Dash Cam Catches Insane Car Flip VIDEO
Just when you thought Russian dash cams couldn’t possibly catch anything more insane than we’ve already seen, this clip, dated May 13th, comes along and forces a complete O_O. If you want to skip right to it, go to about 30 seconds in. There, you’ll see a car launched at least 20 feet into the air, flip, and land ...
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Europe Slams Russia on Human Rights
Russia is facing a renewed barrage of international criticism, led by the European Union, over its human rights record in connection with an ongoing clampdown on non-governmental organizations and a State Duma proposal to ban so-called "homosexual propaganda." The EU on Friday expressed growing concerns about the situation, including the impact of a July law that requires NGOs that ...
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Russia Assad foes must come to Syria meeting without conditions
Russia (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday it is crucial for Syrian opposition envoys to engage in peace talks without setting preconditions, apparently referring to demands for ...
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Russian special forces say they killed 2 militants planning a terrorist attack in Moscow
MOSCOW - Russia's counter-terrorism agency says it killed two militants it believes were planning a terrorist act in Moscow and detained a third. The National Anti-Terrorist Committee said Monday in a statement that one of its special forces was lightly wounded in the operation in the Moscow suburb of Orekhovo-Zuevo. It said the militants were Russian citizens who had received training in ...
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Competition between Russian Muslim communities attracts extremists
Special services tightly and rigidly control Muslim centers of Moscow and St. Petersburg, conducting raids to prevent religious extremism. However, the hidden struggle between various official Muslim organizations to increase their administrative and lobbying abilities, as well as social influence, remains unnoticed. Activities of radical Muslim organizations in Russia grow. Intelligence ...
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Russian roulette Luxembourg new offshore hotspot Cyprus abandoned
Russians pulled $9.7 billion in investments from Cyprus in the last 2 years, and moved their wealth to 'safer' offshore banking in Luxembourg, Ireland, the Netherlands, and the British Virgin Islands. According to the Central Bank of Cyprus, the once offshore paradise lost out on Russian accounts, as investors pulled their money as they sensed the banking crisis looming.In ...
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Russia Peru to Sign MiG-29 Jet Upgrade Deal
Russia and Peru will sign a contract to upgrade Lima's fleet of Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum fighters by the end of May, Konstantin Biryulin, deputy head of Russia’s Federal Military-Technical Cooperation Service, said on Monday. Belarus sold around twenty of the fighter jets to Peru in 1997. According to defenseindustrydaily.com, Peru signed a contract in 2008 for Russia's UAC MiG to ...
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Car bomb and second explosion killed at least 3 people in Russias province of Dagestan
MAKHACHKALA, Russia - An official says two explosions have occurred outside a court building in Russia's restive province of Dagestan, killing at least three people and wounding about a dozen. The first was caused by a car bomb and the second occurred after police arrived on the scene in Makhachakala, the provincial capital, according to Interior Ministry spokesman Vyacheslav Gasanov. He ...
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Russian spacecraft returns to Earth with most of its furry crew dead
The low survival rate among rodents "was to be expected," according to Vladimir Sychov, deputy director of the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems, the agency conducting the experiment. The Bion-M satellite was equipped with internal cameras so that scientists could visually monitor the animals during flight, which orbited at an altitude of about 357 miles (575 km). This is ...
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Boston Bomber Spent 6 Months in Russia’s Most Violent Republic
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Russia calls for patience on new Syria conference
Moscow did not want to rush into a new international conference on Syria unprepared and risk an embarrassing failure, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday."It could be a trap to act in a hurry. On May 7 in Moscow (during a visit of US Secretary of State John Kerry), we agreed to initiate that conference only if very thorough preparations were made," Lavrov said in an interview ...
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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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