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France to Open Visa Centers in 5 Russian Cities
MOSCOW, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - France will open visa centers in five Russian cities by the end of June 2013, the French Consulate General in Russia reported Tuesday. "During his visit to Moscow in February 2013, French President Francois Hollande pledged to simplify as much as possible the visa application conditions for Russian nationals," the consulate said in a statement. "In ...
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Russia to Scrap World’s Biggest Nuclear Subs
MOSCOW, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will decommission and scrap two of the largest submarines in the world by 2018, a defense industry source told RIA Novosti on Tuesday. The Severstal and the Arkhangelsk, both Project 841 (Typhoon-class) ballistic-missile submarines, based at Severodvinsk on the White Sea, will be withdrawn from the Navy by the end of this year and will begin to be ...
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Russia Outraged Over Eurovision Vote Count Fault
MOSCOW, May 21 (RIA Novosti) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov condemned the disappearance of votes awarded by Azerbaijan to Russian singer Dina Garipova at the recent Eurovision Song Contest as "an outrageous action," and vowed on Tuesday that Russia would respond to the incident. "We can’t be happy with the fact that ten points were stolen from our ...
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Tank Makers Boss to Head Russia’s Shipbuilding Corp
SOCHI, May 21 (RIA Novosti) – Vladimir Shmakov, first deputy CEO of tank manufacturer Uralvagonzavod, has been appointed head of Russia’s state-run United Shipbuilding Corporation in a bid to shake up deliveries of warships to the navy, President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. "USC will be headed by Shmakov," Putin said at a government meeting at his Black Sea residence, ...
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VTB 24 Housing Mortgage Agency Cutting Loan Rates
24 and the Housing Mortgage Agency, announced that they are cutting lending rates, Vedomosti reported. The companies said Monday they were lowering the rate by 1 percent. VTB 24 reconsidered all of its rates - and not all them were lowered, said mortgage lending department director Andrei Osipov. "For example, we cut by 1 percent the rate for the longest-term loan with a small ...
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Russia pressured over NGO law
Human Rights Watch called on a European leader to pressure Russia to end its policy of targeting non-governmental organizations. Human Rights Watch ...
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Russia-EU summit in Yekaterinburg to focus on economic issues shale gas
MOSCOW, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - Economic topics, including the use of shale gas, will be discussed at the Russian-European Union summit in Russia’s city of Yekaterinburg, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich told journalists on ...
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Russia Azerbaijan Seek New Oil Transit Deal
MOSCOW, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and Azerbaijan are negotiating a new oil transit agreement, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said during a news conference on Tuesday after a bilateral meeting with Azerbaijan’s foreign minister. "Our respective energy agencies and companies are working on preparing a new intergovernmental agreement which will reflect current ...
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Oil Production Tax Increase Shelved
The 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 ministry dropped its proposals to speed up the increase of export duty on fuel oil and that the government had agreed to a smaller increase in excise tax ...
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Official Declares $3.6M Income Plus Snowmobile
Deputy head of the government's staff Andrei Loginov has declared an income of 115 million rubles ($3.6 million) in 2012 making him the highest-paid government official last year, a news report said Tuesday. According to his income declaration, he owns several plots of land with an area totaling 15,000-square meters, a 329-square meter home, an off-road motorcycle and a Yamaha snowmobile, ...
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Top Cop Says Moscow Safer Than New York
Vladimir Kolokoltsev said at a meeting with U.S. police that Moscow is safer than New York for certain types of crime. Moscow has fewer burglaries and rapes, factoring in the number of its residents, Kolokoltsev said during a meeting with New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly in the U.S. city. "I am stating with gratification that Moscow is not inferior to New York in terms of the ...
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Russia says kills senior Islamist insurgent
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The right-hand man of Russia's most wanted insurgent was killed by security forces on Tuesday, officials said, as Moscow tries to contain militancy in its Caucasus region before it hosts the Winter Olympics near there next ...
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Russias FSB prevents terrorist attacks in Moscow
In Orekhovo-Zuevo, the Moscow region, special services blocked three terrorists, who planned to conduct a terrorist attack in Moscow. Two militants were killed, one was detained. The National Anti-Terrorist Committee said that all three of them were citizens of the Russian Federation. The successful operation of the FSB helped to prevent a tragedy like the one that occurred in the Moscow subway ...
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Relations between Azerbaijan and Russia are very positive – FM
Moscow and Baku have reviewed the agenda of Russian-Azerbaijani relations and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict - the biggest problem facing Azerbaijan. The statement came from Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov after talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow. "Relations between Azerbaijan and Russia are very positive from the point of view of different areas. ...
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Russia Azerbaijan prepare to sign new agreement on Azeri oil transit - Lavrov
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Russia’s oil output reaches 518 mln tonnes in 2012 exceeding indicator of 1990
MOSCOW, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - Russia’s oil production grew to 518 million tonnes in 2012, thus hitting the record high of 1990, the Russian Energy Ministry underlined in its documents drafted by the ministry’s board meeting, which was held in Moscow on ...
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Eurovision song contest Russian foreign minister wades into voting row
Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, has taken time out of a busy schedule that includes defending arms sales to Syria and criticising US policy around the world to wade into a growing scandal over ...
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Iraq Reopens Russian Arms Deal Probe
DUBAI, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - Iraq's Central Criminal Court has resumed an investigation into officials suspected of corruption in a $4.2 billion deal to purchase Russian weapons, the head of the Iraqi Parliament's Integrity Committee, Bahaa al-Araji, said on Tuesday."The investigation will go ahead. The witnesses and suspects will give evidence, and Defense Ministry experts will ...
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2018 FIFA World Cup stadium may be delayed until 2017
St. Petersburg, May 21 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The completion date for Zenit St. Petersburg's $1.1 billion stadium has been put back again and it may not open until 2017, a decade after construction work began, the head of the government agency auditing the project said. The stadium is to host a 2018 World Cup semifinal, but the new date means there could be a rush to prepare it for scheduled ...
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Putin Creates a New Holiday Polar Explorer Day
Vladimir Putin has introduced a new professional holiday, Polar Explorer Day, on May 21 to celebrate the establishment of the world's first drifting ice station in the North Pole in 1937, the Kremlin said Tuesday. The Severny Polyus-1 research station was opened on a drifting ice floe and was used by four explorers who drifted for nine months from the North Pole toward southern Greenland, ...
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Tymoshenko Starts Online Prison Diary
Yulia Tymoshenko has started an online diary, titled "Truth From Behind the Bars," published on the website of the Ukrainska Pravda newspaper. Tymoshenko, who is currently serving a seven year sentence for exceeding her authority in signing a gas contract with Russia in 2009, now faces charges of murdering a local politician in 1996. She has been undergoing treatment in hospital for ...
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Trade Officials Could Be Sent to China India UAE
The Industry and Trade Ministry representatives could be placed in Russian embassies in China, India, United Arab Emirates and Cuba, according to a draft presidential decree published on the government's official website. The ministry's trade representatives would promote Russian businesses abroad and assist in fulfilling Russia's international obligations to their host ...
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Russia Suspects killed during anti-terror raid
26/04/2013 16:45 CET Two suspects have been killed during an anti-terror raid near Moscow. According to Russian authorities, gunfire erupted when officers surrounded a house in Orekhovo Zuyevo. Officials said they were targeting a group which was planning to carry out an attack in the capital. ';We saw people in camouflage near a two-storey building. There were snipers on garages ...
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Journalist visits Russian sect of exorcists
The journalist did not specify the name of the village, as he promised not to disclose this information. We only know that the settlement is located about 80 kilometers far from the city of Saratov and is unofficially known as "Spring" ...
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Top Russian security official visits US ‘plays mailman’ for Obama and Putin
USA The head of Russia's National Security Council has arrived in the US on a two-day visit for top-level talks on key stumbling blocks in bilateral relations. He may also be carrying a response from President Putin to a letter President Obama sent in April. Among the US officials Nikolay Patrushev will meet during his trip is National Security Advisor Thomas Donilon, who brought ...
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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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