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Russia’s Yekaterinburg needs to win over 80 votes to host EXPO 2020
MOSCOW, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - More than 80 votes are needed for Russia to have its city of Yekaterinburg win a bid to host EXPO-2020, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich told journalists on ...
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Russia allows 90 Georgian wines on its market
ST. PETERSBURG, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - Ninety Georgian wines have been allowed on the Russian market, Russian chief sanitary doctor and head of the federal consumer rights protection authority Gennady Onishchenko said on ...
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No crisis expected on Russian gain market in 2013 - Russian deputy prime minister
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Russia probes Moscow terror attack ‘plot’
Russia was Tuesday set to question the sole survivor of a deadly police raid outside Moscow that authorities said had prevented a major attack in the capital.The operation in the Moscow region town of Orekhovo-Zuyevo took place shortly after twin car bombs killed four and injured more than 40 in the Dagestan region, a province bordering Chechnya to the east."The decisive actions of the law ...
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Terrorist ‘military emir’ killed in Russia’s North Caucasus
Terrorism A key militant leader, described as the right-hand man of the Chechen warlord Doku Umarov, was killed by special operations soldiers in a shootout in the North Caucasus, the Russian National Anti-Terrorist Committee said. Dzhamaleil Mutaliev, also known by the nickname 'Adam,' was killed in Nazran District of the North Caucasus Republic of Ingushetia on Tuesday. Mutaliev ...
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‘Rubber band’ bill Russian parliament passes ‘legally indefinable’ anti-blasphemy law
Scandal The Russian Duma has passed a second reading of a religious offense law that has provoked a firestorm of controversy. The legislation has been softened, but still represents a significant ramping up of punishments compared to existing laws. The second reading was approved overwhelmingly, with 304 Duma deputies voting for, only 4 against and 1 abstention. Still, several leading ...
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Council of Europe Head Calls for Visa-Free Russia-EU Travel
MOSCOW, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - The visa requirement for travel between the European Union (EU) and Russia should be scrapped as soon as possible, Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland said Tuesday."My personal opinion is that Greater Europe without visas should be the common European idea," Jagland said in the State Duma, the lower house of Russia's ...
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Russian Soldier Has Bullet Pulled From Forehead with Pliers
MOSCOW, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - A soldier has been nicknamed "the Russian Terminator," after a video was recently posted on the internet showing a bullet being removed from his forehead with pliers.The footage, believed to have been shot during the Second Chechen War in 2000, was published on LiveLeak and YouTube a few days ago and has since gone viral.It shows a piece of metal, thought ...
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Pakistan Roots Seen in Moscow Plot
Suspected militants targeted this week in a deadly raid outside Moscow as they purportedly plotted an attack on the city received training in the troublesome border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan, law enforcement said Tuesday - an allegation that experts called a reminder of the threat posed by Russian radicals coached and sometimes financed from abroad. Special forces officers killed ...
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Booted U.S. Lawyer Backed Magnitsky
The lack of an official explanation for the abrupt expulsion from Russia of U.S. lawyer and former Justice Department official Thomas Firestone earlier this month has led to a flurry of speculation about what may have prompted it. Firestone, an expert on corruption in Russian law enforcement agencies who worked as a lawyer for the Moscow office of the Baker & McKenzie law firm, was detained ...
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Nikiforov Says States Weight Is Behind IT
Nikolai Nikiforov told business representatives at the Leaders' Club forum on Tuesday. Information technology is important for the Russian economy, Nikiforov said. It accounts for 4.6 percent of the nation's GDP and is growing three times faster than the economy overall. He said that the ministry is committed to push ahead with introduction of electronic identification cards, mobile ...
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Russia angry over stolen Eurovision votes
BAKU/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow has clashed with the European Union over human rights and with NATO over security. Now another longstanding European institution is causing anger in the Kremlin and tension between Russia and Azerbaijan: the Eurovision Song ...
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RPT-UPDATE 1-Wealth fund trio to invest $500 mln each in Russias VTB
Tue May 21, 2013 12:48pm EDT * Russian state bank raising $3.3 bln * Share sale to close by weekend * Loan book to grow 15-20 pct - CEO * Sees 2013 net profit at over 100 bln rbls LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - Russia's second-largest bank VTB expects to close its $3.3 billion offering of new shares by the end of the week, with three sovereign wealth funds investing about $500 million each, ...
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Six Russian sailors killed in fire on crab boat in Japan
The bodies of six Russian sailors were recovered on board the ship that burned this morning in a port on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Seventeen people managed to escape, three of them were rushed to ...
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Russia Says Senior Islamist Insurgent Killed
MOSCOW -- 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 February. Dzhamaleil Mutaliyev, a senior figure in a group fighting to establish an Islamist state, was killed along with another militant in a shootout in ...
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Russian International Olympic University signs cooperation agreement with Kazakhstan
Frank Kugler won four Olympics medals in freestyle wrestling, weightlifting and tug of war at St Louis in 1904, making him the only competitor to win a medal in three different sports at the same Games. He claimed a silver medal in the heavyweight category in wrestling, bronze in the two hand lift and all-around dumbbell events in weightlifting and another bronze in the tug of war competition as ...
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South Stream A fresh element of Russian-European energy cooperation
Russian economy With a stagnating European economy plans to supply more gas to the West is becoming a challenge. But Russia is taking the risk. South Stream is a multinational gas pipeline project based on a strategic agreement between Gazprom (Russia) and ENI (Italy). Currently the pipeline will cross Russia by land and go under the Black Sea to Bulgaria, then to Serbia, Hungary, Slovenia ...
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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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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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