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Investigation Opened Into Mass Brawl in Kamchatka Penal Colony
Investigators have opened a criminal investigation into a mass brawl that broke out among inmates in a Kamchatka penal colony in March, a news report said Tuesday. The fight broke out in Penal Colony No. 6 on March 23 when over 30 convicts from squads four and five teamed up to attack seven inmates from the first squad, Interfax reported. "A total of about 100 people participated in the ...
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New Case Into Politkovskaya Killing Goes to Court
A case against five men suspected of being involved in the 2006 high-profile murder of Russian investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya has been sent to court, prosecutors said Tuesday. Politkovskaya, who was a journalist with the opposition-leaning Novaya Gazeta newspaper, was shot dead in the elevator of her apartment building on October 7, 2006. Investigators suspect she was killed over ...
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U.S. Says Russian Policies Restrict Religious Freedom
WASHINGTON - Russia is among several countries around the world including Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Cuba, Iran, and China that imposed restrictions on freedom of religion last year, according to an annual report released Monday by the U.S. State Department. "This report is a clear-eyed, objective look at the state of religious freedom around the world. And when necessary, yes, it does ...
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Qatar to get $500m of shares in Russian bank VTB
The sovereign wealth funds of Qatar, Norway and Azerbaijan will each get about $500m of the new shares being issued by VTB, the Russian bank's chief executive Andrei Kostin said on Tuesday.The $500m allocation is the "kind of ticket we are thinking of" Kostin told Reuters in London. The allocations will give the investors more than half the new shares being sold in VTB's ...
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Russian Azerbaijani FMs discuss Eurovision points scandal
This disgraceful action will get a response, Lavrov said. Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov and Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov spoke about the scandal around points in Eurovision during the negotiations in Moscow, the Facebook page of the Russian Foreign Ministry says. The source of RIA Novosti in the Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed that 'during the ...
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Kudrin accuses United Russia of economic stagnation
Head of the Civil Initiatives Committee, former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin stated at a session of Open Tribune on Monday that the government and United Russia should bear responsibility for the present stagnation in the economy. United Russia retaliated by accusing him of poor performance when he was in civil ...
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Olympics Investors Get More Honor than Profit
's gondola lift and Sberbank's ski jump. The nicknames used by locals and an army of construction workers leave no doubt about who is paying for the 2014 Winter Games: Russia's business powerhouses. Other countries that have hosted the Olympics have overwhelmingly used public funds to pay for the construction of needed venues and new infrastructure. The Russian government, ...
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Levada Center Fears Closure After Warning
Independent pollster Levada Center has said that it could have to close after prosecutors warned the organization against violating legislation governing foreign-funded NGOs. "The warning puts the Yury Levada Center in a very difficult situation, practically forcing it to cease its activities as an independent research organization conducting regular public opinion polls," Lev Gudkov, ...
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U.S. Prison Ordered to Hand Over Tsarnaev Files
BOSTON - A U.S. judge approved a request by accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's lawyers that his jailers hand over their files on him, including suicide watch logs and psychological data, according to newly released court documents. The defense has said it wants to track 19-year-old Tsarnaev's injuries and mental state while he is held in federal prison to provide ...
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Dash cam video of real Russia and its real people explodes Internet
The video that you are about to see has collected nearly four million views in four days. It shows real Russia and real Russians, which became a revelation to many foreigners ...
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Russia USA should jointly confront spreading terrorism - minister
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Russia Announces Cash Prizes for Its Universiade Medalists
MOSCOW, May 21 (R-Sport) – Russia’s federal government will pay out roughly $5,400 to Russian gold medalists at this summer’s University Games in the Russian city of Kazan, according to a decree signed Tuesday by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Silver medalists, meanwhile, will receive a bonus of just over $2,600, while bronze medalists will earn about $1,600, as Russia looks ...
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Moscow Terror Plot Foiled by Special Forces
Special forces officers killed two men and detained one more outside Moscow on suspicion that they were plotting a terror attack in the city, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee said. The officers came under fire when they surrounded a house with the suspects on Monday in the city of Orekhovo-Zuyevo, roughly 80 kilometers from Moscow, and demanded that they surrender. In the ensuing ...
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Russia says two rebels killed in North Caucasus
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian security forces killed two suspected militants in the North Caucasus during a night-time sweep in the region plagued by an Islamist insurgency, investigators said on ...
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Russias VTB sees 2013 net profit above 100 bln rbls
LONDON | Tue May 21, 2013 3:45am EDT LONDON May 21 (Reuters) - VTB, Russia's No.2 bank, sees 2013 net profit at above 100 billion roubles ($3.2 billion), Chief Executive Andrei Kostin told Reuters TV. In 2012, state-controlled VTB posted 90.6 billion roubles in net profit, flat on the previous year but beating a consensus analyst forecast. Kostin also said that the bank plans to ...
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Russias Rostelecom Q1 net profit falls 49 pct
MOSCOW | Tue May 21, 2013 3:16am EDT MOSCOW May 21 (Reuters) - Russian state-controlled telecoms operator Rostelecom reported on Tuesday a 49 percent fall in first-quarter net income due to one-off gains in the year-ago period and higher interest expenses. The company said its net profit fell to 6.4 billion roubles ($205 million) in the first three months of 2013, which was below the ...
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UPDATE 1-Russian retailer X5 Q1 earnings fall but beat forecast
Tue May 21, 2013 3:03am EDT * Q1 net profit down 2 pct to $65 mln vs $51 mln fcast * EBITDA up 4 pct to $284 mln vs $281 mln fcast * EBITDA margin at 6.8 pct vs 6.7 pct fcast MOSCOW, May 21 (Reuters) - Russian food retailer X5 beat profit forecasts on Tuesday as it presses on with cost cutting and streamlining after losing its market lead to closest competitor Magnit. X5 last month reported for ...
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57 of Russians Surf Internet Survey Says
A total of 59 percent of Russians use the Internet, up 3 percentage points since last year, according to the results of a survey published Monday. The figure was only 5 percent when independent pollster Levada Center first polled Russians on the issue in 2001. The percentage varies greatly among different social groups: while over 80 percent of students, senior managers, directors and leading ...
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Medvedev says Russia has no plans to return to seasonal times
MOSCOW, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has no plans to return seasonal ‘standard’ and ‘daylight saving’ times in the ...
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Russia South Ossetia presidents to discuss bilateral relations
SOCHI, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - The state of and prospects for the development of bilateral relations, as well as current issues of Russian assistance to socioeconomic development of the Republic of South Ossetia will be discussed here on Tuesday by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his South Ossetian counterpart Leonid Tibilov, the Kremlin press service ...
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6.0 quake off Russia’s far-east Kamchatka coastline – USGS
Screengrab from http://earthquake.usgs.gov MOSCOW- A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula early Tuesday, followed by a series of strong after-shocks, the US Geological Survey reported. The first quake struck at a depth of 33 kilometers (20 miles) at 0155 GMT, 136 kilometres east-southeast of the Russian city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the USGS reported. It was ...
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Two Suspected Militants Killed in Ingushetia
ROSTOV-ON-DON / NAZRAN, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - Two suspected militants were killed on Tuesday in a shootout with law-enforcers in Russia’s North Caucasus Republic of Ingushetia, a spokesman for the republic’s investigative department said. "We were informed that two suspected militants… were killed in a shootout," the source said. He added that no casualties were ...
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Today in History May 21
veteranland.ru The drifting ice station Severny Polyus-1. Seventy-six years ago today, on May 21, 1937, the world's first drifting ice station Severny Polyus-1 was established in the North Pole. The research carried out at this and similar stations has contributed greatly to our understanding of the Arctic ...
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M6.0 quake hits Russias Kamchatka Peninsula
An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale jolted off the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) ...
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Sports Briefing | Cycling Denis Menchov of Russia Retires From Cycling
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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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