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Norway Has No Plans for Magnitsky Sanctions
Norway has reiterated its concern about an investigation into the 2009 prison death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky but said it has no plans to impose any sanctions. "Norway has no tradition of introducing unilateral actions against individual countries or persons. This policy remains also in the Magnitsky case," the Norwegian Embassy in Moscow said in a statement. Norwegian Foreign ...
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Prominent Chechen Advocate Killed in Turkey
ANKARA, Turkey - A prominent figure in the Chechen diaspora in Turkey was shot at his Ankara office in an attack that supporters blamed on Chechen ...
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Couple Accused of Knifing Clown to Death
A young married couple have been detained on suspicion of knifing a veteran circus clown to death in his Moscow region apartment after he refused to surrender his belongings, investigators said. The 61-year-old clown and distinguished artist, identified in media reports as Yevgeny Maranogli, was found dead with 16 stab wounds and a slit throat in his apartment in the town of Dzerzhinsky on ...
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Russia Hopes to Rein in World Cup Spending
Igor Shuvalov has said that the government is hoping no more than $8 billion over and above existing spending programs will be needed from state coffers to fund the 2018 football World Cup. That's a dramatic climb-down from the reported $16.6 billion estimate put forward by the Sports Ministry in April, although that figure included money that would have been spent whether Russia won ...
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2 Children Die in Building Collapse Perm Region
A special commission has been set up to investigate the collapse of a building in Kungur, Perm region, which resulted in the deaths of two children on Friday. Investigators recovered the bodies of an 8-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl from under the rubble on 72 Sverdlova ulitsa, Ria Novosti reported. The Kungurskaya municipal library was located on the upper floor of the two-story building, ...
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Earthquake hits Russias Far East
Marina Kolomiyets, spokeswoman for Obninsk's seismic station of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said Friday the epicenter was in the Sea of Okhotsk, east of the Russian coast and north of Japan. She said the quake registered 8.0 on the Richter ...
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Putin Says Amnesty Plan for Businessmen Needs Refining
Vladimir Putin , who was expected during a meeting with more than a hundred entrepreneurs on Thursday to give a nod to the State Duma to draft an amnesty act freeing thousands of imprisoned business people, said the concept needed more work, Russian television reported Thursday. Putin said at the meeting in Voronezh - an industrial city south of Moscow - that Titov's proposal was still ...
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Foreign Ministry Slams Critical U.S. Report on Religious Freedom
The Foreign Ministry has dismissed as "politicized" a critical U.S. State Department report about religious freedom in Russia and cautioned that such reports incite religious conflicts. The annual report, released on Monday, mentions Russia among several countries around the world, including Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Cuba, Iran and China, that it says imposed restrictions on freedom ...
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At U.S. Request Lithuania Arrests Suspected Russian Arms Smuggler
The Lithuanian security services have arrested a Russian national at the request of the U.S. Justice Department, which suspects him of smuggling export-restricted military equipment. Dmitry Ustinov, 46, was detained over a month ago at the Vilnius airport after he arrived from the U.S. to allegedly negotiate a sales deal for night vision equipment used by the US military, the Delfi news portal ...
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Russian Wins Spaceflight With DiCaprio
A Russian has won a trip to space with Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio. Businessman Vasily Klyukin paid 1.2 million euros ($1.5 million) for the flight at a glitzy charity auction on the sidelines of the 66th Cannes film festival on Thursday, Reuters reported. Klyukin also bought a gold and diamond necklace for 400,000 euros. The proceeds will go to amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research. ...
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Both Houses of Parliament to Be Put Under One Roof in Central Moscow
er.ru The State Duma building at 1 Ulitsa Okhotny Ryad. A complex that will house both the State Duma and the Federation Council will be built in central Moscow, a senior Kremlin official said. Vladimir Kozhin, head of the presidential property management department, said the precise address would be announced soon. "It will be a place worthy of a parliamentary complex for a ...
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Russias Onexim sells RenCredit stake to ex-telecoms boss-paper
MOSCOW | Fri May 24, 2013 1:16am EDT MOSCOW May 24 (Reuters) - Onexim, an investment vehicle of Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, has sold a 6.5 percent stake in Renaissance Credit bank, the newspaper Vedomosti reported, citing the bank's CEO Alexei Levchenko. Prokhorov, a businessman and a politician, bought the remaining half of investment bank Renaissance Capital and the ...
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Today in History May 24
Wikicommons The Aurora, 1903. 113 years ago today, on May 24, 1900, the cruiser Aurora was launched by Nicholas II in St. Petersburg. The Aurora has since become synonymous with the Russian Revolution because it was a blank shot fired from this ship that heralded the storming of the Winter Palace in October ...
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Suspects confess to killing of three Chinese workers in Russia
The four suspects, who were arrested for the murder of three Chinese women in Russia's southern Siberian Republic of Khakassia, have confessed their crimes. A local investigation committee says a pretrial has been held. According to local police, the suspects confessed they committed crimes of robbery, kidnapping and murder. Police say they're gathering further evidence and will later ...
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Venezuela Russia in joint oil venture
BARCELONA, Venezuela (AFP) - Venezuela and Russia formed a joint venture to produce 120,000 barrels of oil a day by 2016 in two fields in the Orinoco Heavy Oil Belt.Russia will loan Venezuela $1.5 billion to finance the development of the fields under the terms of the agreement, and put up $1.1 billion for a 40 percent share in Petrovictoria.The agreement establishing Petrovictoria was signed by ...
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Guns for people in Russia To be or not to be
Incidents of attacks against common people with the use of guns may push Russian authorities towards revising the rules of possession of weapons and approving stricter standards for civilian firearms trafficking in the Russian Federation. At the same time, it would be advisable to raise the responsibility of gun owners via civic associations, such as shooting clubs. ...
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Russia detains 74 Chinese workers
Russian law enforcement authorities have detained 74 Chinese labor workers who allegedly have no identity documents in the Volgograd region, said the Interior Ministry of Russia ...
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Russian rejects parole request by hunger-striking Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina
A Russian court has rejected a parole request by hunger-striking Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina, despite pleas for leniency from former Beatle Paul McCartney, Patti Smith and Peter ...
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Several killed in shootout in Russias Dagestan
reportedly said a Russian commander also "got a lethal wound." "The two suspects were killed while resisting police," an unnamed Russian inspector told Russia's ...
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Russia Admits Crimea Consul’s Words Were ‘Incorrect’
MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian Foreign Ministry has admitted that recent statements by Vladimir Andreyev, the Russian consul general in Simferopol, Ukraine’s Crimea, about Crimean Tatars were inappropriate. Moscow "understands [Ukraine’s] reaction to certain… incorrect wordings used by the Russian representative without proper account for the sensitive issue ...
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Father of Chechen shot by FBI says he thinks son was tortured
Ibragim Todashev is pictured in this undated booking photo courtesy of the Orange County Corrections Department. An FBI agent shot and killed a Florida man with suspected links to the Boston Marathon bombings early on May 22, 2013, NBC News reported. The Orlando Sentinel said a friend had identified the dead man as 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev of Orlando. REUTERS/Orange County Corrections ...
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More than 70 Chinese workers detained in Russia
/enpproperty--> MOSCOW - Russian law enforcement authorities have detained 74 Chinese labor workers who allegedly have no identity documents in the Volgograd region, said the Interior Ministry of Russia Thursday. The workers, who are incapable of speaking Russian, were said to have been employed by a farm in the Nikolayevski district since last winter. They have been transferred into custody ...
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Surkov Replaced by Trusty Technocrat
kremlin.ru Prikhodko, right, attending a Kremlin ceremony with Putin and foreign diplomats in 2009. Sergei Prikhodko, a foreign policy advisor to Russia's leaders for more than 15 years, has been appointed a deputy prime minister and government chief of staff. He assumes the role of head organizer for a government that has been battered by accusations of poor work in recent months. ...
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Security Conference Identifies Obstacles to Russia-West Cooperation
U.S. Embassy in Estonia Rose Gottemoeller speaking in Tallin, Estonia last year. Despite repeated calls for cooperation and resolute declarations of common goals, long-standing divisions and divergent views on the nature of security were still visible between Russian and Western officials at the Moscow European Security Conference on Thursday. The annual conference, organized for the ...
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Russian Premier Urges Industry to Supply Superior Weapons
(MENAFN - Qatar News Agency) Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev called on the country's defence industry on Wednesday to provide the military with state-of-the-art weapons superior to their Western analogs. "It is essential to offer weapons which are superior to our world counterparts, and pay special attention to strengthening cooperation, primarily with our partners in the ...
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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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