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Russia Is this Homophobia
Interesting isn't it, we have a term [like anti-Semitism] which is used emotively to deter discussion on an issue? We'll, I'm not politically correctly and never intend to be, so I have some comments on the subject. I read recently that Russia was passing a law to prohibit the propaganda around homosexuality and the promotion of abnormal sexual activity associated with Sodomy. ...
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Obama Urges US Russia to Cut Nuke Stockpile
President Barack Obama called on Russia to partner with the United States in its effort to reduce the world's nuclear stockpiles. During a speech in Germany Wednesday he said the two nations should embrace the spirit that Berlin displayed when it fought to reunite during the Cold War. "We may no longer live in fear of global annihilation, but so long as nuclear weapons exist, we are ...
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Incendiary Russian anti-bureaucrat ad campaign produces record wins at world’s most prestigious festival
Scandal A street campaign exposing the unwillingness of Russian officials to fix city roads has won four awards at the annual Cannes Lions festival. But the woman behind the advert says the idea cost her her job, and potentially, her freedom. Executed by Voskhod advertising agency, Make Politicians Work has become the first Russian campaign to be awarded statuettes in four different ...
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NASA Bill Would ‘End Reliance on Russia’ Nix Asteroid Capture Project
WASHINGTON, June 19 (RIA Novosti) – A draft Republican-backed bill released Wednesday that would authorize NASA programs for the next two years backs a $500 million project to develop crew transportation systems to end US reliance on Russian rockets for getting astronauts into space even as it blocks a less costly project to capture, redirect and explore an asteroid. The draft NASA ...
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Climate change is the threat of our time President Obama pledges new arms pact with Russia and a greener world
In a speech at the Brandenburg Gate that instantly invited comparisons with visits to the same spot by some of his predecessors, President Barack Obama sought to make a historic imprint of his own, pledging to forge a new pact with Russia to further cut nuclear arsenals and to step up the fight against global ...
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Report of Yakunin Sacking a Forgery
Dmitry Medvedev 's spokeswoman told Interfax. "It contained grammatical errors and was sent from an electronic address forged to resemble an official announcement from the government press ...
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How Russia views nuclear disarmament - and why it may resist
In his speech today in Berlin, President Obama called for the US and Russia to cut their strategic nuclear arsenals by a third. But the proposal may meet a chilly reception in ...
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Russian zoo welcomes baby liligers
The zoo in Novosibirsk, Russia's third-largest city, is home to a unique animal - the liliger. That's a big cat breed where the father is a lion and the mother is a lion-tiger hybrid, called a liger. The first liliger was born in the zoo last year and now there's a second litter of three, all of them females. They were born in May and now have grown up enough to start exploring their ...
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Russian official says statement on railway chief dismissal a hoax
Russia's President Vladimir Putin meets with CEO of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin (L), Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich (2nd L) and Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov (R) inside a train in Moscow October 19, ...
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AIRSHOW-With Russian help Europe prepares to search for life on Mars
Wed Jun 19, 2013 1:52pm EDT * First of two missions to launch in 2016 * First direct search for life since NASA's 1970s Viking probes * Russia to provide launchers, landing system By Irene Klotz PARIS, June 19 (Reuters) - The European Space Agency signed final contracts with Thales Alenia Space Italy for work on a pair of missions to assess if the planet Mars has or ever had life, officials ...
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Russia unsure what to make of Obamas nuclear proposal
The Russian government has reacted skeptically to President Barack Obama's renewed call on Wednesday for a reduction in U.S. and Russian nuclear weapon ...
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Obama calls for reduction of US Russian nukes
BERLIN (AP) — In a wide-ranging speech in Berlin, President Barack Obama has renewed his call to reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles -- and also to confront climate change, which he referred to as "the global threat of our time." Speaking at the Brandenburg Gate, a symbol of the city that was divided during the Cold War, Obama said he wanted to re-ignite the spirit that ...
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Russian Cyberspace Head Calls For Internet Kill Switch
The head of Russia’s cyberspace policy today called for global governments to react to the NSA spy scandal by creating a United Nations-style body that would have regulatory control over the Internet – including a web kill ...
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Russia not to change taxes until 2018 -- Shuvalov
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Misharin appointed new head of Russian Railways
MOSCOW, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has appointed Alexander Misharin the new head of Russian Railways Company. He will replace Vladimir Yakunin who left the post on Monday, June ...
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Dmitry Medvedev dismisses Russian Railways CEO
MOSCOW, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has appointed Alexander Misharin the new head of Russian Railways Company. He will replace Vladimir Yakunin who left the post on Monday, June ...
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UPDATE 2-U.S. puts Russia on notice in first report on WTO compliance
Wed Jun 19, 2013 1:30pm EDT * U.S. exports to Russia rose in the year * Report details "a number of trade irritants" * U.S. feed additive an issue in pork exports to Russia * (Adds more detail from report, byline) By Doug Palmer WASHINGTON, June 19 (Reuters) - The United States, in the first report on Russia's compliance with its World Trade Organization commitments, said on ...
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Savage barrage Parcel abuse sparks Russian Post outrage
Russia and the global economy Russia's postal service, a notoriously underperforming organization, is under fire again after a video was published on YouTube allegedly showing one of its employees unloading a railroad car full of parcels in a most uncaring manner. The footage shows a man tossing out assorted cardboard boxes into a large heap on a railroad platform. Most of them seem ...
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Russia Skeptical Over Obama’s New Nuclear Reduction Proposal
proposed by US President Barack Obama in light of US global missile defense plans and attempts by other counties to boost their nuclear arsenals. Obama said in a speech in Berlin earlier Wednesday that he would negotiate to cut another one-third of US and Russian nuclear arsenals and seek "bold reductions in US and Russian tactical weapons in Europe." Shortly before Obama’s ...
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Russian Space Freighter ‘Buried’ in Pacific
MOSCOW, June 19 (RIA Novosti) - Fragments of a Russian cargo spacecraft that undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) last week splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, mission control said. The Progress M-19M, which arrived at the ISS on April 26 with over 2.5 tons of cargo - including food, water and oxygen for the crew - undocked on Tuesday for a weeklong flight to study ...
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Photos Russian zoo shows off unique ‘liliger’ cubs
The zoo in Novosibirsk, Russia’s third-largest city, is home to a unique animal — the liliger. That’s a big cat breed where the father is a lion and the mother is a lion-tiger hybrid, called a liger. The first liliger was born in the zoo last year and now there’s a second litter of three, all of them ...
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Former Head of Yukos Subsidiary Paroled
reported Wednesday. Sergei Shimkevich, a deputy of the Tomsk Region's legislature at the time of his detention, was convicted of being part of an organized group that stole and laundered almost 6 billion rubles ($187 million) from Tomskneft, the Yukos subsidiary that he led, and sentenced to 12 years in prison in 2010. A year later, he was convicted of using phony contracts to siphon ...
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RDIF Toddling Along With $620M Invested
Dmitry Medvedev , the Russia Direct Investment Fund, or RDIF, operates as a subsidiary of Vneshekonombank and has been allocated $10 billion of government ...
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Guelman Says Fired for Controversial Sochi Exhibit
Marat Guelman, a prominent art gallery owner and the director of the Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, says he has been fired for showcasing an exhibition on the 2014 Sochi Olympics that authorities called unpatriotic. Local and federal authorities were outraged by the "Welcome! Sochi 2014" exhibition organized as part of the Perm White Nights festival earlier this month, which ...
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Foreign Minister Eide critical of new Russian bill against gay “propaganda”
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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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