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Russian prosecutors submit case over 12 oppositionists’ actions to court
MOSCOW, May 22 (Itar-Tass) - Office of Russia’s Prosecutor General has submitted to court a case over twelve activists of the off-parliament opposition who were involved in a street riot on Moscow’s downtown Bolotnaya Square May 6, ...
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Slain Russian was arrested in 2010 Boston road rage fight
Ibragim Todashev - the Chechen shot dead overnight by the FBI while being questioned in connection with the marathon bombing - was arrested by Boston police in 2010 after a wild street fight that followed a road rage incident in Downtown Crossing, according to a police report.The report states: "About 3:21 PM on Thursday 2/11/10 Officers Hester and Cordasco were patrolling in the ...
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Micro twister strikes Russias Tula 16 hurt
Residents of the town of Efremov, near Tula, central Russia, experienced a highly unusual natural disaster for this region. A strong hurricane tore off roofs and felled trees in the town. Regional EMERCOM called the natural phenomenon "strong gusts of wind" whereas local people said that it was a twister. Videos from the scene prove that it was more than just "strong gusts of ...
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Council of Europe Concerned About Russias Human-Rights Record
MOSCOW -- Thorbjorn Jagland, secretary general of the Council of Europe, has told President Vladimir Putin that the human rights body is concerned about Russia's law requiring non-governmental organizations to register as foreign agents. Jagland said Europe will watch how the Kremlin implements the law that went in effect last November, a measure requiring non-governmental organizations ...
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Russia’s Lavrov says Moscow will not succumb to provocations targeted at Syria.
MOSCOW, May 22 (Itar-Tass) - Moscow will not succumb to provocations targeted at Syria and it urges the Syrian government to keep up a consistent political course, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said here Wednesday at the talks with visiting Syria’s First Deputy Foreign Minister, Faisal ...
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Russia vs. Azerbaijan the Eurovision edition
Russia's Dina Garipova performs during the final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, on May 18, 2013. (John MacDougall/AFP/Getty ...
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Friends of Syria to discuss US-Russia brokered peace talks
US Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Jordan's King Abdullah II at the Royal Palace on May 22, 2013 in the Jordanian capital Amman. Backers of the Syrian uprising are meeting in Amman to discuss a US-Russian proposal for peace talks, as the brutal two-year conflict escalates close to the border with Lebanon. (Khalil Mazraawi/AFP/Getty ...
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Russias foreign minister fights for stolen points in Eurovision mishap
Russia's Dina Garipova performs during the final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, on May 18, 2013. (John MacDougall/AFP/Getty ...
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UPDATE 1-Sovereign funds and Chinese bank buy into Russias VTB
Wed May 22, 2013 1:56pm EDT * State stake diluted to 60.9 pct from 75.5 pct * VTB raised $3.3 bln from the deal, to bolster capital * VTB sees 2013 net profit at over 100 bln rbls, its highest ever MOSCOW, May 22 (Reuters) - The sovereign wealth funds of Qatar, Norway and Azerbaijan and China Construction Bank have bought about 55 percent of the new shares on offer from VTB, Russia's ...
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Russian business to turn to Luxembourg instead of Cyprus
The debt crisis in Europe has hit big business hard, and Russian business was no exception. Problems with Cypriot banks raised many questions about the appropriateness of keeping money in the Cypriot offshore. Some businessmen began to seriously consider Luxembourg as an economic ...
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Assad talks Russia walks And NATO Partners with Al Qaeda
exclusively -- to Argentine daily El Clarin (there's a huge Syrian diaspora in Argentina, as well as in neighboring Brazil). Cutting through the fog of Western hysteria, he made some valuable points. The record shows that, yes, the regime has agreed several times to talk to the opposition; but myriad "rebel" groups with no credible, unified leadership have always refuted. So ...
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Imprisoned Russian Pussy Riot Member Declares Hunger Strike
, one of the two remaining imprisoned members of the Russian punk group Pussy Riot, has gone on hunger strike after being denied permission to attend a parole hearing in ...
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Browder Refused Safe Passage to Germany for Magnitsky Event
The European Magnitsky Law event has been canceled after German authorities refused to grant safe passage to William Browder, the head of Hermitage Capital, who was due to speak at the event in Berlin on May 27. Germany's refusal to grant Browder safe passage comes after Russian authorities filed a request with Interpol to monitor the investor's international movements. Browder is ...
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Gutseriyev Pays $20M for Krasnaya Polyana Stake
Russneft CEO Mikhail Gutseriyev paid $20 million for 41 percent of Krasnaya Polyana, which is building a ski resort in Sochi, he said in an interview with the Dozhd television channel, Vedomosti reported Wednesday. He said a friend of his, Akhmed Bilalov, asked him earlier to buy his brother Magomed Bilalov's stake in Krasnaya Polyana. Akhmed Bilalov estimated the stake at $80 million to ...
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Russia raises deficit forecasts wont balance books by 2015
* Deficit seen at 0.6 pct of GDP in 2014, 0.7 pct in 2015 * Putin promised balanced budget by 2015 * Finance Ministry says spending will remain constrained By Maya Dyakina MOSCOW, May 22 (Reuters) - Russia is likely to run a budget deficit at least until 2016, the Finance Ministry said on Wednesday, a decision that would break a pre-election promise of President Vladimir Putin to balance the ...
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Russia’s counter-intelligence arrests turns over CIA agent in Moscow
Geostrategy-Direct.com Russia's Federal Security Service [FSB] announced on May 14 that it had caught a CIA agent in Moscow red-handed in the process of recruiting a Russian man who was in fact a FSB undercover ...
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Societe Generale sacks Russian unit head
PARIS (AFP) - French bank Societe Generale said Wednesday it had sacked the head of its Russian unit Rosbank, who was arrested last week in Moscow for accepting a $1.5-million bribe."The Board of Directors of Rosbank has initiated the process of dismissal of Vladimir Golubkov as CEO of Rosbank," said Societe Generale, which owns a controlling stake in the Russian bank.Golubkov and his ...
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Ecuadorian Forward Tries to Ignore Russian Football Racism
MOSCOW, May 22 (R-Sport) – Lokomotiv Moscow forward Felipe Caicedo has told R-Sport he tries to block out racist chants at Russian football ...
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Witness undermines case against Russian protest leader
Nikita Belykh (R, standing), governor of the Kirov region, attends a court hearing, with Russian protest leader Alexei Navalny (2nd L) seen in the foreground, in Kirov, May 22, ...
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Russia says Assads foes lack commitment to peace talks
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday that the Syrian opposition had not yet shown enough commitment to efforts to arrange a peace conference with ...
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Russian drunk driver who killed 7 including 5 orphans at bus stop gets 8 and a half years
MOSCOW - A Russian drunk driver who sparked a nationwide debate after killing seven, including five orphan children, in a road accident last year has been sentenced to prison. Moscow's Nikulinsky court ordered Alexander Maximov to serve eight and a half years Wednesday. Maximov scandalized Russia last fall when he crashed his Toyota sedan into a bus stop at 200 kilometres (125 miles) per ...
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Russia braces up for another wave of economic crisis
The global economic crisis has been gathering pace recently. According to IMF forecasts, the growth rate of the economy in 2013 will drop to 3.3 percent. Officials with Russia's Ministry for Economic Development said that the slowdown in the domestic economy would be even more considerable - up to 2.4 percent of GDP. What is the Russian government going to counter to these negative ...
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Putin to discuss with film people support to Russian filmmaking on May 24
SOCHI, May 22 (Itar-Tass) - The support to the Russian filmmaking, particularly for the making of state-funded films, will be discussed at a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the film people on May 24, Russian president’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said, meanwhile, rejecting the suppositions of several newspapers that reported, "The Kremlin intends to deal with ...
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Russia’s Jewish communities say comparison of SMERSH and SS blasphemous
MOSCOW, May 22 (Itar-Tass) - The Federation of Russia’s Jewish Communities has slammed as provocative a statement by politician Leonid Gozman, who compared the Soviet Union’s World War II counter-intelligence service SMERSH (Death to Spies) and Germany’s Nazi SS. Also, it expressed extreme concern over a new spiral of confrontation in the public discussion over the results of ...
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Russia Steps Up Missile Sales to Syria
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Not only will Russia make good on delivering advanced S-300 anti-missile batteries and surface-to-air missiles to Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime, it has also provided anti-ship cruise missiles with advanced guidance systems, ...
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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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