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Boston Bomber Spent 6 Months in Russia’s Most Violent Republic
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Russia calls for patience on new Syria conference
Moscow did not want to rush into a new international conference on Syria unprepared and risk an embarrassing failure, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday."It could be a trap to act in a hurry. On May 7 in Moscow (during a visit of US Secretary of State John Kerry), we agreed to initiate that conference only if very thorough preparations were made," Lavrov said in an interview ...
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E.On Russia to transfer 100 of 2012’s net profit into dividends
Russia E.On Russia, the Russian subsidiary of Germany's E.On power company, will transfer 100% of the net profit the energy company made in 2012, some $583 million into dividends, marking a record for the Russian domestic electricity market. The company has recommended a dividend of 0.29 roubles per share for 2012, worth 18.3 billion roubles ($583 million), General Director Maxim ...
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Sochi 2014 the most expensive Olympics in history and whos paying the bill Russian tycoons of course
The mountains of Sochi are now home to Potanin's slope, Gazprom'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 ...
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Svyaznoi Mulls $200M Private Placement
Russian cell phone retailer Svyaznoi plans to attract $200 million in a private placement organized by Sberbank CIB with businessman Leonard Blavatnik believed to be interested, a news report said Monday. The deal between Nogotkov and an investor, whose name has not been disclosed, had entered an active phase, a bank official told Vedomosti. The newspaper says business structures controlled by ...
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Court Rules to Subpoena Polonsky in Lebedev Trial
Alexander Lebedev on charges of hooliganism and political hatred. At a hearing held Monday, Polonsky's lawyers said their client was not able to attend the trial because he was abroad and asked the court to consider evidence given by him at the preliminary inquiry, Interfax reported. But the judge agreed with Lebedev's lawyers, who said the trial could not continue without Polonsky. ...
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Spain Rated as Top Destination for Travel With Kids
Spain is the leading destination for Russian tourists traveling abroad with their children during the summer break, according to a list of the top 10 hot spots for summer travel with children published Monday by online hotel reservation site Oktogo.ru. The list also includes Italy, France, Great Britain, Greece, Portugal, Germany, Turkey, Montenegro and the U.S. According to the website, ...
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Lada Breakdown Ends Ex-Porn Stars Roadtrip
she was driving broke down three days after the start. Grey, escorted by several other cars, began her several weeks' journey from Vladivostok in Russia's Far East to Moscow on Thursday and managed to reach another far eastern city of Khabarovsk. "Participants of the car rally took Lada Kalina for a drift in Khabarovsk," Drom.ru automobile website reported. "The car ...
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Norilsk Vice President Quits Following Shareholder Feud
Norilsk Nickel vice president Vladimir Strzhalkovsky announced plans on Monday to quit the world's largest nickel miner, which has been at the center of a shareholder battle for control of the company for several years. "I'm quitting the company. I'll work till the end of June and leave. I'm considering [job] offers," Strzhalkovsky said. Strzhalkovsky, who was ...
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Russia Delivers Enhanced Yakhont
WASHINGTON [MENL] -- Russia has delivered to Syria an enhanced variant of acoastal defense system meant to repel any sea-based offensive against the regimePresident Bashar Assad. Officials said the U.S. intelligence community has determined that theKremlin approved and oversaw the deliveries of an upgraded variant of theYakhont coast-to-sea missile in 2013. They said the enhanced ...
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Fakhriya Khalafova comments on “zero” points for Russia from Azerbaijan
Azerbaijani member of jury Fakhriya Khalafova has commented on "zero" points for Russia from Azerbaijan. The statement made by Head of the Public Television of Azerbaijan Jamil Guliyev that Russia was to get a high score from Azerbaijan has caused a great resonance. Head of the Public Television made a statement on the fact of counting votes of Azerbaijani viewers in Russia's ...
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Eight killed in twin blasts in Russias Dagestan
Eight people were killed by twin blasts in Russia's North Caucasus Monday, law enforcement authorities said.The blasts took place near the court bailiffs service headquarters in Makhachkala, capital city of the Dagestan republic, a spokesperson for Dagestan's top investigative agency told local media."Two cars were blown up one after another. At least eight people were killed. ...
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Black Boxes Found From U.S. Plane Crash in Kyrgyzstan
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - Flight recorders from a U.S. military plane that crashed in northern Kyrgyzstan in early May have been found, the Kyrgyz Transportation and Communication Ministry said Monday. The Boeing KC-135 aerial refueling tanker, carrying three American crew members, crashed into a mountain gorge on May 3 some 60 kilometers west of the capital, Bishkek, about 10 minutes after taking ...
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Only City Center Will Have Paid Parking Authorities Say
City authorities have said that paid parking will only be introduced within the city center, Vedomosti reported. Initial plans to introduce paid parking within the 3rd Transportation Ring by 2015 won't be implemented, and only within the Boulevard Ring will car owners have to pay 50 rubles (close to $2) per hour starting from next month. "We want to organize a system for the city ...
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Former U.S. Diplomat Barred From Russia
A retired U.S. diplomat and expert on the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act was banned from entering Russia earlier this month, The New York Times reported. Moscow-based Thomas Firestone, who works for Baker & McKenzie law firm, was declared persona non grata when returning to Russia from a trip abroad on May 5, the report said Sunday. No official explanation for the incident was ...
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Kickboxer Gets 11 Years for Killing Locksmith
SARATOV - A Russian kickboxer has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for killing a man with a single punch, a court official said Monday. Rasul Gaitamirov, 23, who competed in various Thai boxing events, taunted a passer-by in the center of the southern city of Saratov and then punched him in the head. The victim, identified in local media as 25-year-old locksmith Rasim Nurmamyatov, struck ...
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Net widens in crackdown on NGOs as Russia threatens pollster for political activity
MOSCOW - Russia's only independent polling agency said Monday it may have to close after prosecutors targeted it for "political activity" under a law spearheading President Vladimir Putin's crackdown on civil society. Levada Center published a letter, dated last week, from prosecutors who said its polls and publications are "aimed at shaping public opinion on government ...
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Accused American spy in Russia What was he really doing there
Russia shows accused U.S. spy heading home But there are still many questions about what he was really doing there. Five days after Russia ordered him to ...
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Video American accused of spying leaves Russia
American Ryan Fogle, who was arrested in Russia on charges of spying for the U.S., was spotted at the Moscow airport. He is believed to be headed home. CBS News' Margaret Brennan ...
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London police arrest group of Russian sex slave owners
In London, police arrested six people suspected of human trafficking. Four of the arrested individuals are Russian citizens. The criminal group controlled a network of brothels, in which law-enforcement officers found nine women from Russia, Bulgaria and Latvia. The women were brought to Britain as sex slaves. A 44-year-old female native of Russia was the leader of the criminal group. The police ...
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UPDATE 1-Greeces Hellenic issues tender to buy Russian oil
Mon May 20, 2013 8:56am EDT (Adds details, effects of financial crisis on Hellenic) LONDON May 20 (Reuters) - Hellenic Petroleum, Greece's largest refiner, has issued a tender to buy an 80,000 tonne cargo of Russian Urals crude oil for early June delivery, a trading source said, the first in months as its finances improve. The tender was issued on Friday and closes today. The payment will be ...
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President ordered to deal with the issue of voting for Russia at Eurovision
For many, both in Azerbaijan and in Russia, it was a surprise to see that not a single vote came from Azerbaijan to Russian contestant Dina Garipova at the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. Azerbaijani Ambassador to Russia Polad Bulbuloglu in his interview to Vestnik Kavkaza said that in fact it is not so. Azerbaijan gave a high vote to Russia but these voices have gone missing. What exactly ...
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8 killed in double blast in Dagestan Russia
Eight people have been killed as two car bombs exploded outside the headquarters of the court bailiffs' service in the capital of Russia's Dagestan Republic, Makhachkala. The first car loaded with explosives reportedly went off causing no fatalities or injuries. Once law enforcements got to the scene, the second bomb detonated, Interfax reported citing local investigative ...
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US Anti-Corruption Expert Expelled from Russia – Report
MOSCOW, May 20 (RIA Novosti) - A retired US diplomat and expert on the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act was banned from entering Russia earlier this month, the New York Times said on Sunday.Moscow-based Thomas Firestone, who works for Baker & McKenzie law firm, was declared persona non grata when returning to Russia from a trip abroad on May 5, the report said.No official explanation for the ...
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Russian High-Tech Hub Boss Quizzed on Opposition Funding
Skolkovo Foundation , billionaire businessman Viktor Vekselberg has been questioned by the Investigative Committee over an alleged misuse of funds to support the opposition, the foundation’s deputy head Alexander Chernov said on Monday. "Viktor Feliksovich [Velselberg] provided exhaustive answers to the questions he was asked," Chernov said. Velselberg denied allegations on ...
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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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