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Russian Gays in US Call for Boycott of Sochi Games
WASHINGTON, June 17 (By Maria Young for RIA Novosti) – A group of gays from Russia and the former Soviet republics living in the United States has a message for gay athletes and others planning to attend the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi: Don’t go. The group is calling for a boycott of the games, saying the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community is not safe in ...
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Russia US to Boost Cooperation in Countering Terrorism
US President Barack Obama meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the G8 Summit at Lough Erne in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, June 17, ...
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G8 No agreement between Russia and America over Syrian civil war
Greece's deeply divided governing coalition has avoided collapsing in a dispute over prime minister Antonis Samaras's closure of state ...
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Cameron tells Russia join the club or face isolation on Syria
David Cameron on Monday evening made a final attempt to bounce Russia into supporting a future for Syria without President Bashar ...
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Tense Talks Expected at G8 Summit
The G8 summit opened Monday at the remote Lough Erne resort in Northern Ireland with "hard talks" expected in the late evening between the Russian and U.S. president on the Syria conflict. The summit follows on the heels of the U.S. announcement last week that it would arm the Syrian opposition - an initiative Russia strongly opposes. The resulting schism between Russia and the West ...
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Navalny Defiant in KirovLes Testimony
Yevgeny Feldman / AP Navalny, left, testifying in court in Kirov on Monday. The opposition leader called the charges he ...
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Sobyanin Submits Paperwork for Mayoral Bid
Sergei Sobyanin has submitted his passport, declaration of candidacy as an independent and statement of income for last year to the Election Committee, Interfax reported Monday. These, along with other necessary documents, were checked by the committee's president, Valentin Gorbunov, who then presented Sobyanin with a receipt and permission to open an electoral bank account. Each ...
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Ministry Funding Healthy Lifestyle Advertisements
The Health Ministry is pushing ahead in its efforts to wean Russians off tobacco and drugs through a series of television advertisements that promote healthy lifestyles, although this year the number of ads has been cut in half. The ministry has allocated 55 million rubles ($1.7 million) for a media plan to place healthy lifestyle ads on a variety of television channels. The goal of the ...
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US-Russia positions on Syria dont coincide Putin says
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland – Russian President Vladimir Putin told President Barack Obama on Monday that their positions on Syria do not "coincide" but the two leaders said during the G-8 summit that they have a shared interest in stopping the violence that has ravaged the Middle Eastern country during a two-year-old civil war. Obama acknowledged in a bilateral meeting with ...
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On Syria U.S. and Russia have different perspectives shared goals says Obama
Despite tensions between the United States and Russia on how best to address the ongoing violence in Syria, President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday declared their shared interests in "reducing violence" in the war-torn country, even while both acknowledged their differences on the issue. Speaking after a bilateral meeting at the G8 Summit in Northern Ireland, Mr. ...
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Russia to slow pace of privatisation report
Russia plans to delay its privatisation programme and hold on to stakes in state companies such as Rosneft for longer, a report said on Monday, compounding disappointment for investors who have been pulling money from the country.In 2010 Russia announced plans to raise $50-billion (U.S.) in five years from reducing its stakes in the likes of oil major Rosneft and the country's two biggest ...
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Russia under pressure over Syria
Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin are meeting on the sidelines of the G8, as Russia faces criticism from other nations over its stance on ...
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Russia US Espionage to Affect Bilateral Relations
Moscow, Jun 17 (Prensa Latina) Russian Senator Igor Morozov assured Monday that the filtrations on spionage by the United Kingdom and the US against Russia in the summit of the Group of the 20 (G-20) in 2009, might affect the bilateral relations between Moscow and Washington. The British and US secret services intercepted telephone conversations by then Russian President Dmitri Medvedev during ...
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United States Russia Enter Into New Arms-Security Agreement
WASHINGTON -- The United States is entering into a new agreement with Russia that would continue in some form the Cooperative Threat Reduction program that aims to lock down vulnerable nuclear materials in the former Soviet Union, Global Security Newswire has learned. A senior defense official told GSN there is a new pact effective Monday -- the same day the prior umbrella accord that provided ...
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Russias Putin says disagrees with Obama on Syria
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland (Reuters) - Russia and the United States disagree on how to end the conflict in Syria but want the bloodshed to stop and the warring parties brought to the negotiating table, Russian ...
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Russian tycoon seeks human immortality artificial brains by 2045
NEW YORK A Russian multimillionaire said he would like to see the technology to allow humans to outlive their bodies made into a reality - to the point where "people" with artificial computer-driven brains and hologram bodies would exist in a mere 32 ...
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Warner Music buys Russias Gala Records
Warner Music Group said Monday it had purchased Russian music business Gala Records Group for an undisclosed sum. "We are delighted to welcome Gala to the Warner Music family," WMG Chief Executive ...
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British spying claims outrage Russia Turkey
Russia, Turkey and South Africa expressed outrage on Monday over revelations that Britain and the United States spied on foreign delegates at G20 meetings in London in ...
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Wrestling the favourite for 2020 Olympic Games - FILA
The President of the International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles (FILA) has said that wrestling is the favourite to be added to the 2020 Olympic Games in the eyes of their competitors and the IOC. In an exclusive interview with iSportconnect, President Nenad Lalovic said that at the SportAccord Convention in St Petersburg, Russia in May, wrestling was the only sport to receive ...
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Poll shows Russias Orthodox church members dont pray or read Bible
Russian Orthodox believers line up to bless traditional Easter cakes at the Peter and Paul church in Moscow on April 3, 2010. UPI Photo/Alex ...
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Russian S-300 systems to materialize in Syria
The events around Syria have clearly defined the balance of power on the international arena. The United States is very close to achieving its goals, the main one of which is to replace the current regime of President Assad. Israel, according to the press, was able to convince Russia to freeze the deliveries of air defense systems to official Syrian authorities, and the U.S. announced that it ...
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Russia Says Will Not Permit No-Fly Zone in Syria
As Vladimir Putin arrives for the G8 summit in Northern Ireland Russia is already signaling its concern that Western governments may push for a no fly zone in Syria. On Monday Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said it would be an illegal ...
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Legislative Delegation Meets Russian State Douma Deputy Speaker
Moscow-June-17(BNA)A Bahraini delegation today held a meeting with Russian State Duma Deputy Speaker for the Middle Eastern Nikolai Levichev. Led by Foreign Affairs, Defence and National Security Committee Chairman Mp. Abdulrahman Rashid Boumjeed, the delegation briefed the Russian official on developments in Bahrain and the flagrant Iranian interference in the Kingdom's internal ...
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Warner Music Group Acquires Russia’s Gala
MOSCOW, June 17 (RIA Novosti) – Warner Music Group, one of the world’s largest recording companies, has acquired Russia’s oldest independent label, Gala Records, the companies said in a joint statement on Monday. "The acquisition will mark WMG’s first wholly owned local presence in Russia," Warner Music Group, controlled by Russian-born billionaire Len ...
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Boutique Business Tests Entrepreneurs Stamina
French vendors of gourmet foods were eager to make a triumphant return to Russia, almost a 100 years after the Bolshevik revolution swept out their business. However, navigating the post-Soviet business climate has proven more difficult than getting the tsar to handpick their delicacies for his table. Legendary French products are making their way back to Russia as exclusive food boutiques ...
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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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