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Russian lawmakers say anti-piracy bill should protect movies but not music
Russia A Russian Lower House MP suggests to only protect movies and TV series in a new anti-piracy bill claiming that music is much cheaper to create. Aleksey Mitrofanov said he has submitted an amendment to the bill aimed at countering internet piracy. "The bill must only cover movies and TV series - the copyright objects that are expensive to produce," Mitrofanov said at a ...
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Russian arms store explosion destroys homes residents flee
(45 mins ago) More than 6,000 people were evacuated in central Russia overnight after a series of massive explosions at an arms depot blew out windows and sparked a fire, the emergency situations ministry said today. The blasts began Tuesday night and continued for hours during an operation to dispose of old munitions at the depot near the town of Chapayevsk in the Samara region about 1,000 ...
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Earthquake Damages 500 Homes in Kemerovo Region
Over 500 homes have been damaged in the village of Bachatsky as a result of an earthquake that struck the Kemerovo on Wednesday. It was the strongest earthquake to have struck the region in over 100 years and was felt 300 kilometers away in Novosibirsk. The U.S. Geological Service said it registered a magnitude of 5.3 on the Richter scale, but Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry ...
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Doors Refuse to Close on St. Pete Metro
YouTube footage showing a handful of passengers riding a St. Petersburg metro train with doors that refused to close. The Moscow metro might have been beset by problems this month. But it isn't alone. Passengers in the St. Petersburg metro went for a harrowing ride in the bowels of the northern capital when the doors on their train refused to close. The incident occurred on the ...
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UPDATE 1-Russian c.banks main goal is stable inflation -governor
Wed Jun 19, 2013 5:33am EDT (Recasts, adds further comment) By Maya Dyakina MOSCOW, June 19 (Reuters) - The Russian central bank's priority is to stabilise inflation, its outgoing chairman Sergei Ignatyev said on Wednesday, defending his years-long efforts to switch the bank's main policy away from managing the rouble's rate. "The main objective of the central bank's monetary ...
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UPDATE 1-SocGens Oudea pledges Russia profit jump
Wed Jun 19, 2013 5:32am EDT * To almost double ROE to over 15 pct by 2015 * Bank to keep cutting costs in fragmented market * No comment on Golubkov case, internal audit By Lionel Laurent MOSCOW, June 19 (Reuters) - French bank Societe Generale aims to deliver a sustainable return on equity of over 15 percent at its Russia operations by 2015, SocGen Chief Executive Frederic Oudea said on ...
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No devaluation in Russia - head of Central Bank Sergei Ignatyev
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Russia manages to defend its positions at G8 summit
MOSCOW, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - The head of the State Duma’s international affairs committee, Alexei Pushkov, believes that Russia has managed to defend its positions at the G8 summit in Lough Erne and not succumb to pressures. "President Vladimir Putin’s participation in the G8 summit was certainly a success," Pushkov told the media. According to the senior legislator, ...
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Google Russia CEO Says US Has No Direct Access to Servers
MOSCOW, June 19 (RIA Novosti) – Google has not provided the US authorities with direct assess to its servers, the head of Google Russia said on Wednesday, while acknowledging that the Internet giant regularly receives requests for user data from government agencies. "Yes, we receive government requests to provide data, but this is strictly in line with the law. It is important to ...
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Russian Post to Investigate Negligent Parcel Handling
Pochta Rossii officials in the Novosibirsk are investigating a video showing parcels being thrown haphazardly onto the city's train station platform by an unidentified worker, a news report said Wednesday. "The direction of the train, the ownership and the car number, as well as whether or not the boxes shown in the footage are Pochta Rossii or another cargo transportation company ...
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Fund to Support Small and Medium Businesses Could be Created
The Finance Ministry has proposed using state guarantee fund to increase support for promising small- and medium-sized businesses, Vedomosti reported Wednesday. The proposals were prepared in response to the order by ...
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Foreign Bidders Could Be Excluded from Rostelecom Privatization
The state will not allow foreign bidders to take part in the auction of a stake in Rostelecom, but is ready to sell 50 percent of the telecommunication giant to the country's leading cell phone operators, Kommersant reported Wednesday, citing it's own sources. The decision is aimed to satisfy a demand of the Defense Ministry, which said that the company is a strategic asset and should ...
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Pack of cigarettes in Russia to bite smokers by 2020
Smoking can become even more expensive in Russia, the Ministry of Health warns. The World Health Organization offers Russia to raise the excise tax on tobacco seven times. In accordance with the WHO requirements, the average price for a pack of cigarettes will be 238 rubles ($7.5) by 2020. Current prices range from 30 to 80 rubles per pack ...
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SocGen CEO Russia ops to hit 15 pct ROE by 2015
MOSCOW, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 4:33am EDT MOSCOW, June 19 (Reuters) - French bank Societe Generale aims to deliver a sustainable return on equity of over 15 percent on its Russia operations by 2015, SocGen Chief Executive Frederic Oudea said on Wednesday. "Our teams are pursuing a clear turnaround roadmap," Oudea told a media event in Moscow, citing a focus on optimising ...
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6000 Evacuated in Russian Ammunition Depot Fire
At least five people have been injured and some 6,000 local residents have been evacuated from a village near an ammunition depot in central Russia where a fire caused massive explosions of stored artillery shells, according to officials. The fire at the Volga Federal Ammunition Testing Site in the Samara region broke out late Tuesday, followed by a series of explosions that continue to rock ...
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Russia considers falsification of history unacceptable - Lavrov
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United Russia party urges probe into US secret services’ access to Russians’ private info
MOSCOW, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Deputy secretary of the United Russia party’s General Council, Sergei Zheleznyak has urged a probe into the reported instances of US secret service’ access to Russian citizens’ private information. "We should not let the affair be played down. There should be thorough investigation of all instances of US companies and secret services getting ...
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Eleven Russian seafarers rescued in Arabian Sea after wreckage
NEW DELHI, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Eleven Russian seafarers were rescued from the MOL Comfort container ship that wrecked in the Arabian Sea, the Sri Lankan authorities said on Wednesday. They will be delivered to Colombo on Friday. After this a decision on restoring seafarers’ documents and their return to Russia will be taken. The Mol Comfort flying the flag of the Bahamas broke into two ...
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Russia’s largest diamond miner Alrosa will not be privatized
MOSCOW, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Russia’s largest diamond miner Alrosa will be excluded from the list of organizations subjected to privatization, Yakutia President Yegor Borisov told a news conference on Wednesday. According to Borisov’s website, the Russian government is drafting a relevant decree. The meeting of the government that will consider exclusion from the list of subject ...
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Organizers of St Petersburg Economic Forum recommending official dress style
St PETERSBURG, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Organizers of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum /SPIEF/ have drafted a memorandum that will prompt the participants in and guests of the conference how to ensure the most convenient conditions of work, traveling around the city and spending free time. It is believed that transportation may pose one of the biggest problems during the forum. ...
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On-air summons Russian radio jockey gets court order during live broadcast
Thrills&Spills Controversial Russian talk radio host Sergey Dorenko was issued a court summons during a live broadcast of his show Wednesday. He has been ordered to stand trial for slander over accusations made against the head of a Russian railway company. The writ was brought Wednesday morning by a police officer to Russian News Service radio, where Dorenko works as editor-in-chief ...
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Russian FA Confident Capello Will Stay Despite PSG Rumors
MOSCOW, June 19 (R-Sport) - Russian Football Association chief Nikolai Tolstykh is confident national team manager Fabio Capello will see out his contract and take Russia to the 2014 World Cup. Reports appeared in the French and Italian media on Wednesday claiming the 67-year-old could be named Paris Saint-Germain coach in the coming days, adding he was the Qatari-bankrolled club's ...
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Prison Service Wants to Delay Young Offenders Entry Into Adult Penal Colonies
The Federal Penitentiary Service has drafted proposals allowing teenage offenders to stay in juvenile correctional facilities if their behavior improves, a news report said Wednesday. Under the current law teenage offenders are transferred to adult penal colonies when they reach the age of 19, but if the amendment is accepted the cut off point will be extended to 25, Kommersant reported. The ...
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Who pays puppets without borders to slander Russia
Reporters Without Borders Calls Putin a Predator and Control Freak - Mikhail Doubik, Publisher at Vedomosti is the director of the Moscow Times. Vedomosti was conceived by Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal, the One Percent. The "news" outlet which calls itself the Moscow Times today published an article with this ...
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Russian-Ukrainian naval drills Fairway to peace start in Black Sea
MOSCOW, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Fifteen warships and service ships, fighters and helicopters will take part in a Ukrainian-Russian naval exercise entitled "Farvater Mira" (Fairway to peace), Russian Black Sea Fleet spokesman, Captain First Rank Vyacheslav Trukhachev, told Itar-Tass on Wednesday. The exercise will take place on June 19-20 and June 25 at naval testing ranges 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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