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Russia Syria Agrees to Participate in Conference
Russia says the Syrian government has agreed in principle to attend aproposed international peace conference on the country's future. A spokesman for the Russian foreign ministry said Friday that Syria has agreed to participate in the conference that Russia and the U.S. have proposed next month in Geneva. But he said it is impossible to set a date yet because it is not clear yet who will ...
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Russian regulator blacklists social media site VK
The future of Russia's biggest social media site was thrown into a state of flux Friday after the country's communications regulator moved to shut it down.The site, VKontakte, is similar to Facebook and has roughly 200 million registered users. On Friday a notice on the website of Russia's Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass ...
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Debilitated Russian cruise ship disappears off Newfoundland coast
Four months after an empty Russian cruise ship snapped a tow line and drifted into the North Atlantic off Newfoundland, its trail has gone cold.The Canadian Coast Guard says it has received no reported sightings of the Lyubov Orlova since March 12.At the time, one of the empty vessel's emergency radio beacons flashed an unconfirmed location almost 1,300 kilometres off Newfoundland. The ...
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Russia tsunami warning cancelled
A massive earthquake deep under the sea in Russia's Far East was felt in cities including Moscow but emergency services called off a tsunami warning issued for the Pacific Sakhalin ...
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Azerbaijani and Russian defense ministers meet in Moscow
APA ’s Moscow correspondent reports that at the 20-minute meeting, the ministers discussed military relations between Azerbaijan and Russia. The meeting behind closed doors was also attended by Russia Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov and head of the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry's International Military Cooperation Department, Major General Ramiz Najafov. Azerbaijani ...
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The Torture of Children in a Russian Orphanage is Not Specific to Russia but a Result of the Secular System
On the 17th of May 2013, Russian TV, the UK Guardian and other media agencies reported on the publishing of a horrific video showing several boys under the age of ten, beaten with a belt and kicked by two teenage caretakers in a Russian orphanage. The appalling incident happened in the Mazanovsky orphanage in the region of ...
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One Russian sailor injured in ship fire at Wakkanai port discharged from hospital
TOKYO, May 24 (Itar-Tass) - One of the Russian sailors who were injured in a fire that broke out on the Taigan ship anchored at the Japanese port of Wakkanai, has been discharged a local hospital, Attache of the Russian Consulate General in Sapporo Valery Kaminsky told Itar-Tass on ...
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Russian reporter presents evidence of use of chemical weaponry by Syrian militants
UNITED NATIONS, May 24 (Itar-Tass) - A Russian reporter who has visited Syria has handed video footage on a chemical attack presumably organized by the irreconcilable Syrian opposition near Aleppo March 19 to the UN ...
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Putin hopes all Arab countries to be consuming Russian turkey soon
VORONEZH, May 23 (Itar-Tass) - Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said Thursday he hopes the entire Arab world will be consuming the turkey produced in Russia ...
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Tsunami warning in Russia’s Far East after 8.2 quake
MOSCOW--Russia on Friday issued a tsunami warning for the Sakhalin Island region in its Far East after a deep sea earthquake measured at a magnitude of 8.2 by the USGS. ';Inhabitants need to leave dangerous regions and go to higher ground,'; the Sakhalin branch of the Russian emergencies ministry said in the warning. The USGS placed the epicenter of the quake in the Sea of Okhotsk of ...
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Dozens Evacuated as Moscow Feels First Tremors in 35 Years
A strong earthquake off the coast of Sakhalin in the Far East sent shockwaves throughout Russia on Friday morning, causing buildings to lightly shake in Moscow, about 7,000 kilometers away, Interfax reported. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, but about 850 people were evacuated from buildings 10 and 44 on Lesnaya ulitsa, near Moscow's Belorusskaya metro station, Ria ...
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Reputed Georgian Mobster Nabbed in Tula Region
Tula region police said Friday that they have detained a reputed Georgian-born mobster known by the nickname "Chuto Khonsky." David Kurasbediani, 44, who also goes by "Chutala," was detained during an anti-mob operation after police learned that he had been living illegally in Tula and carrying out criminal activities, police said in a statement. A search of ...
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New Map to Appear on Moscow Metro
Transportation authorities are introducing a new metro map to be used across the city's subway network by the middle of next week. News reports said the new maps, which were designed by the Art. Lebedev Studio, have already started appearing on metro cars serving the Sokolnicheskaya Line. A competition to design the new map was held in November and featured entries from as far a field as ...
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11 Russian Cities to Get Tolerance Centers
Tolerance centers are to be opened in 11 Russian cities by 2015, the Regional Development Ministry said Friday. The program is estimated at some 1,5 billion rubles ($48 billion), and construction is set to get underway in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and the other selected cities in 2014. The centers will provide a basis for exploring the culture and traditions of the Russian people, ...
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Russia Syrias govt agrees to take part in US-Russia proposed conference in Geneva
MOSCOW - The Syrian government has agreed to a conference on the country's future proposed by Russia and the United States, Russia's foreign ministry said Friday Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said in televised remarks that the Syrian government had "agreed in principle" to participate in the conference in Geneva which is expected within two weeks. ...
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Russian cult film director Balabanov dies at 54
Russian cult film director Balabanov dies at 54 05.20.2013 16:14 Alexei Balabanov, a director who captured the essence of Russia's early post-Soviet years with cult films about crime and the war in Chechnya, has died at the age of 54 following a long illness."The films of Alexei Balabanov are a collective portrait of our country at its most dramatic time in history," Prime ...
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‘Russia’s Facebook’ Put on Internet Blacklist by Mistake
MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti) - Vkontakte, Russia's biggest social networking site, was put on a state registry of blacklisted websites by mistake earlier today, a spokesman forRussia's telecoms watchdog Roskomnadzor said."This was a mistake. Our employee put a tick in the wrong place," said Vladimir Pikov, as reported by Digit.ru. "We will remove VKontakte from the ...
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Russia US to Boost Law Enforcement Cooperation
WASHINGTON, May 24 (RIA Novosti) – Russia and the United States may set up joint working groups to counter emerging crime threats, Russia’s Interior Minister said at the end of a working visit to the United States. US and Russian officials agreed the two nations need to create working groups to help stand against "new international challenges and threats," including ...
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Earthquake Hits Russia’s Far East Tremors Felt in Moscow
MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti) - An earthquake measuring 8.2 on the Richter scale struck Russia’s Far East on Friday, with slight tremors felt thousands of miles away in Moscow. There were no reported injuries or damage. The earthquake occurred in the Sea of Okhotsk off the Kamchatka Peninsula, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported. Emergency agencies in the Far East issued a tsunami ...
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Russia says Syrian government agrees in principle to conference
Russia and the United States , and criticized what it called attempts to undermine peace efforts. "Damascus has expressed its readiness in principle to participate in ...
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Earthquake hits Russias Sakhalin region tsunami warning lifted
Russian emergency authorities lifted a tsunami warning on Friday several minutes after they announced one, following an earthquake in the Sea of Okhotsk off Russia's eastern coastThe main city of Kamchatka is home to a nuclear submarine base and Russia's largest liquefied natural gas project is in Sakhalin.A regional branch of the Emergency Situations Ministry issued the warning for ...
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Sochi Olympics to Outdo Vancouver in Doping Tests
Sochi Olympics organizers said 2,500 doping tests will be conducted at the Winter Games next February, surpassing the total at the Vancouver Games four years ago. Alexei Slautin, the head of the Sochi 2014 doping control committee, said 13 doping control sites will operate during the games, with 10 stationed at various venues and three in the Olympic Village. According to the International ...
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Russias oldest human rights group fights foreign agent tag
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's oldest human rights group went to court on Friday to try to stop state prosecutors forcing it to register as a "foreign agent" under a law it says is intended by President Vladimir Putin to silence ...
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Russian nurses pose with seriously ill patients
A nurse poses with a seriously ill patient.(Photo:Agencies) Work in a hospital is never easy. To withstand difficult days at work, nurses have to treat it differently, to pose around people so bad ill that can't move and then post it online. This is how these medical workers from the Perm region of Russia explained these photos which had appeared in social networks. ...
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Russias top social network banned by regulator
/enpproperty--> MOSCOW - Russia's top online social network, VKontakte, has been put on a 'black list' that bans it from distributing content in the country, according to a posting on the web site of the national communications regulator on Friday. VKontakte has 210 million registered users, of whom 47 million log on daily. Founder Pavel Durov fled Russia last month after ...
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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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