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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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Thousands Evacuated in Central Russia Ammunition Depot Explosions
Moscow, June 19 (BNA) - Over 30 people sought medical help, 11 were hospitalized and more than 6,000 local residents were evacuated from a village near an ammunition depot in central Russia where a fire caused massive explosions of stored artillery shells, the Russian Emergencies Ministry said. The fire at the Volga Federal Ammunition Testing Site in the Samara Region broke out late Tuesday, ...
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Earthquake Halts Mining in Russian Coal Heartland
NOVOKUZNETSK, June 19 (RIA Novosti) – A moderate earthquake struck southwest Siberia's Kemerovo Region, one of the country's coal mining heartlands early on Wednesday, local officials said, temporarily bringing underground coal production to a standstill. Regional Governor Aman Tuleyev has ordered all work at underground mines in the Kemerovo Region, part of Russia’s ...
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Explosions rock Russian village after fire at ammunition depot
Russia , injuring about 30 people and causing the evacuation of more than 6,000 from a nearby village, investigators and emergency workers said.No cause has yet been determined for the fire at the Chapaevsk military depot in the Samara region on Wednesday. The federal authorities said it was set off by the "involuntary" explosion of shells.Russian munitions, which frequently date back ...
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Explosions at Russian military base - video
Thousands were evacuated in Russia's south-western Samara region after ammunition exploded at a military training area. Amateur video on the internet purported to show the moment an explosion ripped through the site, with plumes of smoke rising into the sky. Officials said it was not clear what caused the explosions but gave no indication of foul play. Reuters cannot independently verify ...
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Thousands are evacuated as exploding shells rock a Russian munitions depot
Amateur video from mobile phones recorded numerous blasts at a military depot in southern Russia where up to 13 million shells were said to have been stored. At least 6,000 people had to be evacuated from the nearby village of Nagorny in Samara – at least eight people have been reported missing. Around 500 firefighters were called in to try to put out a fire on the base. There have been ...
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Obama to call for deep cuts in U.S. Russian nukes
President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands during June 17, 2013 bilateral meeting at G-8 Summit in Enniskillen, Northern ...
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Obama to call for U.S.-Russia nuclear arms cuts
Barack Obama 's foreign-policy speech in Berlin Wednesday will call for additional U.S.-Russia nuclear-arms cuts, administration officials said. He is expected to say Washington and Moscow can shrink their nuclear arsenals by up to one-third beyond cuts mandated under the 2010 New Start, or Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, without hurting deterrence or capabilities, the officials told The ...
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Syria peace talks delayed after Putin unyielding
Syrian peace talks will be delayed after Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to boycott talks that assume President Bashar Assad will resign, officials said. The international peace conference in Geneva, Switzerland, proposed by Washington and Moscow six weeks ago to be held as soon as May is now likely to be delayed until September, a Western official told several news organizations after ...
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Russia may sell Rostelecom stake to domestic rivals - report
MOSCOW, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 2:41am EDT MOSCOW, June 19 (Reuters) - Russia is considering selling its 53 percent stake in state-controlled telecoms operator Rostelecom to the company's domestic rivals MTS , MegaFon and Vimpelcom, Kommersant reported on Wednesday. "We wanted to create another player in addition to the big three," Kommersant quoted a government source ...
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Russian Church in America marks 400th anniversary of Romanov dynasty
NEW YORK, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia /ROCOR/ has marked the 400th anniversary since accession of the Romanov dynasty to the Russian throne. The main events of the celebration were held in the Cathedral of the Icon of Our Lady of the Sign in New York City. Tuesday night, a remembrance vespers service for the late czars and emperors of Russia was held there. ...
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U.S. and Russia Sign New Anti-Proliferation Deal
Lefteris Pitarakis / AP President Vladimir Putin, British Prime Minister David Cameron and U.S. President Barack Obama waving for the cameras during the summit ...
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In Berlin Obama to renew calls for reductions to US Russian nuclear stockpiles
BERLIN - President Barack Obama will renew his call to reduce the world's nuclear stockpiles during a speech in Berlin Wednesday. A senior administration official says Obama will propose cutting the U.S. and Russian stockpiles by up to one-third. That would bring the total number of warheads in each country to about 1,000. Obama is not expected to propose any timeline for achieving those ...
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Russian PM Pledges to Close Baikal Paper Mill
LISTVYANKA VILLAGE (Irkutsk Region), June 19 (RIA Novosti) - The Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill, a longtime target of environmental activists, will be finally shut down, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday. "All principled decisions on the issue have been made by the Russian government, and we will carry them out, there is no way back," Medvedev told members of the ruling ...
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Today in History June 19
Sixty years ago today, on June 19, 1953, Julius Rosenburg and his wife Ethel were executed in the U.S. having earlier been convicted of espionage and sentenced to death. The Rosenburgs, who were charged with passing on atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, protested their innocence to the end and to this day the case remains one of the most mysterious criminal trials in recent ...
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Four Female Cuban Judokas to University Games in Russia
Havana, Jun 19 (Prensa Latina) Cuba will take four athletes to the female judo tournament of the 27th Summer University Games in Kazan, Russia, from July 6 to 17, said Cuban weekly Jit Tuesday. The Cuban female team, second place by teams in the Grand Prix in Miami, US last week, is headed by 78 kg Olympic Champion Idalis Ortiz. The other athletes are: Yanet Bermoy, Olympic runner-up in the 52 ...
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Russian base engulfed by flames
Russian munitions, which frequently date back to the Soviet era, have exploded several times in recent years and the resulting fires usually rage for ...
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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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