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Russia Announces Cash Prizes for Its Universiade Medalists
MOSCOW, May 21 (R-Sport) – Russia’s federal government will pay out roughly $5,400 to Russian gold medalists at this summer’s University Games in the Russian city of Kazan, according to a decree signed Tuesday by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Silver medalists, meanwhile, will receive a bonus of just over $2,600, while bronze medalists will earn about $1,600, as Russia looks ...
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Moscow Terror Plot Foiled by Special Forces
Special forces officers killed two men and detained one more outside Moscow on suspicion that they were plotting a terror attack in the city, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee said. The officers came under fire when they surrounded a house with the suspects on Monday in the city of Orekhovo-Zuyevo, roughly 80 kilometers from Moscow, and demanded that they surrender. In the ensuing ...
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Russia says two rebels killed in North Caucasus
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian security forces killed two suspected militants in the North Caucasus during a night-time sweep in the region plagued by an Islamist insurgency, investigators said on ...
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Russias VTB sees 2013 net profit above 100 bln rbls
LONDON | Tue May 21, 2013 3:45am EDT LONDON May 21 (Reuters) - VTB, Russia's No.2 bank, sees 2013 net profit at above 100 billion roubles ($3.2 billion), Chief Executive Andrei Kostin told Reuters TV. In 2012, state-controlled VTB posted 90.6 billion roubles in net profit, flat on the previous year but beating a consensus analyst forecast. Kostin also said that the bank plans to ...
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Russias Rostelecom Q1 net profit falls 49 pct
MOSCOW | Tue May 21, 2013 3:16am EDT MOSCOW May 21 (Reuters) - Russian state-controlled telecoms operator Rostelecom reported on Tuesday a 49 percent fall in first-quarter net income due to one-off gains in the year-ago period and higher interest expenses. The company said its net profit fell to 6.4 billion roubles ($205 million) in the first three months of 2013, which was below the ...
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UPDATE 1-Russian retailer X5 Q1 earnings fall but beat forecast
Tue May 21, 2013 3:03am EDT * Q1 net profit down 2 pct to $65 mln vs $51 mln fcast * EBITDA up 4 pct to $284 mln vs $281 mln fcast * EBITDA margin at 6.8 pct vs 6.7 pct fcast MOSCOW, May 21 (Reuters) - Russian food retailer X5 beat profit forecasts on Tuesday as it presses on with cost cutting and streamlining after losing its market lead to closest competitor Magnit. X5 last month reported for ...
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57 of Russians Surf Internet Survey Says
A total of 59 percent of Russians use the Internet, up 3 percentage points since last year, according to the results of a survey published Monday. The figure was only 5 percent when independent pollster Levada Center first polled Russians on the issue in 2001. The percentage varies greatly among different social groups: while over 80 percent of students, senior managers, directors and leading ...
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Medvedev says Russia has no plans to return to seasonal times
MOSCOW, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has no plans to return seasonal ‘standard’ and ‘daylight saving’ times in the ...
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Russia South Ossetia presidents to discuss bilateral relations
SOCHI, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - The state of and prospects for the development of bilateral relations, as well as current issues of Russian assistance to socioeconomic development of the Republic of South Ossetia will be discussed here on Tuesday by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his South Ossetian counterpart Leonid Tibilov, the Kremlin press service ...
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6.0 quake off Russia’s far-east Kamchatka coastline – USGS
Screengrab from http://earthquake.usgs.gov MOSCOW- A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula early Tuesday, followed by a series of strong after-shocks, the US Geological Survey reported. The first quake struck at a depth of 33 kilometers (20 miles) at 0155 GMT, 136 kilometres east-southeast of the Russian city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the USGS reported. It was ...
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Two Suspected Militants Killed in Ingushetia
ROSTOV-ON-DON / NAZRAN, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - Two suspected militants were killed on Tuesday in a shootout with law-enforcers in Russia’s North Caucasus Republic of Ingushetia, a spokesman for the republic’s investigative department said. "We were informed that two suspected militants… were killed in a shootout," the source said. He added that no casualties were ...
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Today in History May 21
veteranland.ru The drifting ice station Severny Polyus-1. Seventy-six years ago today, on May 21, 1937, the world's first drifting ice station Severny Polyus-1 was established in the North Pole. The research carried out at this and similar stations has contributed greatly to our understanding of the Arctic ...
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M6.0 quake hits Russias Kamchatka Peninsula
An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale jolted off the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) ...
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Sports Briefing | Cycling Denis Menchov of Russia Retires From Cycling
The former Giro ...
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Russia’s business powers footing half the bill for expensive Sochi Games
SOCHI, Russia -- 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 ...
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Russian consul Number of Russian tourists to Goa will reach 200000
PANAJI, Goa -- The number of Russian tourists to Goa could soon touch 200,000 annually, newly-appointed Russian honorary consul in Goa Victor Albuquerque said Monday. Albuquerque, a reputed businessman in Goa, was speaking to reporters in his first media conference after being appointed a couple of months ago to act as a first point of assistance to the thousands of Russian tourists who have ...
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Russia Assad foes must attend talks without terms
Sergey Lavrov said Monday it was crucial for Syrian opposition envoys to engage in peace talks without setting preconditions, apparently referring to demands for President Bashar Assad’s removal. Lavrov also reiterated ...
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Russia ‘Has All Chances’ to Avoid Economic Recession - PM
MOSCOW, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - Russia "has all chances" to avoid economic recession, and the Russian government is doing its best to prevent it, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview published on Tuesday. The Russian prime minister said in an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily that the global economy was on the verge of recession at the moment, so ...
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Editorial Why Is Russia Still Arming Syria
The slim hope generated two weeks ago when the United States and Russia announced plans for an international conference aimed at ending ...
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Russian emergency airplane arrives in Makhachkala to evacuate people injured in terrorist act
MOSCOW, May 20 (Itar-Tass) - A Russian emergency airplane arrived in Makhachkala to evacuate people injured a horrible terrorist act in Moscow, head of the information department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Oleg Voronov told Itar-Tass on ...
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Russian Polling Group Says It May Close
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Russian twin blasts kill 4 injure 35
At least four people were killed and 35 others injured when twin blasts hit Russia's Dagestan republic, local law enforcement authorities said ...
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Russia Urges EU to Avoid Ideology-Based Remarks on NGO Law
MOSCOW, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday urged the European Union to abstain from "ideology-based" remarks on the issue of non-governmental organizations in Russia. The statement, posted on the ministry’s website, was made in the wake of the May 17 meeting between the Foreign Ministry's Special Representative for Human Rights, Democracy and the ...
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Medvedev Calls for Tougher Control of Migration
MOSCOW, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - Russia is unlikely to overcome its demand for migrant labor in the coming decades, so the country requires an effective system to control migration processes, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday. In his interview published in Tuesday’s issue of the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily, the premier said the inflow of migrant workers was a trend that ...
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European Space Agency names first Briton for space station mission
The European Space Agency says a former army helicopter pilot is to be Britain's first official astronaut to go to the International Space Station. Major Tim Peake, 41, is set for a five-month mission to the ISS in 2015 in a move being called a major boost for Britain's space industry, The Daily Telegraph reported Monday. Peake has been awaiting a mission assignment since graduating ...
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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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