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U.S. Seeks More Time to Indict Boston Suspect
BOSTON - U.S. prosecutors are seeking more time to indict Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Prosecutors said they will not indict Tsarnaev within the 30-day period prescribed by the Federal Speedy Trial Act. Sunday marked 30 days since the ethnic Chechen was arrested following the April 15 bombings that killed three people and injured more than 260. Prosecutors didn't ...
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British Inquest Into Litvinenkos Death May Be Scrapped
LONDON - Britain's long-delayed inquest into the death by radioactive poisoning of former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko could be abandoned after the coroner partly upheld a British government request to withhold crucial evidence. Robert Owen, a senior judge acting as coroner, said that keeping some of the evidence secret would make it impossible to hold a "full, fair and fearless ...
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UPDATE 1-Russian steelmaker Severstal sees flat results in second quarter
Mon May 20, 2013 2:41am EDT * Q1 net profit down 90 pct at $44 mln vs f'cast $69 mln * Uncertain global outlook to weigh - CEO * EBITDA down 25 percent to $425 million * Revenue down 10 percent at $3.32 billion (Adds outlook, background, quote) MOSCOW, May 20 (Reuters) - Severstal, Russia's second-biggest steel producer, said on Monday profit would be flat in the second quarter of 2013 ...
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U.S. Italian inspectors to fly observation mission over Russia
U.S. and Italian military inspectors this week will conduct observation flights over Russian territory under the Open Skies Treaty, officials said Monday. An Italian Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules military transport aircraft with surveillance equipment certified internationally and approved by Russia will fly over the country May 20-24, RIA Novosti quoted Russian Defense Ministry ...
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Half the mice on space ark survive a month in orbit – all the lizards do
Vladimir Sychov, deputy director of the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems and the lead researcher for the Bion-M project, talks to reporters Sunday while others examine the "space ark" capsule in the ...
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6.4-magnitude quake hits east coast of Russias Kamchatka
A 6.4-magnitude earthquake jolted the sea area off the east coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on Monday, according to Itar-Tass reports.The quake occurred at 6:44 a.m. local time on Monday (1944 GMT Sunday), according to the Kamchatka branch of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences.The epicenter, at a depth of 40 km, is 174 km east ofPetropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.Tremors ...
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CORRECTED-S.Africas Barloworld boosts H1 profit Russia unit robust
Mon May 20, 2013 2:37am EDT (Corrects day of the week) * Headline EPS at 321 cents vs 245 cents * Revenue up 11 percent at 31.3 billion rand JOHANNESBURG, May 20 (Reuters) - South African industrial group Barloworld Ltd boosted first-half profit by a third on Monday, as a solid result in its Russian mining equipment business offset slack demand at home. Barloworld, which also sells cars and ...
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Gas Explosion in Moscow Kills One
A man died after a domestic gas explosion blew him through the window of his seventh-floor apartment on Sunday night. The explosion in the 12-storey apartment block on 7 Nagornaya Ulitsa shattered the apartment's windows and damaged two internal walls, Interfax reported. The blast caused no fire, but the building's tenants all had to be evacuated. No serious structural damage to ...
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US diplomat leaves Russia
Russian television says a US diplomat at the centre of a spying row has left Moscow. Ryan Fogle was given five days to leave Russia after allegedly trying to recruit an intelligence officer as an informer. The US state department has confirmed the ...
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Twelve out of 32 woodland fires put out in Russian Far East
VLADIVOSTOK, May 20 (Itar-Tass) - A total of 32 woodland fires have been fixed in Russia’s Far East over the past 24 hours, and 12 of them have already been put out, the press service of the regional forestry department reports on ...
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Putin to Meet With Council of Europe Head
Vladimir Putin will on Monday meet with Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland, the Kremlin said. Jagland arrived in Russia on a three-day working visit on Sunday. The visit's program will start Monday when the Council of Europe chief meets with Foreign ...
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U.S. Italian Inspectors to Fly Over Russia
Military inspectors from the United States and Italy will carry out observation flights over Russian territory this week under the international Open Skies Treaty, the Defense Ministry said Monday. The experts will fly over Russia on May 20-24 on board an Italian Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules military transport aircraft, and will use surveillance equipment certified internationally and ...
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Today in History May 20
Sergei Dorokhovsky / Wikicommons Smoke rising over the Volga River in Nizhny Novgorod. Happy Volga Day! All Volga regions mark May 20 to attract the attention of the authorities and the public to the problem of the conservation of the Volga River, which is 3,700 kilometers long and whose basin occupies 8 percent of ...
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100 Russian travel agencies invited to explore Hainan tourism market
According to the deputy director of Hainan tourism association Zhang Tiejun, as the only tropical tourism island in China, Hainan will invite 100 Russian travel agencies to explore the tourism market this year. In recent years, Hainan Island has been one of the most popular tourism destinations amongst Russian tourists for its warm winter, spectacular tropical seascapes all year round, ...
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Obama Putin discuss Syria agree to meet in Russia
U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Monday discussed the protracted conflict in Syria and agreed to have a summit in Russia in September. In a phone conversation, the two leaders discussed the situation in Syria, where the conflict has entered its third year and killed more than 70,000 people, the White House said in a statement. Obama underscored his ...
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Russia Japan try to bridge gaps on thorny issues
MOSCOW, April 29 (Xinhua) -- Russia and Japan managed to move their positions closer on certain issues, pledging to speed up talks on reaching a peace treaty for the first time since the end of WWII, as leaders of the two countries met here on Monday. Following his talks with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters that they have instructed ...
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Asean back on Russias map as a region of interest
Russia is refocusing on Asean after years of inertia due to its domestic priorities and challenges. After Russia was invited to join the East Asia Summit (EAS) in 2010, former President Dmitry Medvedev did not attend the inaugural meeting in Bali and last year President Vladimir Putin, fresh from his third-term presidential victory, also failed to show up at the premier strategic forum. However, ...
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American CIA mole Fogle leaves Russia
(52 mins ago) A US diplomat who wore a disguise and is accused by the Russians of being a CIA spy after they caught him allegedly trying to recruit agents last week left yesterday, Russian television reported. Ryan Fogle flew out of Moscow, Russia's NTV state television channel said, broadcasting pictures showing him at Sheremetyevo International Airport. Russia announced last week that ...
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Russia nabs US envoy for bid to recruit CIA spy
Russia expelled a United States diplomat yesterday after saying he had been caught red-handed with disguises, special equipment and wads of cash as he tried to recruit a Russian agent to work for the Central Intelligence Agency. The announcement came at an awkward time for Washington and Moscow as they try to improve ties and bring the warring sides in Syria together for a peace conference. ...
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Crackdown on Russias civil society after Putins return to the Presidency
April 14, 2013 Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International today released "Laws of Attrition - Crackdown on Russia's Civil Society after Putin's Return to the ...
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Zenit keep Russian title hopes alive with home win
Defending Russian Premier League champions FC Zenit St. Petersburg have kept their 2013 title hopes alive with a 3-1 home win over Volga Nizhny Novgorod this afternoon.After falling behind in the 18th minute, Zenit went to the break at 1-1 following a 35th-minute Luis Neto equalizer. Zenit fans were then forced to wait nervously until the final 10 minutes when goals from Viktor Fayzulin and ...
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6.2-magnitude quake hits Kamchatka Peninsula Russia CENC
A 6.2-magnitude earthquake jolted the sea area off the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia at 2:44 am Monday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center. The epicenter, with a depth of 20 km, was at 52.3 degrees north latitude and 160.1 degrees east longitude, the center said in a ...
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Missile defense Enabling Russia
Ever deferential in foreign policy, the Obama administration verges on reckless, self-defeating idiocy by even discussing declassifying and sharing with Russia critical missile-defense ...
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US diplomat in spy row exits Russia
A US diplomat accused by the Russians of being a CIA spy after they caught him allegedly trying to recruit agents last week has left the country, Russian television reports. Ryan Fogle flew out of Moscow on Sunday, Russia's NTV state television channel said, broadcasting pictures showing him at Sheremetyevo International Airport. Russia announced last week that it had caught Fogle as he ...
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Russia Building Terrorist Killing Robo-Cop
Russia developing lethal autonomous robots to help engage in the fight on terrorism, the government said on Friday. You might have thought the world of lethal autonomous robots would be sole be here in the United States, or Japan. Both countries are working on their own version of robotic soldiers. And now Russia has joined their ranks. Only their robo-cop has terrorists in its cross-hairs. ...
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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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