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Sweden Storms Into World Hockey Final
MOSCOW, May 18 (R-Sport) - Sweden reached the world hockey championship final on Saturday as two goals from Dallas Stars wing Loui Eriksson propelled the eight-time champion to a 3-0 semifinal win over an ill-disciplined Finland. Sweden went ahead at 10:33 in the first period with Ilari Melart off the ice for cross-checking; Eriksson converting Henrik Sedin's assist. The same combination ...
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Video The Beatles Bringing down the Soviet Union
A new book about the cold war says the west had four secret weapons to bring down the Soviet Union: John, Paul, George and Ringo. Author and former British spy, Leslie Woodhead joins in studio 57 to talk about how the Beatles helped undermine communism and win the cold ...
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Ohio Congressional Delegation to Obama Resolve Russian Adoption Ban With Putin
Every member of Ohio's delegation to the U.S. Congress, including Republicans and Democrats, both senators and Speaker of the House John Boehner ...
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Russia May Change Adoption Law Over French Gay Marriage
MOSCOW, May 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's children's rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov said on Saturday Russia may change its adoption agreement with France in response to the country’s new gay marriage law. Earlier on ...
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Pole Vault Isinbayeva Wins Comeback Meet in Shanghai
MOSCOW, May 18 (R-Sport) - Russian pole vault queen Yelena Isinbayeva won her first competition of the season on Saturday by jumping 4.70 meters at the Diamond League meeting in Shanghai. The 30-year-old skipped the winter season after a tough Olympic year in which she won bronze, and is using the event in China to prepare for the Moscow world athletics championships in August. The Russian ...
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Family photo album of last Russian czar shown for first time
MOSCOW - Held a virtual prisoner by the Bolsheviks months before his execution, Russia’s last czar Nicholas II pasted informal snapshots of his family into an album that has now come to light in a Russian provincial museum. The photographs, most of which have never been seen before, show the last of the Romanov rulers of Russia without pomp and in unguarded moments. Many were taken by ...
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Промежуточные Результаты Сессии На Фб Ммвб По 10 Наиболее Торгуемым умагам
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NATO Expansion And Russia Youre Not Paranoid If They Really Are Out To Get You
One of the things that I find most mystifying about Western coverage of Russia is the tendency to treat obvious facts as wild-eyed conspiracy theories. So you have people saying "Putin and his lot are crazy, they think we're trying to start a color revolution! Where on earth did they get that idea?" Meanwhile, in the plain light of day, ...
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Hollywood Actor Brad Pitt to Promote New Film in Moscow
MOSCOW, May 18 (RIA Novosti) – Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt is due to arrive in Moscow in June to promote his new film World War Z at the Moscow International Film Festival, the festival’s general producer has said. The 35th film festival will kick off with the premiere of the upcoming apocalyptic horror film, World War Z, to be attended by producer-star Pitt and film director ...
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Russian plane catches fire upon landing
Plane catches rire upon landing at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport. Russia's deplorable air safety record just got worse. Moscow's Vnukovo Airport was temporarily closed on Saturday morning after a plane carrying about 140 people from the southern Russian city of Stavropol caught fire after landing, a law enforcement source told the Russian news site RIA Novosti. No one was reported ...
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Russia Denies S-300 Plans
MOSCOW [MENL] -- Russia has denied plans to export an advanced long-rangeair defense system to Syria. The Kremlin said Russia would not deliver the S-300PMU2 to the regime ofSyrian President Bashar Assad. Officials said Moscow has completed all airdefense projects with ...
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Russia’s General Staff Rejects Intervention in Syria
MOSCOW, May 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s General Staff is opposed to military intervention in Syria, saying this would be meddling in the war-torn country’s domestic affairs, Deputy Chief of the Russian General Staff, Col. Gen. Alexander Postnikov said. Russia’s Defense Ministry "fully supports" the stance voiced by President Vladimir Putin that Russia is ...
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Serena Williams Blasts Into Rome Final
MOSCOW, May 18 (R-Sport) - World No. 1 Serena Williams set a searing pace Saturday as she reached the final of the Italian Open with a straight-sets thrashing of Romania’s Simona Halep. The American won 6-3, 6-0 on the Roman clay and will now play either world No. 3 Victoria Azarenka or seventh-ranked Italian Sara Errani in Sunday’s final. Williams is chasing her second title in ...
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Ars readers react to laser-wielding Soviet satellites and Google IO
movie at Starfleet Headquarters. (Ok, just kidding, we saw the movie at San Francisco's Metreon, and most of us were there for Google I/O, the company's annual developer conference.) Besides Google's conference and the rare spotting of more than three Ars employees sharing IRL space with each other, this week also saw notable stories hit the front page. Specifically, we wrote ...
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Medvedev proposes to hold United Russia congress in November
MOSCOW, May 18 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at the meeting of the Supreme Council and the General Council of the United Russia Party in Moscow on Saturday proposed to hold the next congress of the party in ...
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President of Iran to visit Moscow from Jul 1-2
MOSCOW, May 18 (Itar-Tass) - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit Moscow from July 1-2, Iranian Ambassador to Russia Reza Sajjadi said on ...
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Iranian President Could Attend Russia’s Gas Forum in July
MOSCOW, May 18 (RIA Novosti) – Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad is expected to visit Russia in July to attend the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), a spokesman for Iran’s Embassy in Moscow said on Saturday. The Iranian leader has accepted Russia’s invitation to attend the event. "Now we are working on this visit, but the final decision has yet to be made," ...
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Filming Begins in Chechnya of Movie Starring Depardieu
the legendary French actor Gerard Depardieu and the British actress Elizabeth Hurley began in Russia’s Chechen republic on Saturday, a representative of Chechnya’s Culture Ministry told RIA Novosti. "Today the plan is to shoot the scenes featuring Elizabeth Hurley, who is already in [the Chechen capital of] Grozny. The main hero – Gerard Depardieu – will join the ...
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CSKA Moscow Win Russian Premier League Title
MOSCOW, May 18 (R-Sport) - CSKA Moscow secured the Russian Premier League title with a game to go Saturday after a goalless draw at home to FC Kuban. The point leaves CSKA six clear of second-placed Zenit St. Petersburg, who have two games to play. Should the two finish level on points, CSKA prevail on the number of wins. The title is the fourth for the Moscow team, who had not won the Russian ...
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Playing Russian Roulette With a Volcano
January 1981 issue of National Geographic , describes how, in the week running up to the disaster, he and others were drawn into a "strange kind of Russian roulette" with the mountain. While Findley lived to tell the tale, others were not so lucky, and the article includes richly drawn character studies of some of the mountain's ...
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South Africa Zuma Putin Push for Increased Trade
South African President Jacob Zuma and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the strengthening of economic ties and expansion of trade between the two BRICS partners during their meeting in Sochi, Russia on Thursday. According to The Voice of Russia, Putin told journalists after the meeting that trade between Russia and South Africa had increased by more than 66% in 2012. According to ...
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Netanyahu Putin to Discuss Syria Weapons Sale
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Following reports of the delivery of missiles and advanced anti-missile batteries to Syria, Israel announced that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to meet with Russian Premier Vladimir Putin soon to discuss the issue. The Prime Minister's Office would not confirm when the visit would take place or any details about it, but one official who spoke on condition of ...
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Gerard Depardieu compares Vladimir Putin to Pope John Paul II
French actor and new Russian citizen Gerard Depardieu has compared President Vladimir Putin to the late Pope John Paul II, a staunch ...
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CIA Agent RussiaFSB announced that the identity of the CIA Moscow station chief US News
It follows Russian Secret Service decision to expel US diplomat Ryan Fogle, who was accused of trying to recruit a Russian intelligence officer as a CIA ...
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S.Korea on Standby After North Launches 3 Missiles - Seoul
TOKYO, May 18 (RIA Novosti) – North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the waters off its eastern coast on Saturday, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported, citing its country’s Defense ...
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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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