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Russia evacuates thousands after blasts at army munitions store
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Some 6,000 people were evacuated in Russia's south-western Samara region on Tuesday after ammunition explosions shook a military training area, the Emergencies Ministry said. The ministry said five explosions initially took place at the site on Tuesday evening, triggering a fire that was still causing blasts hours later. Footage aired on Russia's state television ...
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Russias purchase of French Mistral-class warship
Russia will base its French-made Mistral-class amphibious assault ships in the Far East ports of Vladivostok and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky when they enter service, a senior Defense Ministry official said in an ...
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Russia frustrates G8’s Syria hopes
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland - G8 leaders struggled to find the ';common ground'; on Syria that had been hoped for by their British hosts, with the results of Tuesday's summit confirming the predictions of many ...
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Russia Starts Delivering $1Bln Arms Package to Azerbaijan
Russia has fulfilled an order made by Azerbaijan in 2011-12 for military hardware worth up to $1 billion, Vedomosti reported Tuesday. The shipment consisted of 94 T-90S tanks, about 100 BMP-3 armored personnel carriers, 18 self-propelled Msta-S howitzers, 18 multiple launch rocket systems, 18 self-propelled cannons and six flame-throwing systems, the newspaper said, citing a source in the ...
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Ammunition fire rages at Russian military base no injuries reported but 4000 evacuated
MOSCOW - Russia's emergency services say exploding ammunition at a military depot has set off a fire that in turn is causing more shells to explode. Emergency services spokesman Mikhail Metyolkin said no injuries have been reported, but about 4,000 people have been evacuated from villages around the Chapaevsk military depot in the Samara region of southern Russia. No cause has yet been ...
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Video Harper praises shift in Russias attitude on Syria
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is praising the outcome of the G8 summit in Northern Ireland, saying it was "very different" from what he expected. Harper says the countries, including Russia, are all on the same page about ...
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U.S. Russia Agree to Cooperate on Cyber Nukes
By Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, June 18, 2013 Cooperation at many levels will help to reduce misunderstandings between the United States and Russia, the leaders of both countries said after meetings in Northern Ireland yesterday. Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin agreed to cooperate on a number of different aspects of the bilateral relationship. The men ...
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Russia Pays Off $2B Soviet Debt to Serbia Slovakia
MOSCOW, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russia has paid off a $2 billion Soviet-era debt to Serbia and Slovakia, the Russian Finance Ministry said Tuesday. Russia’s $1.7 billion debt to Slovakia and $288.8 million debt to Serbia originated when it assumed responsibility for Soviet obligations under trade and economic cooperation with Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, the ministry said in a ...
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US Photographer Captures Soviet Past Lithuanian Life in Rural Discos
Seattle photographer Andrew Miksys was in the eastern Lithuanian village of Svencionys in 2000 when he spotted young people walking into a Soviet-era cultural center. "I followed them and found there was a disco there," Miksys, 43, told RIA Novosti in a telephone interview from the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius. The discovery planted the seed for a decade-long project in which ...
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Russia Vows to Crack Down on Offshore Zones
LOUGH ERNE, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russia will develop a national plan to deal with offshore tax havens, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday. "We are in the process of adopting legislation to disclose the end beneficiary," he told a news conference after a G8 summit in Northern Ireland, adding that he would sign the bill into law as soon as it is passed by parliament. ...
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David Cameron prepares for G8 summit with early morning dip... but Vladimir Putin did not join him
When you are hosting a world leaders' summit surrounded by water, there is only one way to start the day. David Cameron duly took the plunge at 6am today when he went for a swim in Lough Erne in County ...
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Sochi Games projects will lose billions top Russian bank official says
Vladimir Dmitriev, Chairman of Vnesheconombank (VEB, State Corporation Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs), made blunt comments about the Sochi Games on Tuesday. (Junko Kimura/Getty Images ...
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China detains Russians suspected of smuggling 213 bear paws
China has detained two Russian men on suspicions of trying to smuggle 213 bear paws into the country. Customs officials made the discovery in the northern Inner Mongolia region in May, but released details about the case Tuesday, The Sun reports. The paws - which are believed to be from brown bears -- were found hidden inside the wheels of the van and spare tires. Sales of bear body parts are ...
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Russia advances bill banning adoption by same-sex foreign couples
Russian legislators unanimously approved amendments banning adoption of Russian children by same-sex couples in other countries. The draft law and its related amendments were passed by Russia's lower house, the State Duma, in a first reading April 16 and a second reading Tuesday. A final reading and vote is scheduled for June 21, the Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported. The recent ...
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FUKUS Cameron refers to Russian regime on Russia Day
"Regime". A wonderful word conjured up by the biased media controlled by the FUKUS Axis (France-UK-US). One of the wonderful list of words conjured up to create negative images, often associated to "dictators", always the enemies of the lobbies which control western governments, even unelected ones. Google Cameron and Banking. Diplomacy rules David Cameron stated in the ...
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Birth rate in Moscow sets all-time record
Birth rate continues to grow In Moscow. Last year, the birth rate in the Russian capital set a new record for the last twenty years, Acting Mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin said Thursday. Speaking at the concert held to celebrate the Day of Medical Worker, Sobyanin said that more than 130,000 babies were born in Moscow last year. The number set a new record over the past 20 years. Meanwhile, ...
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New Pact Reduces Risk of US-Russia Conflict in Cyberspace
In a joint statement issued by the White House, U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin call the pact "essential to safeguarding the security" of their countries. The agreement, signed Monday at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland, aims to reduce the risk of conflict in cyberspace by creating direct, real-time communication about possible incidents. The two ...
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Russia leads stifling democracy in Eurasia Report
Russia -- Democracy and civil society in Eurasia are increasingly under fire from autocratic rulers seeking to maintain their grasp on power in a quickly changing world, according to a new report by the US think-tank Freedom House. Writing in its 2013 "Nations in Transit" report, the democracy and human rights watchdog found that leaders of Eurasian countries from Russia and Ukraine ...
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Russia blast Multiple explosions rock arsenal storing 13mln shells
Russia Large explosions rock an ammunition depot in Russia's Samara Region, where over 13 million shells are stored. The police have started evacuation of the nearby communities. Multiple artillery shells keep exploding at an ammunition depot near the city of Chapaevsk, a local police spokesman told RIA. "It is still not possible to halt the self-destruction, or to enter the ...
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Russia’s economy should start orienting on lower oil prices in 2014– IMF
Russia and the global economy Given the shaky global economic environment, Russia should revise its expectations of oil prices and start to plan its budgetary expenses on the basis of lower oil, the IMF said in its Tuesday report. Russia's budgetary rule "should be tightened starting next year--via a lower benchmark oil price and reduced net borrowing--to allow rebuilding of ...
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Russia US Rue Lack of Karabakh Progress
LOUGH ERNE, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russia, the United States and France, the three countries mediating the conflict over the disputed South Caucasus region of Nagorno-Karabakh, said Tuesday that they were greatly concerned by the lack of progress in bringing peace to the region. The parties to the conflict – Armenia and Azerbaijan – are still pursuing unilateral aims rather ...
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Missile Defense Dispute Requires More Transparency – Putin
LOUGH ERNE, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted on Tuesday that disagreements over the deployment of a US missile shield in Europe still remain, but Moscow and Washington should boost the transparency of actions related to the dispute. "The disagreements still remain, but I agree, in general, with US President [Barack] Obama that what we must and ...
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Lost Letters by Catherine the Great Tchaikovsky Returned to Russia
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky The eight documents, which had been missing since the early 1990s, are among dozens of historical papers suspected to have been smuggled out of the country after the chaotic collapse ...
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Russia to ban married foreign gays from adopting kids
Russia is on its way to sharply limiting the adoption of children by people from countries that allow same-sex marriage. Under a measure that passed its crucial second reading in the lower house of parliament Tuesday, Russia will prohibit adoption by foreign couples whose homeland recognizes their union as marriage, as well as by single people or unmarried couples from those countries. The ...
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VTB24 Is No Socialist Bank Its President Says
VTB Group laid out ambitious expansion plans Tuesday, with its retail banking expected to grow faster than the market in the next three years. Every fifth bank customer will use the group's ...
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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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