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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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Russias Putin torpedoes G8 efforts to push out Assad
1 of 9. British Prime Minister David Cameron (R), Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan (2nd R), U.S. President Barack Obama and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto walk together during the G8 Summit in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland June 18, ...
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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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ИК Велес Капитал На российском рынке акций преобладала позитивная динамика
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US Ambassador to Russia returns historical documents
United States Ambassador to Moscow Michael McFaul handed over to Russian officials eight historic documents that had been taken out of Russia in the early ...
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Train between Moscow and St. Petersburg to carry passengers cars
On July 1st, the Federal Passenger Company (FPC) is launching the first passenger train between Moscow and St. Petersburg that will provide an opportunity to passengers to transport their vehicles, the director of the FPC, Mikhail Akulov, said ...
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Lightning strikes passenger aircraft bound for Moscow
A passenger aircraft, flying from Perm to Moscow, was struck by lightning, officials with air traffic control services of the Moscow aviation hub said. Reportedly, the flight crew of the Airbus A-320 reported during the flight that the airliner was struck by lightning. Traces of the lightning strike were found on the body of the plane after it landed safely in Moscow. No one was hurt in the ...
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Putin faces isolation over pro Assad stance
British Prime Minister David Cameron has made an attempt to bounce Russia into supporting a future for Syria without President Bashar al-Assad. The host of the G8 summit lined up the support of the six other members for a five-point plan to underpin a second round of peace talks on Syria in Geneva. At a dinner at the G8 summit at Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, he challenged Russia's Vladimir ...
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Harper touts progress on Syria says Putin made concessions
Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper attends a news conference after a G8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, June 18, 2013. ...
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Vladimir Putin G8 remains important mechanism to coordinate leading countries positions
LOUGH ERNE /Northern Ireland/, June 18 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said the G8 summit confirmed the relevance of the G8 as an important mechanism to coordinate positions of leading countries on world politics and socio-economic development ...
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Vladimir Putin Russia has no evidence Syrian govt used chemical weapons
LOUGH ERNE, June 18 (Itar-Tass) - Russia has no evidence the Syrian government has used chemical weapons. Some G8 countries, too, believe such weapons were not used, Russian President Vladimir Putin ...
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Putin ‘Not Lonely’ at G8 Summit
LOUGH ERNE, Northern Ireland, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday played down assertions that, regarding how to deal with ...
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START Russia-U.S. nuclear talks
US lawmakers have imposed new conditions the administration of President Barack Obama would need to meet before the United States can fulfill its obligations under the 2010 START nuclear arms reduction agreement with Russia, recently-approved legislation ...
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US Lawmakers Put Brakes on Russia START Nuclear Pact
WASHINGTON, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – US lawmakers have imposed new conditions the administration of President Barack Obama would need to meet before the United States can fulfill its obligations under the 2010 START nuclear arms reduction agreement with Russia, recently-approved legislation shows. The restrictions stipulate that no funds may be spent to decommission US nuclear weapons ...
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Russia US to Spearhead Syria Peace Plan – Putin
LOUGH ERNE, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russia and the United States will bear primary responsibility for developing a peace plan for Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday at a press conference following ...
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Iran ready to stop 20 per cent uranium enrichment Russian minister says
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov walks to a meeting with Latin American Foreign Ministers in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, May 29, 2013. Russia's foreign minister has sharply criticized a draft resolution on Syria to be considered by the United Nations' top human rights body. (AP Photo/Misha ...
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G8 communique shows Russian shift
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L), British Prime Minister David Cameron (C) and U.S. President Barack Obama take part in a group photo for the G8 Summit in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. REUTERS/Kevin ...
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Siluanov Seeks Weaker Ruble to Promote Growth
Anton Siluanov on Tuesday rejected proposals to lay responsibility for growth on the Central Bank and offered his way out of the government's predicament - devalue the ruble. Siluanov's ministry will use oil revenue destined for the Reserve Fund to buy currency on the market and weaken the ruble by 1 to 2 rubles ($0.03 to $0.06), he told Bloomberg. Insisting that strictly ...
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Умеренные Оптимисты Продолжают Держать Рынок
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В.Путин Следующий саммит большой восьмерки пройдет в Сочи 4-5 июня 2014г. .
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Торги На Российском Рынке Акций Завершились Ростом Индекса Ммвб Индекс Ртс Не Изменился.
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G7 plus one Isolated Russia holds line on Syria.
The G8 summit ended today with Russia far from agreement with the West over how to resolve the Syrian civil war. Russian experts say the rift is probably ...
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Russias Su-35S shows art of aerobatics at Le Bourget
Russian multi-purpose fighter jet Su-35S that has never been presented abroad, successfully performed its first demonstration flight at the air show in Le Bourget, near ...
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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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