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Russia Gay Rights Rally Ends In Activists Arrest
MOSCOW -- Gay-rights campaigners and their opponents clashed at an unsanctioned rally in the Russian capital on Saturday, but a heavy police presence in Ukraine kept the two sides apart at that country's first-ever gay pride march. Russian police said they arrested at least 30 gay rights campaigners and Christian Orthodox vigilantes in Moscow. The campaigners tried to unfurl banners ...
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Russians to Get Access to FBI Data
Wikimedia Commons Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev After the Boston bombings last month and ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi next February, U.S. authorities are expanding their work with the Interior Ministry by granting the Russians access to some FBI information. The development, which came during a visit by Interior ...
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Government Offers Tax Incentives for Education Grants
wiw-rf.ru Vladimir Potanin With some experts complaining about the decreasing quality of higher education, the government is planning to provide tax incentives for grants given to students. Deputy Education Minister Igor Fedyukin said last week that amendments had been prepared by the government to encourage private donors to invest their money in education programs. "Without ...
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Kuban Named Russia’s Most Attended Football Club
MOSCOW, May 26 (R-Sport) - FC Kuban was named Russia most attended football team for the second season running Sunday after boasting sell-out crowds for many games. Kuban’s average attendance of 20,934 is no mean feat in the Russian Premier League, which is plagued by sparse crowds at many fixtures as fans opt to watch games on TV. Second place went to Terek Grozny, averaging home crowds ...
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City Hall Announces Trial Tender for Metro Cars
Moscow City Hall is announcing a "small" trial tender to supply and service more than two hundred metro cars for the capital's subway in an effort to try out a new contract system for large rolling stock purchases in the future. The tender for a 30-year contract to supply and further service 248 metro cars valued at 15 billion rubles ($478 million) is to be announced by the end ...
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Globaltrans Denies Report on Merger Talks
Rail freight operator Globaltrans denied Sunday that it was in merger talks with NefteTransService, Interfax reported. Industry sources said Friday that Globaltrans and NefteTransService were in talks on a merger that would create a business with sales of $2.7 billion and a 10 percent share of the Russian market. "They started [talks] several months ago and have been unable to agree on ...
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Krasnozhan to Be New Terek Manager - Kadyrov
MOSCOW, May 26 (R-Sport) - Former Anzhi Makhachkala manager Yuri Krasnozhan will take charge at Terek Grozny this summer, Chechnya’s regional leader Ramzan Kadyrov said Sunday. It will be the third job in 15 months for Krasnozhan, 49, who was fired by FC Kuban in January. He replaces Stanislav Cherchesov, who said he was told his services were no longer required minutes after Terek ...
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Plane Carrying Czech PM Lands With Cracked Cockpit Window
WARSAW, May 26 (RIA Novosti) – An Airbus A319 carrying Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas has landed safely in Moscow after pilots found a crack in the cockpit outer window while in the air, the Czech News Agency reported on Sunday. The plane en route to Russia was flying over Belarus when a cracked windscreen in the cockpit window was discovered, the report said. The pilots decided to push ...
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Champions CSKA End Season With Loss to Rostov
MOSCOW, May 26 (R-Sport) - Russian Premier League champions CSKA Moscow ended their season on a low note Sunday with a 3-0 defeat to relegation candidates FC Rostov. CSKA, who sealed the title in a goalless draw with FC Kuban last week, finish two points ahead of second-placed Zenit St. Petersburg, who drew 0-0 with Amkar Perm. That margin means Zenit’s loss by default to Dynamo Moscow ...
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Earthquake Prompts Mass Evacuations
At least 9,000 people were evacuated from Moscow buildings on Friday as the capital experienced its first tremors from an earthquake in 35 years. The scare came as a strong earthquake off the coast of Sakhalin in the Far East sent shockwaves throughout Russia, causing buildings to lightly shake in Moscow, about 7,000 kilometers away. "In Moscow, the earthquake was felt on the upper floors ...
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Russian Premier League Wrap Spartak win as CSKA Zenit Anzhi drop points
Spartak move up to fourth after a 2-0 win over rock bottom Alaniya, with the goals coming from Sergey Bryzgalov and Jano Ananidze, while CSKA Moscow, Zenit Saint Petersburg ...
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Secret deal with Israel UK newspaper claims Russia cancels alleged S-300 sales to Syria
Violence The media hype around Russia's alleged sale of S-300 missiles to Syria is still mounting, with UK press claiming Moscow shelved its agreement with Damascus because of a "deal" with Tel Aviv. Israeli media has shrugged off the report as "a fairytale." The Sunday Times claimed that Russia agreed not to supply the S-300 long-range surface-to-air missiles under a ...
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Emergency shutdown at Russias Kursk nuclear plant
Russia The first turbine generator of Russia's Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, about 500 km south of Moscow, has been brought to a halt due to an emergency protection system alarm. The system reacted to a short-circuit in the stator, preliminary reports said. With the turbine generator switched off, the first power-generating unit of the plant is running at half throttle. Following the ...
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Syria to Attend Geneva Peace Conference – Foreign Minister
MOSCOW, May 26 (RIA Novosti) - Syria's Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said on Sunday Damascus will attend next month's peace conference in Geneva aimed at helping resolve the country's crisis.President Bashar Assad's regime has agreed "in principle to participate in the international conference which is supposed to be convened in Geneva," Aljazeera quoted Muallem, ...
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Cabinet Reshuffle Expected Sooner Or Later – Russian PM
BLAGOVESHCHENSK, May 26 (RIA Novosti) – Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has said dismissals are quite possible amid criticism of the Cabinet’s work and has instructed his ministers to work hard. "The government’s resignation will necessarily take place, the question is only when," Medvedev said in the Central Television with Vadim Takmenyov program on NTV on ...
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Foreign Players on Russias Banking Market
Here are details about the major foreign players on the Russian banking market: Austria's biggest bank Raiffeisen Bank opened in 1989 and gained scale through its $550 million acquisition of Impexbank in 2006. Last year, its profit after tax in Russia was 473 million euros ($608 million) - up 47 percent. Italy's Unicredit has been in Russia for more than 20 years, and its local ...
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Israeli official denies Russia nixed Syria missile deal
An Israeli government official Sunday denied a British report that Russia has nixed a deal to send advanced missile defense systems to Syria. Responding to a report in The Sunday Times, the unnamed Israeli official told Ynetnews.com that no agreement on Syria had been reached between Jerusalem and Moscow. The Sunday Times said an agreement was reached between Israeli Prime ...
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Russias FSB prevents terrorist attacks in Moscow
In Orekhovo-Zuevo, the Moscow region, special services blocked three terrorists, who planned to conduct a terrorist attack in Moscow. Two militants were killed, one was detained. The National Anti-Terrorist Committee said that all three of them were citizens of the Russian Federation. The successful operation of the FSB helped to prevent a tragedy like the one that occurred in the Moscow subway ...
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Turkish poisoners of Russian tourists sentenced to 360 years
Two years after the scandal with the poisoning of Russian citizens in Turkey, a Turkish court announced the verdict on the case. Four defendants, who produced and sold low-quality alcohol, were sentenced to 90 years in prison. In addition, two owners of the yacht, where the poisoning occurred, and their employee, were sentenced to a seven years in prison. The news message about ...
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Police evacuating people from Mercedes dealer centre in Moscow region over bomb threat call
MOSCOW, May 26 (Itar-Tass) - The police are evacuating employees and visitors of the Mercedes dealer centre in the Moscow Region over a bomb threat call, the main Interior Ministry’s department in the Moscow Region told Itar-Tass on ...
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CSKA Moscow becomes best Russian football club in this season in UEFA rating
GENEVA, May 26 (Itar-Tass) - CSKA Moscow became the best Russian football club in this football season according to the rating of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). CSKA is ranked at the 18th position in the UEFA ...
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Female Suicide Bomber Injures At Least 18 in Dagestan
A female suicide bomber blew herself up in the southern Russian region of Dagestan on Saturday, injuring at least 18, including two children and five police officers, authorities said. The attacker was later identified as a widow of two Islamic radicals killed by security forces. It was the first suicide bombing in Dagestan since the Boston Marathon attacks last month. In Saturday's ...
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Syrian opposition unity talks hit snags before peace conference
Demonstrators wave Syrian opposition flags during a protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad at the courtyard of Fatih mosque in Istanbul May 24, 2013. The sign reads, ''Stop monster ...
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VKontakte Banned By Mistake
The accidental inclusion of popular social network Vkontakte on a list of banned online resources on Friday was "caused by human error." Vladimir Pikov, a Federal Mass Media Inspection Service official, told Digit.ru that they wanted to block links to several other potentially harmful sites found on Vkontakte, but that blacklisting the entire service was a mistake. Vkontakte has ...
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Hacker Forum Reveals Pragmatic Use of Special Talents
A Moscow-based security firm demonstrated how to hack an ATM without any additional tools, to a large crowd of hackers, security experts and software vendors, gathered for the annual Positive Hack Days forum in Moscow. "You don't need much to take control of some ATMs," Olga Kochetova, a security expert from Positive Technologies told The Moscow Times on Friday. "Some ...
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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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