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Rescue of Russian mountaineer from Mt. Mayon proved costly
LEGAZPI CITY, Philippines--Russian tourist Mark Yuchyugyaev's fascination with the majestic beauty of the Mayon Volcano proved to be costly, in more ways than one. To rescue the Russian tourist who went on an unauthorized Mayon Volcano climb and was injured in the process, the government had to shell out at least half a million pesos. Raffy Alejandro, regional direct of the Office of ...
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Syria regime to attend peace talks Russia
Syria's most powerful ally Russia on Friday said the Damascus regime had agreed to attend an international peace conference on the crisis that world powers hope will take place in Geneva in ...
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Lavrov Kerry to Meet in Paris on May 27 - Source
MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet with US Secretary of State John Kerry on May 27, a source in the Russian Interior Ministry told RIA Novosti on Friday. It will be the sixth meeting between top Russian and US diplomats this year. Lavrov and Kerry last met in mid-May in the northern Swedish city of Kiruna. The meeting is expected to focus a ...
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Interpol rejects Russia bid to locate UK investor
PARIS (AP) — The international police agency Interpol has rejected a Russian push to locate and arrest a Britain-based investor who is a vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin's regime.France-based Interpol said in a statement Friday it has "deleted all information in relation to William Browder."A special Interpol-related committee decided at a meeting Friday that ...
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How One Russian Got A Trip To Outer Space With Leo DiCaprio
Leonardo DiCaprio. Off to space next year. A wealthy Russian oligarch living in Monaco spent over a million dollars to sit -- and then float -- alongside him while they orbit the planet in a Virgin Galactic space ship. This is one easy how-to article. How do you get to go into outerspace with an A-lister, in this case Leonardo DiCaprio? Well, first you have to be go to the Cannes Film ...
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Putin Urges Better Online Intellectual Property Protection
SOCHI, May 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday a more effective system was needed to protect intellectual property rights on the internet. "Without defending intellectual [property] rights, a great damage will be done," the Russian president said on Friday at a meeting to discuss the development of the country’s film industry. Putin said that ...
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NY to Host US-Russia ‘Battles On Ice’
WASHINGTON, May 24 (By Maria Young for RIA Novosti) – Next month firefighters from New York, Boston and Russia will trade in their flame-resistant gear for shoulder pads and ice skates and team up against each other – and some of the best known names in hockey – for the third annual ‘Battles On Ice,’ a two-part annual competition in New York that organizers say ...
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Thousands Expected at Marches Against Monsanto Around World
WASHINGTON, May 24 (RIA Novosti) – From a town called Moscow in the state of Idaho to the shadow of the Kremlin in the better known Moscow, protests are scheduled around the world Saturday against biotechnology giant Monsanto, which the demonstrators say is turning a blind eye to the potentially deadly effects of genetically modified foods produced from seeds it sells globally. ...
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Russia says Syrian government agrees to peace talks but skepticism persists on both sides
Demonstrators shout Islamic slogans as they 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. (MURAD ...
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Main News of May 24
* Vasily Klyukin, a Russian businessman living in Monaco, paid 1.2 million euros ($1.5 mln) to board a Virgin Galactic spaceship in a seat next to Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio, Sky News television reported. ...
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Russian Military Orders 6 Be-200 Amphibious Planes
MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti) – The Russian Defense Ministry has signed a contract with the Beriev Aircraft Company for the purchase of six Beriev Be-200 amphibious planes, Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) said on Friday. "The contract is worth 8.4 billion rubles [$268 million]," UAC said in a statement. "The first two planes will be basic Be-200ChS models, ...
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Obama Fails to Return Marine’s Salute
WASHINGTON, May 24 (RIA Novosti) – United States President Barack Obama committed a military faux pas on Friday, when he broke with tradition and didn’t return the salute of a Marine standing guard at the door of the presidential helicopter Marine One. A White House press pool report noted that "a few White House regulars were atwitter" when Obama walked up the steps of ...
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South Stream gas pipeline
Russia will provide 1.7 billion euros to finance the construction of Serbia's stretch of the South Stream gas pipeline that will carry Russian natural gas through the Black Sea to Bulgaria and then on to Greece, Italy and Austria, President Vladimir Putin said on ...
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Back to the USSR Ordinary Things in an Extraordinary Museum
Museum of Industrial Culture The Museum of Industrial Culture is an amazing place where Maxim guns nestle side by side with children’s toys, and the first computers are on display together with milk cartons. RIA Novosti presents a video tour of the museum, which showcases some much loved items from the familiar and yet remote Soviet ...
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Chechen Leader Kadyrov in Cat Fight With Socialite
MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti) – Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov entered into a bizarre public row with a Russian socialite on Friday over whose cat was the "most beautiful." "Dear friends! Me and Tina Kandelaki are having an argument over whose cat is more beautiful. I think it’s mine. What do you think?" tweeted Kadyrov, a former militant fighter who has frequently ...
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Foreign Defense Officials Visit Russian Military Base
MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti) – Members of foreign delegations attending an international conference on European security on Friday visited a military base near Moscow hosting a motorized infantry division. Defense officials and military experts from Armenia Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, the United States and Zimbabwe and were shown a ...
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Aide Obama Putin to meet twice over security missile defense
Barack Obama will meet twice in the next four months, a Kremlin aide said Friday. Yury Ushakov said the first meeting would in June during the Group of Eight summit in Northern Ireland and the second will take place before the Group of 20 meeting in Russia in September, RIA Novosti reported. The meetings are expected to discuss proposals by Putin that were presented in a letter to Obama ...
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US Lawmakers Head to Russia Will Ask About Boston Bomber
Brothers Tamerlan Tsarnaev, left, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are accused of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing. Tamerlan was closely monitored while in Dagestan last ...
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Arctic Ice Melting Too Fast to Measure Russian Researchers Find the Hard Way
A Russian deep-diving miniature submarine is lowered from the research vessel Akademik Fyodorov moments before performing a dive in the Arctic Ocean beneath the ice at the North Pole in August 2007. (Vladimir ...
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Putin Wants Better Russian Movies
SOCHI, May 26 (RIA Novosti) – Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed on Friday to continue supporting the domestic film industry, but called on Russian filmmakers to produce movies that promote patriotic and moral values. "I have said many times that the state can help produce movies, but it cannot force people to go and watch them," Putin said at a meeting on the development of ...
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8.2 Quake Hits Eastern Russia No Deaths Reported
USGS ), the epicenter of the quake was located just off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, in the far eastern part of the country. The massive quake was followed by a smaller (but still very large) magnitude 6.8 aftershock further out in the Sea of Okhotsk. The quakes occurred deep in the Earth, with both centered at a depth of more than 600 km (about 372 miles). Neither the ...
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74 illegal Chinese workers detained by Russian police
The Chinese embassy in Moscow confirmed to the Global Times on Friday that Russian police authorities had detained Thursday 74 Chinese workers working illegally in Russia's Volgograd region.The embassy officials who were quickly informed about the incident arrived in Volgograd on Friday to negotiate with Russian authorities about the issue, a press officer from the embassy told the Global ...
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Chinese workers probed for illegally working in Russia
/enpproperty--> Russian authorities investigated nearly 200 Chinese workers this week who are suspected of working in the country illegally. Experts called for a better-regulated labor exporting system to secure a better working environment for Chinese workers in Russia. As many as 74 Chinese workers in the Volgograd region, who authorities said have no identity documents, have been detained ...
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Moscow Welcomes N.Korea’s Bid to Return to Nuclear Talks
return to six-party talks on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula as a "positive development," a senior Russian diplomat said Friday. China’s Xinhua news agency and its South Korean equivalent Yonhap reported on Friday that Choe Ryong Hae, a special envoy for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and reaffirmed that Pyongyang "is ...
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North Koreas nuclear program
Russia regards reports that North Korea is willing to return to six-party talks on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula as a "positive development," a senior Russian diplomat said ...
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Russia relocating cosmodrome
The new Vostochny Cosmodrome to be constructed in Amur Oblast will save money and provide long-term stimulus to the province’s local economy, according to early material released to Russia news media detailing the government’s plans for the new site.
Russia has a long history of manned space flight and continues to operate one of the most advanced spaceports in the world. Our Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan remains the largest operational space launch facility in the world and was also the first in the world to be constructed and made operational. Read more
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