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Russia Admits Crimea Consul’s Words Were ‘Incorrect’
MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian Foreign Ministry has admitted that recent statements by Vladimir Andreyev, the Russian consul general in Simferopol, Ukraine’s Crimea, about Crimean Tatars were inappropriate. Moscow "understands [Ukraine’s] reaction to certain… incorrect wordings used by the Russian representative without proper account for the sensitive issue ...
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More than 70 Chinese workers detained in Russia
/enpproperty--> MOSCOW - Russian law enforcement authorities have detained 74 Chinese labor workers who allegedly have no identity documents in the Volgograd region, said the Interior Ministry of Russia Thursday. The workers, who are incapable of speaking Russian, were said to have been employed by a farm in the Nikolayevski district since last winter. They have been transferred into custody ...
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City Room A Soviet Spy in Congress Still Has His Street
A block in Lower Manhattan is named in honor of Samuel Dickstein, a former United States representative and State Supreme Court justice. It also turns out that Mr. Dickstein was a secret agent for the Soviet ...
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QA Anti-Drug Crusader Roizman Wears Many Hats
Igor Tabakov / MT From right to left: Drug Free City founder Roizman and his allies in the Civil Platform ...
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Surkov Replaced by Trusty Technocrat
kremlin.ru Prikhodko, right, attending a Kremlin ceremony with Putin and foreign diplomats in 2009. Sergei Prikhodko, a foreign policy advisor to Russia's leaders for more than 15 years, has been appointed a deputy prime minister and government chief of staff. He assumes the role of head organizer for a government that has been battered by accusations of poor work in recent months. ...
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Security Conference Identifies Obstacles to Russia-West Cooperation
U.S. Embassy in Estonia Rose Gottemoeller speaking in Tallin, Estonia last year. Despite repeated calls for cooperation and resolute declarations of common goals, long-standing divisions and divergent views on the nature of security were still visible between Russian and Western officials at the Moscow European Security Conference on Thursday. The annual conference, organized for the ...
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Russian Premier Urges Industry to Supply Superior Weapons
(MENAFN - Qatar News Agency) Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev called on the country's defence industry on Wednesday to provide the military with state-of-the-art weapons superior to their Western analogs. "It is essential to offer weapons which are superior to our world counterparts, and pay special attention to strengthening cooperation, primarily with our partners in the ...
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‘No chance of surviving’ Russia to evacuate drifting polar research station
Science An evacuation of the North Pole 40 (SP-40) research station drifting on an ice floe near Canada has been ordered by the Russian Natural Resources Ministry. There are fears the situation could become an emergency amid rapidly declining Arctic ice coverage. Not only does the break-up of ice pose a threat to the SP-40 station, it could also cause environmental pollution in the area, ...
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US Religious Freedom Report ‘Politicized’ - Russia
Religious Freedom Report recently published by the US Department of State and said that such documents incite religious conflicts. The annual report, released on Monday, mentions Russia among several countries around the world including Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Cuba, Iran and China that it says imposed restrictions on freedom of religion last year. Konstantin Dolgov, the Foreign ...
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Positive Data No Spark For Russia Stocks
Positive industrial production data out of Russia today was surely no spark for the general market. Over the last five days, the Market Vectors Russia ...
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Violence in Russias North Caucasus kills four
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Police killed two suspected Islamic militants on Thursday after one of them threw a grenade at a group of officers and two others died in a separate shootout in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region, Interfax ...
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Russia leads Europe in bank card fraud
Russia Russia was top among European countries in the rate of growth of bank card fraud in 2012. Damage evaluations increased by 35%, according to a study by FICO. Back in 2006, the volume of Russia's part in total European losses was no more than 2% which accounted for 12.6 million euros. Today the situation has changed and according to Euromonitor International statistics, Russia now ...
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Two Georgian Priests Charged Over LGBT Rally Violence
TBILISI, May 23 (RIA Novosti) - Two high-ranking Georgian priests have been charged in connection with the May 17 attack by conservative activists on a gay rights rally in downtown Tbilisi, the News Georgia news agency reported on Thursday. The head of the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi, Antimoz (Tamaz) Bichinashvili, and the head of the Ioane-Tornike Eristavi Monastery, Iotam (Irakli) ...
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Russian Spacecraft Manufacturer to Make 4 Launches in 2014
MOSCOW, May 23 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s Energia Rocket and Space Corporation will make four launches next year from the Pacific Ocean-based Odyssey platform under the Sea Launch program, corporation president Vitaly Lopota said on Thursday. After 2014, Energia will be able to make five or more launches a year, he said, adding that "a great deal here will depend on our ...
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Russia-Backed Software Company Files for $80 Million US IPO
WASHINGTON, May 23 (RIA Novosti) – Luxoft Holding, Inc., a subsidiary of Moscow-based information technology services provider, IBS Group Holding Limited, has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange. The regulatory filing with the US Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) shows the company is preparing for an $80 million IPO. The number of shares to be ...
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Russia Skeptical of Any Deeper Nuclear Cuts
Russia's top military officer on Thursday voiced skepticism about deeper nuclear arms cuts, saying they should require parallel reductions in non-nuclear precision weapons. The statement by chief of Russia's military General Staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, appeared to signal the Kremlin's reluctance to negotiate a new nuclear arms deal with Washington. President Barack Obama, who ...
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Putins Frustration Grows as Russias Economy Slumps
Russia is founded on an implicit social compact: People have given up some freedom in return for economic prosperity. Now, Putin's authoritarian ways could be killing the economic growth that has helped keep him in power. Time and time again, Russia's leaders have pledged to restructure the country's economy, making it less dependent on oil and gas. In an interview this ...
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Kremlin cracks down on recruiting in former USSR by Syrian rebels
Special to WorldTribune.com MOSCOW -- Russia has launched a crackdown on efforts to recruit fighters for the Sunni revolt in Syria. Officials said the Kremlin has ordered authorities to intensify monitoring of Islamist groups in Russia to stop the recruitment of fighters to ...
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2500 doping tests planned for Sochi Olympics
MOSCOW (AP) — Sochi's anti-doping director says 2,500 drug tests will be conducted at next year's Winter Olympics, about 350 more than at the 2010 Games in Vancouver.Alexei Slautin, head of Sochi's anti-doping section, said in a statement Thursday on the Russian Sports Ministry's web site that another 600 tests are planned for the Paralympics.The World Anti-Doping ...
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Commercial banks overstating current risks in Russia’s economy
VORONEZH, May 23 (Itar-Tass) - Commercial banks are apparently overstating the risks that exist in Russia’s economy today, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday at a conference with businessmen in the city of ...
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Russian Intelligence Agency Warns of Rise in Terror Threat
MOSCOW, May 23 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU, expects the Taliban influence in Afghanistan to grow after international coalition forces are pulled out, while rising radicalism in Syria could lead to the country's disintegration, the GRU chief said on Thursday. Lt. Gen. Igor Sergun said the situation in Afghanistan poses a "serious challenge to ...
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Russia US Perceptions Hit 4-Year Low – Poll
MOSCOW, May 23 (RIA Novosti) – Russian and US perceptions of each other’s role in the world have deteriorated over the past year, hitting their lowest point since 2009, according to a new survey commissioned by the BBC World Service. According to the 2013 Country Ratings poll conducted by GlobeScan/PIPA, 23 percent of those surveyed in America have a "mainly positive" view ...
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Space Telescopes Capture Rare Birth of Mega-Galaxy
WASHINGTON, May 23 (RIA Novosti) - US researchers have captured rare images of the creation of a massive galaxy about 10 times the size of the Milky Way that was formed when two young galaxies collided 11 billion years ago, a study published this week says."Capturing the creation of this type of large, short-lived star body is extremely rare - the equivalent of discovering a missing link ...
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Водоворот Мирового Падения Втянул Российский Рынок В Свою Воронку
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Credit Suisse Шансы на смягчение политики Ц уменьшаются
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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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