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Temperature Drops in Moscow
After unusually warm spell, the Moscow temperature dipped to 15 degrees Celsius on Wednesday, with forecasters declaring that it would be the coldest day of the week. In the Moscow region, the temperature was set to drop even lower, with a daytime forecast of 13 to 18 C, Interfax reported. Last week saw record-breaking temperatures posted in Moscow as the temperature regularly soared above 25 ...
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Moscow Could Get Hub for Low-Cost Airlines by End of 2014
UTair airlines has announced ambitious plans to turn a Kaluga region airport located less than 100 kilometers from Moscow into a hub for low-cost airlines. The airline has signed a $2 billion agreement with the Kaluga region government to base up to 20 Airbus A320 aircraft at Yermolino Airport, which was exclusively used by the Interior and Defense ministries until recently, Vedomosti reported ...
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Tele2 Says Moscow Needs More Mobile Competition
The poor quality of mobile telephony in Moscow is caused by a lack of competition, said Jere Calmes, head of Tele2 Russia, during the Telecom 2013 conference organized by Vedomosti on Wednesday. "Competition is the key factor and the most effective method to increase [network] accessibility and improve line quality. In my view, five years ago, the quality of the [mobile voice] network in ...
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Putin Strengthening Power Vertical Report Says
Vladimir Putin is building a system of increasingly centralized control, in which he directly manages the government, influential research group Minchenko Consulting said in a report published Wednesday. The report analyzed the first year of Prime ...
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Major Event in Germany Promoting European Magnitsky Sanctions Cancelled Because German Government Refuses to Grant Safe Passage to William Browder from Politically Motivated Russian Arrest Warrant
Release 22 May 2013 - German authorities have refused to grant William Browder, the leader of the global campaign for justice for Sergei Magnitsky, safe passage to Germany from a politically motivated Russian arrest warrant, resulting in the cancellation of the European Magnitsky Law event, scheduled in Berlin on 27 May 2013. In the latest development concerning the Magnitsky sanctions, the ...
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Talks over Vimpelcoms Djezzy at delicate stage source
MOSCOW/CAIRO (Reuters) - Russia-focused telecoms firm Vimpelcom's talks to sell a controlling stake in its Algerian mobile business Djezzy to Algeria are at a delicate stage but have not failed, a source with knowledge of the discussions said on Wednesday.Algeria wants to nationalize Djezzy and has pushed Vimpelcom into discussing a sale of a 51 percent stake.A report by Dow Jones earlier ...
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The Cathedral of the Nativity in central Chisinau designed by Abram Melnikov was built in 1830 and is the main cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church in Chisinau Moldova.
But the settlement on the outskirts of the Russian empire, once considered a place of punishment, is now the economically emerging capital of the independent Republic of Moldova. Renamed Chisinau in Romanian after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the city still preserves its old name in ...
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Госдума Наделила Цб Рф Правом Ограничения Ставок По Вкладам.
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Ммвб Сэлт Средневзвешенный Курс Доллара На Закрытие Торгов По Инструменту Usdrub_Tod В 1715 Мск - 31.1995 Руб.долл.
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Минфин Объем Резервного Фонда В 2013-2016Гг. удет Составлять 3-4 Ввп.
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Совет директоров Связьинвеста рекомендовал акционерам утвердить дивиденды за 2012г. в размере 23 млрд руб.
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Фьючерсы На Нефть В Лондоне И Нью-Йорке Отыграли Часть Дневного Снижения Рынок Ждет Заявлений Фрс.
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Цб Рф Второй Аукцион Прямого Репо Со Сроком Один День Сегодня Не Состоялся.
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Росстат Производство Стали В Рф Январе-Апреле 2013Г. Сократилось На 41 - До 23 Млн Т.
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Абсолют анк До Конца Недели Индекс Ммвб Может Подняться До Уровня 1450 Пунктов
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Toyota признали самым дорогим автомобильным брендом
???????? ????????, ????????????? ????????? BrandZ, Toyota ????? ????? ??????? ????????????? ???????. ?? ????????? ??????? ? 24,497 ????????? ????????. ? ????? ???????? ??????? ??????? ???????? ????????? ?? 23 ?????, ??????? Apple, Google, McDonalds ? ????????? ??????. ????? ?? Toyota, ?? 24 ????? ??????? BMW, ??? ????????? ??????? ? 24,015 ????????? ...
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Мосгордума Приняла Закон О Желтом Цвете Такси
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4 Turkish nationals get 90 years each for poisoning deaths
Four Turkish nationals each received 90 years in prison for serving tainted alcohol to a group of Russian tourists, killing five of them, officials said. A group of approximately 60 Russian tourists were visiting the Turkish Aegean resort of Bodrum in May 2011, when 21 of them fell ill from ingesting the bootlegged alcohol on a yacht tour. Five of them, all tour guides, died from poisoning. ...
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Dutchman who stabbed Russian boy suffers from autism
The 20-year-old Dutchman Sirin Shriver, who attacked 11-year-old Russian Nikita Onishchenko on Crete suffers from autism, the mother of the man, who worked as a hotel entertainer, said. The woman, Alexandra Schriver, said that she would arrive on Crete on Monday to testify on the case and said that she could not arrive earlier due to the strike of air traffic ...
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Culprit of death of 7 people in major road accident in Moscow convicted
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Russia to launch 12 Proton-M rockets in 2013
Russia would launch 12 Proton-M heavy space rockets this year, Khrunichev space industry center said Wednesday.Three had already been launched and a further nine would be launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, Khrunichev CEO Alexander Seliverstov told reporters.Meanwhile, the new Angara-5 heavy rocket would be launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Far Eastern Amur region ...
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Vladimir Putins Approval Rate Is Still Holding Steady
Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medevedev, and puts the poll results in a convenient and easily accessible format. In April 2013, 63% of Russians indicated that they approved of the job Putin was doing as president. 63% is hardly overawing, but is a figure that's broadly in line with recent months and is the exact same level of support that Putin enjoyed in December of ...
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Russia to become next Greece’ with slowing economic growth - Renaissance Capital
Russian economy The Russian economy will not be able to grow faster than 2 percent per year in the coming decade and might become another Greece, says one of Russia's leading investment banking firms Renaissance Capital. This would mean the government increasing national debt just like it was in Greece.The slowing economic growth in Russia to 1.6 percent in the first quarter of 2013 has ...
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Brezhnev Pips Lenin as Russias Favorite 20th Century Ruler
MOSCOW, May 22 (RIA Novosti) – Russians view Leonid Brezhnev as the most positive of all Soviet and Russian leaders in the 20th century, but Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin were close behind in an opinion poll released on Wednesday. Brezhnev, who ruled the Soviet Union from 1964-1982, was viewed positively by 56 percent of respondents in the survey carried out by Moscow’s Levada ...
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Council of Europe head says Russia must protect LGBT rights
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - A gay rights activist holds a placard during a rally to mark the international day against homophobia in St. Petersburg May 17, 2013. The placard reads "Homophobia kills!" ...
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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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