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Video Russia not sold on idea of nuclear warhead reduction
Russia and congressional Republicans are not yet sold on President Obama's proposal to cut America's nuclear arsenal by a third if Russia does the same. Russian President Vladimir Putin said he won't reduce his arsenal without concessions from the U.S. on missile defense systems. Major Garrett ...
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China and Russia’s Human Trafficking Leads to Sanctions
Playing cards showing details of missing children are displayed in 2007 in Beijing, China. The cards showing photographs and information of 27 missing children were created by Shen Hao, the founder of a missing persons website to be handed out in areas notorious for child trafficking. China has just been put on a list of countries of serious concern for human trafficking. (China Photos/Getty ...
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Iran Has No Plan to Sell Crude Oil to Russia
Iranian Oil Ministry spokesman Alireza Nikzad-Rahbar has said Iran has not been in talks with Russia for the sale of crude oil to its northern neighbour, ISNA reported. Referring to some news which has been published by some media outlets, Nikzad-Rahbar said that there is basically no infrastructure for transferring crude oil from southern Iran to the Caspian Sea. On Tuesday, the Mehr ...
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Mass Disorder Plotting Case
Russian prosecutors have charged opposition activists Sergei Udaltsov and Leonid Razvozzhayev with plotting mass riots during a demonstration in Moscow last May, their lawyers said on ...
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Long-Lost Soviet Holocaust Films Under New Spotlight
WASHINGTON, June 19 (By Maria Young for RIA Novosti) – Nearly a dozen long-lost, rarely seen Soviet films and scores of screenplays that were never produced about the persecution of Jews during World War II have been revived to offer decades-old evidence of a side of the Holocaust few people recognize today. From the dusty archives of Moscow and elsewhere across Russia, the works are ...
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Russian Opposition Figures Charged with Plotting Mass Riots
MOSCOW, June 20 (RIA Novosti) - Russian prosecutors have charged opposition activists Sergei Udaltsov and Leonid Razvozzhayev with plotting mass riots during a demonstration in Moscow last May, their lawyers said on ...
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Russia-linked Firm Develops Video App to Help Solve Crime in US
WASHINGTON/MOSCOW, June 19 (RIA Novosti) – The US affiliate of a Russian software company has developed a database for the city of Baltimore that would help its police department track down private surveillance video that could solve crimes, an executive from EastBanc Technologies’ (EBT) Washington office said Wednesday. "We’ve almost completed development of a database ...
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Russia could stand in way of Obamas nuclear plan
By saying he intends to bargain with Russia over reductions in nuclear weapons, rather than make cuts on his own, President Barack Obama is asking for cooperation from a former Cold War foe that's in no mood to ...
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Media hoaxed FSB looking into fake press release about Russian Railways boss dismissal
Transport A fake government press release about Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev "sacking" the head of Russian Railways has caused a quite stir in the Russian media and among bloggers. The Federal Security Service is already looking for the perpetrator of the prank. The news of Vladimir Yakunin's "dismissal" broke on Wednesday afternoon when top news agencies - both in ...
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Vologda Governor Leverages the Hockey Puck
Oleg Kuvshinnikov knows how to send the hockey puck towards the goal, and uses the same energy and drive to try to make the region he governs a ...
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Depeche Mode Never Let Me Down
As a part of their Delta Machine Tour, cult band Depeche Mode will take to the stage in St. Petersburg for the fifth time on June 24, to the delight of many local ...
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US Scrambles to Keep Afghan Taliban Plan on Track Russia Backs Karzai
WASHINGTON, June 19 (RIA Novosti) – The United States scrambled Wednesday to salvage plans to bring the Taliban into Afghan peace talks while Russia threw its support squarely behind President Hamid Karzai after he angrily cancelled crucial security talks with Washington. Speaking at a news conference in Germany, President Barack Obama acknowledged early "friction" in the US ...
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Berlin Brandenburg Gate Become Icons for US Presidents
WASHINGTON, June 19 (by Suleiman Wali for RIA Novosti) – Summertime in Germany has become a popular time and place for several American presidents over the past 50 years, ever since John F. Kennedy delivered his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in 1963. On ...
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Hiring of Young Professionals Challenged By Generation Gap
Freedom loving, soul searching and socially conscious are some of the hallmarks of young professionals from Generation Y, an age group born in the period from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s. ...
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Body of Todashev Shot During Questioning in US Flown to Russia
the Boston Marathon bombing , was flown to Moscow on Wednesday. "We are already in Moscow," said Todashev’s father Abdulbaki, who accompanied the coffin on a flight from the United States. "Tomorrow I intend to take my son’s body to Grozny on a passenger plane," he said, adding that he would press for a post-mortem examination in Russia. Todashev, 27, was shot ...
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All About Town Economic Forum
All work and no play would be a waste of a weekend at the height of White Nights in St. Petersburg. Take advantage of all the city has to offer with the St. Petersburg ...
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Legendary Hotel Celebrates 100 Years
The iconic Hotel Astoria lived up to its lavish reputation by celebrating its centennial on Tuesday with a grand party of nearly 500 guests, hosted by Sir Rocco Forte, co-owner, chairman and managing director of The Rocco Forte ...
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Economic Forum Attracts International High Flyers
The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum begins today and will continue through Saturday, hosting more than 3,700 businessmen, officials and reporters. This year, an impressive number of Russian and foreign businessmen, many of them considered celebrities in their field, will be discussing various topics including the prospect of a new global ...
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LGBT Group First to Face Fine Under New Law
The Side by Side (Bok o Bok) LGBT rights film festival last week became St. ...
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Obamas call for nuke negotiations with Russia suggests a slow road to new reductions
WASHINGTON - By saying he intends to bargain with Russia over new reductions in nuclear weapons, rather than make cuts on his own, President Barack Obama is asking for co-operation from a former Cold War foe in no mood to agree. Relations between Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin are tense, reflecting U.S. concerns about human rights abuses in Russia, the two leaders' disagreement ...
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Obama Merkel exchange toasts in Berlin
U.S. President Barack Obama kisses German Chancellor Angela Merkel after she finished her speech at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on June 19, 2013. Obama is in Berlin on his first official state visit to Germany and spoke at the historic site where fifty years earlier U.S. President John F. Kennedy delivered his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a Berliner)" address . UPI/David ...
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Trafficking in Persons Report U.S. downgrades Russia China
Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. The TIP report ranks governments, including the United States, on their efforts to combat and prevent human trafficking. While Tier 1 is the highest ranking, it does not mean that a country has no human trafficking problem. The TIP report ranks countries into one of three tiers based on their level of compliance with the minimum standards for the elimination ...
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Welcome to Russia’s Syria doublespeak
joint communique on Syria at the end of the G8 summit, the closing media remarks made it clear that Vladimir Putin hasn’t actually moved an inch on the issue. The Russian president once again lashed out at the European Union and the United States for considering arms shipments to the Syrian opposition, suggesting it will further destabilize Syria. At the same time, he made it clear that ...
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Main News of June 19
News that Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin would resign in order to run for the mayoral election in September came as quite a shock. Sobyanin's political potential is fairly dubious, not to mention his approval ratings. He has not finished many of the projects he initiated and the electoral effect from these projects is expected to come a bit later than September 2013. Sobyanin's opponents ...
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Europol Cracks Down on ‘Russian-Speaking’ Mafia
MOSCOW, June 19 (RIA Novosti) – In one of the most significant blows to "Russian-speaking" organized crime, Europol has supported the arrest of 18 suspects from the Georgian Kutaisi criminal clan across several European countries, the EU crime fighting agency said Wednesday in statement. "The assassination of a Tbilisi clan leader, in January 2013 in Moscow, created a new ...
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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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