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Orphan Abuse Case Prompts Call for Public Oversight
An online video that appeared to show teenage girls savagely beating younger pupils at a remote Siberian boarding school for orphans has sparked a criminal investigation and calls for public oversight over the government's opaque and widely criticized orphanage system. Children's rights advocates said the incident should prompt lawmakers to pass a long-stalled bill that would allow ...
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Spy-accused American leaves Moscow
A US embassy employee accused of spying and ordered to leave Russia has flown out of Moscow, it is reported.Russian NTV broadcast video that appeared to show Ryan Fogle passing through passport control and security at Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow. The report said he left today.Russian security services claimed on Tuesday that Fogle, a third secretary in the US embassy, had been ...
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Russia Considers Selling Rosneft Stakes
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says government could reduce stake in Rosneft to 51%, giving foreign oil firms and investors a greater share of one of the world's most important oil and gas companies. (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) One of the world's largest oil and gas companies may be open for new investors sooner rather than later. Russian oil giant Rosneft ...
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Lavrov Discussed Iranian Role in Syria Peace Talks
MOSCOW, May 19 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov revealed on Sunday that he had discussed Iran's possible involvement in a conference to resolve the war in Syria, when he met his US counterpart John Kerry early in May.The Russians and Americans agreed during Kerry's visit to Moscow to set up a conference of international players to end the war in Syria. ...
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Syrian Army Opens Offensive Against Rebels - Lebanese TV
BEIRUT, May 19 (RIA Novosti) - The Syrian army opened up a huge offensive on Sunday against rebel forces on four fronts, Lebanese TV channel Al Mayadin reported. Government troops attacked in Al Qusayr (Homs Province), Hama Province, Bars region (Damascus Province) and Deraa in the south on the border with Jordan, in what experts quoted by the channel said was an operation of unprecedented ...
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Nadal Trounces Federer in Rome Final
MOSCOW, May 19 (R-Sport) – World number five Rafael Nadal defended his title at the ATP Rome Masters on Sunday with his easiest victory over Roger Federer ever, prevailing 6-1, 6-3 in just 72 minutes. The Spaniard takes a sixth title this season since his return from a seven-month injury layoff, reaching the final in all eight tournaments he has entered. Nadal dominated the Swiss star ...
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United Russia Conference Lauds Results of Partys Work
The ruling United Russia party kicked off a massive two-day forum with members from regional branches in Moscow on Friday, where it lauded its social and infrastructure projects, some three months before September regional and municipal elections. Raising the forum's profile, Prime ...
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Israel U.S. Slam Russian Arms Sales to Syria
A Russian shipment of Yakhont anti-ship missiles to Syria was condemned by the United States, and Israel is also alarmed by the prospect of Moscow supplying S-300 advanced air defense missile systems to Damascus. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held talks in Russia on Tuesday with ...
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Mice and lizards return from a month in space aboard an orbiting Russian capsule
MOSCOW - A Russian capsule carrying mice, lizards and other small animals returned to Earth on Sunday after spending a month in space for what scientists said was the longest experiment of its kind. Fewer than half of the 53 mice and other rodents who blasted off on April 19 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome survived the flight, Russian news agencies reported, quoting Vladimir Sychov, deputy ...
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Russian Supreme Court To Hear Khodorkovsky Appeal
Legal experts who prepared a Kremlin-commissioned report criticizing the second trial of former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky have found themselves targeted by law ...
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UN Secretary-General tours RIA Novosti and takes part in talk show
Ban Ki-moon UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited the main office of the RIA Novosti Group to take part in a talk show on autism, meet with chief editors of the Russian media and comment on the latest international ...
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Social Responsibility in the Media talk show with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
MOSCOW, May 19 (RIA Novosti) – United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrived on Sunday at RIA Novosti news agency as part of his visit to Russia. As Ban Ki-moon visits RIA Novosti, he will take part in a talk-show that will discuss the problem of autism and the media’s social responsibility. The talk-show will include a brief speech by Ban Ki-moon and an expert discussion. ...
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Gay Rights Rally Shot Down for 3rd Time This Month
Moscow authorities have rejected a third request from gay rights activists to hold a rally later this month, just as an opinion poll was released showing that society has become more intolerant toward gays. Officials on Friday said the demonstration was not possible because May 25, the day when it was planned to be held in Gorky Park, coincided with graduation day ...
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Arrest highlights U.S. Russian spies’ rich history
WASHINGTON - The embarrassing arrest of a suspected CIA officer in Moscow is the latest reminder that, even after the Cold War, the U.S. and Russia are engaged in an espionage battle with secret tactics, spying devices and training that sometimes isn’t enough to avoid being caught. The most recent skirmish involves Russian security services ambushing a 29-year-old diplomat who they say ...
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Фондовые Торги В Сша 17 Мая Открылись Повышением Ведущих Индексов.
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Russian film director Alexei Balabanov dies at 54
Alexei Balabanov, a prominent Russian film director in the 1990s and 2000s, has died in a village near St. Petersburg, a colleague said. He was 54. No information about the cause of his death was released, The Hollywood Reporter said. Balabanov made his first film, "Happy Days," in 1991. His breakthrough film, the 1997 crime drama "Brother," won the main prize at ...
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Russia brings mice and newts back from Mars research mission
A Russian capsule filled with 45 mice and 15 newts has returned from a month's mission in orbit with data scientists hope will pave the way for a manned flight to ...
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Russian premier says gradual demonopolizing of natural gas exports possible
SOCHI, May 19 (Itar-Tass) - Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Sunday he believes that a stage-by-stage demonopolizing of natural gas exports is possible but it should be preceded by liberalization of the exports of liquefied natural gas ...
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EU Appeals to Russia Not to Introduce Gay Propaganda Law
BRUSSELS, May 19 (RIA Novosti) – The European Union appealed to Russia on Sunday not to introduce a law banning so-called "gay propaganda," the EU said. Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, intends to pass a law by the end of the current session (mid-July) banning dissemination of information among minors promoting homosexuality. Amendments will be made on ...
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Russia to Leave T-90S Tank in Peru for Trials
T-90 S battle tank in Lima, Peru, for trials by the Peruvian military, following its participation there in the SITDEF Peru 2013 arms exhibition last week, Russian state arms corporation Rosoboronexport said on Sunday. "Rosoboronexport and Uralvagonzavod [its manufacturer] have been officially asked by the Peruvian military to leave the T-90S tank in Peru after the show for tests," ...
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Cannes Russias Glavkino Backs Pyotr Buslovs Flip-Out
Russian Government Sets Admissions Target for Producers Getting Funding Speaking at an event in the Russian pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival hosted ...
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Q1 GDP Growth Better Than Expected Still Weak
Russia's economy expanded faster than first estimated in the January-March quarter, but still at its slowest quarterly pace since late 2009, fueling the debate over the need for stimulus measures to aid growth. Gross domestic product (GDP) grew by an annual 1.6 percent in the first quarter, the Federal Statistics Service said Friday. The Economy Ministry's earlier flash estimate had ...
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Russia in League with Other Governments to Battle Offshore Tax Evasion
Greater cooperation between tax authorities from 45 countries, including more extensive information sharing to help catch evaders, was the result of an international conference in Moscow that was hosted by the Federal Taxation Service and ended on Friday. "The message to tax evaders and those who facilitate tax evasion is simple: however hard you try to hide, we will find you," said a ...
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Russian Navy to receive new invisible ships
Russia has recently unveiled its Project 1239 rocket ship to the world. Representing Russia's Black Sea Fleet, the unique missile hovercraft "Bora" took part in the international exhibition of defense industry AIDEF 2013, which was held in Istanbul on May 7-10. The newest Russian rocket ships of this type will soon turn 20 years ...
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On Good Friday at about 2 am two Russian bombers and an escort of four fighters had come within 30-40 kilometers of Swedish airspace allegedly practicing mock attacks upon two specific targets in the Stockholm area and Southern Sweden. Wow
Dateline Dalarna, Sweden: Sometimes truly extraordinary events occur, events which impact an entire nation's people, though, the word 'surreal' perhaps fits better than 'extraordinary' in describing events here during the last third of April. Of course, too much has too long been overblown, the strongest of adjectives too frequently employed to mask the weakest of ...
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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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