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Russia orders deportation of CIA spy
The Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB, former KGB) arrested in the early hours of Tuesday (14th) U.S. diplomat Ryan Christopher Fogle, accused of trying to recruit a counterterrorism officer of the Russian security services, in a new episode of the war of spies between Moscow and Washington. The U.S. agent was attached to the American ...
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The Federal Security Service of Russia arrested in the early hours of Tuesday U.S. diplomat Ryan Christopher Fogle accused of trying to recruit a counterterrorism officer of the Russian security services in a new episode of the war of spies between Mo
Opera Mundi The Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB, former KGB) arrested in the early hours of Tuesday (14th) U.S. diplomat Ryan Christopher Fogle, accused of trying to recruit a counterterrorism officer of the Russian security services, in a new episode of the war between spies Moscow and Washington. "On the night 13-14 May counterintelligence services of the FSB arrested Christopher ...
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Four killed in Dagestan blast as Moscow plot foiled
Russian Federation Four people have been killed and close to 50 wounded by twin car bombs in Russia's restive Dagestan region, while the Kremlin also announced it had foiled a major plot to attack Moscow.Investigators in Dagestan initially put the death toll from the blasts at eight but the local interior ministry later revised it to four, adding that 44 people were also wounded, most of ...
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Two Warships Join Russia’s Mediterranean Task Force
MOSCOW, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - Two warships of Russia’s Black Sea fleet joined the country’s Mediterranean task force on Monday, a spokesman for the Russian Black Sea Fleet, Capt. First Rank Vyacheslav Trukhachyov, has ...
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Explosions in Russia kill four injure nearly 50
MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) — Two bombs exploded outside a court building in Russia's restive province of Dagestan on Monday, killing at least four people and wounding dozens of others, officials said.The first bomb exploded in a parked car and the second went off in a trash bin about 15 minutes later after police had arrived on the scene in Makhachakala, the provincial capital, ...
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Council of Europe tells Putin of concern over Russian NGO law
SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - The head of the Council of Europe told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday he was concerned a law requiring non-governmental organisations which received funding from abroad to register as foreign agents could have a "chilling ...
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Russian Laws Policies Restrict Religious Freedom - US Report
WASHINGTON, May 20 (RIA Novosti) –Russia is among several countries around the world including Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Cuba, Iran, and China that imposed restrictions on freedom of religion last year, according to an annual report released Monday by the US State Department. "This report is a clear-eyed, objective look at the state of religious freedom around the world. And when ...
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Massive Moon Explosion Captured on NASA Video
WASHINGTON, May 20 (RIA Novosti) – If you blinked you might have missed it, but NASA cameras captured video of the largest explosion it has ever seen on the moon, when a meteorite crashed into the lunar surface in a bright burst of light visible to the naked eye. "On March 17, 2013, an object about the size of a small boulder hit the lunar surface," said Bill Cooke of ...
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Moscow Terror Attack Foiled After Shootout
Russian security services claim to have foiled a planned terrorist attack in Moscow after a shootout that killed two alleged militants. "Our forceful actions prevented an attempted act of terror in the capital," the National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) said in a statement. Two suspects were killed and a third arrested during the raid on a house in the town of Orekhovo-Zuyevo, ...
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Alexander Lebedev Russian Tycoon On Trial For Punching Talk Show Guest Gets Support From Witness
MOSCOW, May 20 (Reuters) - Russian media magnate Alexander Lebedev received unexpected support from a prosecution witness on Monday and told a court that charges laid against him over a televised punch-up were invented by state ...
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Russians kill 2 suspected terrorists following shootout
Russian police said they killed two suspected terrorists and captured a third in a shootout outside Moscow Monday. RIA Novosti said the men had recently returned from the border area ...
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Russia foils terror attack on Moscow
Russian security services say they have foiled a terror attack on Moscow, killing two of the plotters and arresting another."Our forceful actions prevented an attempted act of terror in the capital," the National Anti-Terror Committee said in a statement.The men, all three of them ethnic Russians, were detected on the outskirts of Moscow on Monday.A gunfight erupted during their ...
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Dagestan bombs kill four two dead in shootout near Moscow
MAKHACHKALA, Russia (Reuters) - Two car bombs killed at least four people and wounded dozens of others on Monday in one of the bloodiest attacks this year in Dagestan, a turbulent province in Russia's North Caucasus region where armed groups are waging an Islamist insurgency. Car bombs, suicide bombings and firefights are common in Dagestan, at the centre of an insurgency rooted in two ...
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Main News of May 20
A respected independent Russian pollster may have to close after receiving official notice from prosecutors that they expect the organization to register as a "foreign agent" under a controversial new law, it said ...
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4 Turks Get 90 Yrs in Jail for Alcohol Poisoning of Russians
lethal poisoning a group of Russian tourists in 2011 , a lawyer said. Some 20 Russian tourists were hospitalized with severe alcohol poisoning in Bodrum in late May on their return from a sailing tour organized by a local company. Four of them died in Turkish hospitals, while another victim died later at a Moscow hospital. The lawyer, who represented the interests of a husband of one of the ...
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Trendwatcher Sasha Grey Why Don’t We Do It in the Road
Natalia Antonova You may think I’m being sarcastic, but I’m not. The former porn star, who first became famous for combining unbridled exhibitionism with an interest in existentialism, has a big fan base in Russia. After she tweeted a joke about potentially wanting Russian citizenship – in the wake of Gerard Depardieu getting his – the Russian blogosphere exploded with ...
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Ex-Porn Star Sasha Grey Resumes Trip Across Russia in New Car
MOSCOW, May 20 (RIA Novosti) - Former adult video star Sasha Grey decided to resume her journey across Russia in a new car after her Russian-made Lada Kalina broke down three days after the trip’s start, Drom.ru automobile website reported. Grey, escorted by several other cars, began her several weeks’ journey from Vladivostok in Russia’s Far East to Moscow on Thursday last ...
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Russian oligarchs footing much of Sochi Olympics
SOCHI, Russia (AP) - The mountains of Sochi are now home to Potanin's slope, Gazprom's gondola lift and Sberbank's ski jump. The nicknames used by locals and an army of construction workers leave no doubt about who is paying for the 2014 Winter Games: Russia's business powerhouses. Other countries that have hosted the Olympics have overwhelmingly used public funds to pay for ...
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Russia asks Interpol to monitor movements of
Russia has applied to Interpol to monitor the travel and whereabouts of a British hedge fund boss wanted by Moscow who is at the heart of a diplomatic stand-off over the alleged killing of whistle-blowing lawyer Sergei ...
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Former US Justice official who refused to spy for Russians ejected from Russia
A former senior Justice Department official at the American Embassy in Moscow was not allowed to return to Russia this month, and people familiar with the case say it could be because he refused to spy for the Russians. Thomas Firestone -- an attorney living in Moscow -- was working for an American law firm, and had extensive contacts in the Russian government, according to a report in The New ...
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Russia The Day the Inspectors Came
This is how it is in today's Russia, one year since Vladimir Putin returned to the presidency. Over the last twelve months, the authorities have introduced a sweeping set of restrictive new laws. In addition to raids on nongovernmental groups, they are harassing, intimidating and imprisoning political activists. Government critics and even charities that can in no way be thought of as ...
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Kremlin orders Russian pollster to register itself as spy
Russian prosecutors say that the Levada Center must register as a 'foreign agent' - a term synonymous with 'spy' in Russian - because 3 percent of its budget comes from ...
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Russian designer creates revolutionary car engine
Robert Grigoryants, a teacher of the Volgograd Agricultural Academy, managed to find more than 20 principal differences between his engine and its western ...
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Russian Billionaire Lebedev Pleads Not Guilty in Court
MOSCOW -- Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev has pleaded not guilty to charges of hooliganism motivated by political hatred. Lebedev says that he is being targeted by Russian President Vladimir Putin because Putin believes he is funding the opposition. Alexander Lebedev, co-owner of Novaya Gazeta, Russia's leading opposition newspaper, went on trial Monday in a Moscow court. Lebedev ...
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Iran Russia Hezbollah Top Backers in Syrian Regimes Success
The protracted fighting in Syria is not happening within a bubble, amid reports of clandestine support for the Bashar al Assad regime from Hezbollah, Iran and Russia, and an ongoing effort to establish an international peace ...
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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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