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Executive Says South Stream Pipeline is a Reality Will Be Built
BRUSSELS - The giant South Stream pipeline to transport natural gas from Russia to the European Union is a reality and is on schedule to be built by the end of 2015, the chief executive of the offshore section of the line said, rebutting widespread doubts that it will ever be built. Viewed as Russia's response to EU attempts to find alternative suppliers, the $39 billion link will stretch ...
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Russian Navy ships to set off on distant ocean trip in the Atlantic
The inter-fleet group of Russian Navy ships is to set off on a distant ocean trip in the Atlantic Ocean this summer, Vice Admiral Alexander Fedotenkov, Deputy Commander in Chief of the Russian Navy, said Monday. The admiral said that the naval command was currently preparing a plan of the summer training period. The plan, in particular, includes scheduled duty and combat services in the Black ...
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Bank of Russia announces official foreign exchange rates for May 18
The Central Bank of the Russian Federation announced the official foreign exchange rates for customs and reporting purposes, effective from May 18, the CBR Market Operations Department informed. Unit Currency Rate 1 Australian Dollar 30.5549 1 Azerbaijan Manat 40.0524 1000 Armenia Dram 75.2381 10000 Belarussian Ruble 36.1463 1 Bulgarian lev 20.6479 1 Brazil Real 15.4997 100 Hungarian ...
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Helicopter loaded with nearly 2 tons of explosives disappears in Irkutsk region
Source: Itar-Tass Rescuers are looking for the Mi-8 helicopter that went off radars in the Irkutsk region. The chopper had ten passengers and nearly two tons of explosives aboard, officials with Russia's EMERCOM said. According to officials, the Mi-8 helicopter of Angara airline was monitoring the flood situation, disappeared from the radio broadcast at 12:54 Moscow time and did not ...
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The pain of Bangladesh T-shirts made with blood and tears
AP photo As they spoke to a BBC correspondent in their run-down room which they call home in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a man sobbed as his 12-year-old daughter sat close to him. His face, wrinkled before its time, was a picture of utter anguish. It could only be understood by a parent whose child was dying under giant slabs of concrete where nothing could be done. "If she is dead," he ...
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Worlds oldest female prisoner dies in India at 108
The world's oldest female prisoner died in the prison of the city of Lucknow, in northern India at age 108, local media reported on Tuesday. The woman, named Ram Kali, died as a result of a disease caused by old age. The prisoner was serving her sentence in the administrative center of the state of Uttar Pradesh for complicity in a murder. In view of the gravity of the offense, Ram Kali ...
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Angelina Jolie makes shocking decision to avoid breast cancer
Angelina Jolie said she had received a double mastectomy - a surgery to remove mammary glands. According to the actress, chances for her to suffer from breast cancer were quite high - 87 ...
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Vermont joins the list of USAs death states
Vermont will become the fourth American state to officially authorize euthanasia. The House of Representatives of the state voted to approve the adequate bill. The law will find itself on the governor's desk in the near future. The law will terminally sick individuals to voluntarily give up their life. Presently, euthanasia is also legally allowed in the states of Oregon, Washington and ...
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Bag of over $667K stolen from Moscow businessman in broad daylight
A group of young men, driving a Nissan vehicle, provoked a car accident near Building No. 15 on 5th Donskoy Proezd Street. They collided with the car driven by the victim. When the car stopped, four masked men got out of the Nissan, threatened the businessman with a gun-looking object and took away his bag with more than 20 million rubles in it ...
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Circus actor killed in Moscow region
MOSCOW, May 19 (Itar-Tass) - Circus actor Yevgeny Maranogli was found dead with numerous knife wounds in the Moscow regional town Dzerzhinsky, the Russian Investigative Committee told Itar-Tass on ...
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All football fans detained in Moscow released from police expect for 2 fans
MOSCOW, May 19 (Itar-Tass) - All football fans detained in Moscow, except for two people, were released from police, the press service of the Moscow police department told Itar-Tass on ...
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Syrian activists Shelling near Lebanon kills 16
A Syrian supporting the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, holds a placard with his picture and the national flag as he participates in a protest outside the US Embassy in central London, Saturday, May 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Lefteris ...
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Cannes World War Z With Brad Pitt to Open Moscow Film Festival
Brad Pitt Introduces Marc Foster's Zombie Thriller 'World War Z' They also unveiled the first 10 competition titles, with the rest set to be announced later this month. The first members of the competition jury are writer and ...
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Deforestation in the Amazon area
by Carolina Gonçalves / Agency Brazil Brasilia - Deforestation and forest degradation in the Amazon reached an area of nearly 175 square kilometers (km ²) in the months of March and April this year. The survey of alerts was released on Monday (6th) by the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), responsible for the Deforestation Detection System in real time, known as Deter. In ...
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A lesson in Diplomacy for Barack and David
David Cameron went to Washington to meet President Obama and predictably, one of the first soundbites to come out of the meeting was hawkish rhetoric over the latest war zone Washington and London have crafted through a cynical and cowardly manipulation of exterior forces: in Syria. Once again, the FUKUS Axis is in action behind the ...
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Who funds terrorism and why
Nearly every day in one or another country explosions are heard and innocent blood is shed. Global terrorism has become a major problem of the early ...
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Despite the trillion dollars spent on the drug war the United States continues living with the epidemic of heroin use. According to the annual report of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health Institute there was a significant increase in traffickin
The U.S. has already spent $1 trillion on the drug war, but drug traffic increases in the country by Eduardo Graça - Despite the trillion dollars spent on the drug war, the United States continues living with the epidemic of heroin use. According to the annual report of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health Institute (NSDUH), there was a significant increase in trafficking throughout ...
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Why the West fears Putin
Russia's Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, is a good Orthodox Christian but you would never know that from the way the West portrays him in the media. They have their own reasons for hiding this from everyone. Russia seeks expansion not as the atheistic monster from the Soviet Union, but as a Christian nation that overcame a turbulent and horrific past. Christians in Russia have survived ...
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Ah Mr Fogle weve been expecting you The case of the hapless wig-wearing American diplomat expelled from Moscow is not as simple as it first seemed
In the long and sinuous history of international espionage, the one thing you can absolutely rely on is that very little is as it first appears. And so it is with Ryan Christopher Fogle, third secretary in the political department of the US Embassy in Moscow, comedy wig owner, and, apparently, a man who thinks it wise to hang around near park entrances at midnight with EUR100,000 (85,000) in ...
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Sir Alex Ferguson moves upstairs
Sir Alex Ferguson, 71, has announced his retirement from competitive football after 26 years as manager of Manchester United FC but will remain involved in the game as director and ambassador of the club. The successor? Mourinho? Try David Moyes, who in eleven years at Everton has won ...
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Plane with over 130 aboard catches fire on landing at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport
Russia A Boeing 737-400 passenger plane's landing gear caught fire just after the landing at Moscow's Vnukovo airport, prompting five firefighting vehicles to rush at the scene while the staff evacuated the passengers. The UTair airline plane had arrived in Moscow from the southern Russian city of ...
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Aussies and pope-like Putin praised
WHILE you were sleeping Prince Harry had some budding praise for a bunch of Australians and Gerard Depardieu believes Vladimir Putin is ...
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Video Plane catches fire on Moscow runway
A plane carrying 140 people caught on fire when landing at an airport in Moscow, Russia. No one was injured. Video shows passengers fleeing the aircraft via emergency exits, then jumping from the wing, while firefighters attempt to extinguish the ...
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Tales of fish legs and dinosaur feathers
The recent news is scientists have discovered that some snippets of DNA from a fish, they once thought was extinct, can cause mice to grow limbs. This is wrongly being interpreted and hailed by the mass media as evidence that fish evolved legs. Isn't it very interesting that the fish they got the DNA from doesn't have any legs? These snippets of DNA from the fish seem to be ...
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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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