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Moscow safer than New York Russian minister
Russian police reforms have proved so successful that, in some areas, Moscow outperforms New York on safety, Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev has boasted while on a visit to the US. Kolokoltsev made the claims during a meeting in New York late Monday with New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly. "We have compared the crime situation in Moscow and New York, factoring in ...
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India expects greater backing from Russia in UNSC quest
India, with its "time-tested relationship" with Russia, expects greater backing from Moscow in its quest for permanent membership of the UN Security Council, a diplomatic officical said here Tuesday. "India's interest in securing permanent membership of UN Security Council is supported by Russia, but there is now an expectation that our Russian friends need to do more - and be seen to be doing ...
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Russia foils terrorist attack on Moscow
Russian counter-terrorism agents have foiled a terrorist attack on Moscow, killing two of the plotters and arrested another. The National Anti-Terrorism Committee said the terrorist group was located in a house in the town of Orekhovo-Zuyevo, east of the capital. According to the BBC, the suspects are said to be Russian citizens who had undergone training in the Afghanistan-Pakistan ...
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Russias Putin out to silence independent voices pollster
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a meeting on shipbuilding industries in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, May 21, ...
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Sports Vivian to miss Moscow championships
Athletics fans around the world will miss what has been an exciting clash between Cheruiyot and Ethiopian rivals -- Olympic champions Tirunesh Dibaba (10,000m), Meseret Defar (5,000m) and Meselech Melkamu, the former Africa 10,000m silver medalist. Cheruiyot, a Chief Inspector of Police attached to the Criminal Investigations Unit (CID), said she will have a rare season off to be withn family, ...
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Putin hopes his talks with S Ossetian leader would help solve some of S Ossetia’s problems
SOCHI, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday he hopes his talks with his South Ossetian counterpart Leonid Tibilov would help solve some problems facing the ...
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Visiting a foreign country can be just as frightening as it is an exciting adventure. Even though you get the experience the wonder of immersing yourself in a previously unfamiliar culture you also have to experience the downsides. Nobody wants to perpet
Visiting a foreign country can be just as frightening as it is an exciting adventure. Even though you get the experience the wonder of immersing yourself in a previously unfamiliar culture, you also have to experience the downsides. Nobody wants to perpetuate the Ugly American stereotype by not knowing the basics. If you aren't fluent in a country's native language, you will struggle ...
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Moscow St Petersburg vie in Impressionist tug-of-war
State Museum of New Western Art housed a collection of more than 500 Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works including scenes of fin-de-siecle Parisian life and more than 50 early works ...
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Wealth Fund Trio Each Investing $500 Million in VTB
expects to close its $3.3 billion offering of new shares by the end of the week, with three sovereign wealth funds investing about $500 million each, chief executive Andrei Kostin said. Azerbaijan's state oil fund SOFAZ, Norges Bank Investment Management and Qatar Holding are buying more than 50 percent of the offering of 2.5 trillion VTB shares on the Moscow stock market at 4.1 kopecks ...
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Lavrov Blasts Vote Theft at Eurovision
Jessica Gow / Reuters Dina Garipova of Russia performing at the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, on Saturday. Russia's point man on Syria and on its relations with the U.S. on Tuesday turned his attention toward a subject close to Russian hearts - alleged vote theft at the Eurovision Song Contest. Foreign ...
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Brussels intensifies diplomatic efforts for the implementation of the new agreement on Kosovo signed by Belgrade and Pristina on April 19. The head of European diplomacy Catherine Ashton has recently said that the parties had been invited to take part
From the outset, the Serbian authorities have not hidden their interest in a speedy resolution of the Kosovo problem. In the end, Prime Minister Ivica Dacic and the leader of the self-proclaimed state of Kosovo failed to reach an agreement to settle the long-standing conflict. Thus, Belgrade expects to be able to join the European Union this summer. The consequences of the attempt to pass ...
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If the latest development in Somalia gives you the feeling of being trapped in the Twilight Zone - somewhere between relative security and renewed bloodshed - you are not alone. The formation of Jubbaland State is proving as highly volatile as
If the latest development in Somalia gives you the feeling of being trapped in the Twilight Zone - somewhere between relative security and renewed bloodshed - you are not alone. Due to the array of competing internal and external interest groups and the federal government's lack of clear grand strategy or capacity to assert its authority, the formation of "Jubbaland State" is ...
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Fish communicate in sign language
It turns out that there is some kind of fish sign language understood by the representatives of various species and invertebrates. Biologists from the UK figured this out by observing the behavior of coral grouper and salmon. Using an interesting alarm, fish predators informed their neighbors about the location of prey they could not ...
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Security Council chief to deliver Putin’s reply to Obama
SOCHI, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, who has arrived in the United States on a visit, will deliver to President Barack Obama a message from Russian President Vladimir ...
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Russia probes Moscow terror attack ‘plot’
Russia was Tuesday set to question the sole survivor of a deadly police raid outside Moscow that authorities said had prevented a major attack in the capital.The operation in the Moscow region town of Orekhovo-Zuyevo took place shortly after twin car bombs killed four and injured more than 40 in the Dagestan region, a province bordering Chechnya to the east."The decisive actions of the law ...
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Moscow Seeks $6.45Bln in Metro Cars
The Moscow City Hall's transportation department on Tuesday announced plans to collect bids for a $6.45 billion contract to supply and further service 2,500 to 3,500 metro cars. A tender for the cars, which are to be delivered in 2015-2020, will be held in August. The contract is the first of its kind for the Moscow metro and constitutes an approach to private-public partnership that has ...
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Moscow Attack Foiled Two Suspects Killed In Shootout
Sky News reports that two terror suspects were killed and a third captured after a shootout that took place in the town of Orekhovo-Zuyevo. The town is 85km east of Moscow, but Russian intelligence claims that the three people were planning on attacking Moscow in an unspecified manner. Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee released the following ...
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Pakistan Roots Seen in Moscow Plot
Suspected militants targeted this week in a deadly raid outside Moscow as they purportedly plotted an attack on the city received training in the troublesome border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan, law enforcement said Tuesday - an allegation that experts called a reminder of the threat posed by Russian radicals coached and sometimes financed from abroad. Special forces officers killed ...
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Booted U.S. Lawyer Backed Magnitsky
The lack of an official explanation for the abrupt expulsion from Russia of U.S. lawyer and former Justice Department official Thomas Firestone earlier this month has led to a flurry of speculation about what may have prompted it. Firestone, an expert on corruption in Russian law enforcement agencies who worked as a lawyer for the Moscow office of the Baker & McKenzie law firm, was detained ...
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Nikiforov Says States Weight Is Behind IT
Nikolai Nikiforov told business representatives at the Leaders' Club forum on Tuesday. Information technology is important for the Russian economy, Nikiforov said. It accounts for 4.6 percent of the nation's GDP and is growing three times faster than the economy overall. He said that the ministry is committed to push ahead with introduction of electronic identification cards, mobile ...
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К концу сессии российские быки взобрались на локальный максимум
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ФСФР зарегистрировала допвыпуск обыкновенных акций дальневосточного завода Звезда на 13 млрд руб.
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Д.мантуров Вопрос О Приватизации Оск Откладывается Как Минимум На 3-4 Года
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Норникель может привлечь синдицированный кредит до 2 млрд долл. для рефинансирования обязательств.
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Дочка Межрегионсоюзэнерго - Вологдаэнергосбыт - подала иск к МРСК Северо-Запада на 126 млн руб.
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Moscow's biggest development will keep city on the map
Moscow is the heart of Russia, the capital city account for 20% of the country’s GDP and a new development taking place in the city, which was first conceived in 1995 and will take another several years to complete, looks set to become the heart of the capital.
In 2010, three of the thirteen main buildings that make up the Moscow International Business Center (MIBC) were completed, providing visual evidence of progress to a huge project that is expected to cost over $12 billion and involves a plethora of investors and development companies. Read more
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