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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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NBC orders reality-themed drama series Siberia
NBC says it plans to start airing this summer "Siberia," a 1-hour drama series about contestants competing on a reality show in the former Soviet Union. "In 1908, a meteor hit deep into the remote Siberian territory of Tunguska. Now, more than 100 years later, 16 contestants descend on Tunguska unknowing of the land's mysterious past. When a contestant is badly injured and ...
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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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Car bombs in south Russia leave at least 8 people dead
MOSCOW--At least eight people were killed and more than a dozen injured on Monday in twin car blasts outside a court building in the southern Russian city of Makhachkala in the restless region of ...
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ITE Groups first-half profit falls 15 on rising costs lack of 2 Russia events
Corporate event planner ITE Group PLC reported a 15-percent fall in first-half profit, hurt by rising overhead costs and the absence of two key biennial events in ...
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Russian tycoon on trial over TV punch-up gets boost from witness
MOSCOW (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 prosecutors. Lebedev, the financial backer of Britain's Independent and London Evening Standard newspapers and co-owner of a prominent Russian paper that is critical of the ...
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Anzhi Takes Bronze in Russia’s Football Premier League
MOSCOW, May 20 (R-Sport) - Anzhi Makhachkala cemented a best-ever third place in the Russian Premier League on Monday after Samuel Eto'o's goal gave Guus Hiddink's side a 2-1 win over Lokomotiv Moscow. The Cameroonian forward nodded home at the back post on 74 minutes to give the billionaire-backed side three points that take them out of range of Spartak Moscow and FC Kuban, the ...
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NBC Acquires Siberia Drama Centered on Reality Contestants for Summer
, president of program planning, strategy and research for NBC Entertainment. "We believe a scripted series that offers an insightful behind-the-scenes view of how a reality concept comes together - especially when things don’t go according to plan - will connect with our audience in a very satisfying ...
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NASAs 19-Gigapixel Filmstrip of the Earth from Russia to South Africa
series of 56 images shortly thereafter. NASA stitched the pictures together into one long strip, which you can tour in the video above. As always, satellite images testify to the wonder of the biosphere. This particular set of pictures, though, is a simple meditation on the diversity of conditions on Earth, and the mark that humanity has left on the ...
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Keep the Pressure on Putin
What can Germany do? Russia is a key strategic ally for Germany, with important relations spanning business, energy, and geo-politics. German politicians and diplomats always have to keep these aspects in mind. Equally, international human rights standards provide part of the bedrock of German foreign policy and form the basis of co-operation with Russia and ...
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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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