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Russia Will Avoid Recession This Year – Shuvalov
MOSCOW, May 23 (RIA Novosti) – Russia is demonstrating "insufficient" economic growth rates but the country will be able to avoid even a technical recession this year, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said on Thursday. "We consider GDP growth of 2 to 3 percent to be insufficient for us," Shuvalov said, but added that "there will be no recession this ...
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Russian court denies parole for punk group
In this Oct. 1, 2012 file photo, feminist punk group Pussy Riot members, from left, Maria Alekhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova sit in a glass cage at a court room in Moscow, Russia. Alekhina went on hunger strike May 22, 2013, in protest at not being allowed to attend her own parole hearing in Perm ...
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Tanzania Makes $206 Million Atomic Tax Claim
Tanzania is demanding almost $206 million in taxes from Russian state uranium company ARMZ, which has won a license to build the East African country's first uranium mine, the energy minister said on Thursday. Atomredmetzoloto, or ARMZ is the mining arm of Rosatom, which also builds nuclear reactors. Tanzania's tax claim relates to the Mkuju River project in southern Tanzania, which ...
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Luxoft Files for IPO in New York
Russian software developer Luxoft has filed for an initial public offering in New York under the ticker LXFT. According to a regulatory filing, the company is hoping to raise as much as $80 million. The amount, however, may change in the future. Luxoft's parent company, IBS Group, chose UBS, Credit Suisse Group, JPMorgan Chase & ...
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Audi Launch Shows Promise of Premium Segment
Daniel Kolodin / For MT Audi executives presenting a new entrant on the growing premium car market in Russia on Thursday. Audi on Thursday presented a new premium model in the country as sales of this class of cars are bucking the downward trend on the domestic auto market. Sales of the new A3 sedan will begin toward the end of September in a bid to win over clients that might be ...
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Paul McCartney supports Pussy Riot in letter to Russian judge
posted online , McCartney asks for parole to be granted to Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, currently serving two-year sentences for an impromptu protest in Moscow's main cathedral. McCartney wrote that he was making the request "in a spirit of friendship for my many Russian acquaintances who, like me, believe in treating people - all people, with compassion and ...
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ИК Велес Капитал В четверг российский рынок оказался под давлением
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Rietumu В ближайшие дни цены на нефть Brent могут начать тестирование уровня 9876 долл.
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ИГ АТОН Российские фондовые индексы показали отрицательную динамику
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Фг кс По Итогам Дня Индекс Ммвб Потерял Около 35
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Alexander Lebedev to call martial arts expert to testify
Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev is to call a martial arts expert to testify in his hooliganism trial in an attempt to prove he did not hit a property tycoon with serious blows during a TV ...
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Estonian government approves of draft border treaty with Russia
TALLINN, May 23 (Itar-Tass) - Estonia’s Cabinet of Ministers on Thursday approved of a draft border treaty with Russia, the government’s press-service has ...
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Russia to evacuate its North Pole - 40 station because of decaying ice
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Bolotnaya case continues Russian police search homes of more opposition activists
Russia Russian police have searched the homes of two opposition activists as part of an investigation into the criminal case against protesters allegedly involved in unrest during the anti-Kremlin rally on Moscow's Bolotnaya Square on May 6 last year. Early Thursday, after law enforcers searched the home of Vasily Kuzmin - the head of the Moscow branch of the Left Front movement - he was ...
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Serviceman Suspected of Throwing Kenyan Teen out of Window
MOSCOW, May 23 (RIA Novosti) – An attempted murder case has been launched against a serviceman suspected of throwing a Kenyan teenager out of a fourth-floor window, the Investigative Committee’s chief military department said on Thursday. A 19-year-old Kenyan woman was found on the ground near an apartment block in eastern Moscow on Sunday morning, having apparently fallen from one ...
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Punk Group Pussy Riot Case
Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney has written letters to Russian authorities in support of two members of Russian punk group Pussy Riot, who were jailed last August on offical charges of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, his website ...
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Russia Set to Evacuate Drifting Polar Research Station SP-40
MOSCOW, May 23 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Natural Resources Minister Sergei Donskoi ordered preparation of an evacuation plan on Thursday for the country’s North Pole 40 (SP-40) drifting polar research station, due to the break-up of the ice floe it is located on. The break-up of the ice floe poses a threat not only to the station itself and the 16 scientists working there, but could also ...
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Russian S-300 Deliveries to Syria ‘Destabilizing’ - Kerry
TEL AVIV, May 23 (RIA Novosti) – The sale by Russia of S-300 air defense systems to Syria would be "destabilizing" for the region, US Secretary State John Kerry said on Thursday. "S-300 missiles coming from Russia, or other countries, Iranian missiles, are destabilizing to the region," Kerry said. "The United States is committed, not only in its defense of Israel, ...
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New Parliament to be Built in Central Moscow – Kremlin
MOSCOW, May 23 (RIA Novosti) - A new parliamentary center will be built in central Moscow, presidential property management administration chief Vladimir Kozhin said on Thursday. The idea of building a parliamentary compound to house both the upper and lower houses as well as their administrative and support services, which are currently scattered around Moscow at over 10 locations, has been ...
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Second Pussy Riot Member Denied Parole
MOSCOW, May 23 (RIA Novosti) – Jailed Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina was denied parole on Thursday in a hearing that took place without her presence. ...
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Angara Rocket Displayed at Khrunichev Center Prior to Shipment
Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center It took eight months to assemble this lightweight Angara space rocket. Watch this RIA Novosti video which shows how specialists from the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center prepare the rocket for delivery to the Plesetsk Space ...
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Russian Police Raid Homes of Leftist Activists
MOSCOW, May 23 (RIA Novosti) – Police carried out searches on Thursday at the homes of two members of Russia’s Left Front movement, which played a key role in last year’s mass protests against the rule of President Vladimir Putin. Police detained Vasily Kuzmin, head of the Moscow branch of Left Front, and raided the home of Denis Kuraishi, a former bodyguard for the ...
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Russian Police Fired After Road Activists Skirmish
MOSCOW, May 23 (RIA Novosti) - Two police officers in Russia’s second largest city St. Petersburg were fired after failing to intervene when members of a motorists advocacy group were assaulted and beaten, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday. On the night of May 19, activists from the Blue Buckets group got into a conflict with several unidentified individuals in St. Petersburg’s ...
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Missile Defense Obstructs Nuclear Forces Cuts - General
MOSCOW, May 23 (RIA Novosti) – The United States’ insistence on pursuing a missile defense system in Europe is standing in the way of further cuts to Russia’s nuclear deterrent forces, Russia’s top general said on Thursday at an international security conference in Moscow. "Russia will cut its strategic attack force only when it is certain that the United ...
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Court Freezes Rosbank CEO’s Assets in Bribery Probe
MOSCOW, May 23 (RAPSI) – A Moscow court froze the assets of Rosbank CEO Vladimir Golubkov on Wednesday at the request of investigators involved in a $1.5 million bribery probe, a court spokesperson said. Rosbank, one of Russia's top 10 banks in terms of assets, is the Russian subsidiary of France’s Societe Generale banking group. "Golubkov's house in the Moscow ...
Moscow Spotlight
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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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