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Russian billionaires amazing $300M yacht calls at Port Everglades | Photos
Like a gold-plated visitor from Planet Money, a strange ship has arrived among us: a glittering $300 million mega-yacht that resembles a futuristic star cruiser, or Bond villian's seagoing lair. The "A," a 394-foot-long behemoth, boasts walls covered in white sting-ray hides or hand-stitched calf's leather, according to the Wall Street Journal. One can relax in chairs made ...
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Russias Suhkoi jet delivers first Superjet to Mexicos Interjet
MEXICO CITY, June 18 | Tue Jun 18, 2013 5:13pm EDT MEXICO CITY, June 18 (Reuters) - Russian planemaker Sukhoi delivered its first Superjet 100 plane to Mexico's Interjet airline at the Paris Airshow, the Mexican company said on Tuesday. Another 19 aircraft from Russia's first post-Soviet civil plane project are due to be delivered in the coming months to Interjet, which is ...
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British woman raped in Moscow nightclub run by bikers group
Russian police are investigating a British woman's claims that she was raped in a Moscow nightclub founded by the Night Wolves, the bikers' group that has strong ties to President Vladimir ...
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Russia moves to same-sex adoption ban
Russian lawmakers have backed a bill that would place tough restrictions on adoption to countries where same-sex marriages are legal, following France's vote last month allowing such unions.The bill could ban people in over a dozen countries from adopting Russian orphans even if they are single, according to an amendment that passed in the key second reading in the Duma lower house of ...
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Putin warns on arms for rebels
Barack Obama that the US was ready to arm the rebels despite Moscow's opposition.Mr Cameron said Assad had "blood on his hands" and insisted it was "unthinkable" the dictator could play any part in the nation's ...
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G8 calls for urgent Syria peace talks despite Russia split
G8 leaders on Tuesday called for a peace conference on Syria to be held as soon as possible but deep divisions remained as Russia stood by its embattled Middle East ...
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Russia evacuates thousands after blasts at army munitions store
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Some 6,000 people were evacuated in Russia's south-western Samara region on Tuesday after ammunition explosions shook a military training area, the Emergencies Ministry said. The ministry said five explosions initially took place at the site on Tuesday evening, triggering a fire that was still causing blasts hours later. Footage aired on Russia's state television ...
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Russias purchase of French Mistral-class warship
Russia will base its French-made Mistral-class amphibious assault ships in the Far East ports of Vladivostok and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky when they enter service, a senior Defense Ministry official said in an ...
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Russia frustrates G8’s Syria hopes
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland - G8 leaders struggled to find the ';common ground'; on Syria that had been hoped for by their British hosts, with the results of Tuesday's summit confirming the predictions of many ...
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Russia Starts Delivering $1Bln Arms Package to Azerbaijan
Russia has fulfilled an order made by Azerbaijan in 2011-12 for military hardware worth up to $1 billion, Vedomosti reported Tuesday. The shipment consisted of 94 T-90S tanks, about 100 BMP-3 armored personnel carriers, 18 self-propelled Msta-S howitzers, 18 multiple launch rocket systems, 18 self-propelled cannons and six flame-throwing systems, the newspaper said, citing a source in the ...
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Ammunition fire rages at Russian military base no injuries reported but 4000 evacuated
MOSCOW - Russia's emergency services say exploding ammunition at a military depot has set off a fire that in turn is causing more shells to explode. Emergency services spokesman Mikhail Metyolkin said no injuries have been reported, but about 4,000 people have been evacuated from villages around the Chapaevsk military depot in the Samara region of southern Russia. No cause has yet been ...
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Video Harper praises shift in Russias attitude on Syria
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is praising the outcome of the G8 summit in Northern Ireland, saying it was "very different" from what he expected. Harper says the countries, including Russia, are all on the same page about ...
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U.S. Russia Agree to Cooperate on Cyber Nukes
By Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, June 18, 2013 Cooperation at many levels will help to reduce misunderstandings between the United States and Russia, the leaders of both countries said after meetings in Northern Ireland yesterday. Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin agreed to cooperate on a number of different aspects of the bilateral relationship. The men ...
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Russia Pays Off $2B Soviet Debt to Serbia Slovakia
MOSCOW, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russia has paid off a $2 billion Soviet-era debt to Serbia and Slovakia, the Russian Finance Ministry said Tuesday. Russia’s $1.7 billion debt to Slovakia and $288.8 million debt to Serbia originated when it assumed responsibility for Soviet obligations under trade and economic cooperation with Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, the ministry said in a ...
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US Photographer Captures Soviet Past Lithuanian Life in Rural Discos
Seattle photographer Andrew Miksys was in the eastern Lithuanian village of Svencionys in 2000 when he spotted young people walking into a Soviet-era cultural center. "I followed them and found there was a disco there," Miksys, 43, told RIA Novosti in a telephone interview from the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius. The discovery planted the seed for a decade-long project in which ...
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Russia Vows to Crack Down on Offshore Zones
LOUGH ERNE, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russia will develop a national plan to deal with offshore tax havens, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday. "We are in the process of adopting legislation to disclose the end beneficiary," he told a news conference after a G8 summit in Northern Ireland, adding that he would sign the bill into law as soon as it is passed by parliament. ...
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David Cameron prepares for G8 summit with early morning dip... but Vladimir Putin did not join him
When you are hosting a world leaders' summit surrounded by water, there is only one way to start the day. David Cameron duly took the plunge at 6am today when he went for a swim in Lough Erne in County ...
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Sochi Games projects will lose billions top Russian bank official says
Vladimir Dmitriev, Chairman of Vnesheconombank (VEB, State Corporation Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs), made blunt comments about the Sochi Games on Tuesday. (Junko Kimura/Getty Images ...
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China detains Russians suspected of smuggling 213 bear paws
China has detained two Russian men on suspicions of trying to smuggle 213 bear paws into the country. Customs officials made the discovery in the northern Inner Mongolia region in May, but released details about the case Tuesday, The Sun reports. The paws - which are believed to be from brown bears -- were found hidden inside the wheels of the van and spare tires. Sales of bear body parts are ...
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Russia advances bill banning adoption by same-sex foreign couples
Russian legislators unanimously approved amendments banning adoption of Russian children by same-sex couples in other countries. The draft law and its related amendments were passed by Russia's lower house, the State Duma, in a first reading April 16 and a second reading Tuesday. A final reading and vote is scheduled for June 21, the Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported. The recent ...
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FUKUS Cameron refers to Russian regime on Russia Day
"Regime". A wonderful word conjured up by the biased media controlled by the FUKUS Axis (France-UK-US). One of the wonderful list of words conjured up to create negative images, often associated to "dictators", always the enemies of the lobbies which control western governments, even unelected ones. Google Cameron and Banking. Diplomacy rules David Cameron stated in the ...
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Birth rate in Moscow sets all-time record
Birth rate continues to grow In Moscow. Last year, the birth rate in the Russian capital set a new record for the last twenty years, Acting Mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin said Thursday. Speaking at the concert held to celebrate the Day of Medical Worker, Sobyanin said that more than 130,000 babies were born in Moscow last year. The number set a new record over the past 20 years. Meanwhile, ...
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New Pact Reduces Risk of US-Russia Conflict in Cyberspace
In a joint statement issued by the White House, U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin call the pact "essential to safeguarding the security" of their countries. The agreement, signed Monday at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland, aims to reduce the risk of conflict in cyberspace by creating direct, real-time communication about possible incidents. The two ...
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Russia leads stifling democracy in Eurasia Report
Russia -- Democracy and civil society in Eurasia are increasingly under fire from autocratic rulers seeking to maintain their grasp on power in a quickly changing world, according to a new report by the US think-tank Freedom House. Writing in its 2013 "Nations in Transit" report, the democracy and human rights watchdog found that leaders of Eurasian countries from Russia and Ukraine ...
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Russia blast Multiple explosions rock arsenal storing 13mln shells
Russia Large explosions rock an ammunition depot in Russia's Samara Region, where over 13 million shells are stored. The police have started evacuation of the nearby communities. Multiple artillery shells keep exploding at an ammunition depot near the city of Chapaevsk, a local police spokesman told RIA. "It is still not possible to halt the self-destruction, or to enter the ...
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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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