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Aide Obama Putin to meet twice over security missile defense
Barack Obama will meet twice in the next four months, a Kremlin aide said Friday. Yury Ushakov said the first meeting would in June during the Group of Eight summit in Northern Ireland and the second will take place before the Group of 20 meeting in Russia in September, RIA Novosti reported. The meetings are expected to discuss proposals by Putin that were presented in a letter to Obama ...
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US Lawmakers Head to Russia Will Ask About Boston Bomber
Brothers Tamerlan Tsarnaev, left, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are accused of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing. Tamerlan was closely monitored while in Dagestan last ...
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Arctic Ice Melting Too Fast to Measure Russian Researchers Find the Hard Way
A Russian deep-diving miniature submarine is lowered from the research vessel Akademik Fyodorov moments before performing a dive in the Arctic Ocean beneath the ice at the North Pole in August 2007. (Vladimir ...
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Putin Wants Better Russian Movies
SOCHI, May 26 (RIA Novosti) – Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed on Friday to continue supporting the domestic film industry, but called on Russian filmmakers to produce movies that promote patriotic and moral values. "I have said many times that the state can help produce movies, but it cannot force people to go and watch them," Putin said at a meeting on the development of ...
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8.2 Quake Hits Eastern Russia No Deaths Reported
USGS ), the epicenter of the quake was located just off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, in the far eastern part of the country. The massive quake was followed by a smaller (but still very large) magnitude 6.8 aftershock further out in the Sea of Okhotsk. The quakes occurred deep in the Earth, with both centered at a depth of more than 600 km (about 372 miles). Neither the ...
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74 illegal Chinese workers detained by Russian police
The Chinese embassy in Moscow confirmed to the Global Times on Friday that Russian police authorities had detained Thursday 74 Chinese workers working illegally in Russia's Volgograd region.The embassy officials who were quickly informed about the incident arrived in Volgograd on Friday to negotiate with Russian authorities about the issue, a press officer from the embassy told the Global ...
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Chinese workers probed for illegally working in Russia
/enpproperty--> Russian authorities investigated nearly 200 Chinese workers this week who are suspected of working in the country illegally. Experts called for a better-regulated labor exporting system to secure a better working environment for Chinese workers in Russia. As many as 74 Chinese workers in the Volgograd region, who authorities said have no identity documents, have been detained ...
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Moscow Welcomes N.Korea’s Bid to Return to Nuclear Talks
return to six-party talks on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula as a "positive development," a senior Russian diplomat said Friday. China’s Xinhua news agency and its South Korean equivalent Yonhap reported on Friday that Choe Ryong Hae, a special envoy for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and reaffirmed that Pyongyang "is ...
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North Koreas nuclear program
Russia regards reports that North Korea is willing to return to six-party talks on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula as a "positive development," a senior Russian diplomat said ...
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Avrora May Go for Repairs in September – Russian Navy
MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s legendary cruiser Avrora, a symbol of the October 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, will most likely be moved for repair work in September this year, a Navy spokesman said on Friday. "The Avrora is expected to be sent for repair work in September 2013," the official said, adding that the work will be carried out in an as yet undecided ...
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Russias Facebook Banned by Mistake
Russia's leading online social network was briefly banned on Friday, in a move dismissed as a "mistake" but which follows intensifying official pressure on the company ...
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Russia to pack up Arctic ice station after cracks develop in ice floe
AFFANASSI MAKOVNEV/AFP/GETTY IMAGES - An undated image shows two trucks used by the Russia-Canada Arctic exploration expedition members cross the North Pole. The explorers crossed the North Pole from the Russian archipelago Severnaya Zemlya to Resolute Bay, ...
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Magnitude 6.7 earthquake shook Sakhalin region of eastern Russia
Magnitude 6.7 earthquake shook Sakhalin region of eastern Russia MOSCOW - Magnitude 6.7 earthquake shook eastern Russia on Friday. The earthquake was located in the Sea of Okhotsk.According to information released by Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, the epicentre of the quake was located at a depth of 600 kilometres in the Sea of Okhotsk.The statement added, the earthquake was felt in ...
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Russia Pledges 1.7 Bln Euros for Serbian South Stream
BOCHAROV RUCHEI (Sochi), May 24 (RIA Novosti) – Russia will provide 1.7 billion euros to finance the construction of Serbia’s stretch of the South Stream gas pipeline that will carry Russian natural gas through the Black Sea to Bulgaria and then on to Greece, Italy and Austria, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday. "The Russian side undertakes to finance that ...
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Liquor Sales in Russia Drop 23 in Jan-April
MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti) – Production of vodka and other spirits in Russia dropped 23.3 percent in the first four months of 2013 year on year to 5.7 million decaliters, the Federal Statistics Service (Rosstat) said in a report on Friday. Beer production declined 10.7 percent compared to the same period last year, to some 78.2 million decaliters. Production of wine rose 19.1 percent ...
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Russian Minister Urges Completion of 2 New Radars
KALININGRAD, May 24 (RIA Novosti) – Construction of Russia’s two new antimissile radars – one in the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad and the other in Siberia’s Irkutsk region – should be complete by the end of next year, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Friday. The minister, who was visiting the Voronezh-DM-class radar station near Kaliningrad, said that on ...
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Time to Avoid Russia ETFs
Russian stocks have on a decline so far this year and they have been very volatile too. Low investment and structural factors are leading to the slow growth of the economy, which in turn have hurt the stock market. Russia is the world's top producer of crude oil and has more natural gas than any other country on the planet, ensuring that it will be a top player in the energy space for ...
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World Briefing | Asia Earthquake in Russias Far East Prompts Evacuations
An 8.3-magnitude earthquake struck ...
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Под тяжестью медведей рынок провис до недельного минимума
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Чистый Убыток Тгк-6 По Мсфо В 2012Г. Снизился На 195 - До 378122 Млн Руб.
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Акционеры ВымпелКома практически полностью изменили состав совета директоров.
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Торги На Российском Рынке Акций Завершились Снижением Ведущих Индексов.
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ИК Велес Капитал На долговом рынке сохраняется боковая динамика
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В Секторе Российских Adr Отмечалась Негативная Динамика
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Russia to cut the budget of CIA
At times, though, Western publications comment on the statements from Russia after they take place. This may mean that Western intelligence services may have missed a new Russian ...
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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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