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NY to Host US-Russia ‘Battles On Ice’
WASHINGTON, May 24 (By Maria Young for RIA Novosti) – Next month firefighters from New York, Boston and Russia will trade in their flame-resistant gear for shoulder pads and ice skates and team up against each other – and some of the best known names in hockey – for the third annual ‘Battles On Ice,’ a two-part annual competition in New York that organizers say ...
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Thousands Expected at Marches Against Monsanto Around World
WASHINGTON, May 24 (RIA Novosti) – From a town called Moscow in the state of Idaho to the shadow of the Kremlin in the better known Moscow, protests are scheduled around the world Saturday against biotechnology giant Monsanto, which the demonstrators say is turning a blind eye to the potentially deadly effects of genetically modified foods produced from seeds it sells globally. ...
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Russia says Syrian government agrees to peace talks but skepticism persists on both sides
Demonstrators shout Islamic slogans as they wave Syrian opposition flags during a protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad at the courtyard of Fatih mosque in Istanbul May 24, 2013. (MURAD ...
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Main News of May 24
* Vasily Klyukin, a Russian businessman living in Monaco, paid 1.2 million euros ($1.5 mln) to board a Virgin Galactic spaceship in a seat next to Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio, Sky News television reported. ...
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Russian Military Orders 6 Be-200 Amphibious Planes
MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti) – The Russian Defense Ministry has signed a contract with the Beriev Aircraft Company for the purchase of six Beriev Be-200 amphibious planes, Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) said on Friday. "The contract is worth 8.4 billion rubles [$268 million]," UAC said in a statement. "The first two planes will be basic Be-200ChS models, ...
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Obama Fails to Return Marine’s Salute
WASHINGTON, May 24 (RIA Novosti) – United States President Barack Obama committed a military faux pas on Friday, when he broke with tradition and didn’t return the salute of a Marine standing guard at the door of the presidential helicopter Marine One. A White House press pool report noted that "a few White House regulars were atwitter" when Obama walked up the steps of ...
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South Stream gas pipeline
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 ...
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Back to the USSR Ordinary Things in an Extraordinary Museum
Museum of Industrial Culture The Museum of Industrial Culture is an amazing place where Maxim guns nestle side by side with children’s toys, and the first computers are on display together with milk cartons. RIA Novosti presents a video tour of the museum, which showcases some much loved items from the familiar and yet remote Soviet ...
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Chechen Leader Kadyrov in Cat Fight With Socialite
MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti) – Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov entered into a bizarre public row with a Russian socialite on Friday over whose cat was the "most beautiful." "Dear friends! Me and Tina Kandelaki are having an argument over whose cat is more beautiful. I think it’s mine. What do you think?" tweeted Kadyrov, a former militant fighter who has frequently ...
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Foreign Defense Officials Visit Russian Military Base
MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti) – Members of foreign delegations attending an international conference on European security on Friday visited a military base near Moscow hosting a motorized infantry division. Defense officials and military experts from Armenia Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, the United States and Zimbabwe and were shown a ...
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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 ...
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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