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CSKA Moscow becomes best Russian football club in this season in UEFA rating
GENEVA, May 26 (Itar-Tass) - CSKA Moscow became the best Russian football club in this football season according to the rating of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). CSKA is ranked at the 18th position in the UEFA ...
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Female Suicide Bomber Injures At Least 18 in Dagestan
A female suicide bomber blew herself up in the southern Russian region of Dagestan on Saturday, injuring at least 18, including two children and five police officers, authorities said. The attacker was later identified as a widow of two Islamic radicals killed by security forces. It was the first suicide bombing in Dagestan since the Boston Marathon attacks last month. In Saturday's ...
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Syrian opposition unity talks hit snags before peace conference
Demonstrators 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. The sign reads, ''Stop monster ...
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VKontakte Banned By Mistake
The accidental inclusion of popular social network Vkontakte on a list of banned online resources on Friday was "caused by human error." Vladimir Pikov, a Federal Mass Media Inspection Service official, told Digit.ru that they wanted to block links to several other potentially harmful sites found on Vkontakte, but that blacklisting the entire service was a mistake. Vkontakte has ...
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Hacker Forum Reveals Pragmatic Use of Special Talents
A Moscow-based security firm demonstrated how to hack an ATM without any additional tools, to a large crowd of hackers, security experts and software vendors, gathered for the annual Positive Hack Days forum in Moscow. "You don't need much to take control of some ATMs," Olga Kochetova, a security expert from Positive Technologies told The Moscow Times on Friday. "Some ...
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Cyprus a Contender to Be Major Supplier of European Gas
BRUSSELS/NICOSIA - Cyprus could use its reserves of gas to meet up to 40 percent of Europe's additional gas needs over the next decade, helping to curb the European Union's reliance on Russia, the head of the island's national gas firm said. Europe has hopes that Eastern Mediterranean gas reserves can help to diversify its supply sources, as well as easing Cyprus's economic ...
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Fiscal Discipline Wavering Despite Budget Rule
Just last year, Russia's government reimposed a rule meant to restrain spending and borrowing and channel substantial amounts of the country's energy revenues into its wealth fund. Economists say this signals that fiscal credibility will lose out to ...
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Interpol Rejects Russian Request for Browder
Interpol has refused to include British-based fund manager William Browder on its international search list after deciding that Russia's tax evasion case against him is "of a predominantly political nature." Inclusion in the Lyon, France-based Interpol's database would have facilitated Russia's request for member countries to monitor Browder's whereabouts, enabling ...
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Act of God strikes Oklahoma over 100 killed many of them children
The number of victims of the devastating tornado that struck the U.S. state of Oklahoma, continues to rise as the rescue operation goes on. At nightfall (the time difference between Oklahoma City and Moscow is nine hours), rescuers did not stop searching through debris, despite the fact that there was a blackout in the 50,000-strong Moore, the town that suffered from the natural disaster most. ...
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Beer and champagne harm your health most
Scientists studied the effect of various alcoholic beverages on human health and named five most harmful ones of them. The most dangerous beverages, according to nutritionists, is beer. When drinking beer, the body produces pleasure hormone - dopamine. The hormone causes beer addiction. Regular drinking of beer quickly leads to alcoholism. The list of harmful drinks continues with champagne. ...
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Moscow Police Release Unsanctioned Gay Rally Activists
MOSCOW, May 26 (RIA Novosti) – Police have released all participants of an unsanctioned gay pride rally detained in the Russian capital on Saturday, the Moscow Interior Department said on Sunday. "Administrative violation reports were compiled for 39 detainees: protocols for the breach of the established rules of holding gatherings and meetings were drawn up for 29 detainees and ...
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Fans of sunbathing have more chances to get slim
U.S. scientists provided good news for those who like to lie in the sun. As it turns out, sunbathing helps you get rid of extra pounds, and this method works as good as diets. The researchers concluded that vitamin D that the body produces during sunbathing, is one of the main tools to solve excessive weight problems. This vitamin is also responsible for the reduction in the level of sugar in ...
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Three Dagestan Suicide Attack Victims Taken to Moscow Clinics
a suicide bomb attack in Russia’s turbulent region of Dagestan have been taken to Moscow clinics, two of them in a grave condition, the Health Ministry said on Sunday. "This morning, the patients were hospitalized to healthcare facilities. Two were taken to the treatment and rehabilitation center of Russia’s Health Ministry in a grave and medium-gravity condition," the ...
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For those who have criticized Arjen Robben Bayerns Dutch midfield player for missing a penalty in last years home final against Chelsea FC he had the perfect answer tonight in the Champions League final against Borussia Dortmund with the wi
For those who have criticized Arjen Robben, Bayern's Dutch midfield player, for missing a penalty in last year's home final against Chelsea FC, he had the perfect answer tonight in the Champions League final against Borussia Dortmund with the winning goal one minute from time. Bayern Munich have had a fantastic season, winning the Bundesliga (German Championship) for the first time in ...
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Syria Terrorists on the run
Field reports from the ground inside Syria point towards a difficult and complex situation, with the country teeming with foreign mercenaries, including westerners, with outside forces using Saudi, Turkey and Qatar as proxies to support minority groups and destabilize the status quo. However, all is not well for the western terrorist ...
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Plane with 3 injured people flies out from Makhachkala for Moscow
MOSCOW, May 26 (Itar-Tass) - An EMERCOM plane with injured people aboard flew out from Makhachkala for Moscow, a source at the Russian Emergencies Ministry’s department in Dagestan said on ...
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Brazil retains the worst FIFA world ranking
ZURICH / SWITZERLAND - The Brazilian Soccer Team has the worst team in the history of the FIFA world rankings. In the monthly update on the list, the team led by Luiz Felipe Scolari remained in 19th place. The country that won the World Cup most times only appears as the fifth force in South America, according to the report. By ANTONIO CARLOOS LACERDA ...
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev had meeting with Chechen terrorists before Boston attacks
According to sources, the meeting took place in the USA's Manchester between Tsarnaev Sr. and Musa Khajimuradov. According to local police, FBI agents searched his home last week and studied the contents of the hard drives of Khajimuradov's computers. He himself was taken to a local office of the FBI for taking his fingerprints and DNA ...
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They call it the kangaroo hug - cradling a new-born baby close to the body raising its body temperature faster and better than any incubator and 90 per cent effective in restoring body temperature to premature babies. But what about the mother whose lov
Australia. The name of the mother is Kate Ogg, who had twin babies born prematurely at 27 weeks - first Emily, who survived and then after three hours of labour, Jamie who was still-born and after 20 minutes of struggling to get him to breathe, the doctors pronounced him dead. They then handed Jamie to his mother, wrapped in a blanket, for her to say ...
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Assad Western minds falsify evidence to trigger wars
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, denies that his government would employ chemical weapons, as the governments of western and regional countries and variations predicted a possible military invasion against the country. The claim was that they used chemical weapons against residential areas. President Assad calls the claims ...
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The Ecuadorian president said Thursday during his inauguration that the times we are now living in Latin American countries is thanks to the election of progressive governments from their people which is now said that Latin America is not the backy
The Ecuadorian President said his government will keep fighting for the deepening of the Citizen Revolution, "not only in Ecuador, but in Latin America", noting that "we are no longer anyone's ...
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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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