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Maria Sharapova gives way to Serena Williams in WTA rankings
Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova has moved to second place in the updated rankings of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), giving way to Serena Williams of the United States. In a new table of ranks of WTA best tennis players in the world, top spot was taken by the American athlete. Serena Williams has 11,115 ranking points. Sharapova was placed on the second position with 10,690 ...
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Unmanned aircraft No thanks
The latest gossip has it that pilotless aircraft are soon to take to the skies, ferrying passengers from one part of the globe to another in an entirely automated process. Until what point does robotics have a use and at which point does the human being become ...
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Plane Catches Fire Upon Landing at Moscows Vnukovo Airport
MOSCOW/STAVROPOL, May 18 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow's Vnukovo Airport was temporarily closed on Saturday morning after a plane carrying about 140 people from the southern Russian city of Stavropol caught fire upon landing, a law enforcement source said. No one was reported injured in the incident."The plane's left landing gear leg caught fire upon landing. Preliminary reports suggest ...
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Complaint filed against Nestle in Colombian trade unionists death
Nestle was accused of failing to protect Luciano Romero, one of their employees and a Colombian trade union leader. The Trade Union Workers of the Colombia Agrifood System, said that the multinational did not protect the union member who was brutally murdered. The prosecutor of the canton of Vaud, Switzerland has filed a complaint against ...
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Young and healthy mind
In the study, scientists put mice in environments with multiple stimuli and then assessed the anatomical changes in the brain. They found that stimulating environmental activates a via related to adrenaline, which reduces the formation of beta-amyloid in the region of the hypothalamus, a region of the brain responsible for memory. The protective mechanism was most effective in young rats and ...
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Spy row worsens Russian names CIAs Moscow chief
Russian security forces . Footage was aired showing him wearing a blond wig and his array of spying equipment, including a compass and an old-fashioned mobile phone. An unnamed representative of the FSB security services told the Interfax news agency that back in 2011, the agency had "officially warned" the CIA station chief in Moscow over what it called "provocative recruiting ...
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Brazil abolished slavery 125 years ago
May 13, 1888 - the Golden Law (Lei Aúrea) officially ended slavery in Brazil, some 350 years after the first Portuguese colony was established, following the discovery of Brazil by the Portuguese explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500. During those centuries, some four million Africans were taken away from their families and sold into ...
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Putin explained Russia’s position on Syrian settlement to UN Secretary-General - Peskov
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The Moscow Rules Still Rule - By Milton Bearden
Obama doubling the number of Marine guards for embassies; POTUS reduces the max sentence for rape in the military; Hand leaves the Pentagon; No free coins for the Navy; Not much carpooling to the White House; Russia sends warships; and a bit more. - by Gordon ...
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Putin’s Kremlin Helipad Cost $6.4 Mln – Official
MOSCOW, May 18 (RIA Novosti) – Construction of a helicopter pad for President Vladimir Putin’s Mi-8 in the Kremlin cost almost 200 million rubles (about $6.4 mln), the Kremlin chief property manager, Vladimir Kozhin, said. "About 200 million rubles were spent to finance all construction stages, including land survey works, modeling and landscaping, Kozhin told reporters on ...
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‘Unprecedented’ CIA Moscow Chief Leak Puzzles Ex-Spies
WASHINGTON, May 17 (By Carl Schreck for RIA Novosti) - Russia's decision to publicly identify a purported top US spy in the country is an "unprecedented" move in relations between Moscow and Washington going back back to the Soviet era with no clear indication of how the United States will react, former US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officers and security experts told RIA ...
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Pussy Riot Putin-bashing punk rock and politics make for a riotous mix
It is more than a year since five members of feminist punk group Pussy Riot wearing brightly coloured balaclava masks staged a short and cacophonous performance in front of the altar of Moscow's Christ The Saviour Cathedral. Their impromptu gig (in February 2012) caused immediate outrage while becoming a worldwide media sensation in the ...
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Spartak station of Moscow metro in phase of active construction
MOSCOW, May 17 (Itar-Tass) - Spartak station of Moscow’s Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya metro line /traditionally marked on the city plans and maps with the crimson color/ is in the phase of active construction works now, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Friday. The station is being built by the side of the Spartak stadium, which is being erected on territory of the former Tushino airfield, and ...
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Russia warms to Syrian weapons investigation
Sergei Lavrov said Friday his government would do what it could to advance efforts to investigate claims of chemical weapons in Syria. Various sources said chemical weapons may have been used by both parties to the conflict in Syria. The BBC reported this week it has seen evidence Syrian forces dropped poisonous gas on civilian-populated areas last month. The Syrian government asked for a U.N. ...
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Grieving relatives of Bulgaria boat victims storm the court
The trial on the case of the tragic sinking of Bulgaria ship has recently started in the Republic of Tatarstan. The courthouse can hardly house all members of the process, including witnesses, victims and relatives of those killed - more than a thousand people in total. On the first day of the meeting, at the request of the defendants, the session was postponed till May 27. The proceedings ...
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Russia Outs Alleged Moscow CIA Station Chief
MOSCOW, May 17 (RIA Novosti) – A Russian intelligence agency Friday publicly identified an individual it claims was the Moscow station chief of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as of late 2011 – a move widely seen as a breach of protocol in the intelligence community. A man identified as an official with Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) named the alleged CIA ...
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UN Head Seeks Putin Support For OlympicTruce
2014 Winter Olympic Games , said on Friday he hoped the Russian government would back a UN General Assembly resolution calling for observation of an Olympic Truce during the event. The Olympic Truce, suspending armed conflict during the games, was originally held by the ancient Greeks. The tradition was revived by the International Olympic Committee in 1992, and in 1993, the General Assembly ...
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Moscow refuses permit for LGBT rally
Officials in Moscow refused to issue a permit for a gay rights rally in Gorky Park, saying the park is already fully booked for "last day of school" activities. Organizers of the planned "Rainbow Rally" said they expected about 200 people to gather in the park May 25 to support equal treatment for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transsexuals, but Alexei Mayorov, a city ...
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Suicide bomber wounds police officer in Ingushetia North Caucasus
A suicide bomber killed himself and injured a police officer Friday in the in the Russian North Caucasus region of Ingushetia, officials said. The suspected Islamist militant "blew himself up near the Interior Ministry offices at about 7:10 a.m. Moscow time, in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya in Ingushetia's Sunzhensky district," the Russian news agency RIA Novosti quoted a ...
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Покупатели Расхватали Российские Акции По Дешевке
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Мэр Рф Не удет Менять Прогноз Роста Ввп На 24 За 2013Г. В Связи С Улучшением Росстатом Этого Показателя За I Квартал.
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Торги На Российском Рынке Акций Завершились Ростом Ведущих Индексов.
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ИК Велес Капитал Сегодня мы наблюдали рост российских фондовых индексов
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Rietumu Цены на золото пробили вчерашний минимум
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ИК Велес Капитал На внутреннем рынке облигаций преобладали покупки
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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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