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Moscow News.Net - Saturday 25th May, 2013
A court in Kiev has banned Ukraine's first gay pride event. The court ruled the march, would have attracted anti-gay activists into the centre of the city, where annual Kiev Day celebrations would also have been taking place. A group of opponents led by the Orthodox Church led the objections to the march. The Church, through its Archpriest Georgy Kovalenko, issued the grounds for ...
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Moscow News.Net - Saturday 25th May, 2013
The US plans to collaborate with Russia on missile issues and Afghanistan, but not planetary defence from space threats, a US diplomat said. Building a joint asteroid defence system was not a "real proposal" until the project has funding, which is not on the cards with either country, said US Acting Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, Rose Gottemoeller. The meteorite ...
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Moscow News.Net - Saturday 25th May, 2013
The Russian defence ministry has signed a contract with the Beriev Aircraft Company for the purchase of six Beriev Be-200 amphibious planes. "The contract is worth 8.4 billion rubles ($268 million)," Russia's United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) said in a statement. "The first two planes will be basic Be-200ChS models, while the following four will be the Be-200PS version without firefighting ...
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Moscow News.Net - Saturday 25th May, 2013
In a rare display of public humility, the head of police in Russia's St. Petersburg city publicly apologised to motorist rights activists after they were allegedly beaten up by policemen. But Sergei Umnov's apology, published on the city police's website, never specified what caused the conflict between traffic police and activists of the Blue Buckets group. The victims said they chided two ...