No State Help to Russians Affected by Cyprus Crisis - Shuvalov

MOSCOW, April 1 (RIA Novosti) - Russian authorities plan no support measures for citizens, who might partially lose their funds deposited in crisis-stricken Cypriot banks, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said late on Sunday."If there are people who lose their money deposited in these two largest banks, I’m sorry to say...

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Early Mayor Elections in Zhukovsky Marred by Detentions

MOSCOW, March 31 (RIA Novosti) - A total of 16 people were detained during Sunday’s early mayor elections in the town of Zhukovsky some 25 miles southeast of Moscow, a spokesman for the Moscow Region Police Department said.“Police received 45 complaints about various offences. In total, 16 people were detained, 12 of them are suspected of...

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Army These Days

Someone has sent a photo taken during the recent military drill. Because army is a place of equal possibility, now in Russia too!Advertisement: Links to explore: See more of English Russia:...

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Police Detain Limonov at Unsanctioned Rally in Moscow

MOSCOW, March 31 (RIA Novosti) - Writer and radical protest leader Eduard Limonov was detained along with several other demonstrators on Sunday at a traditional Strategy-31 protest rally that has now ended in Moscow’s Triumfalnaya Square.The unsanctioned rally that started at around 6:00 p.m. Moscow time (14:00 GMT) gathered several dozens...

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Car Falls into River in Moscow - Report

MOSCOW, March 31 (RIA Novosti) - A car has fallen into the Yauza River in downtown Moscow, a Russian law enforcement spokesman said Sunday.“The driver of a car riding along the Andronyevskaya Embankment lost control of his vehicle, which crashed through the parapet into the river,” the spokesman said.He said rescuers saved the driver, a...

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Gorbachev Warns of New Protest Wave in Russia

MOSCOW, March 30 (RIA Novosti) – New protests will hit Russia unless the country’s leadership fails to implement reforms, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned on Saturday.“The authorities have managed to beat down the protest wave but the problems remain. If nothing changes, they will escalate, which means that Russian society will...

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Gorbachev Says USSR Collapse Not His Fault

MOSCOW, March 30 (RIA Novosti) - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Saturday condemned attempts to blame him for the Soviet Union’s breakup.“I saw the necessity of decentralization and modernization of the USSR, however, I was in favor of the union’s preservation. Any… attempts to put the blame on me for the union state’s collapse...

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Putin Orders Allocating $75 Mln for Socially Oriented NGOs

MOSCOW, March 30 (RIA Novosti) – President Vladimir Putin has ordered to allocate more than 2.3 billion rubles (some $75 million) in 2013 to support socially oriented NGOs working in Russia, the Kremlin said on its website on Saturday.The money will be allocated for “non-governmental non-profit organizations implementing socially beneficial...

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Gorbachev Labels His Career a Success

MOSCOW, March 30 (RIA Novosti) - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said in Moscow on Saturday that he believes his political career was "a success.""I would say - my career was successful. But I mean career in the good sense. Not in the sense of 'careerist,'" Gorbachev said during an open lecture at RIA Novosti in Moscow on Saturday.Gorbachev,...

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Car Falls into River in Moscow - Report

MOSCOW, March 31 (RIA Novosti) - A car has fallen into the Yauza River in downtown Moscow, a Russian law enforcement spokesman said Sunday.“The driver of a car riding along the Andronyevskaya Embankment lost control of his vehicle, which crashed through the parapet into the river,” the spokesman said.He said rescuers saved the driver, a...

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Gorbachev Warns of New Protest Wave in Russia

MOSCOW, March 30 (RIA Novosti) – New protests will hit Russia unless the country’s leadership fails to implement reforms, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned on Saturday.“The authorities have managed to beat down the protest wave but the problems remain. If nothing changes, they will escalate, which means that Russian society will...

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Gorbachev Says USSR Collapse Not His Fault

MOSCOW, March 30 (RIA Novosti) - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Saturday condemned attempts to blame him for the Soviet Union’s breakup.“I saw the necessity of decentralization and modernization of the USSR, however, I was in favor of the union’s preservation. Any… attempts to put the blame on me for the union state’s collapse...

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Putin Orders Allocating $75 Mln for Socially Oriented NGOs

MOSCOW, March 30 (RIA Novosti) – President Vladimir Putin has ordered to allocate more than 2.3 billion rubles (some $75 million) in 2013 to support socially oriented NGOs working in Russia, the Kremlin said on its website on Saturday.The money will be allocated for “non-governmental non-profit organizations implementing socially beneficial...

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Gorbachev Labels His Career a Success

MOSCOW, March 30 (RIA Novosti) - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said in Moscow on Saturday that he believes his political career was "a success.""I would say - my career was successful. But I mean career in the good sense. Not in the sense of 'careerist,'" Gorbachev said during an open lecture at RIA Novosti in Moscow on Saturday.Gorbachev,...

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US State Department 'Interfering' – Russian Foreign Ministry

MOSCOW, March 30 (RIA Novosti) – The Russian Foreign Ministry on Saturday posted a statement on its website slamming the US State Department’s stated intent to continue funding non-governmental organizations in Russia as “interfering.”“We view the declaration made by the official representative of the State Department, Victoria Nuland, that...

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Russian Scientists Name Fossil Reptile After Lenin

ULYANOVSK, March 30 (RIA Novosti) – Russian paleontologists have named a recently discovered fossil ichthyosaur after Lenin, the head of the Natural History Museum at Ulyanovsk State University told RIA Novosti on Friday.The ichthyosaurs were large marine reptiles that are thought to have first appeared in the Earth’s oceans in the Mesozoic...

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Russian Parliament to Mull New Ozone Protection Bill

MOSCOW, March 30 (RIA Novosti) – The Russian cabinet has introduced a bill to parliament regulating the use of substances that harm the protective layer of ozone shielding the Earth from harmful UV radiation.According to documents published on a Russian government site on Saturday, the bill proposes introducing additional limits on the production,...

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Berezovsky’s Heirs May Inherit his $106 Mln Debts

MOSCOW, March 30 (RIA Novosti) – Heirs of late Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky may inherit his 3.3 billion rubles ($106 million) debts that Russian courts ordered him to pay, the Federal Bailiff Service said in a statement.The Russian businessman had resided since 2000 in the UK, where he died a week ago at the age of 67. He had previously...

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Boris Berezovsky Dead at 67

Russian tycoon and former Kremlin insider Boris Berezovsky, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, has been found dead at his home outside Londo...

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Lone Man Strips in Protest at Long Moscow Winter

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti) – A man in Moscow stripped down his swimming costume in front of the national weather forecast center on Friday in a solitary picket to demand warmer temperatures.Twitter user Masha Tsitsurskaya posted a picture of the man as he held up a sign reading: “Let Summer Come Faster.”Tsitsurskaya confirmed to RIA...

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Russia’s Putin Promotes New-ish Movement, Old-ish Values

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti) – Russian President Vladimir Putin spent Friday morning on live television, promoting a fledgling political movement and cataloguing prospective initiatives reminiscent of the Soviet Union in their values, traditions and emphasis on social benefits.Presiding over a two-and-half-hour question-and-answer session...

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Moscow Cop Who Rejected $1.5 Million Bribe to Be Awarded

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti) – A Moscow traffic policeman who turned down a $1.5 million bribe is set to receive a state award in recognition for his honesty as Russia celebrates a rare breakthrough in its fight against rampant graft.The Interior Ministry says the officer will receive a commendation and a 100,000 ruble ($3,220) bonus.Rossiya-1...

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Medvedev Throws Weight Behind Yekaterinburg Expo-2020 Bid

GORKI, March 29 (RIA Novosti) – Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev vowed Friday that if Yekaterinburg wins its bid to host the World Expo 2020, the government guarantees that all the events will be held at a top-notch level, as a delegation from the Bureau of International Expositions (BIE) called its meeting with Medvedev and President...

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Russian Shipbuilders Oppose Domestic Mistral Construction

LANGKAWI (Malaysia), March 29 (RIA Novosti) – Russia should not build a second pair of French-designed Mistral-class amphibious assault ships, as Russian shipbuilders are capable of designing and building their own vessels of this type, a senior defense industry official said on Friday.“The United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) will welcome...

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President Putin Attends Black Sea Military Drills

ANAPA, March 29 (RIA Novosti) – Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in the country’s southern Black Sea region on Friday to attend large-scale military exercises aimed at testing the combat readiness of units in the area, which will host the Winter Olympic Games next year.Putin ordered the snap drills on Thursday, as concerns persist...

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Russia Needs Standard Approach to Teaching History - Putin

ROSTOV-ON-DON, March 29 (RIA Novosti) – President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia needs a unified, standard approach to teaching history.“I fully agree that there should be a canonical version of our history,” Putin said Friday while meeting with his campaigners from the All-Russia People’s Front.He acknowledged that there are different...

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Moscow Urges Greater Security Efforts Among SCO Members

TASHKENT, March 29 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) called on Friday for better coordination of efforts by members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in countering global threats, including terrorism.“It is necessary to apply maximum efforts to implement the 2013-2015 program for combating terrorism, separatism...

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Putin Says ‘Gave Up’ Eavesdropping After KGB

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday his time in the KGB had taught him that it was “bad” to listen into other people’s conversations.“It’s bad to eavesdrop,” a smiling Putin told a meeting of his newly revived All-Russian People’s Front. “I learned this from my time in the KGB. [And] I gave it...

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Putin Revives People’s Front Movement

ROSTOV-ON-DON, March 29 (RIA Novosti) – President Vladimir Putin on Friday headed an early morning conference of his newly revived All-Russia People’s Front (ONF), urging its members to fulfill its “grand mission” and create a broad platform for discussion of the country’s most pressing issues.“The ONF must gain the status of a public movement,”...

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Putin to Revive Soviet-era Title in Russia

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti) – President Vladimir Putin has met with activists who served in his presidential campaign a year ago and promised to revive a Soviet-era award by the end of Friday.“In the Soviet Union, we had the ‘Hero of Socialist Labor’ title, and in my opinion, it was justified,” Putin said on Friday morning in Rostov-on-Don...

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Russia Opens Probe Into UN Chopper Crash

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti) – Russian investigators said Friday that a murder case had been opened in connection with the Mi-8 helicopter crash in South Sudan that killed four people on December 21.A United Nations helicopter with a Russian crew was downed in South Sudan near the settlement of Likuangole while taking off.The UN said earlier...

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Another Dead Miner Found at Flooded Siberian Mine

NOVOKUZNETSK, March 29 (RIA Novosti) – The body of a miner, who went missing during a flood at a coal mine in southwestern Siberia's Kemerovo Region, was found on early on Friday, a regional administration spokesman said.A total of 143 people were working underground when water rushed into the mine late on Tuesday, apparently because of...

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Russia’s Soyuz Spacecraft Docks with ISS

BAIKONUR, March 29 (RIA Novosti) - The Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft, carrying new crew members to the International Space Station (ISS), docked with the station as scheduled on Friday, a spokesman for the Russian space agency Roscosmos said."The docking was held by command from Earth at the designated time, in automatic regime," the source said.The...

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Russian Weapons Supplies to Syria ‘Problem’ - Hollande

PARIS, March 29 (RIA Novosti) - In a prime-time interview on France 2 TV on Thursday, French President Francois Hollande accused Russia of violating an embargo on arms supplies to Syria.Russia has repeatedly denied media reports that it was sending warships to Syria and delivering weapons to Damascus.“We follow the rules. The embargo is...

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Russian Human Rights Activist Faces 3 Administrative Cases

MOSCOW, March 28 (RIA Novosti) - Russian prosecutors have launched three administrative cases against veteran Russian human rights activist Lev Ponomaryov, a spokeswoman for Moscow prosecutor’s office told RIA Novosti.Spokeswoman Yelena Rossokhina said prosecutors, who came to inspect the offices of For Human Rights organization and two...

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Venezuela Receives 13 Russian Armored Vehicles

MOSCOW, March 28 (RIA Novosti) – Armed forces in Venezuela have received a new batch of Russian amphibious combat vehicles, the Moscow-based Center for Analysis of Global Arms Trade said on Thursday.Thirteen BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles were delivered by sea to the port of Puerto Cabello, the center said.This marks the first report of...

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Putin Warns Against ‘Going Overboard’ with NGO Checks

SOCHI, March 28 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Thursday against government officials overdoing the ongoing nationwide wave of spot checks on nongovernmental organizations.Activists have condemned the inspections, which have targeted numerous high-profile rights groups, as a form of intimidation.The Prosecutor...

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Untouched White Sea Shore

When the South of Russia has a Black Sea which is being pounded by stronger storms later, the White Sea is pretty calm. In fact it is always calm in winter as it is covered with ice. The White Sea basically is a full time sea, with salt water, with white sand beaches, sea animals and sea fishes but unlike all other southern seas it gets...

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