Putin Discontent with Russian Law Enforcers’ Work

NOVO-OGARYOVO, August 1 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed discontent with the work of law enforcers after a recent incident at a Moscow market when a police officer was seriously injured.An operation to arrest a suspected sex offender at a market in the Russian capital last weekend ended with a police officer...

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Most Russians Positive About Snowden - Survey

MOSCOW, July 31 (RIA Novosti) – Over half of Russians on the whole approve of what fugitive former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden did, an opinion survey by the Levada Center pollster has shown.Snowden, who is wanted by the United States for leaking classified data about the US National Security Agency’s surveillance programs,...

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US Releases Secret Surveillance Docs Amid Fresh Snowden Leaks

WASHINGTON, July 31 (RIA Novosti) – The US government on Wednesday declassified three documents shedding light on its domestic telephone surveillance amid fresh leaks from fugitive former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden revealing the United States’ ability to secretly comb through troves of information on individuals’ Internet use...

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UN Helicopter With Russian Crew Crash-Lands in Ethiopia

MOSCOW, July 31 (RIA Novosti) – A United Nations helicopter with a Russian crew crash-landed in Ethiopia on Wednesday, a Russian Embassy official said, adding that all four crewmembers were alive but three were in a serious condition.All of the crewmembers are at a hospital in Addis Ababa, Pavel Temnenko, deputy head of the embassy’s consular...

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Fair Trial Not Likely for Average Person, Russians Say – Poll

MOSCOW, July 31 (RIA Novosti) – Some 60 percent of Russians think that an average person cannot expect a fair trial in the country, according to a poll released Wednesday.Only 25 percent of respondents to the survey, conducted in June by the independent Levada Center pollster, said an average Russian could expect a fair trial.Respondents...

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Russian Billionaire Seeks US Government Loan for Luxury Jets – Report

WASHINGTON, July 31 (RIA Novosti) – Russian billionaire Gennady Timchenko is seeking US government financing to purchase American-made luxury jets and has hired powerful Washington lobbyists to assure officials that his wealth is legitimate and not tied to his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Reuters reported Wednesday.Timchenko,...

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Russian Billionaire Seeks US Government Loan for Luxury Jets – Report

WASHINGTON, July 31 (RIA Novosti) – Russian billionaire Gennady Timchenko is seeking US government financing to purchase American-made luxury jets and has hired powerful Washington lobbyists to assure officials that his wealth is legitimate and not tied to his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Reuters reported Wednesday.Timchenko,...

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Chicago Rebuffs Call to Suspend Moscow Ties over Gay Rights

This article contains information not suitable for readers younger than 18 years of age, according to Russian legislation .WASHINGTON, July 31 (RIA Novosti) –The city of Chicago will not suspend its “sister city” relationship with Moscow over Russia’s recent criminalization of gay rights activism, resisting pressure from a prominent regional...

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Putin Proposes Extending High-Speed Moscow-Kazan Railway to Siberia

NOVO-OGARYOVO, July 31 (RIA Novosti) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday called for the $28 billion high-speed Moscow-Kazan railway to be extended to the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.The 800-kilometer line that is currently under construction is expected to cut travel time from Russia’s capital to the biggest city in the Volga...

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Russian Armed Forces to Start Mornings With Anthem

RZHEVKA (Leningrad Region), July 31 (RIA Novosti) – Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Wednesday that all Russian military units should begin their mornings by singing the national anthem.Currently, some Russian military units sing the anthem during evening roll call. But doing so is not mandatory and is carried out upon orders...

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Self-Proclaimed ‘Gerard Depardieu’ Denied Registration in Arctic Mayoral Race – Official

MOSCOW, July 31 (RIA Novosti) – An eccentric Russian environmentalist who has changed his name to “Gerard Depardieu” and wanted to run for mayor of an Arctic city was denied registration on a technicality, an election official said Wednesday.Often calling himself “Tree Man” or “Drevarkh the Enlightened,” the 48-year-old resident of the city...

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US Applies Double Standards on Manning – Russian Diplomat

MOSCOW, July 31 (RIA Novosti) – The Russian Foreign Ministry’s point man for human rights said Wednesday that the United States had applied double standards when dealing with former army intelligence leaker Bradley Manning.Manning, 25, was accused of leaking the largest amount of classified information in US history, including thousands...

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Second Prominent Economist Leaves Top Russian University

MOSCOW, July 31 (RIA Novosti) – Prominent economist Konstantin Sonin has announced he is quitting Russia’s New Economic School just two months after the institution’s influential rector Sergei Guriev fled to Paris fearing he could be imprisoned.Sonin, 41, said Wednesday his decision to resign was linked to disagreements with the management...

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Russia’s Consumer Rights Chief Slams Lenders, Collection Firms

MOSCOW, July 31 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s chief consumer rights chief on Wednesday criticized the country’s consumer lending system, saying that loans are too easy to obtain and collection agencies often resort to illegal practices while pursuing debt payments.“Getting a loan is criminally easy in Russia, no one is doing any checks,” said...

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Poachers Kill 19 Russian Tigers in 2012-13 – WWF

MOSCOW, July 31 (RIA Novosti) – At least 19 endangered Siberian tigers, some of the rarest animals on earth, have been killed by poachers in Russia since 2012, the World Wildlife Fund said Wednesday.In 2012-2013, Russian investigators launched seven criminal cases against tiger poachers and traders and confiscated the skeletons and body...

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Snob Mag Tops Russian Foul-Mouthed Media Survey

MOSCOW, July 31 (RIA Novosti) – A magazine for Russia’s wealthy has topped a list of media most prone to using bad language, according to a new study that comes in the wake of a new campaign by conservative lawmakers against online obscenities.Russian media used 1,133 obscene words over the past two years, according to data posted by media...

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Culture Ministry Accused of Corruption in St. Petersburg - Auditors

MOSCOW, July 31 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s Audit Chamber said Wednesday it had uncovered “indications of corruption” in contracts for the restoration of buildings belonging to St. Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum concluded between the Culture Ministry and a large construction company.The alleged graft took place between 2007 and 2012 as a result...

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Kiev Ready for Talks Over Russia's Candy Import Ban

KIEV, July 31 (RIA Novosti) - Kiev is ready to hold immediate talks with Russia over a ban imposed by Moscow on Ukrainian candy imports, the Ukrainian trade minister said Wednesday.Russia banned imports of products from four factories operated by Ukraine’s major candy maker Roshen earlier this week. Russia’s sanitary and consumers’ rights...

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Iran Not in S-300 Missile Replacement Talks – Envoy

MOSCOW, July 31 (RIA Novosti) – Iran and Russia have not discussed Moscow’s tentative offer to supply Tehran with Antei-2500 surface-to-air missile systems instead of the S-300, whose sale was previously blocked by the Kremlin, Iran’s envoy to Russia said Wednesday.“As for the Antei-2500 [missile] systems, it’s just words,” Seyed Mahmoud-Reza...

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Nationalists Stage Anti-Migrant ‘Russian Raids’ in Petersburg

MOSCOW, July 31 (Alexey Eremenko, RIA Novosti) – Russian nationalists have jumped on the bandwagon of marketplace raids following a police clampdown in Moscow, taking to the streets in force and armed with baseball bats – to check the documents of fruit vendors, they say.The so-called “Russian raids” in St. Petersburg helped expose several...

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When Your Home Is Taiga

What is it like to live deep in taiga far from the noisy world? Little wooden houses, modest utensils, the mode of life we do not see every day. This is how Khanty people live in remote settlements. The way to the settlement is not so easy. Such roads are used by locals to tranport animal skins and meat to Ugut village. There is only one...

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Snowden's Father Thanks Russia For Protecting His Son

MOSCOW, July 31 (RIA Novosti) - The father of fugitive former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden has thanked President Vladimir Putin and Russia for helping his son, in a first interview with the Russian media aired on Wednesday.Lonnie Snowden told state-owned Rossiya 24 television he was grateful to Putin and the Russian...

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Pink All Terrain Vehicle For the Girl

One girl from Moscow really likes huge pink cars, so she drives along the capital in a cool all-terrain vehicle TRECOL-39294 that costs approximately 80 thousand dollars. Links to explore: See even more of English Russia:...

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Russian Patrol Robot

Russian company SMP Robotics started production of patrol robots “Tral Patrul 3.1″. The autonomous mobile system is intended to patrol and guard objects with large territory, protect them from foreign objects. It could be used at oil and gas storage objects, warehouses, objects of power industry, coastal and tourist zones, on household plots...

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North Koreans Face Jail for Beating Russian Border Guard

VLADIVOSTOK, July 31 (RIA Novosti) – Investigators in Russia’s Far East have opened a criminal case against two North Koreans suspected of beating a Russian border guard with clubs while attempting to cross the country’s border, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.According to investigators, five North Koreans crossed the Russian border...

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Hunts for a Hooker, Gets Abducted

Warning! This video might have a strong language unacceptable to minors!Russian dude tries to get a call girl but as a result rants his way thru the crazy adventure which starts at his native city as a love romance for a call girl, but quickly escalates as a gran scale intergalactic domination conflict resulting in a massive destruction...

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US Gay Activists Emboldened as Russian Vodka, Sochi Protests Spread

This article contains information not suitable for readers younger than 18 years of age, according to Russian legislation. WASHINGTON, July 30 (By Carl Schreck for RIA Novosti) – As boycotts of Russian vodka spread across the globe in protest over new Russian laws on homosexuality, US gay rights activists warn the campaign could be the first...

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Fire Prompts Evacuation of Ostankino TV Center

MOSCOW, July 30 (RIA Novosti) – A fire broke out at Moscow’s Ostankino Technical Support Center late Tuesday, prompting the evacuation of more than 1,000 people, including a sports commentator who was told to leave even though he was covering a football match.Thirty-five firefighting teams including 127 emergency services personnel arrived...

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Russian Prosecutor Questions Reported Bribery Figures

MOSCOW, July 30 (RIA Novosti) – While the number of bribes being offered in Russia rose 30 percent in the first six months of this year, the number of bribes accepted was down 6.5 percent, a top prosecutor said Tuesday, questioning the objectivity of those figures.Such figures could be related to the desire of regional prosecutors to embellish...

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Russia Bans Imports From Ukrainian Candy Maker Roshen

MOSCOW/KIEV, July 30 (RIA Novosti) – Russia has banned imports from major Ukrainian candy maker Roshen after the carcinogen benzopyrene, which can naturally occur in roasted coffee and cocoa beans, was found in analyzed product samples.Russia’s sanitary and consumers rights watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor, said in statement Tuesday that products...

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Kremlin’s Man in Moscow Mayoral Race Reluctant to Debate Navalny – Reports

MOSCOW, July 30 (RIA Novosti) – Moscow’s powerful, Kremlin-appointed mayor will likely aim to avoid public debates with his rivals for the post, including charismatic opposition leader Alexei Navalny, ahead of upcoming elections, two Russian newspapers reported Tuesday.A spokesman for acting Mayor Sergei Sobyanin told RIA Novosti that his...

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Russian Navy to Keep ‘Unchristian’ Neptune Day

MOSCOW, July 30 (RIA Novosti) – The Russian Navy will not be nixing the 200-year-old tradition of featuring the Roman god of the sea in its festivities, despite complaints about his “pagan” nature, a Navy spokesman said Tuesday.“The claim that humorous skits featuring Neptune and other mythological creatures […] go against the Navy’s Christian...

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Russian Officials Mull Using Tobacco Tax to Fund Healthcare

NOVO-OGARYOVO, July 30 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s health and finance ministries are to mull the option of using tobacco taxes to help fund spending on healthcare, Russian President Vladimir Putin indicated at a meeting on Tuesday.At a meeting in his Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Putin noted that just 35.4 percent of the population...

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Russian Cop Who Beat Up Taxi Driver Avoids Jail Time

KAZAN, July 30 (RIA Novosti) – A Russian policeman received a suspended sentence on Tuesday for beating up a taxi driver in an apparent road rage incident during which both of their vehicles were blocking traffic.The 29-year-old officer, who headed an anti-corruption division in Russia’s Tatarstan republic, jumped out of his vehicle, ran...

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150-200 Militants Active in Dagestan – Republic’s Leader

MAKHACHKALA, July 30 (RIA Novosti) – About 150 to 200 militant insurgents are currently active in Russia’s turbulent North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, the republic’s acting chief told RIA Novosti.The Russian Interior Ministry branch for the North Caucasus Federal District said in late January that some 40 militant groups contained about...

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