Putin Discusses Public Security in Blast-Hit Volgograd

MOSCOW, January 1 (RIA Novosti) – Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed public security and anti-terrorism measures early on Wednesday in the southern Russian city of Volgograd, which is reeling from two suicide bombings within 24 hours.Two separate suicide bombings ripped through the city’s railway terminal on Sunday and a trolleybus...

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28 Detained at Moscow Rally to Uphold Freedom of Assembly

MOSCOW, December 31 (RIA Novosti) – Twenty-eight people were detained in central Moscow on Tuesday during an unsanctioned rally calling for the government to uphold the constitutional right to free assembly.The rally, which took place on the downtown Triumfalnaya Square, was organized by the activist group Strategy-31, which gathers on the...

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Putin Says Russia Will Fight Terrorists Until All Are ‘Eliminated’

KHABAROVSK, December 31 (RIA Novosti) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that his country would continue to battle terrorists until all are eliminated.“Dear friends, we bow our heads before the victims of cruel terrorist attacks. We will continue fighting terrorists in a confident, tough and relentless manner until they are...

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Putin Makes 2 New Year’s Speeches for 2014

MAGADAN/KHABAROVSK, December 31 (RIA Novosti) – Russian President Vladimir Putin broke with tradition this December 31 and delivered two New Year’s speeches instead of one.In a pre-recorded New Year’s address to Russians shown on television minutes before midnight in Russia’s easternmost Kamchatka region, Putin outlined the priorities for...

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Man Sets Himself on Fire Near St. Petersburg

MOSCOW, December 31 (RIA Novosti) – An unnamed Russian man set himself on fire Monday night at a police station near St. Petersburg, local police said on Tuesday.The man phoned the police in the town of Priozersk, Leningrad Region, saying he was across the street and wanted someone to come outside to meet him. When an officer approached...

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Prosecutor's Aide Blown Up in Russia's North Caucasus

MAKHACHKALA, December 31 (RIA Novosti) – An aide to a regional prosecutor died in a bomb attack in Russia's troubled North Caucasus on Tuesday, a regional Investigative Committee spokesman said.Unknown assailants in the town of Buinaksk in the republic of Dagestan detonated an explosive device under Rasul Gasanov’s Toyota car, killing him...

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RT Head Simonyan Appointed Rossiya Segodnya Editor-in-Chief

MOSCOW, December 31 (RIA Novosti) – Margarita Simonyan, the head of the state-funded RT satellite news network, was appointed Wednesday to head the Rossiya Segodnya media conglomerate that will include Russia’s major state-run news agency RIA Novosti."This key position could only be held by a person with a brilliant journalistic reputation...

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Russian Village Reformer Granted Parole

MOSCOW, December 31 (RIA Novosti) – A former painter from Moscow, whose quest to bring culture to provincial villagers resulted in a jail term for bribery, was granted parole on Tuesday.The Tver Region Court upheld a parole request filed by 36-year-old Ilya Farber, who had already spent two years and nine months behind bars.Farber left Moscow...

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Death Toll in Volgograd Blasts Rises to 33

MOSCOW, December 31 (RIA Novosti) – The death toll in two suicide bombings in the Russian city of Volgograd climbed to 33 Tuesday morning after one of over a hundred injured victims died overnight, officials said.The two separate explosions ripped through Volgograd’s train station on Sunday and a trolleybus on Monday. Initial reports said...

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Aircraft MiG 31E

This special version of MiG-31 was built In the beginning of the 90s. It is intended to intercept and destroy air targets at low and high altitude, in any weather conditions, day and night. Links to explore: See even more of English Russia:...

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Round About the Olympic Park

Flying over the Olympic park – one of the two clusters of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi 2014. Olympic stadium “Fisht”, it will hold opening and closing ceremonies. Capacity – 40 000 spectators. “Fisht” is planned to used as a football stadium after the Games. Absolutely unique object for Olympic Games – cemetery of old-believers. 1,5...

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Night On the Mars

If the Mars had cities and was inhabited by humans, the Martian night landscape could look like this… But for now it’s just an amazing night at the Crimean saline… via aquatek-filips Links to explore: See even more of English Russia:...

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Putin Allows Logging, Building in Nature Reserves

MOSCOW, December 30 (RIA Novosti) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a bill allowing nature reserves to be turned into areas where limited construction, logging and other commercial activities are possible.Russia’s parliament gave its final approval to the bill earlier this month.Currently, Russia has 103 nature reserves...

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Roadside Bomb Blast Kills One, Injures 2 in Dagestan

MAKHACHKALA, December 30 (RIA Novosti) – One person was killed and two injured in a roadside bombing in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan late Monday, a police spokesman said.“An improvised explosive device went off as a traffic police car was driving by. Two officers in the car were injured and a passerby was killed,” the spokesman...

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US Slams Volgograd Terror Attacks, Offers Sochi Help

WASHINGTON, December 30 (RIA Novosti) – The United States on Monday condemned the back-to-back terrorist attacks in Volgograd that killed dozens and offered to assist Moscow with security preparations for the upcoming 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.“The United States stands in solidarity with the Russian people against terrorism,” White...

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Russian Lawmaker Wants to Bring Back Death Penalty

MOSCOW, December 30 (RIA Novosti) – A Russian federal lawmaker on Monday called for his country to reinstate the death penalty to eradicate terrorist conspirators after twin bombings killed nearly two dozen in the past two days.Roman Khudyakov, who represents the nationalist LDPR party in Russia’s lower house of parliament, said the initiative...

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Khodorkovsky Gets 3-Month Swiss Visa

BERLIN, December 30 (RIA Novosti) – Former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been granted a three-month visa to Switzerland, the Swiss Embassy in Berlin said Monday.Khodorkovsky, who has been staying in Germany since his release from a Russian jail on December 20, applied for a Swiss visa last week. His wife, Inna, and his two...

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Icebound Russian Ship's Passengers to Be Rescued by Helicopter

MOSCOW, December 30 (RIA Novosti) – All passengers and four crew members aboard a Russian research ship stuck in the ice off the coast of Antarctica will soon be evacuated by a Chinese helicopter, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday.“A decision has been made to evacuate 52 passengers and four crew members by a helicopter from China’s...

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Putin Named International Person of Year by Times

MOSCOW, December 30 (RIA Novosti) – Russian leader Vladimir Putin has been named International Person of the Year by Britain's The Times newspaper for succeeding in his ambition of bringing Moscow back to the international top table.The paper said Putin, 61, a judo black belt, has hip-flipped US President Barack Obama on the Syrian crisis,...

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Moscow Restaurant Owner Jailed for Carving Up Wife

MOSCOW, December 30 (RIA Novosti) – A Moscow café owner and chef who killed his journalist wife and then cut up her body was sentenced to 14 years behind bars on Monday by a Russian court.Alexei Kabanov, 38, the founder of a chain of cafes in Moscow, said he strangled his wife Irina, 39, a mother of three children, in a fit of rage on January...

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