Life in Belarus Village

Recently a Belarus president has been mentioned in news for him supposedly wanting to restrict the villagers of Belarus from changing their place of residence and place of work, chaining them to their current locations. Later they said the press didn’t get his words right and he didn’t want to enslave the peasants but were on contrary...

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Litographs of Old Russia

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Report of Imperial Russian Hunt: We Hunted 719 Dogs and 1010 Cats

Annual reports of Russian Emperors hunt were published in work-of-art hand painted bulletins, annually. Those are examples of those, with a detailed list of how much of each specie has been hunted down. For example the Imperial Hunt Bulletin of 1908 reports that they have hunted down: Sixteen bears,Six bobcats,Seven elks,Three deers,453...

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Abandoned Sand Quarry

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Turkey's Erdogan Hails Russia's Efforts to Improve Situation of Crimean Tatars

MOSCOW, May 30 (RIA Novosti) - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday praised Russia’s actions to improve the living conditions and legitimate rights of Tatars residing on the Crimean Peninsula, the Kremlin said.According to the Kremlin press service, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish Prime Minister discussed the...

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Putin Holds Phone Talks with Turkey’s Erdogan on Ukrainian Crisis

MOSCOW, May 30 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed Friday in a phone conversation with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan the situation in Ukraine after the presidential election of May25, Kremlin’s Press Service said.“The leaders have exchanged, among other things, opinions over the situation in Ukraine in...

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Russia Concerned by US Plans to Boost Military Aid to Syrian Opposition Militants

MOSCOW, May 30 (RIA Novosti) - Russia is concerned by the media reports on the US plans to ramp up support for the Syrian opposition because the military aid may end up in the hands of the terrorists, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Friday.“Media reports on the fact that the US Administration is planning to increase its military aid to...

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Kiev May File Lawsuit Against Gazprom Friday – Ukrainian Energy Minister

BERLIN, May 30 (RIA Novosti) – Kiev may sue Russia in the Stockholm-based international arbitration court amid the ongoing dispute of gas prices, Ukrainian Energy Minister Yuriy Prodan said Friday.Speaking to journalists ahead of the three-party gas meeting in Berlin, Prodan said his country may file the suit “soon, quite possibly today.”The...

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Russian Lawmakers to Submit Bill on Ukraine's Southeastern Regions' Status

MOSCOW, May 30 (RIA Novosti) – Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) believes that Kiev is "illegally occupying" eight regions of the Southeast of Ukraine, and prepares a draft law on the status of these territories."Due to the unstable situation around the Southeastern part of Ukraine, the LDPR faction intends to submit a draft law...

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Russia Says No Gas Payments From Kiev as of Thursday

MOSCOW, May 30 (RIA Novosti) – As of Thursday evening, Moscow has not received any gas debt payments from Kiev, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Friday.He reiterated that Russia was not ready to discuss any gas discounts until Kiev repays at least a part of its debt, which may hit $5.2 billion in May.“Naturally, our position...

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Russia to Spend Up to $147Mln on Altai Solar Power Plants

MOSCOW, May 30 (RIA Novosti) – Russia is going to invest up to $147 million in eco-friendly solar energy grids in the country’s southern Altai region close to Kazakhstan, according to the state-run Avelar construction firm.Avelar has struck a deal with another state-owned company, Khevel, and the local government in Altai to build enough...

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Russia, Kazakhstan Extend Oil Supplies Deal Up to 2025

MOSCOW, May 30 (RIA Novosti) – Russia and Kazakhstan have extended the intergovernmental agreement on trade and economic cooperation on supplies of crude oil and refined products up to 2025, a Russian deputy energy minister told journalists Friday.“The agreement has been prolonged until 2025. It is synchronized with the current contracts...

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Moscow Surprised by Kiev’s Move to Reject Russian Humanitarian Aid

MOSCOW, May 30 (RIA Novosti) – Moscow is surprised by Kiev’s rejection of proposed Russian aid to violence-hit eastern Ukraine and hopes that the interim government will reconsider its decision, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Friday.The Russian Foreign Ministry notified Ukraine on Wednesday that it was ready to provide urgent humanitarian...

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Eurasian Economic Union to Help Change People's Lives – Russia's Medvedev

MINSK, May 30 (RIA Novosti) – Eurasian integration is beneficial for Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan as it will help to improve people's lives, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Friday during a meeting with Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko.“Our colleagues, presidents, had been working hard but we got the result. Our countries...

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OPINION: US Attempts to Weaken Competitors by Derailing Russia-France Mistral Contracts

MOSCOW, May 30 (RIA Novosti) – The efforts to derail the Mistral-class helicopter carrier contract between Russia and France by the US are an attempt to weaken the French defense industry, especially since NATO has no need for the ships, Igor Korotchenko, Editor-in-Chief of National Defense magazine, told RIA Novosti.“Obviously, if this...

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Russian Cooperation With Beijing Consistent With Japanese Ties – Russian Lawmaker

TOKYO, May 30 (RIA Novosti) – Cooperation with Beijing does not contradict relations between Russia and Japan, which Moscow sees as a priority, the speaker of Russia’s lower house of parliament told the Nikkei newspaper in an interview Friday.“The Russian-Japanese relations are extremely important to security guarantees of Russia and the...

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Russia, Slovenian Foreign Ministers Discuss Ukrainian Crisis Settlement

MOSCOW, May 30 (RIA Novosti) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Slovenian counterpart Karl Erjavec met on Friday in Moscow to discuss the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis.“Ukraine is the hottest topic nowadays. We hope for a confidential, honest exchange of views on how to start the fulfilling the principles of the road map...

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Russia Ready to Receive Refugee Children from Ukraine – Rights Ombudsman

MOSCOW, May 30 (RIA Novosti) – Russia is ready to accept refugee children from the southeastern regions of Ukraine where fighting is ongoing, Russian Child Rights Ombudsman Pavel Astakhov said in a statement Friday.“We are ready to receive all the children. All border areas – the Belgorod, Voronezh, and Kursk regions – welcome them into...

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West Curtailing Missile Defense Cooperation With Russia – Foreign Ministry

MOSCOW, May 30 (RIA Novosti) – The decision by organizers to reject Moscow’s application to attend next month’s international conference on missile defense signals that the West is suspending talks with Russia on this issue, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Friday.“We point that this step fits in the general trend aiming at folding dialogue...

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Ukraine Right Sector Radicals Nabbed in Crimea After Plotting Terrorist Attacks

MOSCOW, May 30 (RIA Novosti) – The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained a group of Ukrainian radicals from the far-right Right Sector movement implicated in attempted terrorist attacks in Crimea’s Simferopol, Yalta and Sevastopol, the agency said Friday.“The investigation department of Russia’s FSB has opened a criminal probe...

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Hail Storm Caused Flooding in Smolensk Russia

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Planting Mines Directly from Helicopters

Another Russian blogger has posted a few photos with captions on how the mines being planted with the help of… helicopters. So let’s see what he got here. According to his story this system is being used for planting land mines with the help of MI-8 Russian copters. There are two types of such systems he reviewed. One is when the mines...

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Russia Ranks First Among World’s Sports Nations

MOSCOW, 29 May (RIA Novosti) – Russia has ranked first among the world’s greatest sports countries, Aleksander Zhukov, the head of Russian Olympic Committee told journalists Thursday."Russia’s influence as a sports nation on the international arena has grown immensely. Russia came out on top of the international ratings based not only on...

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Abkhazia Opposition Calls for New Treaty With Russia

SUKHUMI, May 29 (RIA Novosti) – The united opposition of Abkhazia has called for a new partnership treaty with Russia that could take the bilateral strategic partnership “to a completely new level,” the opposition Coordination Council said Thursday in a statement.“We want to underline that regardless of the internal political processes in...

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