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| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:52:00 +0400 Pol-Shaming Russian News Site Gets Prizes at Cannes, Trouble at Home |
| A crusading Russian news website won acclaim at Cannes on Tuesday for its campaign to shame local officials into fixing rutted roads by painting their portraits around potholes. |
| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:49:00 +0400 NASA Seeks Citizen Scientists’ Input to Capture Asteroid |
| NASA wants to send a manned mission to an asteroid as early as 2021 but needs help from citizen scientists around the world to identify a suitable space rock to land on and explore, the US space agency said Tuesday. |
| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:43:00 +0400 6,000 Evacuated in Central Russia Ammo Depot Fire |
| At least five people were injured and some 6,000 local residents were evacuated on Tuesday from a village near an ammunition depot in central Russia where a fire caused massive explosions of stored artillery shells, the Emergencies Ministry said. |
| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:34:00 +0400 Datsyuk Signs 3-Year Extension With Detroit Red Wings |
| Russian center Pavel Datsyuk said Tuesday that he had signed a three-year contract extension to keep him with the NHL’s Detroit Red Wings until 2017. |
| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:21:00 +0400 Russia's purchase of French Mistral-class warship |
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| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:21:00 +0400 Russia Moves Mistral Stern Construction to France |
| The construction of the stern for the first Mistral helicopter carrier being built for the Russian Navy will be finished in France because a Russian shipyard cannot meet the deadline specified in the contract, a senior Russian defense official said Tuesday. |
| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:21:00 +0400 Russia Pays Off $2B Soviet Debt to Serbia, Slovakia |
| Russia has paid off a $2 billion Soviet-era debt to Serbia and Slovakia, the Russian Finance Ministry said Tuesday. |
| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:13:00 +0400 US Photographer Captures Soviet Past, Lithuanian Life in Rural Discos |
| Seattle photographer Andrew Miksys was in the eastern Lithuanian village of Svencionys in 2000 when he spotted young people walking into a Soviet-era cultural center. |
| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:10:00 +0400 G8 summit in Northern Ireland |
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| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:10:00 +0400 Russia Vows to Crack Down on Offshore Zones |
| Russia will develop a national plan to deal with offshore tax havens, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday. |
| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:57:00 +0400 Karabakh settlement discussion |
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| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:57:00 +0400 Russia, US Rue Lack of Karabakh Progress |
| Russia, the United States and France, the three countries mediating the conflict over the disputed South Caucasus region of Nagorno-Karabakh, said Tuesday that they were greatly concerned by the lack of progress in bringing peace to the region. |
| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:31:00 +0400 Russia to Start Building Prototype of New Heavy ICBM in 2014 |
| Russia will begin construction of a prototype of a heavy liquid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in 2014, a Defense Ministry source said Tuesday. |
| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:20:00 +0400 U.S. missile shield in Europe |
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| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:20:00 +0400 Missile Defense Dispute Requires More Transparency – Putin |
| Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted on Tuesday that disagreements over the deployment of a US missile shield in Europe still remain, but Moscow and Washington should boost the transparency of actions related to the dispute. |
| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:41:00 +0400 Putin ‘Not Lonely’ at G8 Summit |
| Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday played down assertions that, regarding how to deal with the Syria conflict, he alone was opposing all other leaders of the Group of Eight powerful economies in talks this week in Northern Ireland. |
| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:35:00 +0400 G-8 Declaration Highlights al-Qaida Threat in Syria |
| The heads of government of the world’s biggest economic powers on Tuesday urged the conflicting sides in the Syrian civil war to destroy or expel all al-Qaida affiliates fighting in the country. |
| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:35:00 +0400 Protests in Syria |
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| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:29:00 +0400 START: Russia-U.S. nuclear talks |
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| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:29:00 +0400 US Lawmakers Put Brakes on Russia START Nuclear Pact |
| US lawmakers have imposed new conditions the administration of President Barack Obama would need to meet before the United States can fulfill its obligations under the 2010 START nuclear arms reduction agreement with Russia, recently-approved legislation shows. |
| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:21:00 +0400 G-8 Backs UN Probe Into Alleged Chemical Weapons Use in Syria |
| The G-8 statement on Syria goes further than anticipated in backing a United Nation investigation into the alleged use of chemical weapons in the country, British Prime Minister David Cameron stressed on Tuesday. |
| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:17:00 +0400 Situation in Afghanistan |
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| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:17:00 +0400 US to Meet with Taliban for Talks to End Afghanistan War |
| Representatives from the United States and the Taliban will meet in the coming days for their first formal talks to try to find a peaceful settlement to the war in Afghanistan, senior US government officials said Tuesday. |
| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:09:00 +0400 Russia, US to Spearhead Syria Peace Plan – Putin |
| Russia and the United States will bear primary responsibility for developing a peace plan for Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday at a press conference following a summit of the Group of Eight major industrial nations in Northern Ireland. |
| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:38:00 +0400 Russia's Youth Population ‘In Steady Decline’ - Official |
| Russia has seen both the number of young people in the country and their share in the total population decline steadily in recent years, an Education Ministry official said on Tuesday. |
| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:10:00 +0400 Russia to Adopt New ICBM Targeting System by 2020 – Source |
| By 2020, all units of Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces (SMF) will be equipped with an advanced targeting system capable of guiding ballistic missiles through US missile defenses, a Defense Ministry source said Tuesday. |
| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:08:00 +0400 IMF Urges ‘Ambitious’ Economic Reforms in Russia |
| Russia needs to carry out “ambitious” economic policy reforms to realize the economy’s midterm potential and reduce its vulnerabilities to a slump in oil prices or acceleration of capital outflows, the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday. |
| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:56:00 +0400 Alrosa to Spend $10-20M Yearly on Angola Diamond Prospecting |
| Russia’s largest diamond miner Alrosa plans to spend $10-20 million annually on diamond prospecting in Angola as part of a new joint venture to look for deposits in the Central African country, Alrosa said Tuesday. |
| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:51:00 +0400 Moscow Counts on Finding Syria Compromise with US, UN |
| Moscow hopes that upcoming three-way talks will result in an agreement that will help end Syria's two-year civil war, a senior Russian official said on Tuesday, as the issue of Syria opened up a chasm between Russia and the West at the ongoing G8 summit in Northern Ireland. |
| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:38:00 +0400 Russian Government Tries to Calm Markets Over Currency Fears |
| The Russian government tried on Tuesday to allay market fears that a planned large-scale foreign currency purchase would cause the ruble’s devaluation. |
| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:32:00 +0400 Russia to Issue Separate Statement on Chemical Weapons in Syria |
| Russia will issue a separate statement on the use of chemical weapons in Syria as an attachment to the G8 joint declaration, underscoring the divergence of opinions on the issue among the participants of the summit, a senior Russian diplomat said Tuesday. |
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