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Tuesday, 21 August 2012 12:17 |
Bank of Canada.(REUTERS / Chris Wattie) The Bank of Canada Governor has apologized for the removal of an image of an Asian woman from the initial design for new $100 banknotes, after the country’s Asian community called the act racist. "In the development of our $100 banknote, efforts by the banknote designers to avoid depicting a specific... |
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Monday, 20 August 2012 23:57 |
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A Russian nuclear submarine of project 971 ("Jaws", in NATO classification), armed with long-range cruise missiles, sailed for a long time without being detected in the waters along the U.S. coastline, the Gulf of Mexico, informs the Washington Free Beacon, citing an unnamed U.S. official.... |
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Monday, 20 August 2012 18:42 |
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The supporters of Pussy Riot say nothing about the creative way of the band. The girls were members of the so-called art group Voina (War). Voina became famous for staging a porn orgy in the Biological Museum in Moscow in broad daylight. They also spray-painted a giant penis on one of the bascule bridges in St. Petersburg... |
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Monday, 20 August 2012 10:19 |
RIA Novosti / Anton Belitskiy Apple Inc reportedly plans to start the direct selling of its products in Russia by 2013. Russian fans of Apple are likely to see the prices for its devices drop. The company has already registered a subsidiary Apple Rus, according to Kommersant daily. Apple could start to wholesale Mac computers and other gadgets as... |
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Monday, 20 August 2012 07:16 |
Brokers work at the stock exchange.(AFP Photo / Daniel Roland) Russian stocks are expected to open higher Monday amid improved investor sentiment in the US and Eurozone. Russian markets closed in the red Friday following a decline in oil prices. The MICEX shed 0.4% and the RTS lost 0.76%. European equities extended their gains on Friday after German... |
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Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:07 |
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His address on the balcony of the Ecuadorean embassy in London was a mixture of personal and global concerns UK-Ecuador relations "Inside this embassy after dark I could hear teams of police swarming up into the building through its internal fire escape but I knew there would be witnesses and that is because of you," said the WikiLeaks founder,... |
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Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:00 |
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The Pussy Riot verdict provides our celebrities with a Spartacus moment: surely it won't be long before Paul McCartney and Stephen Fry storm the altar in St Paul's and sing "Shit, shit, the Lord is shit" (Guilty verdict 'written by Putin' fires up his opponents, 18 August)? It would be a win-win scenario: either the British media and... |
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Sunday, 19 August 2012 21:09 |
Wolfgang Schäuble (Reuters / Ahikam Seri) German ministers have told Greece that it will not be allowed an updated and more lenient austerity plan, and must fulfill the promises dictated by its current deal. “It can’t be helped. We can’t make yet another new program. There are limits,” Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble told visitors at his ... |
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Sunday, 19 August 2012 20:30 |
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Putin may have more serious critics, but Pussy Riot have shown the west how artistic dissent can still make a difference The heritage of protest and provocation on which Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was drawing was confirmed as soon as I saw her picture. The hair cut into a functional bob, the "No Pasaran" T‑shirt with the clenched-fist logo, her leading ... |
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Sunday, 19 August 2012 19:52 |
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The Foreign Minister of Russia, Sergei Lavrov, stated on Saturday that the new special representative of the United Nations (UN) and the Arab League for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, will not accomplish his mission without establishing a ceasefire in the Arab country.... |
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