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Sunday, 27 January 2013 19:48 |
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Ulan Bator to transform its Lenin museum into a centre housing prehistoric fossils, including a Tyrannosaurus bataar specimen Once he bestrode his world, lending his name to more museums, streets, monuments and public institutions than any other 20th-century figure. But in the Mongolian capital, Ulan Bator, at least, it is goodbye Lenin, as a... |
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Sunday, 27 January 2013 17:49 |
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Russian prime minister suggests Syrian president's days could be numbered, according to interview transcript The Russian prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev, has said Bashar al-Assad's chances of retaining power in Syria are getting "smaller and smaller" every day, according to the transcript of an interview with CNN released by Medvedev's office. His... |
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Sunday, 27 January 2013 15:43 |
Published: 27 January, 2013, 18:43
Oleg Deripaska, Chairman of Supervisory Board of Basic Element company, speaks during a session of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2013 on January 23, 2013 at the Swiss resort of Davos. (AFP Photo/Johannes Eisele) (89.5Mb)embed videoRussia’s 'failure' to build capitalism without a market economy costs ... |
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Saturday, 26 January 2013 14:40 |
Published: 26 January, 2013, 17:40
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RIA Novosti/Alexey Kudenko Russia has significantly improved its budget transparency over the years and is now telling its public more about the government income and spending than countries such as Germany or Spain, a new survey suggests. ");
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Saturday, 26 January 2013 07:57 |
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On Friday, Jan. 25, the State Duma gave the first reading to the draft bill on banning propaganda of homosexuality among minors. The discussion turned out to be quite a heated one. LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky cracked down on the bill, ripping it to pieces. "Gay propaganda in Russia is what the West wants!" he said.... |
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Friday, 25 January 2013 20:05 |
RIA Novosti / Boris Babanov Gazprom Neft, oil arm of the energy giant Gazprom, is drilling for shale oil in Western Siberia. Realization of the shale oil project is believed to breathe new life into oil development as traditional deposits have been showing signs of dwindling. Gazprom Neft has started exploration of Bazhenov formation that ... |
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Friday, 25 January 2013 12:23 |
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Yury Dolgoruky, the "Long-Armed" (1099-1157), was a Russian prince from the Rurik dynasty, who founded Moscow. He reigned as Grand Prince of Kiev from 1149 to 1151 and again from 1155 to 1157. A statue in the Russian capital shows him sitting on his battle-horse, clad in armour.... |
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Thursday, 24 January 2013 10:59 |
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Russia will respond to unfriendly moves made by the United States, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated on Wednesday. He noted that "our relations with the United States are a complicated issue." Issues in the relations between Russia and the U.S. are much more obvious than, for example, issues between Russia and the EU... |
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Wednesday, 23 January 2013 08:59 |
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The largest in post-Soviet history exercises of the Russian Navy started in the Black and Mediterranean seas. The naval exercises that the Russian Navy has not conducted for a long time, have a number of features associated with the situation at the borders of Russia and its allies, as well as the situation in the Middle East and North Africa... |
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Tuesday, 22 January 2013 18:10 |
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Russian nuclear energy demonstrated impressive achievements in the global market "of nuclear services" in 2012. In this area, Rosatom State Corporation wins competition with major Western companies, even though cooperation in the field of "peaceful atom" remains under strong political pressure... |
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