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Toronto -
Embodying one of the most famous dancers in history is scary — but American-born, Toronto-based dancer Skylar Campbell doesn’t let the fear get to him: "I'm letting the experience kind of take me over."
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Donetsk -
What a difference a couple of months makes!
Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin is calling for negotiations to resolve the months-long standoff between Ukraine's government and pro-Russian militants who took over several eastern cities.
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Kiev -
Ukraine's burly boxing hero and strident protest leader Vitali Klitschko claimed victory Sunday in Kiev mayoral vote that cements his role as a statesman for the country's post-Soviet generation.
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Moscow -
The Russian Federation is threatening to stop participating in the International Space Station project after 2020 in what appears to be a further deterioration of East-West relations.
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We’ve been besieged by leftist-led protests concerning everything from Darfur to Montsano, yet when it comes to the crisis in Ukraine, nary a placard has been raised from that same instigating contingent supporting the country’s sovereignty.
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Philadelphia -
Last Saturday, Philly Tech Week put on a display to delight true geeks and the nerds-at-heart. The city was treated to a record-setting game of Tetris.
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In the wake of Russia's invasion and annexation of Crimea, two Canadian provinces are considering a ban in government-operated liquor stores of Russian products.
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Simferopol -
Crimea's separatist authorities moved against energy companies on Monday in their first nationalisations after deciding all Ukrainian state property would be transferred into Crimean ownership.
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Kiev -
Ukraine will not attempt a military move to prevent the southern Crimean peninsula's breakaway in order not to expose its eastern border, Ukraine's acting president Oleksandr Turchynov told AFP Tuesday in an exclusive interview.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin's plans for a golden finish to the Sochi Olympics were cancelled on Wednesday when Finland claimed a party-pooping win over the hosts of the Winter Games in the me...
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Toronto -
The Canadian Opera Company announced its 2014-2015 season in a splashy evening event at the Four Seasons Center Wednesday night in Toronto.
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Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazansky just took a record-breaking spacewalk from the ISS, lasting eight hours and seven minutes, with spectacular views of the Earth below.
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A female suicide bomber attacks a bus in southern Russia. The explosion killed six passengers and wounded a dozen others.
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Russian police recently arrested a Siberian surgeon who is suspected of stealing heroin he removed from the stomach of a drug smuggler in Krasnoyarsk.
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Moscow -
While mystery currently surrounds the location of the NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden, reportedly heading to Cuba for onward travel to Ecuador, but not seen on the plane, we hear that he is safe and well. Updated with video.
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In honor of the 60th anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary's first ascent, the video shows a Russian extreme sports star performing the world's highest BASE jump, off the north face of Everest.
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After a delay of 1 day due to bad weather, a Soyuz capsule has now safely landed in northeast Kazakhstan, bringing home 2 Russian cosmonauts and 1 American astronaut from their 5 month stint on the ISS. The next trip is planned to arrive in record time.
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Moscow -
Russia has finally caught up with the rest of the world, and smokers now have a couple of years to give up the habit, before harsh anti-smoking legislation comes into effect during 2015.
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Port Harcourt -
Pirates have kidnapped seven crew members, six Russians and one Estonian, during an attack on a ship, the Liberty 249, off the coast of Nigeria. The ship is owned by Bourborn, a French company that supplies vessels to the Nigerian offshore oil industry.
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This 24-minute documentary explores the Baikal-Amur Mainline, a railway line which stretches more than four thousand kilometers through Russia, and introduces the people who live in the area.
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Madrid -
Spain's Ministry of Interior announced today that three al-Qaeda suspects were arrested by Spanish police on Wednesday. The suspects had enough explosives to blow up a bus and were planning an attack in Spain, or other countries in Europe.
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Immortality is now on the horizon with news released by Russian mogul Dmitry Itskov that he will achieve the impossible by the year 2045.
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Orenburg -
It wasn't his time to go, as this man narrowly escapes death during a massive traffic accident involving five vehicles, at a gas station in Orenburg.
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Russian commandos plan to escort Assad to safety. Russia plans on sending warships and marines to Syria. The Black Sea Fleet warships are ready for the Syrian coast. And IDF officials say Iran is realizing that Assad’s regime is finished.
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Warsaw -
Russian football fans were marching through Warsaw when they were suddenly attacked by Polish fans. Around eleven people were injured and taken to hospital.
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Wroclaw -
The first day of the Euro 2012 championships was apparently marred by violence, as seen in this amateur video uploaded to YouTube.
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Yulia Mikhailyuk has cycled right across Russia 16 times and now plans to travel across Europe. An amazing feat indeed!
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Kiev -
Spreading across the Web is footage of a massive fight spinning out of control in the Ukrainian parliament Friday. The fight began due to a proposed bill to make Russian an official language in eastern regions of the country.
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Jakarta -
A video has now been released showing clearly the wreckage of the Sukhoi Superjet-100 aircraft which crashed into Mount Salak in West Java, Indonesia on May 9.
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During his political campaign, Putin says he will spend billions to build up Russia’s military as a safeguard against the current international uncertainty. This one issue appears to find agreement among all Russians.
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PUTIN’S FAWNERS AMONG EUROPEAN POLITICIANS
Political situation development in the early XXI century in Eurasia witnesses to naked aspiration of Russia to restore its geopolitical positions and former power creating new empire with former Soviet Union countries led by Moscow. Now the central aim is to involve Ukraine under influence of the Kremlin. As former US National Security Advisor of US president Zbigniew Brzezinski has noted, for new empire creation and former power restoring it’
Five Russian daredevils climb Europe's tallest building in Moscow. Showyourself
Strange Russian rock with 30,000 diamonds Larry Taylor, geologist at the University of Tennessee
A Russian model got bored in a city, so she robbed a bank. YouTube
Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazansky took a record-breaking spacewalk of eight hours and seven minutes. NASA
An amphibious landing craft arrived unexpectedly on a crowded Russian beach. YouTube
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