Russian News
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Vilnius -
A Lithuanian court on Friday sentenced a Russian security official to 10 years in prison for spying after prosecutors accused him of attempting to bug the president's home.
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By AFP
Moscow -
A Russian court on Friday cut Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's jail term by five days after he appealed a one-month sentence handed down this week for calling a protest, his spokeswoman said.
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Moscow -
Russian authorities on Friday warned its citizens against visiting Britain after London raised its threat level in the wake of the Manchester suicide attack.
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Kiev -
Ukraine on Thursday reported its first combat death since Kiev agreed a new "indefinite" ceasefire deal with pro-Russian insurgents in the separatist east last week.
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Washington -
The United States welcomed Wednesday the preliminary results of a criminal inquiry into the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine, saying it supported Washington's suspicions of Russian involvement.
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Moscow -
Russia ordered Kogalymavia airline to stop flying Airbus 321 jetliners like the type that crashed Sunday over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 aboard, the semi-official Interfax news agency is reporting.
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Kiev -
Pro-Western President Petro Poroshenko faces a stern test of his unpopular belt-tightening measures and stuttering anti-corruption drive when Ukraine votes in local elections Sunday that exclude the pro-Russian separatist east.
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A 30-year-old Russian man with a rare genetic muscle-wasting disorder announced this week that he has volunteered to become the first person to undergo a human head transplant surgical procedure to be conducted by the Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero.
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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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By AFP
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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By Reuters
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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The beloved dancing (and rollerskating) "bears" from The National Ballet of Canada's annual production of 'The Nutcracker.' Bruce Zinger
An amphibious landing craft arrived unexpectedly on a crowded Russian beach. YouTube
Five Russian daredevils climb Europe's tallest building in Moscow. Showyourself
Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazansky took a record-breaking spacewalk of eight hours and seven minutes. NASA
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Pam Drummer-Williams as Pearl Monahan
Paul Stout as Rex Reynard
Keara Reardon as Rose Marin Monahan
Newton Harband as Mayor Monahan Robin Jackson
Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazansky took a record-breaking spacewalk of eight hours and seven minutes. NASA
Man helps old woman cross street YouTube
The Admiral Kuznetsov class aircraft carriers Wikipedia
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
Russian tea time restaurant dining room. Chicago, IL
TURBULENCE: Peaceful view of the Red Sea from a balcony at the Sheraton Sharm resort in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Ian Sewell/Wikimedia Commons
A Russian model got bored in a city, so she robbed a bank. YouTube
Strange Russian rock with 30,000 diamonds Larry Taylor, geologist at the University of Tennessee
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