November 25th, 2008 - 1:17 pm ICT by IANS
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Lima, Nov 25 (IANS) Russia has concluded a series of treaties with Peru on defence, trade and scientific cooperation, in what is being seen as a sign of its renewed Latin American ...
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November 25th, 2008 - 1:12 pm ICT by IANS
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The accords, signed Monday during the state visit of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to the Andean nation, are intended to launch "a second chapter" in the post-Soviet era in their bilateral relations ...
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November 13th, 2008 - 6:03 pm ICT by IANS
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Havana, Nov 13 (DPA) Cuban President Raul Castro replaced his foreign investment minister after the agency reported a drop in the number of state firms receiving foreign investment.The announcement of the cabinet ...
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November 11th, 2008 - 4:19 pm ICT by IANS
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Moscow, Nov 11 (IANS) Cuba has ruled out installing on its soil elements of a planned Russian missile defence system countering a US network that Washington proposes to deploy in Central Europe, ...
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September 30th, 2008 - 1:48 pm ICT by ANI
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Moscow, Sept.30 (ANI): Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev has announced he will be making a political comeback after almost 17 years.
The author of Glasnost and Perestroika, now 77, revealed that ...
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September 8th, 2008 - 6:35 pm ICT by IANS
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The Hague, Sep 8 (RIA Novosti) The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in this third largest Dutch city began Monday hearing of Georgian claims of Russian human rights violations. Tbilisi claims that ...
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August 30th, 2008 - 7:44 pm ICT by IANS
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Tbilisi, Aug 30 (RIA Novosti) Following a bloody conflict with Russia, Georgia Saturday pulled out of a 1994 UN-approved agreement with Abkhazia signed in Moscow. "The Secretariat of Georgian Reintegration Minister Temur ...
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August 29th, 2008 - 1:15 am ICT by IANS
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Moscow, Aug 28 (Xinhua) Belarus will recognise the independence of breakaway Georgian regions, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, in the next day or two, the country's envoy to Russia Vasily Dolgolev said Thursday. ...
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August 27th, 2008 - 12:59 pm ICT by IANS
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Sochi (Russia), Aug 27 (RIA Novosti) Russia will defend Georgia's separatist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia with all necessary support if they come under attack, President Dmitry Medvedev has said. "Under ...
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August 27th, 2008 - 4:54 am ICT by IANS
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Brussels, Aug 27 (Xinhua) The European Union (EU) Tuesday condemned the Russian decision to recognise Georgia's two breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent countries. The EU in a statement ...
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August 13th, 2008 - 3:57 pm ICT by IANS
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RIA Novosti
Tbilisi, Aug 13 (RIA Novosti) Georgia and Russia have agreed to a modified version of a French-brokered peace plan, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said after meeting Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili here. ...
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August 9th, 2008 - 4:55 pm ICT by IANS
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Xinhua
Moscow, Aug 9 (Xinhua) The Russian army Saturday took control of the capital of Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia from Georgian forces, media reports said quoting the commander of the ground ...
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August 8th, 2008 - 2:52 pm ICT by IANS
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RIA Novosti
Moscow, Aug 8 (RIA Novosti) Georgian military invaded the capital of breakaway South Ossetia Friday with tanks and infantry and bombed a village, killing at least 15 civilians, the government of ...
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August 6th, 2008 - 7:11 pm ICT by IANS
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RIA Novosti
Moscow, Aug 6 (RIA Novosti) The body of Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn was laid to rest at Moscow's Donskoi monastery Wednesday in a ceremony attended by hundreds of people. Solzhenitsyn, a ...
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August 4th, 2008 - 8:20 pm ICT by IANS
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RIA Novosti
Moscow, Aug 4 (RIA Novosti) Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio could take on the role of Soviet revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin in a new black comedy, a Russian screenwriter has said. "As ...
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July 31st, 2008 - 7:53 pm ICT by IANS
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By Abhishek Roy
Hyderabad, July 31 (IANS) India had a lucky escape against Afghanistan in their opening Group A game of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Challenge Cup Wednesday night. It was ...
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July 25th, 2008 - 6:27 pm ICT by IANS
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RIA Novosti
Moscow, July 25 (RIA Novosti) The incidents of hate crime in the Russian capital have risen six-fold in the first half of 2008, the prosecutor general's office said Friday. "A total ...
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June 24th, 2008 - 2:37 pm ICT by IANS
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RIA Novosti
Moscow, June 24 (RIA Novosti) The Russian armed forces will be slimmed to one million personnel by 2013, three years ahead of a planned troops reduction deadline. "We plan to do ...
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June 16th, 2008 - 2:57 pm ICT by IANS
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RIA Novosti
Moscow, June 16 (RIA Novosti) Russia has dismissed reports that it had opened a new military base in Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia. "The reports of a military base being established ...
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June 5th, 2008 - 1:48 pm ICT by ANI
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London, June 5 (ANI): Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev has said that the embalmed body of Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin should be moved from its mausoleum in Red Square ...
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May 14th, 2008 - 10:28 pm ICT by admin
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RIA Novosti
Moscow, May 14 (RIA Novosti) Two Russian Tu-95 strategic bombers have carried out a routine patrol over remote areas of the Arctic that lasted for almost 20 hours, a Russian air ...
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May 8th, 2008 - 7:32 pm ICT by admin
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RIA Novosti
Tbilisi, May 8 (RIA Novosti) Georgia wants friendly relations with Russia and is ready to have a 'flexible policy' with Moscow, but will never give up its national security, the deputy ...
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May 7th, 2008 - 4:53 pm ICT by admin
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RIA Novosti
Brussels, May 7 (RIA Novosti) Russia has accused Georgia of escalating tension along the Caucasian country's border with breakaway Abkhazia republic and warned that Tbilisi would be responsible if war with ...
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May 7th, 2008 - 4:48 pm ICT by admin
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Xinhua
Moscow, May 7 (Xinhua) The inauguration ceremony of Russia's new president Dmitry Medvedev, who will succeed Vladimir Putin, started at the Kremlin Wednesday. The grand ceremony was attended by senior officials of ...
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May 5th, 2008 - 2:59 pm ICT by admin
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RIA Novosti
Moscow, May 5 (RIA Novosti) Georgia's breakaway republic Abkhazia has claimed amid escalating tension and military build up along the border that it shot down two Georgian surveillance planes over its ...
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May 4th, 2008 - 9:22 pm ICT by admin
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RIA Novosti
Tbilisi (Georgia), May 4 (RIA Novosti) Georgia has responded sarcastically to reports of an imminent Georgian military operation against its breakaway republic Abkhazia, advising Russian security agents to calm nerves with ...
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April 29th, 2008 - 7:59 pm ICT by admin
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RIA Novosti
Moscow, April 29 (RIA Novosti) Russia Tuesday warned Georgia that violence against Russians in Georgia's two breakaway provinces would invite "appropriate and tough" reaction and said it would mobilise more troops ...
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April 26th, 2008 - 12:12 pm ICT by admin
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(Commentary)
By Amulya Ganguli
The pragmatic good sense shown by the Nepal Maoists stands in sharp contrast to the ideological rigidity of the Indian communists. Whether it is a mainline outfit like the Communist ...
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March 16th, 2008 - 12:01 pm ICT by admin
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RIA Novosti
St Petersburg, March 16 (RIA Novosti) The Indian automotive industry is all set to enter the Russian market now to make its mark against the backdrop of growing bilateral trade totalling ...
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March 6th, 2008 - 5:16 pm ICT by admin
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RIA Novosti
New York, March 6 (RIA Novosti) Moscow now has 74 billionaires with average wealth of $5.9 billion, placing it above New York, Forbes Magazine said in its annual rich list published ...
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