Moscow Raceway lacks zing: Petrov
July 15th, 2012 - 8:05 pm ICT by IANS
Volokolamsk (Russia), July 15 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The new Moscow Raceway is fit to host Formula One but it lacks the excitement of a top-level circuit, Caterham driver Vitaly Petrov says.The ... Read more...
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US, Germany ‘deeply concerned’ about Russian tycoon’s ‘illegal’ conviction
December 28th, 2010 - 2:04 pm ICT by ANI
Moscow, Dec 28 (ANI): The US and Germany have reportedly voiced their serious concern about a second conviction against the jailed Russian former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, calling it a "selective application" ... Read more...
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New Moscow metro opening deferred over fears that Dostoevsky images ‘could cause suicides’
May 15th, 2010 - 2:35 pm ICT by ANI
Moscow, May 15 (ANI): Moscow authorities have postponed the opening of a metro station named after painter-cum novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky over fears that his illustrations could turn the station into a "mecca ... Read more...
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Gorbachev may be hero to West, but Russians don’t forgive
March 27th, 2009 - 9:26 am ICT by IANS
By Alissa de Carbonnel
Moscow, March 27 (DPA) To many of today's Russians, Communism is a hazy thing, referenced only in their parent's stories and their own vague memories of the scarcity of ... Read more...
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