Tibetan parliament congratulates France, Russia
May 9th, 2012 - 12:18 pm ICT by IANS
Dharamsala, May 9 (IANS) The Tibetan parliament-in-exile Wednesday congratulated France's Francois Hollande and Russia's Vladimir Putin for winning their presidential elections.In the letters sent to Putin and Hollande, parliament speaker ... Read more...
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Putin signs decree appointing Medvedev PM
May 8th, 2012 - 9:53 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, May 8 (IANS) Russia's new President Vladimir Putin Tuesday signed a decree appointing Dmitry Medvedev as prime minister, within an hour after Russia's State Duma, or lower house of ... Read more...
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Putin proposes Medvedev as prime minister
May 7th, 2012 - 7:14 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, May 7 (IANS/RIA Novosti) President Vladimir Putin proposed Dmitry Medvedev for the post of prime minister Monday, the speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament said.Putin first put forward ... Read more...
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Putin sworn in as Russian president
May 7th, 2012 - 4:37 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, May 7 (IANS) Vladimir Putin was sworn in Monday as Russia's president, starting his third term in the Kremlin following two consecutive terms from 2000 to 2008.The 59-year-old political ... Read more...
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World’s tallest log cabin destroyed in fire
May 7th, 2012 - 10:19 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, May 7 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Once the world's tallest wooden skyscraper, the 13-storey Sutyagin House in Russia has been destroyed in a fire, officials said.The 144-foot-tall Sutyagin House was situated ... Read more...
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Bomber held in Georgia
May 5th, 2012 - 2:44 am ICT by IANS
Tbilisi, May 5 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A man has been arrested in Georgia for allegedly planting an explosive device near the prosecutor's office in the western city of Zugdidi."The suspect was ... Read more...
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Iran n-plant to switch to full capacity in May
May 4th, 2012 - 4:57 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, May 4 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Bushehr, Iran's first nuclear power plant, will start switching to full capacity from May 23, a Russian nuclear power corporation has said.According to Atomstroyexport, part ... Read more...
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Renault, Russian firm set up JV
May 3rd, 2012 - 4:29 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, May 3 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The Renault-Nissan alliance and Russian Technologies state corporation will set up a joint venture company which will have a 74.5 percent stake in Russia's largest ... Read more...
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Russian stabs fishing buddy over poor catch
May 3rd, 2012 - 4:26 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, May 3 (IANS) A man in Russia stabbed his fishing buddy to death after blaming him for ruining their fishing day with a poor catch, an official said Thursday.Olga ... Read more...
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Russia, NATO at loggerheads over missile defense
May 3rd, 2012 - 3:20 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, May 3 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Talks between NATO and Russia over US plans for a projected missile defense system in Europe remain at loggerheads, Russia's Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said ... Read more...
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‘Every third Russian woman suffers domestic violence’
May 3rd, 2012 - 12:05 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, May 2 (IANS/RIA Novosti) About a third of Russian women suffer domestic violence but put up with beatings from their partners and husbands in order not to lose them, ... Read more...
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Iran n-plant supplies 940 MW electricity
April 30th, 2012 - 9:58 pm ICT by IANS
Tehran, April 30 (IANS) Iran's national grid Monday received 940 megawatts of electricity from the country's Bushehr nuclear power plant.The supply comes after several tests conducted at Bushehr plant, the ... Read more...
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Iran hopeful over Baghdad n-talks: Minister
April 30th, 2012 - 4:43 am ICT by IANS
Tehran, April 30 (IANS) Iranian Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi is hopeful that the next round of nuclear talks between the country and the world powers would be fruitful, ISNA news ... Read more...
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Russia destroys over 60 percent of chemical weapons
April 29th, 2012 - 7:13 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, April 29 (IANS) About 25,000 metric tonnes - or 62 percent - of Russia's chemical weapons haf been destroyed till April 29, RIA Novosti reported Sunday.In 15 years, Russia ... Read more...
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Russian prosecutors find 3,000 poll violations
April 28th, 2012 - 10:03 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, April 28 (IANS/RIA Novosti) At least 3,000 violations were committed during the recent parliamentary and presidential polls in Russia, the Prosecutor General's Office said in a report issued Saturday.Following ... Read more...
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Almost half of Cuba’s foreign visitors are Canadians
April 28th, 2012 - 12:52 pm ICT by IANS
Havana, April 28 (IANS/EFE) Just over 48 percent of foreign tourists who visited Cuba in the first quarter of 2012 came from Canada, according to figures released Friday by the ... Read more...
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Foreign plane forced to land in Pakistan
April 25th, 2012 - 9:28 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, April 25 (IANS) The Pakistan Air Force Wednesday forced a Russia-made cargo plane belonging to a foreign military to land at the Karachi airport after it violated Pakistani airspace, ... Read more...
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Colombian prostitutes could be Russian spies: Senator
April 25th, 2012 - 7:12 pm ICT by IANS
London, April 25 (IANS) A US senator has claimed that the prostitutes who were involved in Colombia with President Barack Obama's Secret Service agents could have been placed there ... Read more...
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Russian Olympic medallist tests positive
April 25th, 2012 - 3:25 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, April 25 (IANS) Russian long jumper Irina Meleshina, silver medallist at the 2004 Athens Olympics, has been banned for two years by the Russian Athletics Federation after she tested ... Read more...
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Russia lowers budget deficit target for 2012
April 25th, 2012 - 10:05 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, April 25 (IANS) Russia's federal budget deficit is expected to shrink to 0.1 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) in 2012, down from a previous forecast of 1.5 ... Read more...
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Putin quits as head of ruling party
April 24th, 2012 - 7:14 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, April 24 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russian president-elect Vladimir Putin said Tuesday he was standing down as head of the ruling United Russia party and nominated outgoing President Dmitry Medvedev as ... Read more...
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Russia’s trade surplus up 26 percent
April 24th, 2012 - 5:08 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, April 24 (IANS) Russia's trade surplus grew by 26 percent in March year-on-year, Russian Deputy Economic Development Minister Andrei Klepach said Monday."The trade surplus in March reached $21 billion. ... Read more...
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India proposes working group for BRICS development bank
April 20th, 2012 - 7:49 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, April 20 (IANS) India has suggested setting up a working group comprising officials from finance ministries and central banks of the five BRICS countries for the formation of ... Read more...
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IMF warns Russia over credit bubble
April 20th, 2012 - 5:12 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, April 20 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned Russia it faces the risks of a "credit bubble swelling up" due to the rapid growth in consumer ... Read more...
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Russia, US to hold joint anti-terror drill
April 20th, 2012 - 9:05 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, April 20 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A military team from Russia will go to the US in May for a joint anti-terror exercise, a Russian defence ministry official said.A detachment from ... Read more...
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Agni-V missile successfully tested
April 19th, 2012 - 10:29 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 19 (IANS) India Thursday successfully test-fired its indigenous long range nuclear-capable ballistic missile Agni-V.The missile was launched from Wheelers' Island off the coast in Odisha's Bhadrak ... Read more...
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India poses no missile threat: NATO
April 19th, 2012 - 3:35 am ICT by IANS
Brussels, April 19 (IANS/RIA Novosti) NATO does not consider India as a missile threat despite the country's advanced missile development programme, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said.India is all ... Read more...
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Russia to sell missile systems to Belarus
April 19th, 2012 - 12:45 am ICT by IANS
Minsk, April 18 (IANS) Russia will continue selling its air defence missile systems to Belarus in 2012 at discount prices, Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said."Belarus is a leading market ... Read more...
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Vandal caught spraypainting Russian cathedral
April 18th, 2012 - 11:01 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, April 18 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A vandal has been caught spraypainting the walls of a cathedral in Russia's far eastern city of Khabarovsk, police said.The man was caught by taxi ... Read more...
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Court bans clip of Russians drinking
April 17th, 2012 - 7:13 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, April 17 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A court in Russia's Siberia region has banned a video compilation of drunken Russians, terming it extremist material that "denigrates the honour of the Russian ... Read more...
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Iran n-talks constructive: EU
April 15th, 2012 - 9:15 pm ICT by IANS
Istanbul, April 15 (IANS) Talks between six world powers and Iran on its nuclear programme have been described as "constructive and useful" by European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.Speaking ... Read more...
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Blast hits Russia-bound Azerbaijan pipeline
April 14th, 2012 - 8:37 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, April 14 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A powerful blast at around Friday midnight hit an about 240-km long natural gas pipeline connecting Azerbaijan and Russia.The pipeline runs along the Caspian Sea ... Read more...
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Four teens held for rape, murder of minor girl
April 14th, 2012 - 5:32 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, April 14 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Four teenaged boys have been detained in Russia's Siberia region on suspicion of raping a 12-year-old girl and leaving her naked to die in the ... Read more...
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UFO crashes in Siberia?
April 14th, 2012 - 3:32 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, April 14 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Search teams in Russia's Siberia region have been put on alert after witnesses said they saw an unidentified flying object crash there in the early ... Read more...
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Putin declares income of $122,000 for 2011
April 12th, 2012 - 5:18 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, April 12 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russian Prime Minister and president-elect Vladimir Putin earned 3.662 million rubles ($122,000) in 2011, according to his income declaration posted on the government's website Thursday.In ... Read more...
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