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Despite Opposition Russia Bans Smoking in Restaurants and Bars
MOSCOW ?? Russia risks igniting the ire of its 44 million smokers when it extends bans on cigarettes to restaurants and bars on Sunday as part of a battle to break the habit in one of ...
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Russia ready for talks on gas supply with Ukraine
Russia said Friday that it was prepared to continue negotiations with Ukraine over gas supplies next week once it receives partial debt payment from Ukraine. Representatives from the European Union ...
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US Official Russia Has Withdrawn Most Troops from Ukraine Border
SINGAPORE ?? Russia has withdrawn most of its troops from the Ukrainian border, but seven battalions, amounting to thousands of men, remain, a U.S. defense official said on Friday. U.S. ...
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Kazakhstan Belarus and Russia ink historic Eurasian Economic Union treaty
Leaders of Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus met here on Thursday to sign a treaty to establish the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), a common market of 170 million people and a combined gross domestic ...
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Russia Belarus Kazakhstan to form new economic bloc
Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia signed a treaty here Thursday to launch a European Union-style bloc to facilitate the free flow of people, capital and goods within the three countries. The ...
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Snowden Wants to Return to US
Fugitive self-proclaimed spy and NSA secrets leaker Edward Snowden says he wants to return home to the United States. In his first interview on U.S. television, Snowden told NBC-TV newsman ...
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Russia seeks end to bloodshed in Ukraine
Russia Wednesday urged for immediate stop of bloodshed in eastern Ukraine, which claimed increasing lives with military operation there were gaining momentum. "(Russian Foreign Minister Sergei) ...
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French president to meet Obama Putin next week
French President Francois Hollande will meet US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin next week on the eve of anniversary ceremonies of the Allied landing in ...
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Russia ready to send humanitarian aid to Ukraine
Russia Wednesday expressed its readiness to send humanitarian aid to Ukraine's eastern regions, and said it expected a prompt response from Kiev to facilitate the deliveries. "Russia receives ...
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Ukraine confirms partial Russian pullout from border
Ukraine's State Border Service (SBS) Wednesday reported a partial withdrawal of Russian troops from the border. "According to our information, the pullout of troops from our borders is under way. ...
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Obama Europe Visit to be Dominated by Ukraine
WHITE HOUSE ?? President Obama heads to Europe next week on a visit that will focus on Russian actions in Ukraine. First stop for the president is Poland, which wants more U.S. ...
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Putin to meet Hollande in France June 5
Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with French counterpart Francois Hollande in Paris June 5, a day before attending a ceremony to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landings ...
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New ISS Crew Arrives Safely to Begin Six-Month Mission
A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a three-man multinational crew has arrived at the International Space Station. American astronaut Reid Wiseman, Russian cosmonaut Max Surayev and German ...
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Russian spaceship flies three astronauts to ISS
Russia's manned spaceship carrying three astronauts blasted off late Wednesday from Kazakhstan's Baikonur space centre, heading to the International Space Station (ISS). The three astronauts aboard ...
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Putin’s Eurasian Union Looks Like a Bad Deal for Russia
From left: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend a signing ceremony during the Summit of Supreme Eurasian ...
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Ukraine making 1st gas payment to Russia
Ukraine's energy minister Yuri Prodan addresses a news conference as part of a meeting of representatives of the European Union, Russia and Ukraine about Ukrainian future gas supply in Berlin, ...
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Ukraine will never buy gas at rate currently set by Russia PM
Kiev (AFP) - Ukraine's prime minister said on Monday that Kiev will "never" purchase gas at the price currently set by Russia and warned that it will file for arbitration if no new ...
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Russia pulling most troops from Ukraine border U.S. and NATO say
U.S. Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel, shown aboard a U.S. military aircraft on May 30, 2014, called Russian troops' apparent withdrawal from the Ukraine border a promising development. (PABLO ...
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The Opinion-Makers How Russia Is Winning the Propaganda War
With the help of news services like RT and Ruptly, the Kremlin is seeking to reshape the way the world thinks about Russia. And it has been highly successful: Vladimir Putin has won the propaganda ...
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NATO to hold talks with Russia
NATO's Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said the organisation is to hold talks with Russia on Monday. Mr Rasmussen also said that "maybe around two thirds" of Russian ...
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Russia pulls back most of its forces from Ukrainian border
ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT — U.S. defense officials said Thursday that Russia has pulled most of its forces away from the Ukraine border, a withdrawal that the U.S. has been demanding for ...
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The future visible in St Petersburg
Eurasian century . Of course, the US$400 billion Russia-China gas deal was clinched only at the last minute in Shanghai, on Wednesday (a complement to the June 2013, 25-year, $270 billion oil deal ...
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Russia ranks first among world’s sports nations - Zhukov
Russia has ranked first among the world's greatest sports countries, Aleksander Zhukov, the head of Russian Olympic Committee told journalists Thursday. "Russia’s influence as a ...
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Russian troops are pulling back - Kerry
US Secretary of State John Kerry (left) shakes hands with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a bilateral meeting to discuss the ongoing situation in Ukraine as diplomats from the US, Ukraine, ...
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Zhukov reappointed Russian Olympic Committee President after successful four years
Charles Simmons, a member of the British gymnastics team that won Olympic bronze medals at Stockholm 1912, was the father of actress Jean Simmons. She starred in several successful films, ...