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31 min ago | The Drinks Business

Russians still stuck on sweet fizz

Russian consumers have yet to embrace brut sparkling wine despite the efforts of one of the country's top fizz producers to lure drinkers away from demi-doux. Speaking at the London International Wine Fair at ExCel this week, Pavel Titov, director of historic Russian sparkling wine estate Abrau-Durso, explained: "When I joined the company we had 34 ... (more)

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31 min ago | Weekday Magazine

Russian Priest Who Spoke Out On Pussy Riot Granted Czech Asylum

A Russian Orthodox priest who stood up for jailed members of the all-female punk-rock collective Pussy Riot says he has been granted political asylum in the Czech Republic.

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2 hrs ago | Iol.co.za

Moscow felt 'echoes of earthquake'

A massive undersea earthquake on Friday in Russia's Far East prompted a tsunami warning and was felt in cities including Moscow far to the west, but there were no immediate reports of casualties.

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2 hrs ago | Sky News

Ring Of Fire Earthquake: Tremors Felt In Moscow

Tremors are felt from 4,000 miles away as two earthquakes strike in the turbulent Ring Of Fire region, in Russia and the US.

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3 hrs ago | Mises Economics Blog

The Last Knight in Russia

May 24th, 2013 will remain in the annals of the Circle Bastiat as an infamous day of self-promotion. There is indeed a second publication which yours truly is most happy to announce: the Russian edition of the Last Knight of Liberalism : Y : '> oe , 893 pp.

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5 hrs ago | AlertNet

Russia lifts tsunami warning on Russia's Sakhalin, Kurile islands

Russian emergency authorities lifted a tsunami warning on Friday several minutes after they announced one, following an earthquake in the Sea of Okhotsk off Russia's eastern coast.

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5 hrs ago | NEWS.com.au

Tsunami warning in Russia's far east

RUSSIA has issued a tsunami warning for the Sakhalin Island region in its far east after a deep sea earthquake measured at a magnitude of 8.2 by the USGS.

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Thu May 23, 2013

The Honolulu Advertiser

No tsunami threat from 8.2-magnitude earthquake off Russia

A strong, deep earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 8.2 struck in the Sea of Okhotsk off the Russian coast tonight, but the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says there is no threat of a destructive tsunami to Hawaii.

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The Standard

Tsunami danger in Russia's Far East after 8.2 quake

Russia issued a tsunami warning for the Sakhalin Island region in its Far East after a deep sea earthquake measured at a magnitude of 8.2 by the US Geological Survey.

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RIA Novosti

US Religious Freedom Report 'Politicized' - Russia

MOSCOW, May 23 The Russian Foreign Ministry on Thursday dismissed as "politicized" the Religious Freedom Report recently published by the US Department of State and said that such documents incite religious conflicts.

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The Daily Star

Catch an open-air movie on St. Nicholas steps

BEIRUT: The Cabriolet Film Festival was founded in 2009 to provide a free platform for short films from Lebanese and international filmmakers.

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Salon

Chekhov's story mirrors Russia's own

"Chekhov," V.S. Pritchett's now-classic biography of the 19th century Russian story writer, physician, and playwright, is newly available in an audiobook edition beautifully narrated by Antony Ferguson.

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Lake Wylie Pilot

Russia wary of deeper nuclear arms cuts

Russia's top military officer on Thursday voiced skepticism about deeper nuclear arms cuts, saying they should require parallel reductions in non-nuclear precision weapons.

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RIA Novosti

Russia, US Perceptions Hit 4-Year Low - Poll

MOSCOW, May 23 Russian and US perceptions of each other's role in the world have deteriorated over the past year, hitting their lowest point since 2009, according to a new survey commissioned by the BBC World Service.

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Universe Today

With Russian Meteor Fresh In Everyone's Memory, ESA Opens An Asteroid Monitoring Center

The two main smoke trails left by the Russian meteorite as it passed over the city of Chelyabinsk.

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RIA Novosti

Russia Set to Evacuate Drifting Polar Research Station SP-40

Russian Natural Resources Minister Sergei Donskoi ordered preparation of an evacuation plan on Thursday for the country's North Pole 40 drifting polar research station, due to the break-up of the ice floe it is located on.

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Sunherald.com

Paul McCartney writes in support of Pussy Riot

In this Monday Oct. 1, 2012 file photo, feminist punk group Pussy Riot members, from left, Maria Alekhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova sit in a glass cage at a court room in Moscow, Russia.

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Russia Beyond the Headlines

European luxury goods market thrives on Russian tourists

While the ongoing recession has pressured Europeans and Americans into spending cuts, tourists from Russia and China have been pushing up luxury sales.

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Wed May 22, 2013

Weyburn Review

Uralkali to delay potash boost if Billiton proceeds in Sask.

Russia's Uralkali OAO would delay two of its potash mine expansion projects for as long as a decade if rival BHP Billiton builds the world's biggest mine of the crop nutrient, Uralkali's chief executive said in an interview.

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RIA Novosti

US Lawmakers Try to Block Sharing Missile Defense Data with Russia

WASHINGTON, May 22 Republican US lawmakers are taking steps to bar the United States from sharing classified missile defense technology information with Russia, draft legislation that was amended in the US Congress Wednesday shows.

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