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ROUGH CUT STORY: A possible tornado in central Russia ripped through a small town of Obninsk on Thursday, leaving damaged houses, cables and a wake of destroyed vehicles.

BOCHAROV RUCHEI , May 24 Russia will provide 1.7 billion euros to finance the construction of Serbia's stretch of the South Stream gas pipeline that will carry Russian natural gas through the Black Sea to Bulgaria and then on to Greece, Italy and Austria, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.

KALININGRAD, May 24 Construction of Russia's two new antimissile radars one in the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad and the other in Siberia's Irkutsk region should be complete by the end of next year, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Friday.

SOCHI, May 26 Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed on Friday to continue supporting the domestic film industry, but called on Russian filmmakers to produce movies that promote patriotic and moral values.

MOSCOW, May 24 Members of foreign delegations attending an international conference on European security on Friday visited a military base near Moscow hosting a motorized infantry division.

Vladimir Putin could well play a decisive role at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland, where Syria is the most difficult problem faced by world leaders Moscow hopes that the 2013 G8 summit will contribute to tackling the Syrian standoff.

American philanthropist Susan Lehrman has received the Fulbright Award for contributing to international diplomacy, specifically Russia-US cultural ties.

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)

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

"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.

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.