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11 min ago | Ynetnews

Syria's rebels blame Russia's Putin for prolonged fight

Khalid Dayli, a 23-year old fighter with Syria's rebel forces, flicked through the channels on his television, ogling at the scantily clad female singers and dismissing the talents of a Saudi soccer team.

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Related Topix: Syria, World News, Middle East, Vladimir Putin,

11 min ago | Hollywood Reporter

Gerard Depardieu Gets Russian Tax Cut After Registering as an Individual Entrepreneur

The status of an individual entrepreneur will allow Depardieu to pay even lower taxes on his local earnings than the 13 percent flat rate applicable in Russia.

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1 hr ago | Reuters

Russia says kills senior Islamist insurgent

The right-hand man of Russia's most wanted insurgent was killed by security forces on Tuesday, officials said, as Moscow tries to contain militancy in its Caucasus region before it hosts the Winter Olympics near there next February.

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Related Topix: World News, Vladimir Putin

2 hrs ago | Universe Today

Gerbils, mice perish as Russian spacecraft returns to Earth

A menagarie of animals launched to space last month has arrived back on Earth - with a few casualties for the voyage.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Space, World News, NASA

5 hrs ago | Russia Taday

Top Russian security official visits US, 'plays mailman' for Obama and Putin

The head of Russia's National Security Council has arrived in the US on a two-day visit for top-level talks on key stumbling blocks in bilateral relations.

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6 hrs ago | Agricultural Market

Until the end of 2012/13 MY, Russia can produce another 1.1 mln tonnes of sunflower meal

According to estimations of APK-Inform Agency, in March 2013 the production of sunflower meal in Russia totaled 353 thsd tonnes, an increase of 9% compared with the previous month index.

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6 hrs ago | Weekday Magazine

A Walk Down Washington's Alley Of Russian Poets

The Alley of Russian Poets is the brainchild of Uli Zislin, a Russian-born poetry collector and songwriter whose idea fell on receptive ears in 2003.

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Related Topix: Arts, Poetry, World News, Washington, DC

7 hrs ago | Transitions Online

Russia's Morality Police Pull up the Drawbridge

In recent months nonconformist culture and alternative artists in Russia have come under fire from conservative politicians and radical Orthodox groups alike.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Riot, Gay/Lesbian

Mon May 20, 2013

The Independent

Russia claims to have foiled possible terror plot

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Autoblog

Russian dash cam catches horrific high-flying accident

You just never know what your dash cam is going to capture on an average day in Russia.

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Science Daily

Making ice-cream more nutritious with meat left-overs

The challenge is to transform such waste into food of higher functionality and added value.

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Daily Mail

Student arrested for posing by Russian World War Two memorial with an inflatable sex doll

A university student has been jailed in Russia for posing for a photograph in front of a Second World War memorial - arm in arm with a blow-up sex doll.

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The Star Online

Dagestan bombs kill three, two dead in shootout near Moscow

Two car bombs killed at least three people and wounded dozens of others on Monday in Dagestan, a turbulent province in Russia's North Caucasus region where armed groups are waging an Islamist insurgency.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Vladimir Putin

Reuters

For Russia, Syria is not in the Middle East

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, British Prime Minister David Cameron, next Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. REUTERS/FILES A string of leaders and senior emissaries, seeking to prevent further escalation of the Syria crisis, has headed to Moscow recently ... (more)

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Related Topix: Vladimir Putin, Israel, World News, Middle East,

Russia Taday

E.On Russia to transfer 100% of 2012's net profit into dividends

E.On Russia, the Russian subsidiary of Germany's E.On power company, will transfer 100% of the net profit the energy company made in 2012, some $583 million into dividends, marking a record for the Russian domestic electricity market.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Nuclear Energy, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy

In-PharmaTechnologist.com

Russia Working to Align Biologics Regs with International Standards

Regulators and the drug industry met in Moscow last week to develop a framework for firms developing biologics and biosimilars in the Russian Federation.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, The Regulators, Country,

Jerusalem Post

15:00Car bombs kill eight in Russia's Dagestan

Two car bombs exploded in the capital of the Russian province of Dagestan on Monday, killing at least eight people and wounding about 20 others, investigators said.

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Weekday Magazine

Navalny Trial Resumes In Russia

KIROV, Russia -- The embezzlement trial of opposition leader and anticorruption blogger Aleksei Navalny has resumed in the central Russian city of Kirov.

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Weekday Magazine

At 20, Russia's Gazprom Struggles To Stay Dominant

Gazprom employees at the launch of production at the Bovanenkovskoye gas field in the far northern Yamal-Nenets Region in October 2012 MOSCOW -- Russia's biggest company turned 20 this year.

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Sun May 19, 2013

Jurist

UK judge upholds request to withhold evidence in Russian spy death investigation

Sir Robert Owen has agreed to withhold [Al Jazeera report] any information implicating the Russian government in Litvinenko's death, as well as any information that could undermine trust in the UK's government.

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