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Russian President Vladimir Putin has been elected the leader of the Popular Front for Russia.
Jun. 13, 2013
TOKYO — JCG Corp., a Japanese engineering company, and French oilfield services company Technip S.A. say they have won a contract for a liquefied natural gas plant in central Russia.
Apr. 3, 2013
MOSCOW – Russian agriculture watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor will remove German companies whose products may contain the dangerous carcinogen aflatoxin B1 from its list of suppliers to Russia.
Mar. 5, 2013
MILAN, Feb 24 (Reuters) – A group of topless women were dragged away by police on Sunday when they protested against former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi as he voted in Italy’s election.
Feb. 25, 2013
MOSCOW – French actor, businessman and vineyard owner Gerard Depardieu, who now holds a Russian passport, has been offered the post of culture minister in Russia’s internal republic of Mordovia, said
Jan. 7, 2013
The Rome mayor’s office has put up a portrait of jailed former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on the facade of its headquarters as a token of support for her, Tymoshenko’s Batkivschyna (Fat
Nov. 26, 2012
Baikonur Space Center – A
Proton-M launch vehicle and a Briz-M upper stage have put the Luch-5B
and Yamal-300K satellites into orbit, Nikolai Sevastyanov, the general
designer of Gazprom Space Syst
Nov. 3, 2012
Moscow – Moscow has attacked
a decision by Latvia’s Central Election Commission to suspend
preparations for a referendum on a proposal for automatically granting
Latvian citizenship to the country’s
Nov. 2, 2012
LONDON — Keith
Campbell, a prominent biologist who worked on cloning Dolly the sheep,
has died at 58, the University of Nottingham said Thursday.
Oct. 11, 2012
BEIRUT — Syrian activists say raging firefights between government forces and rebels in the historic districts of central Aleppo have started a major fire in the city’s medieval souks, or markets.
Sep. 29, 2012
MOSCOW — Russian
scientists are claiming that a gigantic deposit of industrial diamonds
found in a huge Siberian meteorite crater during Soviet times could
revolutionize industry.
Sep. 18, 2012
TALLINN – Nord Stream AG,
the operating company for the construction of the Nord Stream gas
pipeline across the Baltic Sea floor from Russia to Germany, has
requested of the Estonian Foreign Affairs
Aug. 27, 2012
Kazakhstan hopes for extension of the Dnepr rocket launches by Kosmotras, a Ukrainian-Russian-Kazakh JV, said the chairman of the National Space Agency of Kazakhstan (Kazkosmos) Talgat Musabayev.
Jun. 21, 2012
TUNIS, Tunisia — Sometimes it’s a muffled call from Turkey or Lebanon by a son saying he’s off to fight in Syria when the family thought he’d gone abroad to study. Other times it’s just an anonymous p
Jun. 21, 2012
MOSCOW – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the United States wants to dominate other countries and that the world is tired of taking orders from Washington.
Dec. 15, 2011
MOSCOW – ‘Color revolutions’ are a well-tested scheme of destabilizing society, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said.
Dec. 15, 2011
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The June 19 defense pact signed between Russia and North Korea included a promise to provide military assistance to one another – within days Pyongyang said it was sending troops to Ukraine.
Jun. 26