| World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Charges for Opposition Leader in Plotting Riots |
Sergei Udaltsov, a leader of the Left Front, is the most prominent opposition figure to face prison under an increasingly severe Kremlin crackdown on the protest movement against the government of Vladimir V. Putin.
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| World Briefing | Europe: England: Belarussian Is Granted Asylum |
Andrei Sannikov, a prominent dissident from Belarus and former presidential candidate, has been granted political asylum in Britain, his wife said Friday.
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| Slap Shot: Planned K.H.L. Games at Barclays Center Are Moved Back to Russia |
The matches between Dynamo Moscow and SKA St. Petersburg, scheduled for Jan. 19 and 20, were to be the first hockey games played at the new Brooklyn arena, where the Islanders will be moving in 2015.
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| Ericsson Profit Drops 42% as Orders Are Delayed |
The Swedish maker of telecommunications equipment said wireless carriers in Europe, China, Russia and South Korea were postponing building newer, faster grids.
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| Russian Protest Leader May Face Up to 10 Years in Jail |
Russian protest leader Sergei Udaltsov has been charged with plotting mass disorder on Friday and could face up to 10 years behind bars if found guilty. "If anyone expected me to flee abroad, they were mistaken," Left Front leader Udaltsov, 35, said as he reported to investigators for questioning. "The Putin regime will be on trial," he wrote later on Twitter, as cited by RIA Novosti. ...
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| US-Russian trio hooks up with space station |
 A Russian Soyuz space capsule linked up with the International Space Station on Thursday, delivering three new residents to the orbiting laboratory.
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| 5 hot emerging market blue chips |
Investing in emerging markets can be risky, but there are plenty of safe bets in Brazil, Russia, India and China.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_news_international/~4/CaYShUYsDC0" height="1" width="1"/>
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| World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Three Militants Said to Be Killed |
Russia’s police and security services said Wednesday that they had killed three Islamic militants suspected of organizing back-to-back attacks in the Rupublic of Tatarstan in July.
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| Sports Briefing | Soccer: Day of Upsets in Europe |
Germany’s Bundesliga champion BoRussia Dortmund held on for a 2-1 win over visiting Real Madrid on a day of upsets in the Champions League on Wednesday.
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| Russia activist was tortured in custody, rights group says |
Leonid Razvozzhayev says he was seized in Ukraine and taken to Russia, where he was forced to sign a confession, the group says. Authorities deny the claim.MOSCOW — An opposition activist being held by Russian authorities says he was kidnapped from Ukraine, tortured and forced to sign a confession, a human rights group said Wednesday.
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| BP backs deal to swap TNK-BP for Rosneft stake |
LONDON (AP) -- A person familiar with the matter says that the board of U.K. energy company BP PLC has struck a deal to swap its profitable but troublesome Russian oil venture TNK-BP for a big stake in Rosneft, the Kremlin-controlled energy company....
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| Soyuz craft readied for space station mission |
 A Russian-made Soyuz rocket was erected into place Sunday, ahead of the start of a mission to take a three-man crew to the International Space Station.
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| 49 militants killed in Caucasus operation, says Russia |
Russian security forces have killed 49 militants in an operation across the North Caucasus region, where rebels are fighting to carve out an Islamic state, Russia's top anti-terrorism body said on Sunday
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| Russia Stages Missile Test, With Putin Taking the Helm |
 President Vladimir V. Putin oversaw what the Kremlin described as the largest nuclear command exercise in Russia’s recent history, launching unarmed strategic and cruise missiles from the air, the sea and the ground.
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| Eduard Y. Volodarsky, 71, Screenwriter Silenced by the Soviets, Is Dead |
Mr. Volodarsky’s films are recognized classics today in Russia, but his scripts cast doubt on the carefully manicured history of the Soviet Union and spent years on the shelves of state studios.
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| With 2 Big Deals Approaching, Rosneft Stands to Become a Global Oil Power |
Two pending deals would bring more than half of Russia’s oil industry under government control for the first time since the early 1990s and create a new player on the world stage.
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| Russia's Yandex targets Google with expansion abroad |
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Russia's leading internet search engine, Yandex, will take the fight to Google in emerging markets like Turkey in a bid to offset the inroads made by the U.S. giant in its home market. Yandex founder and chief executive Arkady Volozh told Reuters on Friday the firm was likely to use its own experts to expand into new countries, but would not rule out acquisitions or partnership deals. "We are focusing on the markets with Google dominance in search ... ...
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| DealBook: Deal Set to Help Sprint Overhaul Its Network |
Sprint Nextel has reached an agreement to take control of Clearwire. | BP is poised to exit its joint venture in Russia. | Morgan Stanley announced solid results on Thursday. | Michael E. O'Neill is shaking up what it means to be a chairman on Wall Street.
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| World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Dispute Over Head Scarves |
President Vladimir V. Putin spoke out on Thursday against the wearing of head scarves in Russian schools.
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| At War Blog: Syrian Forces' Improvised Arms: Desperate Measures, or Deliberate Aid? |
According to conventional wisdom, pro-government forces in Syria should be well equipped by weapons from Russia and China and, to a lesser extent, Iran. But they have resorted to crafting weapons to complement, or perhaps even replace, their standard arms.
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| T Magazine: Olga Smirnova on Her Toes |
 The young ballerina, soon to perform in New York, possesses a skill and grace and soulfulness that has propelled her to fame in her native Russia.
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| Nieminen, Youzhny advance at Stockholm Open |
STOCKHOLM (AP) -Jarkko Nieminen of Finland and Russia's Mikhail Youzhny advanced to the second round of the Stockholm Open on Monday with straight-set wins.
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| Safarova reaches 2nd round at Kremlin Cup |
MOSCOW (AP) - Eighth-seeded Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic advanced to the second round of the Kremlin Cup on Monday by beating Russian wild card Margarita Gasparyan 6-3, 4-6, 6-2.
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| Putin’s United Russia Party Dominates Regional Elections |
Results from Sunday’s voting showed that candidates from the pro-Kremlin party United Russia won nearly all the municipal and regional contests held across the country.
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| Russia disputes cluster bomb claim |
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| Russia fights claim that Syria is using Russian-made cluster bombs |
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| Russia fights claim that Syria is using Russian-made cluster bombs |
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| Russia Elections |
Sunday’s array of regional and local elections served as a measure of whether electoral reforms introduced last year would usher in real political competition.
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| Pussy Riot members face tough life in penal colony |
 It's a far cry from Stalin's gulag, but the guiding principle of the Russian penal colony -- the destination of two members of punk band Pussy Riot -- remains the same: isolate inmates and wear them down through "corrective labor."
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| Eduard Volodarsky, Screenwriter Banned by Soviets, Dies at 71 |
Mr. Volodarsky’s films are recognized classics today in Russia, but his scripts cast doubt on the carefully manicured history of the Soviet Union and spent years on the shelves of state studios.
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| Russian court to consider Pussy Riot's appeal |
Three members of the punk band Pussy Riot are set to make their case before a Russian appeals court that they should not be imprisoned for their irreverent protest against President Vladimir Putin.
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| Satellites watch Siberian volcano erupt |
All was calm on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula when NASA's Terra satellite passed over at noon local time on Oct. 6. Or so it seemed.
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| Russia's singing granny finds her father's grave |
 To find her father's World War II grave, Natalya Pugachyova had to become a celebrity.
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| Iraq has USD4.2b weapons order from Russia |
(MENAFN) A Russian government document unveiled that Iraq has signed over USD4.2 billion contracts to buy weapons from Russia, Reuters reported. The document was issued at a meeting between Prime ...
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| Moon mission aims to retrieve samples |
 Europe and Russia are working together to bring samples of frozen moon dirt to Earth in the next decade. The unmanned mission, called Lunar Polar Sample Return, aims to bore into the moon's surface at either the north or south pole, where nearly permanent sunlight would allow a robot to operate in manageable conditions.
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| Slap Shot: Kovalchuk Takes Scoring Touch to Russia |
Ilya Kovalchuk is off to a hot scoring start for SKA St. Petersburg.
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| 'An artistic statement': Vandal defaces Rothko painting |
LONDON -- British police are investigating the defacing of a painting by Russian-American artist Mark Rothko at London's leading contemporary art museum.
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| 'An artistic statement': Vandal defaces Rothko painting |
LONDON -- British police are investigating the defacing of a painting by Russian-American artist Mark Rothko at London's leading contemporary art museum.
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| Man claims responsibility for defacing Rothko |
A Russian man has claimed responsibility for scrawling graffiti on a mural by modern American master Mark Rothko at London's Tate Modern.
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| Russia Marks Putin’s 60th Birthday |
 For leaders of the Kremlin, turning 60 is a milestone heavy with history and symbolism, sometimes marked by elaborate ceremony and sometimes not.
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| Russia dismisses talk of new spy scandal with U.S. |
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday that the Kremlin had nothing to do with a network alleged by the United States to be smuggling military technology to Moscow. The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday it had broken up an elaborate network aimed at illegally acquiring U.S.-made microelectronic components for Russian military and spy agencies. It charged 11 people with taking part. The Russian Foreign Ministry expressed surprise at the allegations. ...
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| Russia denies involvement in alleged U.S. smuggling network |
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian spy agencies were not involved in an alleged smuggling network uncovered by the United States and Moscow is concerned by the espionage allegations, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Thursday. "The charges are of a criminal nature and have nothing to do with the work of the secret services," he was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies. (Reporting By Nastassia Astrasheuskaya, Editing by Timothy Heritage)
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| US: Smuggling ring sent electronics to Russian spies |
 An elaborate network aimed at illegally acquiring U.S.-made microelectronic components for Russian military and spy agencies has been broken up, the Justice Department said on Wednesday.
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| Birobidzhan Journal: Jewish Homeland in Birobidzhan, Russia, Retains Appeal |
Birobidzhan, the capital of Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region, never became the agrarian, socialist utopia that some founders envisioned, but it remains a Jewish place.
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| U.S. indicts 11 in alleged technology theft for Russia |
Radar, surveillance and weapons technology was reportedly sent through a business in a Houston strip mall.HOUSTON —Eleven alleged members of a clandestine procurement network have been indicted in connection with what prosecutors say was a $50-million conspiracy designed "to steal American technologies for the Russian government."
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| Straight Sets: Petrova Wins Wild Tokyo Final |
The veteran Nadia Petrova of Russia fell to her knees having won a dizzying final at the Toray Pan Pacific Open, defeating the defending champion, Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland, 6-0, 1-6, 6-3.
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| US: Immigrant stole military technology for Russia |
 An American success story of an immigrant from Kazakhstan who made millions off his Texas export firm took a Cold War-era turn on Wednesday when U.S. authorities accused him of being a secret agent who's been stealing military technology for the Russian military.
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| AC Milan beats Zenit 3-2 in Champions League |
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) -A late own goal by Slovak defender Tomas Hubocan spoiled Zenit St. Petersburg's comeback and handed AC Milan a 3-2 win over the Russian club in an action-packed Champions League match on Wednesday.
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| Singer Sarah Brightman Outbids NASA for Space Tourist's Seat |
 To Make Room on Russian Soyuz, NASA to Keep an Astronaut on Space Station for a Year
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| Bidzina Ivanishvili Rescinds Demand that the Georgian President Resign |
Bidzina Ivanishvili, who is poised to become the prime minister, also said he would visit the U.S. The announcements signal that Mr. Ivanishvili does not intend to reorient Georgia toward a partnership with Russia.
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| Russian Parliament Silences Opposition Lawmaker Ilya V. Ponomarev |
Russia’s Parliament voted Friday to bar Ilya V. Ponomarev from speaking on the floor for one month after he called members of the majority party “swindlers and thieves.”
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| The Saturday Profile: Putin’s Personal Wedge in a Culture War Between Urban and Rural |
Igor R. Kholmanskikh leads a movement comprised mostly of “Russia’s rednecks” in the service of President Vladimir V. Putin, who is seeking to divide the Moscow-based opposition.
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| Russians face up to their outer-space crisis |
 In the wake of a string of setbacks, Russia's top space officials acknowledge that the country's aerospace industry is in deep, deep trouble.
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| Anti-gay activists target PepsiCo's Russian unit |
MOSCOW (Reuters) - An anti-gay activist group said it will picket shops selling milk produced by PepsiCo Inc's Russian subsidiary because they believe that a rainbow on the packaging violates a local law banning homosexual "propaganda". The milk brand is called Vesyoly Molochnik, which translates as Gay Milkman, though in Russian the word vesyoly does not suggest homosexuality. The group said that it was objecting to the rainbow, which it saw as the international symbol for the gay movement. ...
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| Forever heroes: Spirit of tragic Russian hockey stars lives on |
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| Nokia's Lumia 920 priced higher than rivals, available mid-November in Europe |
 Earlier this month, Nokia (NOK) unveiled the Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 at a press event in New York City, but the Finnish vendor failed to announce pricing and launch information. While we continue to wait for U.S. launch details, three of the company's subsidiaries have revealed additional information regarding the phones' pricing and releases. Nokia Russia on Tuesday began accepting pre-orders for both devices, while Nokia Germany and Nokia Italy announced that the company's flagship Windows Phone 8 handset will launch in mid-November for $835 and $771, respectively, before taxes and subsidies. The lower-end Lumia 820 will be offered for an unsubsidized price of $643. By comparison, the Galaxy S III is available in Europe for roughly $680. BGR reported earlier
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| World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Groups Pledge to Defy New Law |
Leading Russian nongovernmental organizations said Thursday that they would defy a new law requiring those who receive funds from abroad to register as “foreign agents.”
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| Chavez gets Russian oil investment _ and a puppy |
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Russia agreed to deepen its investments in Venezuela to tap new oilfields, while President Hugo Chavez thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for a personal gift - a puppy....
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| Russian TV host gets $2 million back from gov't |
 A glamorous Russian TV host who has emerged as a face of anti-Kremlin protests has won an unlikely victory in her battle against the government by seeing the return of nearly $2 million seized by authorities.
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| U.S. and Russian experts turn up volume on cybersecurity alarms |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Uncontrolled security threats on the Internet could return much of the planet to an era without electricity or automated transportation, top U.S. and Russian experts said on Thursday. Former National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden warned that the United States had yet to resolve basic questions about how to police the Internet, let alone how to defend critical infrastructure such as electric generation plants. ...
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| Fognini advances to St. Petersburg Open final |
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) - Fabio Fognini of Italy beat Daniel Gimeno-Traver of Spain 6-3, 6-4 Saturday to advance to the final of the St. Petersburg Open.
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| Wozniacki advances to Korea Open finals |
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Caroline Wozniacki has advanced to the finals of the Korea Open, beating Ekaterina Makarova of Russia 6-1, 5-7, 6-4 Saturday.
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| World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Dogs Poisoned in Moscow |
The Moscow police are searching for a band of vigilante “dog hunters” who have set traps with poisoned meat to kill stray dogs. But the poison has killed pets instead.
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| Op-Ed Contributor: Please Hold for Mr. Putin |
A Russian tradition flatters writers in a culture where literature has special prestige. But the surprise also promotes the cult of the unpredictable czar.
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| Russia Moves to Broaden Definition of High Treason |
The lower house of Parliament approved the measure, which characterizes acts that undermine “constitutional order, sovereignty and territorial and state integrity” as high treason.
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| Ancient land of 'Beringia' gets protection from US, Russia |
You might have missed it, but the ancient land of Beringia has become the protectorate of superpowers Russia and the United States.
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| Yoko Ono bestows peace grant on Pussy Riot |
 Yoko Ono awarded the Russian punk band Pussy Riot this year's LennonOno grant for peace.
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| Smuggled iPhone 5s Sell for as Much as $3,700 in Moscow |
 Russian Operators Will Have Nano SIM Cards Ready By This Weekend
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| Memo From Moscow: Medvedev’s Handiwork Is Erased in Putin’s Russia |
With Vladimir V. Putin president again, the Kremlin is reversing Dmitri A. Medvedev’s policies on everything from civil liberties and elections to daylight saving time.
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| Klizan, Fognini advance at St. Petersburg Open |
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) -Third-seeded Martin Klizan of Slovakia advanced to the quarterfinals of the St. Petersburg Open Thursday by beating Simone Bolelli of Italy 6-3, 6-3.
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