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Cosmonautics Day is 50

Russia is marking Cosmonautics Day for the 50th time. It was established on the 12th of April 1961 in honour of the first anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s space flight.

Russia is marking Cosmonautics Day for the 50th time.

It was established on the 12th of April 1961 in honour of the first anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s space flight.

On Thursday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin presented government prizes in Moscow to veterans of space exploration Alexey Leonov, Valery Bykovsky, Boris Volynov, Viktor Gorbatko and the first lady-cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova.

Putin also held a conference on the development of cosmodromes at the Moscow Planetarium on Thursday.

TASS

Russia, Cosmonautics Day, Society

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US change policy on Afghanistan

Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai has suspended talks with the US on signing a security agreement. President Karzai made this move after the Taliban opened a mission in Doha, and Washington expressed readiness to go into talks with the movement’s representatives. Hamid Karzai described the US’ decision as ‘inconsistent with the policy of achieving a peace settlement on Afghanistan’.

Today, 19:38
US proposals to reduce nuclear arms cannot be taken seriously - Rogozin

Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin says US proposals to reduce nuclear arms cannot be taken seriously while the United States is building up missile defences.

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World

Peru: Bus plunges into river, 30 dead

At least 30 people died when a bus plunged off a highway into a river in central Peru, authorities said Wednesday.

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Mexico: Cat Morris - ideal candidate for mayor in Xalapa

Fed up with politicians they call "rats," a group of friends in the eastern Mexican city of Xalapa have put forward their ideal candidate for mayor: a cat named Morris.

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Hungary parliament evacuated in unexploded WW II bomb find

Part of Hungary's parliament was evacuated after an unexploded World War II bomb was discovered during excavation work for a nearby underground garage.

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Russia is to strengthen its air and space defence – Putin

President Putin spoke about this at a high-level government meeting held to review the progress of Russia’s rearmament programme for the period to 2020.

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Decline in efficiency of Russian nuclear forces must not be permitted - Putin

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No new arms deal with Syria – Putin’s aide

Russia has been implementing the contracts signed with the legitimate Syrian government on perfectly legal grounds, Voice of Russia’s Margarita Bogatova has cited the Kremlin's top foreign-policy aide Yuri Ushakov as saying Thursday.

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St.Petersburg Forum: a venue for intellectuals

The decline in production and consumption, insufficient investments and currency risks top the agenda of the St.Petersburg International Economic Forum, which will take place in St.Petersburg between June 20th and 22nd . Given that these issues of global concern could lead to a new wave of economic crisis, the participants in the forum, which will be attended by President Vladimir Putin, say that it’s time to act and call for ‘decisive action’

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World Bank warns global warming woes closing in

The World Bank on Wednesday warned that severe hardships from global warming could be felt within a generation, with a new study detailing devastating impacts in Africa and Asia.

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Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller and the president of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), Zhou Jiping, discussed yesterday evening matters involved in the concluding of a long-term contract for supplying China with Russian gas, a contract planned for signing before this year is out, Gazprom said.

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'Real' democracy stands for info freedom

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gave out copies of Adolf Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ to officials

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