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The organization is especially needed in conflict-torn regions like Africa where historical sites are under the threat of destruction.
The diplomat added that UNESCO saw certain troubles itself due to cuts of US funding but Russia helped a lot providing money to restore Orthodox Churches in Kosovo.
In 2013, another two Russian sites will be added to the World Heritage list – the town of Bolgar and the island of Sviyazhsk.
Voice of Russia
According to Syrian and Lebanese media, the rebel defenders of Al-Qusayr near Homs in southwestern Syria have lost hundreds of men in their attempts to hold out against attacking government troops.
Analysts believe the latest missile firings by North Korea are part of a political chess game aimed at attracting international attention and extorting concessions.
Ryan Christopher Fogle, third secretary of the US Embassy in Moscow, who was earlier caught red-handed when trying to recruit a Russian intelligence agent, has left the country, NTV channel said airing a footage of the CIA spy passing through security at Sheremetyevo airport.
Israel has stated that they will not allow modern weapons from Syria’s arsenal to reach Hezbollah according to a statement made at a cabinet meeting by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Russia's Investigative Committee is preparing a request for Greece to investigate the attempt on the life of a Russian child on the island of Crete stated committee spokesman Vladimir Markin.
Russia believes setting time limits on the proposed international conference on Syria is counterproductive.
The world's largest hydroelectric power station is to be built in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Two members of the FBI’s ultra-elite Hostage Rescue Team were killed Friday during a training accident involving a helicopter off the coast of Virginia Beach.
Russia’s Tatyana Chernichka and Stanislav Khristenko have become two of 63 international competitors who made it to the finals of this year’s Queen Elisabeth competition of young pianists in Brussels.
The first woman mountain climber in the history of Ingushetia Leila Albogachieva has climbed the highest peak in the world, taking with her the flag of the 2014 Sochi Olympics, which she raised on the summit.
On the night from May 18 to May 19th hundreds of thousands of people all across Russia - from Vladivostok in the Far East to Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea joined the Museum Night international cultural event marking the International Museum Day. Only in Moscow the Museum Night attracted more than 1 million people.
Russia's Supreme Court said Sunday it would hear an appeal against the second conviction of jailed former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
The Russian government has received prime ministerial instructions to work out measures which would allow Russia to buck the global downward trend and ignite sustained economic expansion at an annual rate of at least 4%.
The European Union has postponed plans to introduce separate labelling for products from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, Israel's Haaretz newspaper reported on Sunday.
The importance of the Russia-ASEAN business forum, which will be held on the sidelines of the 17th St Petersburg International Economic Forum, is to attract investment into Russia and also to make Russian companies aware of money-making opportunities that exist in ASEAN countries, believes executive director of the Russia-ASEAN Business Council, Viktor Tarusin.
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In a harsh rebuttal to George Soros, the President of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research Hans-Werner Sinn accused the speculator of “playing with fire” and stated that “Germany will not accept Eurobonds” in spite of the pressure from the investing community.
In an exclusive interview with the Voice of Russia, Wolf Richter talks about the ECB's desperation, the money printing bonanza of the world's central banks and about a French finance minister who is barking at the wrong tree. Wolf Richter is the editor of , entrepreneur, private equity specialist and the author of "Big Like: Cascade Into An Odyssey".
According to the Egyptian presidency, the authorities are prepared to use force to liberate the seven soldiers who were abducted by Islamist radicals in the north of the Sinai Peninsula in an attack last Thursday.
Two people have been killed and more than a dozen injured in renewed clashes between members of the Alawi and the Sunni communities in Tripoli in northern Lebanon.
The Russian Embassy in Athens says it has no evidence to suggest that the 20-year-old Dutch hotel animator who stabbed and seriously wounded an 11-year-old Russian boy on Crete suffers from a mental condition.
Russia calls on Greece to prosecute attempted child murderer
