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The idea was voiced by the Secretary of the Federal Security Service Nikolay Patrushev at a session in the Ural city of Yekaterinburg.
The Chelyabinsk meteor wasn’t detected by any telescope, which creates a potential threat of larger bodies going unnoticed, the official said.
The February 15 fall left over 1,500 people hurt and some 7,000 buildings damaged.
Voice of Russia, TASS
The Russian Federal Service of Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Roshydromet) has confirmed that the aftershocks felt in Moscow were caused by an earthquake in the Sea of Okhotsk.
“I want to kill more,” said one of the two men allegedly responsible for the murder of a soldier in broad daylight in Woolwich, southeast London, on Wednesday, when shortly after the incident a woman asked him what he was hoping to achieve, the British Telegraph has reported today.
Pressure on U.S. President Barack Obama, both from within the U.S. and internationally is mounting to close the extra-judicial prison at Guantanamo Bay Cuba as over 100 prisoners are currently engaged in a massive hunger strike. Medea Benjamin spoke to the Voice of Russia and gave her opinions and views on this issue and more in an exclusive interview.
The government’s plans to secure the modernization of shipbuilding and ship repair facilities are under threat. A statement to this effect was made by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who urged the authorities to step in to avoid such a development.
Russian and US law enforcers will join efforts to devise new methods of addressing threats to global security.
Russia said that the Damascus regime had agreed "in principle" to attend an international peace conference on the Syria crisis that is expected to take place in Geneva in June.
British Prime Minister David Cameron criticised a Brussels ban on the use of refillable olive oil jugs in restaurants as a caricature of unnecessary EU interference in domestic politics.
Pressure on U.S. President Barack Obama, both from within the U.S. and internationally is mounting to close the extra-judicial prison at Guantanamo Bay Cuba as over 100 prisoners are currently engaged in a massive hunger strike. Medea Benjamin spoke to the Voice of Russia and gave her opinions and views on this issue and more in an exclusive interview.
Russian journalists who were on assignment in Syria have handed the United Nation Secretariat videos showing chemical weapons attacks allegedly committed by opposition fighters in the vicinity of Aleppo on March 19. This was confirmed by the spokesman for the Deputy Secretary General Farhan Haq.
The Russian federation and Venezuela have formed a joint venture to produce 120,000 barrels of oil a day by 2016 in two fields in the Orinoco Oil Belt.
To overcome the lack of mutual trust and to build a new international security system – these are the needs which are grounded by the current situation in the world. The representatives of Russia’s Defense Ministry hope to convince their European colleagues in it in the course of the international conference titled “the Military and Political Aspects of European Security” which opened in Moscow on Thursday.
A lack of confidence between Russia and the West and the missile defence system are the major problems in European security, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said at an international conference on security in Moscow.
The Cyprus government "is determined to fight money laundering and terrorist financing and is constantly improving measures in this area", according to a statement made by the Ministry of Finance of the Republic.
Commercial banks that raised interest rates for credits are increasing risks in the Russian economy, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with businessmen in Voronezh and reminded that such risks exist in the European Union.
It may happen that a new strike on bank secrecy will be delivered later this year. On the results of the latest summit of the European Union, the leaders of the EU member-states have agreed to complete the relevant resolution of the European Commission before the end of this year.
Bitcoin, the digital cryptocurrency, is starting to attract the attention of the US government. It seems that the American authorities would like to destroy the digital currency before it could become a widespread alternative to the US dollar.
David Cameron's woes are continuing this week with plans to legalize same-sex marriage to be debated in Parliament today and tomorrow. The issue is hugely divisive, not least within the Tory Party which seems to have been in open rebellion in the last couple of weeks over everything from the E.U. to the next election. And on Sunday 34 current and former local party chairmen delivered a letter to Downing Street opposing the policy as "flawed, un-Conservative and costing us dearly in votes and membership". Gay marriage is causing a heated row across the political and public spheres.
A white-tailed deer crashed through the windshield of a public bus in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It was filmed by a surveillance camera. (VIDEO)
The minor earth tremors that the Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Roshydromet) said were registered in Moscow on Friday morning, are an unusual occurrence for the Russian capital city, said Gennady Onishchenko, the chief of the health and consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor.
The Russian Federal Service of Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Roshydromet) has confirmed that the aftershocks felt in Moscow were caused by an earthquake in the Sea of Okhotsk.
A stem cell study which claimed that it could create stem cells via cloning is now under fire for the mistakes made by its head author. At least three mistakes were admitted to being made, as they were trying to rush the paper out for publication.
Famous Russian film director Pyotr Todorovsky dies at 87
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