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Russian inspectors today start observation flights over U.S. territory under the Open Skies Treaty.

The student choir of Moscow State Conservatory has won the Grand Prix at the International Festival of Sacred Music in Poland.

On Friday, IAEA’s head Yukiya Amano visited the Kalininskaya nuclear power plant in Russia and made a report there.

The Russian boy, wounded in Crete, has regained consciousness. The doctors have brought him out of the induced coma, and he is now able to speak. The moment he opened his eyes, he called for his Mother and brother, bursting into tears when he saw them.

On May 18, the popular music contest “Eurovision”, which, this time, is taking place in the Swedish city of Malmo, will sum up its results on May 10.

The Baltic Sea Fleet in Russia’s northwest is celebrating 310 years since its foundation.

Next week, the Russian parliament’s lower house is going to consider some amendments to laws concerning adoption of Russian children by foreigners.

According to Ekho Moskvy radio, Russian film director Alexei Balabanov has died near St Petersburg at the age of 54.

Iran supports the insistence by Russia, as articulated by Foreign Minister Lavrov, that the sorting out of its nuclear disagreements with world powers must be implemented stepwise.

In the period since the nuclear accident in Fukushima in Japan, Russia’s Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant in the region of Tver northwest of Moscow has installed cutting-edge safety features which should enable it to withstand seismic shocks of up to 5 points. Appropriate tests have been successfully carried out.

Russia’s governing United Russia party must lead the national campaign to promote Russian brands worldwide. It is already pushing 43 high-profile federal and almost 400 regional projects.

Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt is due to arrive in Moscow in June to promote his new film World War Z at the Moscow International Film Festival, the festival's general producer has said.

Russia's General Staff is opposed to military intervention in Syria, saying this would be meddling in the war-torn country's domestic affairs, Deputy Chief of the Russian General Staff, Col. Gen. Alexander Postnikov said.

A national of Tajikistan has been detained for hurling a rock at the building of the Brazilian Embassy in central Moscow and damaging one of the doors, a law enforcement source said on Saturday.

Russia will do its utmost to secure the return of Russian nationals Victor Bout and Konstantin Yaroshenko, who were convicted in the US, for serving their sentences in Russia. Lawyers for Bout and Yaroshenko insist that their sentences should be revised. Should that prove impossible, they demand that their appeals receive fair hearings.

The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, currently on a visit to the Russian Black Sea resort Sochi, went to see a city school earlier this Saturday.

Museums and exhibition halls all over Russia will be open to the public until midnight on May 18th, which marks International Museum Day.

Analysts feel that the spy scandal will in no way affect further relations between Moscow and Washington. The US State Department also hopes so. Third Secretary at the US Embassy in Moscow, Ryan Fogle, has been caught red- handed by Russian FSB officers, declared a persona non grata and expelled from Moscow. Experts are certain that this is all there can be to it, given that the world situation is so grave now that neither the US, nor Russia is wishing to take an ultra-hard stand on the issue.

French actor and newly-minted Russian citizen Gerard Depardieu on Saturday compared President Vladimir Putin to the late Pope John Paul II and said the ex-KGB agent is what Russia needs as a leader.

The 11th International Design Festival is opening in the Central Russian city of Voronezh on Saturday.

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May 2013
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  • A Russian defector, former Russian security officer and a body guard of Boris Berezovsky Alexander Litvinenko suddenly died in London in November 2006 with symptoms of what British forensic experts described as poisoning with radioactive polonium. Earlier this week, Foreign Secretary William Hague issued instructions to purge the Litvinenko inquest of all evidence that could implicate Russia in Litvinenko’s death or suggest that British special services could have averted the tragedy.

  • Denmark’s Emmelie de Forest won the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday before an international TV audience of around 125 million, winning the annual competition with a barefoot performance backed by flutes and drums.

  • Russia will do its utmost to secure the return of Russian nationals Victor Bout and Konstantin Yaroshenko, who were convicted in the US, for serving their sentences in Russia. Lawyers for Bout and Yaroshenko insist that their sentences should be revised. Should that prove impossible, they demand that their appeals receive fair hearings.

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World
  • Denmark’s Emmelie de Forest won the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday before an international TV audience of around 125 million, winning the annual competition with a barefoot performance backed by flutes and drums.

  • Russian cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin wished singer Dina Garipova success and victory at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden.

  • Singers from 26 countries began battling it out on Saturday night for the crown of glitzy pop in the Eurovision Song Contest, returning this year to the homeland of ABBA, the Swedish band it propelled to global superstardom. One of them is Russian Dina Garipova.

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Economy
  • Cyprus Finance Ministry has removed restrictions on financial transactions of another six foreign banks. The list features a branch of the Ukrainian Privatbank.

  • Economic issues took centre stage Saturday when German Chancellor Angela Merkel met Pope Francis at the Vatican, two days after the pontiff called unbridled capitalism ungodly.

  • Natural disasters have cost the global economy $2.5 trillion since 2000, that’s according to a UN report released on Wednesday. These figures are at least 50% higher than previous international estimates. The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction warned economic losses from earthquakes, floods and droughts will continue to escalate, unless businesses take action to reduce their exposure to disaster risks.

Reality Check
  • A white-tailed deer crashed through the windshield of a public bus in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It was filmed by a surveillance camera. (VIDEO)

  • 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 Testosteronepit.com, entrepreneur, private equity specialist and the author of "Big Like: Cascade Into An Odyssey".

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