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Chechnya’s honorary consul killed in Turkey- Featured
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The White House is content with the progress on its Russia talks to replace the obsolete Nunn-Lugar program, also called the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program, which expires this June.
Ways of strengthening European security will top the agenda of a two-day defense conference opening in Moscow on Thursday. The meeting is entitled “Military and Political Aspects of European Security” and was organized by the Russian Defense Ministry.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has cheered on the Moscow-based Conference for European Security as an opportunity to boost mutual trust and understanding in the Euro-Atlantic space, despite the existing controversies, VoR Grigory Milenin says.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has called on NATO and Russia to seek out new ways of conventional arms control in Europe, VoR Grigiry Milenin reports.
The West has preserved its one-sided view of the missile shield issue, head of Russian president’s administration Sergei Ivanov said today. The former defense minister has stressed Moscow is not going to tolerate this stance, VoR correspondent Grigiry Milenin reports.
US President Barack Obama yesterday joined National Security Advisor Tom Donilon’s meeting with Russia’s SecurityCouncil Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, NSC spokesperson Caitlin Hayden has said, adding the American leader had reaffirmed his intent to strengthen US-Russia partnership in various spheres, including economy.
A state of emergency has been declared in the western Russian region of Tula after a microburst, which is a localized column of sinking air, hit the town of Yefremov, severely damaging homes and community facilities.
Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev on Wednesday handed over a letter from President Vladimir Putin to US President Barack Obama, the Russian Embassy in the United States said. The letter is a response to Obama’s message that US National Security Advisor Tom Donilon brought to Moscow in April.
The U.S. Attorney General has thanked Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs for aid in the Boston bombings case.
An aircraft is airlifting the Russian boy, gravely wounded at the hotel on Crete, from Athens to Berlin, where the child is to receive further treatment at a clinic, said an official at the Russian Embassy in Greece.
An international conference on European security opens on Thursday in Moscow.
President Vladimir Putin believes Russia’s spectrum of ethnic groups, cultures and faiths is a great boon for the country’s development.
Anti-immigration sentiment is nothing new in the West, and now it is also on the rise in Russia, as the country has to make up for its demographic shortfalls by importing guest labour from former Soviet Central Asia. Polls suggest anti-immigrant rallies and even riots may be around the corner. In the meantime, a report issued by the agency Interfax raises the specter of an even more sinister threat.
Potential conflicts in adoptive families should be uncovered by specialists and not Russian diplomats, Russia’s children’s ombudsman told the VoR speaking about the sensitive adoption issue that has recently marred Russia-US ties.
The Institute of Medical and Biological Problems in Moscow has started studying animals that returned from space orbiting on board the Bion-M Russian satellite. These are very valuable biological samples for specialists who study the effect of weightlessness and other factors of space flight on living organisms. The results of the test will be essential for preparing future manned-flights in space.
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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin believes that the authorities should care more about the welfare of scientists, teachers and students. This would raise the prestige of the professions of a scientist and a teacher, Mr. Putin says.
In the coming three years, the Russian government will spend some 90bln roubles on programmes to speed up social and economic development in depressed rural areas.
Ballerina Olga Smirnova, a rising star of Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater, has won a prestigious Benois de la Danse ballet award. She is the only woman in the company of six Benois de la Danse-2013 awardees, the other five being two male dancers and three male choreographers. The awards ceremony preceded the opening of the Benois de la Danse festival in Moscow.
The innovative companies and the raw material sector cannot exist without each other, they are bound to cooperate. That is the opinion of the participants of the INNOVUS innovative forum that is underway in the Siberian city of Tomsk. Scientists, innovators, and the heads of regions and energy companies are discussing Wednesday and Thursday the Russian economy’s future.
Jarmo SIIM Communications Coordinator of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) gives the Voice of Russia his comment on the recent Eurovision voting scandal where Russian singer Dina Garipova did not get the 10 points she honestly earned in Azerbaijan.
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British politician George Galloway compares London machete attack to U.K. policy in Syria. “This sickening atrocity in London is exactly what we are paying the same kind of people to do in Syria”.
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Lithuanian security forces have detained a 46-year-old Russian national on the warrant issued by the US Department of Justice. Alexander Mamayev, consul general at the Russian embassy in Lithuania, has shared details in an interview with the Voice of Russia.
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The Voice of Russia is to host a third video conference between Moscow, London and Washington on the Islamic Republic of Iran titled Iran: The Growing Shadow today, May 23 at 7:00 PM MSK (3:00 PM GMT). Listen LIVE at http://english.ruvr.ru/.
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Russia and Serbia could sign an agreement on cooperation in the military and military technology fields this year, Russian Defence Minister, General Sergey Shoigu announced at the meeting with his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic held during the International European Security Conference.
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The White House is content with the progress on its Russia talks to replace the obsolete Nunn-Lugar program, also called the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program, which expires this June.
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The Voice of Russia is to host a third video conference between Moscow, London and Washington on the Islamic Republic of Iran titled Iran: The Growing Shadow today, May 23 at 7:00 PM MSK (3:00 PM GMT). Listen LIVE at http://english.ruvr.ru/.
World
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The Woolwich murder suspects are British citizens, one of them is of Nigerian descent, Sky News has cited unnamed sources as saying today.
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The view emerged as the Government discussed bombing a rumoured hiding place of the Nazi leader two weeks after the launch of the D-Day landings. MI6 had also been asked to draw up a hit list of key German and French figures ahead of Operation Overlord to ensure the landings were a success, previously secret intelligence files reveal today.
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King Edward VIII was bugged by the government at the height of the 1936 abdication crisis, files released by the National Archives show. The Home Office ordered "interception of telephone communications" between royal residences and "the continent of Europe".
Russia
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Ways of strengthening European security will top the agenda of a two-day defense conference opening in Moscow on Thursday. The meeting is entitled “Military and Political Aspects of European Security” and was organized by the Russian Defense Ministry.
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A state of emergency has been declared in the western Russian region of Tula after a microburst, which is a localized column of sinking air, hit the town of Yefremov, severely damaging homes and community facilities.
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President Vladimir Putin believes Russia’s spectrum of ethnic groups, cultures and faiths is a great boon for the country’s development.
Economy
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Ford Motor Co (F.N) announced it is closing its two Australian auto plants and will cease production in the country in October 2016.
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The Ukrainian government on Wednesday approved a memorandum applying for observer status in the Customs Union, a Moscow-based trade bloc comprising Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov said.
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This year is likely to bring a draft agreement, first proposed in 2008, for the EU countries to share information about interest accrued on deposits held in banks.
Reality Check
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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.
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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.
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A white-tailed deer crashed through the windshield of a public bus in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It was filmed by a surveillance camera. (VIDEO)
Society
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A man being called Grzegorz has had the world’s first face transplant as a means of saving his life. While at work, a stone-cutting machine dug into the man’s face, taking out a huge chunk of it. After 27 hours of surgery, Polish doctors were able to successfully restore his face, having the patient’s full approval to do so.
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One of the suspected killers of the Woolwich incident, who is being kept at the hospital, is thought to be of Nigerian descent. Still both men are believed to be from Britain.
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Israeli archeologists recently discovered a large structure at the bottom of the Sea of Galilee. This find may reveal answers to how life was like years ago in the Middle East. Even though the find is exciting, scientists must wait for it to be excavated before they can start thoroughly exploring the new piece of history.
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