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NATO and Russia have resolved a dispute which Moscow's envoy to the military alliance had said could affect prospects for increased cooperation on Afghanistan, Russian and NATO diplomats said on Thursday.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- OAO Mobile TeleSystems, Russia’s largest cellular company, instituted penalties for subscribers who don’t make regular calls, Vedomosti reported today.
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75 YEARS AGO Tuesday, December 4, 1934 • A South Dakota boy and an Iowa girl were announced today as health champions of the United States by the judging committees of the 4-H clubs. The winning South Dakota boy is from Jerauld County, S.D. while the Iowa girl was from Junction in Muscantine County, IA.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Vladimir Putin defended his record after a decade in power as Russian president and prime minister and hinted he may upstage his successor, Dmitry Medvedev , by running for the presidency again in 2012.
Where: Wells Fargo Arena, Tempe, Ariz.
I remember my first Jewish experience in India. I arrived in Mumbai in June 2008, contemplating both the monsoon weather and the possibility of Jewish life in India.
As COP-15 approaches, the world already has a precedent for how the United States and China can work together.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Gold fell for a second day, paring a weekly advance, on speculation that signs of a slowing recovery will boost the dollar and as record prices deter investors. Silver, platinum and palladium also slumped.
Activists from 32 little-known organizations opposed to Cuba's communist government yesterday issued a call for an end to social repression on the island at a gathering in the home of a prominent human rights activist.
India pledged yesterday to significantly slow the growth of its carbon emissions over the next decade, becoming the last major emitting country to announce a climate change policy before a U.N. summit opens next week.
THE FBI's failure to see clear warning signs in the Fort Hood case revives the ques tion of whether it's up to the task of countering terrorism. Before his murderous rampage, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was exchanging e-mails with a radical Yemen-base...
MOSCOW — He answered pleas from workers in beleaguered one-factory towns and retirees anxious about pensions. But it was Vladimir Putin's response to a question about his political future that drew the most attention on Thursday at a lengthy public forum. Would he run for president again in 2012?
'My grandparents came from Russia in the 1920s to immigrate to Michigan," Virginia Nardecchia of Utica wrote recently to Trash or Treasure. "When I was traveling in Canada, I visited the Russia-Canadian Club in Toronto. I was hungry for any bits of information on my past culture.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The following companies may have unusual price changes in Russian trading. Stock symbols are in parentheses and share prices are from the previous close.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Russia’s economy contracted last month at the slowest pace since December 2008, VTB Capital said, as rising commodity prices helped exporters and a stronger ruble supported the domestic economy.
Feds warn of Internet H1N1 registration scam; Cop who shot Fort Hood suspect needs new knee; Putin signals return as Russia's president
Libertyville's Dancenter North will present "The Magic of the Nutcracker" beginning this weekend. Cheri Lindell, the show's director and producer, tells us what you need to know.
We must end our war in Afghanistan . The motives for our actions in Afghanistan have been represented incompletely to both the people of Afghanistan and the American people. We continue in Afghanistan because Afghanistan provides a good path for oil and gas pipelines from the Central Asian countries of Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Russia to markets outside like Pakistan, India and ...
Friends and family are rallying around a Marblehead woman who says the State Department is blocking her attempt to reunite a homeless Russian teen with her younger sister here in the United States.
Sara Cortolillo needed extra chairs. Who wouldn't? The Jennie Gebhart Hedden Music Study Club was coming. It is nearly as large, likely as vibrant, as ever. Members listen and learn, but also perform and teach. None is a charter member. Yet all hold dear the grand purpose set out 80 years ago.
