U.S., Russia may ink START deal soon
UPI - Mon Dec 14, 5:08 pm ETMOSCOW, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- Russia and the United States seemed to be edging towards the signing of a new nuclear weapons treaty later this month, officials in Moscow said.
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Ruble Advances Against Dollar as Oil Prices Reverse Losses
Bloomberg - Mon Dec 14, 4:20 am ETDec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- The ruble touched its highest in five days against the dollar as oil, Russia’s chief export, recouped its losses, heading toward $70 a barrel.
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Cleaning Up The Past
Strategy Page - Mon Dec 14, 5:17 am ETDecember 14, 2009: Russian commercial aircraft manufacturer Irkut has selected an American engine (the Pratt & Whitney PW1000G) for its new twin engine MC-21 airliner. While Russia is competitive in building airframes, it still cannot yet match Western jet engine quality.
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Eight killed in Russian plane crash
UPI - Sun Dec 13, 10:44 am ETKORKINO, Russia, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- A pilot and seven parachute jumpers died Sunday in the crash of a private plane in Russia's Chelyabinsk Region in the Urals, authorities said.
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Vistec provides Moscow researchers with e-beam system
EETimes - Mon Dec 14, 6:35 am ETVistec Electron Beam GmbH (Jena, Germany) has said it will collaborate in a photomask manufacturing for electron-beam lithography project with the Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology (MIET). Presented By: NEC Ads by Pheedo
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Human Rights First: Protest the Moscow Trial of Samodurov and Erofeyev
The Huffington Post - Mon Dec 14, 4:14 pm ETby Edward Kline, president The Andrei Sakharov Foundation (USA) This week marks the 20th anniversary of the death of dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner...
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Russia Surges Ahead In Oil Exports, Slumps In Gas
INO News - Mon Dec 14, 9:56 am ET(RTTNews) - Higher-than-expected oil prices helped Russia boost its federal budget revenues from energy product exports to 1.8 trillion rubles ($60 billion) so far this year.
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President of Abkhazia Re-elected by Wide Margin
New York Times - Sun Dec 13, 8:34 pm ETPresident Sergei V. Bagapsh said his victory reflects a desire to strengthen ties to Russia, and said he does not assign much importance to recognition from the West.
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Johnson: 'Tis the season to be very uneasy
Knoxville News Sentinel - Sun Dec 13, 12:00 am ETHis name was Sergei. Or it could have been Dmitri. Or maybe Mikhail. Or even Anatoli. Or it could have been all of the above since I met so many like them in the early 1990s on my travels to Russia . Their stories were the same.Each morning, my Russian acquaintances would awake in the cold, dark post-Soviet winter, take a cup of hot tea and a meager breakfast and make their way to an office ...
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Russia Sea Ports Jan-Nov Throughput 9% Up On Year
Nasdaq - Mon Dec 14, 10:17 am ETMOSCOW -(Dow Jones)- Russia's sea ports handled in the January to November period 545 million metric tons of cargo, 9% more than in the corresponding period last year, the national sea ports association reported Monday.
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Russia: Officials fired in lawyer jail death probe
AP via Yahoo! News - Fri Dec 11, 12:05 pm ETRussian President Dmitry Medvedev fired 20 senior prison officials, including the capital's prison chief, following a probe into the death of a jailed lawyer, officials said Friday.
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Moscow Cultural Landmark Is Seen as Threatened
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - 34 minutes agoArtists and preservationists are in uproar because Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin has signed a decree that critics say would allow developers to demolish a Soviet-era cultural landmark, the Central House of Artists.
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AOL Holds Sales Talks Over ICQ Service
New York Times - Sun Dec 13, 6:41 pm ETAOL is holding talks about selling ICQ, an instant-messaging service, to Russia's Digital Sky Technologies, a person briefed on the matter told DealBook on Sunday.
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Exillon Raises $100 Million in London I.P.O.
New York Times - Mon Dec 14, 5:41 am ETExillon Energy , a Russia-focused oil producer, plans to raise just over $100 million (£62 million), in what will be the first London stock market flotation by a Russian company since the financial crisis broke in 2008, Reuters reported.
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Russian FM: US, Russia close to reaching arms deal
AP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 1:30 pm ETRussia's foreign minister says Moscow and Washington will sign a new nuclear arms deal shortly.
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Vistec Stepped into a Joined Electron-Beam Lithography Project with the Technical Institute of the Moscow University
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Mon Dec 14, 4:52 am ETMOSCOW & JENA, Germany----Vistec Electron Beam GmbH is pleased to announce that it has stepped into a joined electron-beam lithography project with the renowned Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology .
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Costume exhibition celebrates Diaghilev's passion
AFP via Yahoo! News - 44 minutes agoLegendary impresario Serge Diaghilev is associated above all with the Ballets Russes, but his first love was music and it was opera that he initially brought to Paris.
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Austria, Russia win World Cup relay races
AP via Yahoo! Sports - Sun Dec 13, 11:12 am ETAustria won a men's biathlon 7.5-kilometer relay race Sunday, the team's fifth World Cup victory in the discipline. Simon Eder, Daniel Mesotitsch, Dominik Landertinger and Christoph Sumann missed six targets and finished in 1 hour, 16 minutes, 13.1 seconds to beat Russia, which had one penalty lap, by 25.7 seconds.
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Aliens Invading Russia in the Middle of Winter [Military]
Gizmodo - Sat Dec 12, 1:49 pm ETOh, will those pesky aliens never stop? First they show off in the Norwegian skies, and now they're hovering over Russia, too? Did they not consult history books before coming here? Russia, winters,...
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President re-elected in separatist area of Georgia
AP via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 13, 10:47 am ETThe president of a separatist region of Georgia vowed on Sunday to maintain close ties with Russia after officials announced he has won a second term in office.
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China launches landmark Central Asia gas pipeline
INO News - Mon Dec 14, 4:55 am ET(AP:SAMANDEPE GAS FIELD, Turkmenistan) A landmark pipeline from Central Asia to China began pumping natural gas Monday, loosening Russia's grip over the region's vast energy resources.
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