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Bloomberg - Mon Nov 9, 12:35 pm ET
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development agreed to cooperate with OAO Sberbank , Russia’s largest bank, to cut energy use in the nation and prepare for a potential government sale of spare Kyoto emission permits.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 9, 11:27 pm ET
Vitaly Ginzburg, a Nobel Prize-winning Russian physicist and one of the fathers of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, has died in Moscow. He was 93.
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SwimNews.com - Tue Nov 10, 6:02 am ET
World Cup: Guehrer, Hardy, Verraszto, Du Rand and Korotyshkin set global short-course marks at Moscow round of the world cup; Verraszto's is a rare or unique achievement - her father Zoltan who helps to coach her was also a world record holder
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 9, 4:28 pm ET
World leaders hailed the ordinary people who helped bring down the Berlin Wall and said the historic events of 20 years ago showed nations were capable of rising to new challenges, from terrorism to climate change.
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The Courier News - Mon Nov 9, 6:11 am ET
The Russian Red Army was in the Dundees last week and some area hockey players put up a good fight -- on the ice, that is.
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Bloomberg - Tue Nov 10, 3:09 am ET
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Security Service helped break up a human trafficking ring to western Europe, RIA Novosti said, citing the successor agency to the Soviet-era KGB.
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EARTHtimes.org - Sun Nov 8, 7:19 am ET
Moscow - A Russian police officer who posted two video clips on the internet to air his grievances directly to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin about pay and overtime work conditions said Sunday he now feared for his life. The Interfax agency cited Majo...
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Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - Mon Nov 9, 1:13 pm ET
MOSCOW - Russia's Gazprom saw its earnings halved in the first six months of the year due to lower natural gas prices and sinking demand in Europe, while overall debt jumped nearly a third, the company reported Monday.
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Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Mon Nov 9, 3:34 pm ET
DALLAS----Premier Energy Corp. , a U.S. based international oil and gas company organized under the laws of the State of Florida, currently owns majority interest of Karbon CJSC, which holds exploration and production license for the North-Kopanskoye Oilfield in the Orenburg Region in the Volga-Urals Basin.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 9, 8:20 pm ET
President Barack Obama said Monday that he'd be willing to attend an international climate summit in Copenhagen next month if it appears a deal is in the offing and his presence there would help clinch it.
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Ventura County Star - Mon Nov 9, 9:34 pm ET
As we commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, it’s time to take stock. The Berlin Wall was one of the shameful symbols of the Cold War and the dangerous division of the world into opposing blocks and spheres of influence. Many politicians of my generation sincerely believed that with the end of the Cold War, humankind could finally forget the absurdity of the arms race ...
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USA Swimming - Mon Nov 9, 11:19 am ET
American swimmer Jessica Hardy set two world records Friday and Saturday at the FINA World Cup Series meet in Moscow. Hardy shattered the marks in the 50m and 100m breaststroke, turning in times of 1:03.75 and 29.36.
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Center for Strategic and International Studies - Mon Nov 9, 1:40 pm ET
At a conference hosted at CSIS on November 5, 2009 in conjunction with the Eurasia Foundation Sergei Guriev, Rector at the New Economic School in Moscow, and Valentin Zelenyuk of the Kiev School of Economics, shared their insights on Russia and Ukraine’s handling of the global economic crisis. Both speakers were the recipients of the 2009 Bill Maynes Award. read more
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New York Times - Mon Nov 9, 6:36 pm ET
Two documentaries featuring long-lost or overlooked film footage from World War II make their debuts this week and next on American television, keyed to Veterans Day.
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EARTHtimes.org - Sun Nov 8, 10:19 am ET
Moscow - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was fond of his life in the former communist East Germany, where he was based as a KGB officer up until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, he said in an interview on Russia's NTW television Sunday. I ...
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NBC26 Green Bay - Sat Nov 7, 6:21 am ET
MOSCOW (AP) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signaled that Moscow could back sanctions against Iran if it fails to take a constructive stance in international talks over its nuclear program.
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Fox News - Fri Nov 6, 5:27 pm ET
A military plane with 10 people aboard crashed late Friday in Russia's Far East, Russian news agencies reported.
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Science Daily - Sun Nov 8, 10:23 pm ET
Seven years ago, Russian Security Forces employed a secret incapacitating chemical weapon in their attempt to free 800 hostages held in a Moscow theatre by armed Chechen fighters. Over 120 hostages were killed by the incapacitant and many more continue to suffer long term health problems. Despite reports of further Russian research and use of incapacitants, the international community has ...
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AP via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 7, 3:13 pm ET
Russia and the United States have a good chance of reaching a new nuclear arms reduction deal before year's end, but other nuclear powers must join disarmament efforts, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in remarks released Saturday.
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New York Times - Mon Nov 9, 11:38 am ET
The Soviet government’s land monopoly may have ended some two decades ago, but the ability of the authorities to give and take away territory has not, real estate experts say.