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EU Returns To Business As Usual With Russia

admin_huliq — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:17:29 -0500

When European Union leaders convene in Brussels for a summit meeting on October 15-16, they will have little option but to conclude to bury the hatchet with Russia over Georgia.

Russia raises oil export duty to record $398.1 per ton

admin_huliq — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:51:45 -0500

The oil export duty of Russia will rise to a record $398.1 per metric ton from June 1, 2008, in line with global market trends.

Russia's Medvedev calls for better relations with Georgia

admin_huliq — Mon, 26 May 2008 07:34:56 -0500

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told his Georgian counterpart Mikheil Saakashvili that Russia is set on pursuing a more constructive route in bilateral relations, and improving security in the Caucasus region.

Russian Paper Closed After Breaking News of Putin's Divorce

admin_huliq — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:25:43 -0500

The Russian website and newspaper Moskovsky Korrespondent has been closed today after it broke the news that the Russian President Vladimir Putin Secretly divorsed his wife and is getting ready to get married with a gymnastic beauty Russian gymnast Alina Kabayeva.

Dmitry Medvedev unfazed by Criticism

Nksagar — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:07:15 -0600

"All elections are an internal affair," Medvedev

Russian Diplomat says Baku's Resumption of War to be Devastating

Hye — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:49:19 -0500

YEREVAN (YERKIR)--"Resumption of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh would cause more damage than in 1992-1994, since collisions would take place between well-equipped armies not guerilla troops," said Vladimir Kazimirov, the former Russian co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group.

In Litvinenko affair Kremlin UK Row escalates

Nksagar — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:03:39 -0500

Russia and UK both have major economical interests as more than forty six joint ventures that feel the heat of this diplomatic row, engendered due to Litvinenko's death in Britain. World politics both have pivotal role to play.

Russia will not turn over suspect in Litvinenko poisoning

Dinka — Tue, 22 May 2007 08:07:33 -0500

Andrei Lugovoi, charged by the UK in poisoning death of Aleksandr Litvinenko, would not be turned over by the Russian prosecutor-general's office, the Interfax news agency reported.

Natalia Vodianova: the Cinderella of the Volga

admin_huliq — Sun, 13 May 2007 08:23:30 -0500

Natalia Vodianova, one of the world's top ten models, currently lives in New York City. She is married to Justin Trevor Berkeley Portman, half-brother of the 10th Viscount Portman, a lord born and bred, and a millionaire to boot.

Russia: World To Mark Centenary Of Shostakovich's Birth

admin_huliq — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:43:42 -0500

Russian audiences next week will get the chance to rediscover Dmitry Shostakovich and his music with a series of new recordings, concerts, and films to mark the centenary of his birth.

Born in St. Petersburg in 1906 to a family of Polish origin, Shostakovich remains one of the 20th century's most popular composers -- and also one of the most prolific.