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RUSSIA News, Jan 22, 2012

New St Petersburg mall in Russia's biggest commercial property deal
RT
Schedrakova says the Galeria was the first to introduce new brands via St.Petersburgin Russia. Previously companies preferred Moscow malls to enter the Russian market. Analysts suggest the rental income from the mall is in the order of $100 million ...
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RT
Vladimir Putin honours the Scot who helped bring football to Russia
Scottish Daily Record
A civil engineer, Murdoch owned a shipyard on the Clyde and served Russia's Imperial Family before setting up a steelworks and shipyards in St Petersburg. He later married Julia Elizabeth Maxwell, from Nithsdale, and they had 15 children, ...
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Billionaire Kremlin hopeful says Putin must change
Chicago Tribune
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Mikhail Prokhorov, a super-rich tycoon challenging Vladimir Putin for Russia'spresidency in March, said his country faced the danger of violent revolution if it did not break conservative resistance and move quickly to democracy. ...
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Russia downgraded
Tne Moscow News
The ratings downgrades affected Russia's long-term foreign and local currency default ratings, several Russian companies and the country's two biggest cities, Moscow and St. Petersburg. The ratings agency kept Russia's Issuer Default Rating at BBB. ...
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Tne Moscow News
Russia's Top 5 Web Startups Of 2011 Mostly Rip Off US's
ReadWriteWeb
Vkontakte.ru currently has 110 million users to Facebook's 800 million. Approximately 70% of the visitors live in Russia. Of the Russian visitors, 25% are from Moscow, and 12% are from St.Petersburg. Vkontakte.ru reaches users in Ukraine, ...
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Despite Criticism, Russia Stands By Syria
Voice of America
Last week, Russia's only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, and an eight-ship battle group dropped anchor at Moscow's naval base in Tarsus, Syria. Two days later, a freighter from St.Petersburg reportedly delivered 60 tons of Russian ammunition ...
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Three Russian presidential candidates denied registration
Times of India
MOSCOW: Russia's Central Electoral Commission has denied registration to three presidential candidates as they failed to submit two million signatures as well as other documents. Rinat Khamiyev, a public figure from Siberia's Orenburg region, ...
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Moscow protesters honor murdered rights lawyer, journalist
RIA Novosti
“Russia is for everyone!” chanted a crowd of what police said was some 800 people. The chant was a counter to the nationalist slogan “Russia for Russians!” Two nationalists were jailed last year over the 2009 shootings in the Russian capital of lawyer ...
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To Russia with suspicion
CNN (blog)
But it isn't his negotiation skill that has Russia nervous. On McFaul's second day on the job inMoscow he was slammed by Russia's government-controlled Channel 1 television. "The fact is that McFaul is not an expert on Russia," said a Russian ...
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UK urges tougher Syria sanctions, Russia issues warning
Reuters
Syria is a leading buyer of Russian arms, and a Russian-operated ship carrying what a Cypriot official said was bullets arrived in Syria last week from St. Petersburg after being held up in Cyprus. Washington said it had raised concerns about the ship ...
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Russia Says Will Stand Firm On Syria
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says that Moscow will offer no explanation for suspected arms deliveries to Syria. Lavrov made the statement at his annual news conference in Moscow, in response to a question about US suspicions that a Russian ...
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RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Russia's anti-Putin protests are more than just a generational temper tantrum
Boston.com (blog)
Olga Maltseva/AFP/Getty Images: Protester carry a model of a prison cell with the cut-out figures ofRussia's President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin inside during a protest rally in St. Petersburg in December.
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Who's in the Russian presidential election race
CBC.ca
Russia's Central Election Commission now has until Jan. 28 to approve or reject the signatures. Demonstrators rally to protest against election fraud in Moscow, Dec. 24. Demonstrators rally to protest against election fraud in Moscow, Dec. 24. ...
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CBC.ca
Russian markets -- Factors to Watch on Jan 17
Reuters UK
GK ALOR: "Russia's stock market is expected to start trading in the black. The resistance level is 1480 points on the MICEX index after it failed to break the level at close." EVENTS (All times GMT):MOSCOW - Gazprom's CEO and Ukraine Energy Minister ...
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US Seeks Russia's Explanation on Syria-Bound Weapons Ship
RIA Novosti
The US Department of State said it was seeking explanations from Moscow over a ship that probably headed from Russia with a cargo of weapons to Syria. The cargo ship MV Chariot, flying the St. Vincent and Grenadines flag, was en route from St. ...
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Moscow issues record number of Czech visas
Prague Daily Monitor
Another 60000 visas were issued by the general consulates in St Petersburg and Yekaterinburg. An estimated more than half a million Russians visited the Czech Republic last year. They could also arrive on a Schengen visa issued in another EU member ...
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Facebook versus Russia's Koobface gang
Telegraph.co.uk
“Some folks paint with too broad a brush,” he says. “They think of Russia as just one monolith rather than remembering it's the Russian Federation. A lot of good guys are inMoscow, for example. “The Koobface guys are in St Petersburg… it's like when ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Russian Singers To Perform In Concert For Political Prisoners
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Tens of thousands of Russians protested in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and other cities and towns in December against alleged fraud in the parliamentary and general elections held on December 4. Putin was barred by the constitution from a third consecutive ...
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RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Behind Russia's Protests: Artistic Ferment
Voice of America (blog)
With the number of Russian internet users at 51 million and climbing, more and more people are saying that this will be Russia's last “television election.” Instead of 50 Moscow intellectuals in a coffeehouse, now 50 million Russians can watch Marat ...
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Russian environment group warns of "Chernobyl on Wheels" shipments
Monsters and Critics.com
'We are not dealing with a one-time shipment of nuclear waste, but with a programme that will run for more than ten years through several Russian regions,' he said. The Moscow-St Petersburg corridor is one of Russia's most densely-populated regions.
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Moscow-Helsinki: progress as vital necessity
The Voice of Russia
With Sauli Niinisto's right-wing bourgeois coalition party being a United Russia partner, Lipponen being a Nord Stream advisor and the Russians living in Finland favoring the populist True Finns, analysts see absolutely no reasons for any U-turns in ...
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The Voice of Russia
Russia's ICT Group Forms Venture With Mitsui to Lease Railcars
Bloomberg
Ltd. to lease railcars in Russia. The partners will invest $100 million in the project and may boost the total to $500 million in the future, according to an e-mailed statement today from ICT, which produces railcars near St. Petersburg. ...
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Ex-Putin Ally, Paratrooper, Vows to End Premier's 12-Year Rule
Bloomberg
Russian stocks gained for the first time in four days yesterday, with the Micex Index adding 0.1 percent to 1464.42 in Moscow. Stocks fell during the previous session after Fitch Ratings cut its outlook on Russia's BBB credit grade to stable from ...
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Bloomberg
COMMENT: Mobile nuclear meltdowns: Coming soon to a town near you?
Bellona
(In 2009, a homemade bomb planted on the tracks derailed a passenger train on the country's busiest route – the Moscow-St. Petersburg link, favored by government and business elites – constituting one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in Russia's ...
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Bellona
Russia's civilization model? It's autocracy
The Day Weekly Digest
As for the middle class, it was it that rallied on the streets of Moscow and St.Petersburg and demonstrated its attitude towards Putin. As for the system of education, Russia's universities have long dropped out from the world's top hundred. ...
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The Day Weekly Digest
Russia Sistema-Hals credit facility now $190 mln
Reuters
| MOSCOW Jan 20 (Reuters) - Russian real estate developer Sistema-Hals said on Friday that the size of a credit facility from state-owned lender VTB has increased to $190 million from $66.3 million. It has an interest rate of 9.5 percent and must be ...
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Countering the US-NATO Alliance: Moscow's Eurasian Union Project and Russia's ...
Center for Research on Globalization
Moreover, Moscow should count working with Ukraine with this objective in mind among Russia's foreign-policy priorities, and fundamental advancements in this direction would immensely outweigh narrow gains like relaxed terms for various types of...
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Center for Research on Globalization
Russia Protests Tainted by 'Shadow of Nationalism'
RIA Novosti
Rallies to mark the anniversary are planned for Thursday evening in over a dozen Russian cities, including Moscow and St. Petersburg. “Markelov and Baburova were opposed by the dark forces of far-right and openly Neo-Nazi movements…and today the ...
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Avoiding a new Bloody Sunday
Tne Moscow News
Perhaps haunted by history, the Russians I have interviewed at protest demonstrations say they want reform, not revolution. I once asked a Russian friend, why there is a restaurant in St. Petersburg called “1913.” Russia's 20th century may have ...
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Tne Moscow News
Putin to join RFU centenary celebrations
AFP
MOSCOW — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is expected to join in the celebrations to mark the centenary of the Russian Football Union (RFU) scheduled to take place in Saint Petersburg on Thursday. Reports said that world football ruling body FIFA ...
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AFP
Putin Welcomes Kissinger: 'Old Friends' to Talk Shop
New York Times
The meeting comes six weeks before Russia's presidential election and amid accusations that the United States was behind a series of street protests that began after Dec. 4 parliamentary elections that were widely dismissed as fraudulent. ...
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New York Times
US concerned by weapons bound for Syria
UPI.com
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Washington said the issue surrounding a ship allegedly headed fromRussia to Syria with a cargo of weapons is a "subject of discussion" with Moscow. The MV Chariot was suspected of delivering weapons from St. Petersburg to ...
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Best Western® Opens First 'Plus' Hotel in Russia
MarketWatch (press release)
"This hotel represents a significant move forward for our development efforts in Russia. We know that all of the international chains are talking about expansion into the secondary cities outside ofMoscow and St. Petersburg, but Best Western has the ...
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Russians to fight flu with polar plunge
RT
Meanwhile, the number of Russians infected with flu has tripled in the last week. St. Petersburg and the Kostroma region are among the worst hit, said chief medical officer Gennady Onishchenko. Those regions' populations are strongly advised to wear ...
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KHL seeks games vs. NHL; Vyacheslav Fetisov quits KHL, CSKA; Vityaz's Mikhail ...
Yahoo! Sports (blog)
The renowned Red Army club was on the verge of perishing due to financial difficulties, just like another pillar of Russian hockey Dynamo Moscow crumbled. Legendary CSKA coach Viktor Tikhonov even appealed to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to ...
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Yahoo! Sports (blog)
Bring it on home: Russia
STLtoday.com
The trip • Chris booked a 13-day river cruise that started in Moscow and ended in St. Petersburg. He sailed along the Volga, Svir and Neva rivers in Russia, stopping in historical towns such as Uglich, Kizhi and Mandrogi. He toured Red Square and the ...
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Fiat Eyes $1-Billion Jeep Plant in Russia
Inside Line
The Russian plant will have annual production capacity of 120000 cars. MOSCOW — Fiat is planning to launch production of the Jeep Grand Cherokee and other models at its future Russianplant near St. Petersburg. According to sources in the Russian ...
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Putin admits he's a late riser, may scrap time change
AFP
MOSCOW — Russian strongman Vladimir Putin admitted on Thursday he has a hard time getting out of bed and hinted that he may do a way with a recent winter time change if elected president in March. President Dmitry Medvedev this year movedRussia an ...
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AFP
Russia Protests Tainted by 'Shadow of Nationalism' « Russian News ...
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Navalny, who first came to public attention as an anti-graft activist, has also proposed arming ethnicRussians to enable them to defend themselves from “cockroaches” – his synonym in a 2007 video address for the Narod nationalist movement for residents of the country's volatile North Caucasus. But Navalny has ... Rallies to mark the anniversary are planned for Thursday evening in over a dozenRussian cities, including Moscow and St. Petersburg. “Markelov and Baburova were ...
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XE.com - Russian markets -- Factors to Watch on Jan 17
Here are events and news stories that could. ... MOSCOW - Evraz, Russia's largest steelmaker, reports its fourth. quarter and full year operating ... Petersburg for $1.1 billion from Kazakhstan's Meridian Capital in the largest. single deal ever on ...
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January 19: Anti-Fascist Marches in Moscow and Petersburg ...
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Russian-operated ship with bullets reaches Syria - World news ...
Next story in Russia Britain OKs TV ads for abortion clinics ... MOSCOW/NICOSIA — A Russian-operated ship carrying a cargo of ammunition has reached ...
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