One of Russia’s most respected cultural custodians yesterday urged gas giant OAO Gazprom to drop its plans to build a 300-metre-high skyscraper in St. Petersburg’s historic centre.
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The Russian gas company NOVATEK and Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS) on Monday signed two memorandums of understanding.
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RGI International Ltd., a Moscow property developer part-owned by a Morgan Stanley fund, is seeking to raise as much as $182 million in an initial share sale to tap rising demand for real estate in Russia’s capital, according to Bloomberg. Read the rest of this entry »
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One of the many differences between human beings and computers is that computers do not have blind spots, as world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik did in game two of his match against the Deep Fritz software on Monday.
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Police seized more than 400,000 units of weapons and ammunition in Russia during the first ten months of 2006, a senior police official said Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »
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Two ex-prosecutors accused of bribe-taking were sentenced to four-year imprisonment by a Moscow court, the RIA Novosti news agency reported Monday.
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The head of Russia’s nuclear agency Rosatom will visit Iran on December 11 to discuss economic cooperation between the two countries.
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Poisoned former spy Alexander Litvinenko’s deathbed message may have accused Russian President Vladimir Putin, but pro-Kremlin lawmakers and state-controlled television networks pointed the finger at a prominent Putin enemy in Britain — tycoon Boris Berezovsky, the Associated Press reports.
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The inquest into the death of former Russian security officer Alexander Litvinenko is due to open on Thursday at St Pancras Coroner’s Court, AP reported on Monday quoting a statement by Camden Council.
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Poisoned former Russian security agent Alexander Litvinenko, who died in a London hospital last week, had visited Israel lately to hand over a dossier investigating Russian energy giant Yukos case, The Times reported on Monday quoting a former Yukos owner.
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