Russia’s state safety watchdog Rostekhnadzor has partially halted work at 12 Russian mines after safety checks following a mine blast that killed 108 people, the Reuters news agency reported on Tuesday quoting Rostekhnadzor head.
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On Tuesday, March 27, a subsidiary of the state-controlled Russian oil company Rosneft a 9.44-percent stake in Rosneft that had been owned by the bankrupt oil giant Yukos at an auction.
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Chinese and Russian officials have agreed to jointly send a probe to Mars and its moon, Phobos, in 2009, Chinese news service reported Tuesday .
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Georgia’s Ministry of Justice has announced it is suing Russia in the European Court of Human Rights for departing Georgian citizens illegally, the UPI reported March 26.
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Russia this week marks the 80th birthday of cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich with a commemorative concert and a Kremlin reception, The Associated Press reports.
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Authorities in an eastern Ukrainian city banned outdoor and television advertisements featuring Soviet dictator Josef Stalin after protests from rights groups and nationalists, The Associated Press news agency reports.
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Iran has resumed paying for construction of the Bushehr nuclear power plant but has still to catch up after recent shortfalls, the AFP news agency reported quoting an official statement by Russia’s atomic energy agency.
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A Russian teacher accused of pirating Microsoft software faces a new legal battle after a court on Tuesday overturned a ruling throwing out the case, the Reuters news agency reports.
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The skeleton of a Siberian mammoth dating back some 15,000 years and a meteorite from Russia go on auction in Paris, April 16, in the first such sale of curiosities from paleontogy, Christie’s auction house said Tuesday.
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A Moscow court ruled on Wednesday that Forbes magazine had defamed Russia’s richest woman and ordered it to pay her about 110,000 rubles ($4,224) in compensation, the Interfax news agency reports.
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