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U.S. and Russia Found a Common Goal - Iraq |
 ...Both United States and Russia are interested in providing stability in Iraq, said on Tuesday the ambassador of United States to Russia William Burns. According to Mr. Burns the discrepancies between the two countries are now in past.
The ambassador said that now both United States and Russia are looking forward to establish stability in Iraq, which is why the representatives of both countries will meet at a conference wh... |
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Berezovsky to Be Questioned by Russian Investigators in London |
 ... of the third person to be questioned.
While agreeing to meet the investigators, Mr. Berezovsky set his conditions upon this meeting, and namely that it should not take place on any of the Russian embassy premises, the investigators must be checked for firearms or any other weapons and for chemical or poisonous substances. Berezovsky expressed his special wish the meeting to be transparent and that it took place under th... |
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Timeline of the events in Tallinn, Estonia |
| ...ed alcohol sales in the capital. The bronze statue was disassembled during the night. During riots a 20-year old young man was stabbed to death and other 44 were injured; an employee of the Latvian embassy injured. On the Kamchatka peninsula Estonian products are off sales as a sign of protest. Estonian embassies in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg are put under intense security. Protests begin in front of the Estonian embassy... |
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Israeli consul works in gay porn |
| ...k press undermined Israel image once again.
That is a second time when Israeli Foreign Ministry officials appear in scandals of sexual nature. At the beginning of March Tzuriel Raphael, Israeli Ambassador to El Salvador was caught by police drunk, naked and bound with S&M object, showing inappropriate conduct. He served as a first secretary at embassy in Washington and a chief of Israeli information center. As a resu... |
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Further escalation in the Estonian - Russian relationship |
| ...acts, he was beaten and brought to the police station while being unconscious.
As the press service mentioned further, Estonian policemen ignored every claim of Mr. Sorokin to inform the Russian embassy in Estonia about the incident (ignored - probably because the majority of Russian speaking policemen quit their police service recently and none understood Russian speech?). It was also mentioned that calls for medical ... |
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Russian Mine Blast at Novokuznetsk (coverage) |
 ...This tragedy happened just two months after an explosion at the "Ulianovskaya" mine, where 110 miners found their death.
Both the "Yubileynaya" and the "Ulianovskaya" mines are part of the "YuzhKuzbassUgol" union. A half of this union belongs to the metallurgic group "Evraz". After the Ulianovskaya blast, the upper mentioned Rostehnadzor threatened withdrawing the license for mining, because of discovering serious viol... |
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The World Says Rest in Peace to Luciano Pavarotti |
 ...sic music to a wider public.
Today we say "Rest in peace, the Golden Voice of the 20th century"...
The Secretary General of UN Ban Ki-Mun has also reminded everyone that Luciano Pavarotti was ambassador of peace of the UN, thus leaving a bright trail not only in music and world culture, but also in building world peace. Luciano Pavarotti organized charitable concerts, which subsequently financed projects of Administ... |
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Visitors Suffering from Mental Illnesses Banned from Olympics |
 ...ne is expected to be "refused to board, enter China, or be fined".
The document says that having Olympic tickets will not be enough to enter China as visitors will have to apply for visas in China embassies and consulates. Chinese officials are worried about the possible protests during the Olympics, increasing control on visas and resident permits for visitors.
Any illegal gatherings and protests are said to be subject... |
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Georgia Crisis: Genocide or War for Integrity? |
 ...rnalists.
Meanwhile, the agency reports that the US continues to blame Russia for its "disproportionate and dangerous" military action in South Ossetia. According to the permanent United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Zalmay Khalilzad, Russia considers a "regime change" by saying that current president of Georgia, Saakashvili should leave office. Khalilzad also mentioned that Russian ambassador Vitaly Churki... |
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Russian President Orders Cease Fire in Georgia |
 ...resident offered a cease-fire note. Before meeting Saakashvili, the French President and the EU leader Nicolas Sarkozy arranged a meeting with the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
The permanent ambassador of Russian Federation to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, stated that Russia could not sign the cease-fire note, which was drafted by the French, due to the fact that it did not include a "series number" of areas.... |
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