Provides the latest RSS feeds for St Petersburg (Russia) News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Florida Statesman.com http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/cat/70b0e247ff7c0078/ en-us Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:51:40 -0400 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:51:40 -0400 30 US President Barack Obama, currently on an official visit to Berlin, Wednesday proposed plans for America and Russia to further cut their strategic nuclear warheads. During a speech at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Obama renewed his call to reduce the world's nuclear stockpiles, and said the US would ultimately strive toward eliminating nuclear weapons, Xinhua reported. "After a comprehensive ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215298936/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:30:01 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215298936/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 MOSCOW Russia is steeply ramping up oil deliveries to China, with Asia now importing almost a fifth of oil exports from the world's largest crude producer in a strategic shift meant by the Kremlin to end reliance on weak and saturated European markets. Russia will increase oil supplies to China by 13 percent in July-September from the previous three months, a shipping schedule obtained ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215281115/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:15:14 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215281115/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 MOSCOW, June 19 (RIA Novosti) – Moscow supports Kabul’s position that peace efforts in the war-torn country should be led by the government of Afghanistan, instead of the United States, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday. The Afghan government earlier on Wednesday suspended security talks with Washington over a dispute regarding the opening of a Taliban representative office ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215297908/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:59:05 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215297908/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 MOSCOW, June 19 (RIA Novosti) – There is a pressing need for an international agency like the United Nations to regulate the Internet, a Russian lawmaker in charge of cyberspace issues said Wednesday. After World War II, all countries decided to establish the United Nations, which regulates international issues, and a similar organization is needed today to regulate the Internet, said ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215297484/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:59:04 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215297484/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 MOSCOW, June 19 (R-Sport) – In an attempt to stock its draws with big-name tennis stars, the St. Petersburg Open is planning to double its prize fund to $1 million, organizers said on Wednesday. Since 2008, when then-world No. 4 Andy Murray won the title, only one top-10 player – Russian Mikhail Youzhny, who was ranked ninth at the time – has appeared at the hard-court September ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215298454/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:58:59 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215298454/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 GROZNY, Russia (AP) -- The father of a Russian man killed while being questioned about ties to the Boston Marathon bombing suspects says he has brought the body to Russia for ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215297819/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:54:11 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215297819/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 French bank Societe Generale aims to deliver a sustainable return on equity of more than 15 percent at its Russia operations by 2015, SocGen chief executive Frederic Oudea said Wednesday. The target would mean almost doubling annual returns in a fragmented, state-dominated banking market that for years has failed to deliver meaningful profits for SocGen and that chased out many international ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215298160/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:48:36 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215298160/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 With the coveted title of Russia's biggest shopping mall operator, Ikea Shopping Centres leads in a market that is expected to become Europe's second largest in the next 18 months. It recently celebrated its 10th anniversary and is making big plans for the future. The milestone closes a decade fraught with disputes with local authorities and legal conflicts, some of which are still ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215298161/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:48:35 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215298161/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 St. Petersburg is drawing scores of business leaders to a forum where they are hoping to get the latest tips on the course that the government and major companies might take. Opening Thursday at the exhibition center LenExpo, the three-day event will host ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215298163/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:48:32 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215298163/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Russia's President Vladimir Putin holds a news conference at the end of a G8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland June 18, ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215297794/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:48:17 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215297794/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Russia (Reuters) - Russia voiced concern on Wednesday about U.S. missile defenses and high-precision conventional weapons, signaling that nuclear arms cuts proposed by ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215297912/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:46:56 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215297912/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 An explosive device apparently detonated by militants Wednesday in the Russian federal republic of Ingushetia injured two soldiers, officials said. The Interior Ministry of the Russian North Caucasus said the blast occurred in the village of Alkun that borders the North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, the Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported. Both servicemen were hospitalized in satisfactory ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215298177/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:40:00 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215298177/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 A Russian paper mill blamed by environmentalists for damaging the world's deepest freshwater lake will finally be shut down, Russia's prime minister ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215297913/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:39:59 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215297913/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 The International Federation for Human Rights said the U.N. Human Rights Council needs to weigh in on the targeting of civil organizations in Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin backed legislation last year requiring non-governmental organization to register as "foreign agents" if they receive some of their funding from foreign countries. The rights federation, known by its ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215298178/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:39:59 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215298178/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:12am EDT * Growth push should jeopardise price stability - Ignatyev * Veteran central banker stepping down * FinMin backs weaker rouble to boost revenues, growth (Adds Kremlin comment) By Maya Dyakina MOSCOW, June 19 (Reuters) - The Russian central bank's departing chairman sought on Wednesday to anchor his inflation-fighting legacy, warning of the risks to price ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215297591/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:12:24 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215297591/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 ST. PETERSBURG, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Russia will take measures to preserve the global strategic deterrence system in balance, President Vladimir Putin said. "We cannot allow the strategic deterrence system to be upset or the effectiveness of our nuclear forces to be decreased," he said at a meeting on the aerospace defence system, held on Wednesday, June 19. "The creation of the ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215295673/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:59:25 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215295673/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 VIDNOYE, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - The All Russia People's Front (ONF) and the United Russia party have nominated Acting governor of the Moscow region Andrei Vorobyov a candidate for the post of the Governor of the Moscow ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296270/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:59:24 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296270/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 MOSCOW, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Russian and Japanese diplomats will hold consultations in Moscow in August ahead of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s visit to Tokyo, presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said on Wednesday, June 19. He recalled that the agreement on Lavrov’s visit to Japan was reached between President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Lough Erne on ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296585/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:59:24 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296585/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 MOSCOW, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - The United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) said the Baltic Shipyard (St Petersburg) would launch the first Russian Mistral helicopter carrier in time. Thus, the Corporation has denied the statement by Russian Deputy Defence Minister Yuri Borisov saying the first Mistral helicopter carrier would be built in France due to Russian shipwrights’ sluggishness. ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296624/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:59:22 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296624/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 BAKU, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - The statement on the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement made by the co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group conforms to Azerbaijan’s position, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman Elman Abdullayev said on Wednesday. Commenting on the G-8 summiteers’ statement on the Karabakh settlement, Abdullayev said, "Azerbaijan reiterated that it opposes the status quo, ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296263/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:59:19 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296263/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 MOSCOW, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Leader of the French opposition party, National Front, Marine Le Pen said she sought to strengthen relations with Russia. Opening the meeting with Le Pen on Wednesday, Russian State Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin said: "This was your first trip to Russia in such format. The agenda is rather vast and includes meetings with the parliamentarians, political ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296519/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:59:18 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296519/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow wants other nuclear powers as well as Russia and the United States involved in any discussions about further nuclear arms cuts, President Vladimir Putin's senior foreign policy adviser said on Wednesday. Commenting on reports that President Barack Obama would call for reductions to the Russian and U.S. nuclear arsenals, Yuri Ushakov said: "It's necessary ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296274/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:51:04 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296274/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 USA The scandal over illegal data interception by US security services questions the correlation between the US and international law, and senior Russian officials are calling for an urgent update in Russian legislation in response. Russia will not ignore the actions of the US authorities who had admitted leaks of personal data of Russian citizens to which the US security services had ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215295887/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:50:14 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215295887/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Violence In the run-up to the G8 Summit at Lough Erne, there was much speculation over the disagreements between Russia and the West on Syria: Claims of chemical weapons use, arms deliveries to the rebels and the prospects for a new Geneva conference. But the talks in Northern Ireland - and the meeting between President Putin and Prime Minister Cameron in London the day before, in which I ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296276/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:50:13 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296276/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 MOSCOW, June 19 (RIA Novosti) – Cyprus plans to give shares of the island nation’s largest bank, Bank of Cyprus, to Russian depositors in compensation for recent deposit "haircuts" imposed under a €10 billion ($13 billion) bailout agreement to pull the economy out of financial crisis, Cyprus’ president said Wednesday. Cyprus recently agreed to overhaul its ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296625/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:48:37 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296625/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 A RUSSIAN former Olympic wrestler has been found dead after being strangled with a whip and buried in a Siberian forest, Russian investigators ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296626/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:40:58 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296626/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 An internet cafe in Moscow. Foreign websites should all be forced to be subject to Russian laws, a United Russia MP says Photograph: Denis Sinyakov/AFP/Getty ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296210/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:39:02 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296210/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Cossack Taxis will hit Moscow's roads this autumn, and their drivers will be some of the most attentive and courteous in town, a news report said Wednesday. The taxis will look like regular taxis with canary yellow paint and checkers on the roof. As a distinctive feature, they will have the Cossack society's emblem and the inscription "Cossack Taxi" on the sides, Izvestia ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296627/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:38:21 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296627/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Muscovites and guests of the city will be relieved to learn that toilets in the capital can now be found online. The locations of free restrooms are available on Moscow's public data ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296628/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:38:19 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296628/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Antonio Spilimbergo, an economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has said that "ambitious economic policy reforms" are necessary to battle back against high inflation and slowing economic growth and realize the economy's potential, after meeting with high ranking governmental officials in Moscow this week. Spilimbergo met with Finance ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296629/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:38:17 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296629/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tens of thousands demonstrators rally against the third term of President Vladimir Putin and also laws aimed to curb protests in Moscow, Russia on June 12, 2012. ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296633/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:30:13 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296633/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Shell companies are responsible for illegally funneling $25 billion away from Russia, outgoing Central Bank chief Sergei Ignatyev said Wednesday. "In May this year, the Central Bank received an official inquiry from the Interior Ministry about some organizations that were used in illegal financial transactions by suspects in one of several criminal probes," Ignatyev said in a report to ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296634/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:30:12 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296634/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 A 4.3-magnitude earthquake damaged more than 500 houses and brought coal mining to a standstill in Russia's Kemerovo Region Wednesday, officials said. The earthquake struck at 3 a.m. local time at a depth of about 6 miles, RIA Novosti reported. The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude of the quake was closer to 5.3. "The nature of the tremors is being clarified, the epicenter is ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296289/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:30:11 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296289/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Fire at a central Russian ammunition depot triggered explosions of stored artillery shells, forcing the evacuation of thousands of people, officials said. The explosions, in a worst-case scenario, could countinue for two or three days, one official said. The Russian Emergencies Ministry said 11 people were hospitalized and more than 6,000 residents were evacuated from their homes in a Samara ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296288/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:30:11 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296288/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Policy concerns remain despite news that Russia’s international investment flows reached record levels in 2007, according to a new report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Russia had foreign direct investment inflows of US$52bn and US$46bn was invested by Russian firms abroad in 2007, but the ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296912/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:28:19 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296912/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 ICBL Condemns Russian Use of Cluster Munitions in Georgia August 15 - The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) strongly condemned Russia today for the use of cluster bombs in Georgia which resulted in at least 11 civilians being killed and dozens injured. Evidence of cluster munitions use by Russia was revealed by ICBL member Human Rights Watch in a press release issued ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296176/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:27:14 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296176/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 According to the Commander in Chief of the Russian Navy, Russia will receive two nuclear submarines - Alexander Nevsky and Vladimir Monomakh - and one multi-purpose submarine - Severodvinsk - before the end of 2013. If it happens, it will mark the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union, when Russia passes new nuclear submarines into ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296309/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:22:52 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215296309/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 In this Tuesday, June 18, 2013 photo, Zita, a liger - half-lioness, half-tiger - carries her one month-old liliger cub in the Novosibirsk Zoo. The cub's father is a lion, Sam. (AP Photo /Ilnar ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215294254/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:55:46 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215294254/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Russia sold helicopters, artillery and air defense systems to Azerbaijan in 2012, says the export report for 2012 submitted by Russia to the UN Register of Conventional Arms, APA reports. The report says that in 2012, Russia handed over 8 strike helicopters and 18 large-caliber artillery systems to Azerbaijan. 1200 portable anti-aircraft missile complexes (200 missile launchers and 100 missiles) ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215294407/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:52:58 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215294407/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 KIEV, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Ukraine’s parliament has not approved a draft law to denounce the 2010 agreement to extend the stay of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in the Ukrainian port of Sevastopol. The draft law has been submitted by the opposition deputy, Vladimir Yvorivsky. A total of 152 deputies voted for the draft law. According to the opposition, the agreement with Russia was ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215294409/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:49:44 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215294409/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 LE BOURGET, France, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - The first Mistral helicopter carrier for Russia’s Navy will be fully built in France, Russian Deputy Defence Minister Yuri Borisov said on Wednesday. Speaking at the Paris Air Show currently underway at Le Bourget, Borisov told journalists, "The after end of the first Mistral helicopter carrier will be built in France and not in Russia as it ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215294162/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:49:43 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215294162/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 MOSCOW, May 30 (Itar-Tass) - The chief coach of Russia’s national soccer team, Fabio Capello, has been invited to prolong the contract with the Russian Football Union till 2018, RFU First Vice-President Nikita Simonian told Itar-Tass. "Capello has been asked to prolong the contract till 2018. He is still considering it," Simonian said. Earlier, Russian Sports Minister Vitaly ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215294410/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:49:40 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215294410/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 MOSCOW, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - The problem of kindergartens remains acute in Russia, where two million children are on the kindergarten waiting list at the moment, the deputy head of the department for demographic policy and social protection of the population at the Labor Ministry, Yelena Strakhova, told a conference on ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215294828/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:49:39 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215294828/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 President Barack Obama will renew his call to reduce the world's nuclear stockpiles, including a proposed one-third reduction in US and Russian arsenals, the White House ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215293928/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:37:55 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215293928/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 The body of Ibragim Todashev, who was killed on 22 May during questioning in connection to the Boston Marathon bombing, has been returned to Russia, a news report said Wednesday. Todashev's family was planning to ship the body back to Russia last weekend, but Delta airlines refused to fly his body back from the U.S., Itar-Tass reported. But after finally receiving clearance, the ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215294832/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:29:06 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215294832/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 A TU-154 passenger plane aborted a take-off in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar due to gear malfunction Thursday, local media reported.A crew of the plane, which belongs to the Gazpromavia airline, reported a malfunction in the craft's gear while on the runway.There were 142 passengers onboard and none was hurt, reported Interfax news agency.The plane remained on the runway where the ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215294844/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:14:13 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215294844/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Russia, South Korea and Singapore signed a cooperation deal on developing nanotechnology Thursday.A memorandum of understanding signed Thursday on the sidelines of the 2011 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum broadens investment in the Asia Nanotechnology Fund, which was set up last September by the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnology (RUSNANO), the Singaporean Economic Development ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215294444/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:14:13 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215294444/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Russia's Mission Control announced on Wednesday it had raised the International Space Station (ISS) by 10.2 km to 374.7 km with the help of the Europe's ATV-2 Johannes Kepler.The Mission Control conducted the correction to the ISS at 19: 55 Moscow time (1555 GMT) by the boosters of the ATV-2 Johannes Kepler. The correction had lasted for some 40 minutes.According to the Mission Control, ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215294445/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:14:10 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215294445/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 MOSCOW, April 14 (Xinhua) -- The foreign ministers of the Russian Federation, the Republic of India and the People's Republic of China issued a joint communique Friday after wrapping up their 11th meeting here.The following is the full text of the document:JOINT COMMUNIQUE of the Eleventh Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Russian Federation, the Republic of India and the People's ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215294676/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:14:05 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215294676/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 MOSCOW, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - The chairman of the A Just Russia party, Nikolai Levichev, said on Wednesday he goes into the mayoral election to make the Muscovites happier. "I will do everything so that Muscovites become a bit happier as a result of the Moscow mayoral election," said Levichev, announcing himself the party candidate for the election. According to him, there are a lot ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215293023/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:43:45 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215293023/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 KIEV, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - The Ukrainian Rada has turned down a proposed bill which calls to denounce an agreement which Ukraine signed with Russia in 2010, under which the presence of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol on the Ukrainian territory was extended for 25 ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215293234/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:43:44 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215293234/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 >Editor's note: This story was originally published in March, 2013 and updated June 19 to coincide with the International Economic Forum.(CNN) -- Several thousand of the world's most powerful people are in St. Petersburg this month for the city's annual International Economic Forum. The only problem? While we at CNN Travel would be the last to deny that macroeconomics can be a thrilling ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215298455/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:38:24 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215298455/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 MOSCOW, June 19 (RIA Novosti) – Russian prosecutors have charged opposition activist Leonid Razvozzhayev with plotting mass riots during a demonstration in Moscow last May, his lawyer Dmitry Agranovsky told RAPSI on Wednesday. Razvozzhayev, who had previously been accused by investigators of attempting mass disturbances, has been now formally charged with having organized riots, followed ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215293326/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:33:36 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215293326/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 MOSCOW, June 19 (RIA Novosti) – Shell companies have illegally funneled 760 billion rubles ($25 billion) from Russia in the past three years, outgoing Central Bank chief Sergei Ignatyev said on Wednesday, Vedomosti business paper reported. Ignatyev who is leaving his post next week after serving three consecutive terms, made the statement in a report to the Russian parliament on the ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215293024/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:33:32 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215293024/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Technical problems continue to plague the Moscow metro as a train came to a halt on the Gray Line due to a malfunction in one of its cars, a news report said Wednesday. The incident occurred at 7:28 a.m. when a coach's failure caused a "very brief" interruption of service, the Moscow transportation department told ITAR-TASS. The faulty car was separated from the rest of the train ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215293327/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:22:17 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215293327/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 June 19, 2013 Russian investigators have launched a probe into multiple explosions that have rocked an ammunition depot in central Russia believed to be storing millions of shells. The fire at the ammunition testing site near the city of Chapaevsk, in Russia's Samara Region, broke out late Tuesday, followed by a series of explosions that have ripped through the area, sending shrapnel ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215291892/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:42:04 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215291892/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 KIZNER, Udmurtia, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Russia maintains the time for launching the Kizner chemical disposal facility in Udmurtia, officials in the group for the work with the Kizner public told Itar-Tass on Wednesday. All milestone dates are maintained, the official said. "The construction and assembly works are being done under schedule. The commissioning will be started in September. In ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215291893/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:37:34 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215291893/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 MOSCOW, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Russian and foreign companies will sign several important agreements during the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) due to open in the Northern Capital on June 20, the SPIEF website reports on Wednesday. Ust-Luga Company and the ICT Group will sign an agreement on cooperation within carrying out a project to create an industrial zone on the area ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215291593/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:37:33 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215291593/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Moscow: June 19-- (BNA)-- The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister cum Special Envoy of the President of the Russian Federation for Middle East Affairs, Mr. Mikhail Bagdanov, accentuated that bilateral relations between the Kingdom of Bahrain and the Russian Federation are solid at the level of leaderships and executive authority, stressing that Russian welcomes Bahraini delegations and any efforts ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215292065/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:32:06 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215292065/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 USA The Russian Ministry of Finance plans to raise tax on tobacco by 50% to bring it closer to European levels. The World Health Organization has suggested Russia needs a seven-fold increase by 2020. The draft legislation is to be presented to the government on June 20, Izvestia daily reports. Excise duty on filter cigarettes will be raised to 820 roubles ($25) per thousand cigarettes ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215291733/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:29:13 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215291733/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Russia A Russian Lower House MP suggests to only protect movies and TV series in a new anti-piracy bill claiming that music is much cheaper to create. Aleksey Mitrofanov said he has submitted an amendment to the bill aimed at countering internet piracy. "The bill must only cover movies and TV series - the copyright objects that are expensive to produce," Mitrofanov said at a ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215291716/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:29:13 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215291716/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 (45 mins ago) More than 6,000 people were evacuated in central Russia overnight after a series of massive explosions at an arms depot blew out windows and sparked a fire, the emergency situations ministry said today. The blasts began Tuesday night and continued for hours during an operation to dispose of old munitions at the depot near the town of Chapayevsk in the Samara region about 1,000 ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215292067/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:22:33 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215292067/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Over 500 homes have been damaged in the village of Bachatsky as a result of an earthquake that struck the Kemerovo on Wednesday. It was the strongest earthquake to have struck the region in over 100 years and was felt 300 kilometers away in Novosibirsk. The U.S. Geological Service said it registered a magnitude of 5.3 on the Richter scale, but Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215292068/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:17:43 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215292068/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 YouTube footage showing a handful of passengers riding a St. Petersburg metro train with doors that refused to close. The Moscow metro might have been beset by problems this month. But it isn't alone. Passengers in the St. Petersburg metro went for a harrowing ride in the bowels of the northern capital when the doors on their train refused to close. The incident occurred on the ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215292069/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:17:41 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215292069/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed Jun 19, 2013 5:33am EDT (Recasts, adds further comment) By Maya Dyakina MOSCOW, June 19 (Reuters) - The Russian central bank's priority is to stabilise inflation, its outgoing chairman Sergei Ignatyev said on Wednesday, defending his years-long efforts to switch the bank's main policy away from managing the rouble's rate. "The main objective of the central bank's monetary ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215291676/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:33:03 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215291676/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed Jun 19, 2013 5:32am EDT * To almost double ROE to over 15 pct by 2015 * Bank to keep cutting costs in fragmented market * No comment on Golubkov case, internal audit By Lionel Laurent MOSCOW, June 19 (Reuters) - French bank Societe Generale aims to deliver a sustainable return on equity of over 15 percent at its Russia operations by 2015, SocGen Chief Executive Frederic Oudea said on ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215291900/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:32:52 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215291900/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 ? ????????????, ?????????????, ????????????, ??????????, ?????????? ????? ?????? ? ????. - ??????????? ????? ???????? ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215290740/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:32:36 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215290740/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 MOSCOW, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - The head of the State Duma’s international affairs committee, Alexei Pushkov, believes that Russia has managed to defend its positions at the G8 summit in Lough Erne and not succumb to pressures. "President Vladimir Putin’s participation in the G8 summit was certainly a success," Pushkov told the media. According to the senior legislator, ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215290939/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:32:34 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215290939/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 MOSCOW, June 19 (RIA Novosti) – Google has not provided the US authorities with direct assess to its servers, the head of Google Russia said on Wednesday, while acknowledging that the Internet giant regularly receives requests for user data from government agencies. "Yes, we receive government requests to provide data, but this is strictly in line with the law. It is important to ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215290941/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:22:15 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215290941/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Pochta Rossii officials in the Novosibirsk are investigating a video showing parcels being thrown haphazardly onto the city's train station platform by an unidentified worker, a news report said Wednesday. "The direction of the train, the ownership and the car number, as well as whether or not the boxes shown in the footage are Pochta Rossii or another cargo transportation company ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215291109/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:12:12 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215291109/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 The Finance Ministry has proposed using state guarantee fund to increase support for promising small- and medium-sized businesses, Vedomosti reported Wednesday. The proposals were prepared in response to the order by ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215291110/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:12:11 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215291110/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 The state will not allow foreign bidders to take part in the auction of a stake in Rostelecom, but is ready to sell 50 percent of the telecommunication giant to the country's leading cell phone operators, Kommersant reported Wednesday, citing it's own sources. The decision is aimed to satisfy a demand of the Defense Ministry, which said that the company is a strategic asset and should ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215291111/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:12:10 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215291111/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Smoking can become even more expensive in Russia, the Ministry of Health warns. The World Health Organization offers Russia to raise the excise tax on tobacco seven times. In accordance with the WHO requirements, the average price for a pack of cigarettes will be 238 rubles ($7.5) by 2020. Current prices range from 30 to 80 rubles per pack ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215291125/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:56:32 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215291125/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 MOSCOW, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 4:33am EDT MOSCOW, June 19 (Reuters) - French bank Societe Generale aims to deliver a sustainable return on equity of over 15 percent on its Russia operations by 2015, SocGen Chief Executive Frederic Oudea said on Wednesday. "Our teams are pursuing a clear turnaround roadmap," Oudea told a media event in Moscow, citing a focus on optimising ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215290945/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:33:17 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215290945/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 At least five people have been injured and some 6,000 local residents have been evacuated from a village near an ammunition depot in central Russia where a fire caused massive explosions of stored artillery shells, according to officials. The fire at the Volga Federal Ammunition Testing Site in the Samara region broke out late Tuesday, followed by a series of explosions that continue to rock the ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215290075/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:30:48 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215290075/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 ? ????????????, ?????????????, ????????????, ??????????, ?????????? ????? ?????? ? ????. - ??????????? ????? ???????? ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215289988/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:28:06 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215289988/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 MOSCOW, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Deputy secretary of the United Russia party’s General Council, Sergei Zheleznyak has urged a probe into the reported instances of US secret service’ access to Russian citizens’ private information. "We should not let the affair be played down. There should be thorough investigation of all instances of US companies and secret services getting ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215289989/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:28:06 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215289989/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 NEW DELHI, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Eleven Russian seafarers were rescued from the MOL Comfort container ship that wrecked in the Arabian Sea, the Sri Lankan authorities said on Wednesday. They will be delivered to Colombo on Friday. After this a decision on restoring seafarers’ documents and their return to Russia will be taken. The Mol Comfort flying the flag of the Bahamas broke into two ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215289958/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:28:02 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215289958/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 MOSCOW, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Russia’s largest diamond miner Alrosa will be excluded from the list of organizations subjected to privatization, Yakutia President Yegor Borisov told a news conference on Wednesday. According to Borisov’s website, the Russian government is drafting a relevant decree. The meeting of the government that will consider exclusion from the list of subject to ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215289990/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:28:00 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215289990/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 St PETERSBURG, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Organizers of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum /SPIEF/ have drafted a memorandum that will prompt the participants in and guests of the conference how to ensure the most convenient conditions of work, traveling around the city and spending free time. It is believed that transportation may pose one of the biggest problems during the forum. ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215290307/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:27:58 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215290307/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Thrills&Spills Controversial Russian talk radio host Sergey Dorenko was issued a court summons during a live broadcast of his show Wednesday. He has been ordered to stand trial for slander over accusations made against the head of a Russian railway company. The writ was brought Wednesday morning by a police officer to Russian News Service radio, where Dorenko works as editor-in-chief and ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215290157/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:19:29 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215290157/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 MOSCOW, June 19 (R-Sport) - Russian Football Association chief Nikolai Tolstykh is confident national team manager Fabio Capello will see out his contract and take Russia to the 2014 World Cup. Reports appeared in the French and Italian media on Wednesday claiming the 67-year-old could be named Paris Saint-Germain coach in the coming days, adding he was the Qatari-bankrolled club's fallback ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215290158/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:18:13 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215290158/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 The Federal Penitentiary Service has drafted proposals allowing teenage offenders to stay in juvenile correctional facilities if their behavior improves, a news report said Wednesday. Under the current law teenage offenders are transferred to adult penal colonies when they reach the age of 19, but if the amendment is accepted the cut off point will be extended to 25, Kommersant reported. The ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215290159/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:08:02 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215290159/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Reporters Without Borders Calls Putin a Predator and Control Freak - Mikhail Doubik, Publisher at Vedomosti is the director of the Moscow Times. Vedomosti was conceived by Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal, the One Percent. The "news" outlet which calls itself the Moscow Times today published an article with this ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215290001/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:53:40 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215290001/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 MOSCOW, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Fifteen warships and service ships, fighters and helicopters will take part in a Ukrainian-Russian naval exercise entitled "Farvater Mira" (Fairway to peace), Russian Black Sea Fleet spokesman, Captain First Rank Vyacheslav Trukhachev, told Itar-Tass on Wednesday. The exercise will take place on June 19-20 and June 25 at naval testing ranges in the ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215288902/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:23:37 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215288902/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Moscow, June 19 (BNA) - Over 30 people sought medical help, 11 were hospitalized and more than 6,000 local residents were evacuated from a village near an ammunition depot in central Russia where a fire caused massive explosions of stored artillery shells, the Russian Emergencies Ministry said. The fire at the Volga Federal Ammunition Testing Site in the Samara Region broke out late Tuesday, ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215289056/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:18:04 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215289056/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 NOVOKUZNETSK, June 19 (RIA Novosti) – A moderate earthquake struck southwest Siberia's Kemerovo Region, one of the country's coal mining heartlands early on Wednesday, local officials said, temporarily bringing underground coal production to a standstill. Regional Governor Aman Tuleyev has ordered all work at underground mines in the Kemerovo Region, part of Russia’s ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215288818/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:13:09 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215288818/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Russia , injuring about 30 people and causing the evacuation of more than 6,000 from a nearby village, investigators and emergency workers said.No cause has yet been determined for the fire at the Chapaevsk military depot in the Samara region on Wednesday. The federal authorities said it was set off by the "involuntary" explosion of shells.Russian munitions, which frequently date back ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215289006/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:03:57 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215289006/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Thousands were evacuated in Russia's south-western Samara region after ammunition exploded at a military training area. Amateur video on the internet purported to show the moment an explosion ripped through the site, with plumes of smoke rising into the sky. Officials said it was not clear what caused the explosions but gave no indication of foul play. Reuters cannot independently verify the ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215289007/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:03:56 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215289007/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Amateur video from mobile phones recorded numerous blasts at a military depot in southern Russia where up to 13 million shells were said to have been stored. At least 6,000 people had to be evacuated from the nearby village of Nagorny in Samara – at least eight people have been reported missing. Around 500 firefighters were called in to try to put out a fire on the base. There have been ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215289012/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:02:11 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215289012/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands during June 17, 2013 bilateral meeting at G-8 Summit in Enniskillen, Northern ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215288982/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:00:33 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215288982/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Barack Obama 's foreign-policy speech in Berlin Wednesday will call for additional U.S.-Russia nuclear-arms cuts, administration officials said. He is expected to say Washington and Moscow can shrink their nuclear arsenals by up to one-third beyond cuts mandated under the 2010 New Start, or Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, without hurting deterrence or capabilities, the officials told The ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215289065/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:54:32 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215289065/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Syrian peace talks will be delayed after Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to boycott talks that assume President Bashar Assad will resign, officials said. The international peace conference in Geneva, Switzerland, proposed by Washington and Moscow six weeks ago to be held as soon as May is now likely to be delayed until September, a Western official told several news organizations after ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215289072/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:54:32 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215289072/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 MOSCOW, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 2:41am EDT MOSCOW, June 19 (Reuters) - Russia is considering selling its 53 percent stake in state-controlled telecoms operator Rostelecom to the company's domestic rivals MTS , MegaFon and Vimpelcom, Kommersant reported on Wednesday. "We wanted to create another player in addition to the big three," Kommersant quoted a government source as ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215289063/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:41:36 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215289063/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 NEW YORK, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia /ROCOR/ has marked the 400th anniversary since accession of the Romanov dynasty to the Russian throne. The main events of the celebration were held in the Cathedral of the Icon of Our Lady of the Sign in New York City. Tuesday night, a remembrance vespers service for the late czars and emperors of Russia was held there. ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215288233/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:19:45 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215288233/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Lefteris Pitarakis / AP President Vladimir Putin, British Prime Minister David Cameron and U.S. President Barack Obama waving for the cameras during the summit ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215288344/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:01:02 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215288344/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 LISTVYANKA VILLAGE (Irkutsk Region), June 19 (RIA Novosti) - The Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill, a longtime target of environmental activists, will be finally shut down, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday. "All principled decisions on the issue have been made by the Russian government, and we will carry them out, there is no way back," Medvedev told members of the ruling ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215287472/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:06:10 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215287472/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Sixty years ago today, on June 19, 1953, Julius Rosenburg and his wife Ethel were executed in the U.S. having earlier been convicted of espionage and sentenced to death. The Rosenburgs, who were charged with passing on atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, protested their innocence to the end and to this day the case remains one of the most mysterious criminal trials in recent ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215287707/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:56:08 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215287707/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Havana, Jun 19 (Prensa Latina) Cuba will take four athletes to the female judo tournament of the 27th Summer University Games in Kazan, Russia, from July 6 to 17, said Cuban weekly Jit Tuesday. The Cuban female team, second place by teams in the Grand Prix in Miami, US last week, is headed by 78 kg Olympic Champion Idalis Ortiz. The other athletes are: Yanet Bermoy, Olympic runner-up in the 52 kg ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215286490/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:16:10 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215286490/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Russian munitions, which frequently date back to the Soviet era, have exploded several times in recent years and the resulting fires usually rage for ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215286614/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:57:10 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215286614/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 All comments are filtered for vulgar language, for web addresses and for e-mail addresses. Those will cause comments to generate an error message or not to post. Registration on OrlandoSentinel.com is required to comment. The Sentinel makes no guarantee of comments' factual accuracy. Readers may report inappropriate comments by clicking the Report Abuse link. ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215286494/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:56:23 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215286494/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Russia has recently unveiled its Project 1239 rocket ship to the world. Representing Russia's Black Sea Fleet, the unique missile hovercraft "Bora" took part in the international exhibition of defense industry AIDEF 2013, which was held in Istanbul on May 7-10. The newest Russian rocket ships of this type will soon turn 20 years ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215286396/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:34:32 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215286396/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Most Americans are ignorant of Russia's incredible contribution to the defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan. Americans can barely remember the details of World War II and worse still they do not want to be bothered with more than a cursory review of the details, subtleties and chance that WWII was. What the US populace knows of Russia's efforts in WWII is viewed through the lopsided ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215285490/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:29:41 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215285490/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 LOUGH ERNE, June 18 (Itar-Tass) - The Russian stand on the settlement in Syria is in line with the stands of other G8 countries, which is confirmed by the statement of the Group of Eight, Sergei Ryabkov, Russian deputy foreign minister, told reporters on ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215284802/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:59:41 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215284802/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 The International Monetary Fund ( IMF) has lowered its forecast of Russian GDP growth in 2013 from 3. 4 percent to 2.5 percent, head of the IMF mission said Tuesday."The growth will amount to 2.5 percent in 2013 and to 3.25 percent in 2014," Antonio Spilimbergo told reporters following talks with Russian government officials here.In April, IMF forecast that Russian economy would grow by ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215284540/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:58:13 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215284540/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Cuba's four-member women's judo team, led by Olympic champion Idalis Ortiz, will compete in Russia and Brazil, sports news website JIT said Tuesday.The women will first compete at the World Universiade of Kazan, Russia in July, then travel to France for training before attending the World Championship next August in Brazil, coach Ronaldo Veitia said."We will attend the 27 ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215284786/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:57:59 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215284786/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 WASHINGTON ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215284472/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:53:23 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215284472/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 arrested near the West African country’s coast in October 2012 on arms smuggling charges. The sailors were the crew of the MV Myre Seadiver vessel owned by Moscow-based security firm Moran Security Group. Nigerian authorities detained the Myre Seadiver ship with the Russian crew in the port of Lagos on October 19 last year after finding weapons, including 14 Kalashnikov AK-47 assault ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215284750/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:48:21 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215284750/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 The Russians are coming, again, in submarines to waters near New Zealand. The state-run Itar-Tass agency says Russia will send submarines armed with nuclear ballistic missiles to the South Pacific and the Southern Ocean. "The revival of nuclear-submarine patrols will allow us to fulfil the tasks of strategic deterrence not only across the North Pole but also the South Pole," an ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215283938/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:45:07 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215283938/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Kings rewarded Slava Voynov with a six-year contract after the Russian defenseman led the team in points during the playoffs, the team said on Tuesday. Voynov played in all 48 games with the Kings during the 2012-13 regular season, totaling new career highs for points (25) and assists (19). He also went on to lead the team with six goals and 13 points during a ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215283936/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:05:23 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215283936/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Russian Federation Russian politicians have voted to restrict adoptions from countries that allow same-sex marriage. The proposal was passed unanimously in the Duma lower house of parliament, and could ban even single people in more than a dozen countries from adopting Russian orphans.President Vladimir Putin has already vowed to sign the bill into law when it is approved by the upper house. ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215282823/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:40:17 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215282823/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group strengthens its portfolio in Russia's regional cities with the signing of a new Park Inn by Radisson in Nizhny Tagil. The mid-market property will be the first internationally branded hotel in this prominent industrial city. Enjoying an outstanding waterfront location in Nizhny Tagil's central district, the Park Inn will include 135 contemporary guest rooms, ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215282399/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:40:13 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215282399/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 LOUGH ERNE, June 19 (RIA Novosti) - The next G8 summit will take place in the southern Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi in June 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215282572/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:37:11 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215282572/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Los Angeles Kings defenseman Slava Voynov has re-signed with the club for six years, Kings General Manager Dean Lombardi announced Tuesday. Terms of the deal weren't announced, but the Los Angeles Times reported it was worth $25 million. The 23-year-old Russian blueliner inked the deal after turning in a stellar performance for Los Angeles during the playoffs, leading the Kings with six ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215283291/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:19:15 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215283291/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Russia Tuesday urged the West to consider relaxing sanctions against Iran, saying there was unprecedented hope of a breakthrough in the nuclear standoff ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215281422/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:39:26 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215281422/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 VIENNA - Diplomats at a conference organized by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe all agreed Tuesday that international organizations were vital in helping to overcome the Cold War spirit that still besets relations across the East-West divide, but they were unable to provide any clear answers to the issues on the ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215281601/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:23:47 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215281601/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 As leaked details of ongoing network surveillance and espionage programs by the National Security Agency (NSA) continue to stir up international concern about how deep US intelligence is reaching into IT operations worldwide, Russia and the US have taken steps to cooperate on cyber-security--or at least prevent an accidental cyber-war. During talks at the G-8 Summit in Enniskillen, Northern ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215281250/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:20:23 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215281250/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215283686/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:16:22 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215283686/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 An employee talks on a portable radio set near a complex producing aromatic hydrocarbons at the Bashneft - Ufaneftekhim refinery in the city of Ufa, Russia, on April 11, 2013. Russian oil exports to China will increase this quarter, as Russia shifts its strategy away from Europe. (SERGEI ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215280257/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:46:56 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215280257/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Like a gold-plated visitor from Planet Money, a strange ship has arrived among us: a glittering $300 million mega-yacht that resembles a futuristic star cruiser, or Bond villian's seagoing lair. The "A," a 394-foot-long behemoth, boasts walls covered in white sting-ray hides or hand-stitched calf's leather, according to the Wall Street Journal. One can relax in chairs made ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215280105/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:17:36 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215280105/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 MEXICO CITY, June 18 | Tue Jun 18, 2013 5:13pm EDT MEXICO CITY, June 18 (Reuters) - Russian planemaker Sukhoi delivered its first Superjet 100 plane to Mexico's Interjet airline at the Paris Airshow, the Mexican company said on Tuesday. Another 19 aircraft from Russia's first post-Soviet civil plane project are due to be delivered in the coming months to Interjet, which is ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215281434/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:13:15 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215281434/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Russian lawmakers have backed a bill that would place tough restrictions on adoption to countries where same-sex marriages are legal, following France's vote last month allowing such unions.The bill could ban people in over a dozen countries from adopting Russian orphans even if they are single, according to an amendment that passed in the key second reading in the Duma lower house of ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215279011/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:38:05 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215279011/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 G8 leaders on Tuesday called for a peace conference on Syria to be held as soon as possible but deep divisions remained as Russia stood by its embattled Middle East ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215278644/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:27:32 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215278644/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 MOSCOW (Reuters) - Some 6,000 people were evacuated in Russia's south-western Samara region on Tuesday after ammunition explosions shook a military training area, the Emergencies Ministry said. The ministry said five explosions initially took place at the site on Tuesday evening, triggering a fire that was still causing blasts hours later. Footage aired on Russia's state television ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215279017/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:24:50 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215279017/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Russia will base its French-made Mistral-class amphibious assault ships in the Far East ports of Vladivostok and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky when they enter service, a senior Defense Ministry official said in an ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215279018/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:22:34 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215279018/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland - G8 leaders struggled to find the ';common ground'; on Syria that had been hoped for by their British hosts, with the results of Tuesday's summit confirming the predictions of many ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215279021/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:18:01 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215279021/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 1 of 9. British Prime Minister David Cameron (R), Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan (2nd R), U.S. President Barack Obama and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto walk together during the G8 Summit in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland June 18, ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215279023/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:16:23 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215279023/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Russia has fulfilled an order made by Azerbaijan in 2011-12 for military hardware worth up to $1 billion, Vedomosti reported Tuesday. The shipment consisted of 94 T-90S tanks, about 100 BMP-3 armored personnel carriers, 18 self-propelled Msta-S howitzers, 18 multiple launch rocket systems, 18 self-propelled cannons and six flame-throwing systems, the newspaper said, citing a source in the ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215279243/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:12:04 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215279243/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 MOSCOW - Russia's emergency services say exploding ammunition at a military depot has set off a fire that in turn is causing more shells to explode. Emergency services spokesman Mikhail Metyolkin said no injuries have been reported, but about 4,000 people have been evacuated from villages around the Chapaevsk military depot in the Samara region of southern Russia. No cause has yet been ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215279244/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:10:35 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215279244/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Prime Minister Stephen Harper is praising the outcome of the G8 summit in Northern Ireland, saying it was "very different" from what he expected. Harper says the countries, including Russia, are all on the same page about ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215277777/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:34:50 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215277777/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 By Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, June 18, 2013 – Cooperation at many levels will help to reduce misunderstandings between the United States and Russia, the leaders of both countries said after meetings in Northern Ireland yesterday. Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin agreed to cooperate on a number of different aspects of the bilateral relationship. The men ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215277782/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:22:14 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215277782/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 MOSCOW, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russia has paid off a $2 billion Soviet-era debt to Serbia and Slovakia, the Russian Finance Ministry said Tuesday. Russia’s $1.7 billion debt to Slovakia and $288.8 million debt to Serbia originated when it assumed responsibility for Soviet obligations under trade and economic cooperation with Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, the ministry said in a ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215277784/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:15:36 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215277784/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 LOUGH ERNE, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russia will develop a national plan to deal with offshore tax havens, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday. "We are in the process of adopting legislation to disclose the end beneficiary," he told a news conference after a G8 summit in Northern Ireland, adding that he would sign the bill into law as soon as it is passed by parliament. ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215277785/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:15:33 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215277785/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Vladimir Dmitriev, Chairman of Vnesheconombank (VEB, State Corporation Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs), made blunt comments about the Sochi Games on Tuesday. (Junko Kimura/Getty Images ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215277915/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:14:18 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215277915/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 "Regime". A wonderful word conjured up by the biased media controlled by the FUKUS Axis (France-UK-US). One of the wonderful list of words conjured up to create negative images, often associated to "dictators", always the enemies of the lobbies which control western governments, even unelected ones. Google Cameron and Banking. Diplomacy rules... David Cameron stated in the ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215277788/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:50:01 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215277788/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 In a joint statement issued by the White House, U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin call the pact "essential to safeguarding the security" of their countries. The agreement, signed Monday at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland, aims to reduce the risk of conflict in cyberspace by creating direct, real-time communication about possible incidents. The two ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215276372/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:28:32 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215276372/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Russia -- Democracy and civil society in Eurasia are increasingly under fire from autocratic rulers seeking to maintain their grasp on power in a quickly changing world, according to a new report by the US think-tank Freedom House. Writing in its 2013 "Nations in Transit" report, the democracy and human rights watchdog found that leaders of Eurasian countries from Russia and Ukraine to ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215276425/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:15:40 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215276425/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Russia Large explosions rock an ammunition depot in Russia's Samara Region, where over 13 million shells are stored. The police have started evacuation of the nearby communities. Multiple artillery shells keep exploding at an ammunition depot near the city of Chapaevsk, a local police spokesman told RIA. "It is still not possible to halt the self-destruction, or to enter the ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215276427/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:08:39 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215276427/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Russia and the global economy Given the shaky global economic environment, Russia should revise its expectations of oil prices and start to plan its budgetary expenses on the basis of lower oil, the IMF said in its Tuesday report. Russia's budgetary rule "should be tightened starting next year--via a lower benchmark oil price and reduced net borrowing--to allow rebuilding of fiscal ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215276056/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:08:39 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215276056/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 LOUGH ERNE, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russia, the United States and France, the three countries mediating the conflict over the disputed South Caucasus region of Nagorno-Karabakh, said Tuesday that they were greatly concerned by the lack of progress in bringing peace to the region. The parties to the conflict – Armenia and Azerbaijan – are still pursuing unilateral aims rather ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215276428/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:07:02 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215276428/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Russia is on its way to sharply limiting the adoption of children by people from countries that allow same-sex marriage. Under a measure that passed its crucial second reading in the lower house of parliament Tuesday, Russia will prohibit adoption by foreign couples whose homeland recognizes their union as marriage, as well as by single people or unmarried couples from those countries. The ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215276434/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:56:30 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215276434/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 VTB Group laid out ambitious expansion plans Tuesday, with its retail banking expected to grow faster than the market in the next three years. Every fifth bank customer will use the group's ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215276649/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:56:06 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215276649/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 United States Ambassador to Moscow Michael McFaul handed over to Russian officials eight historic documents that had been taken out of Russia in the early ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215276651/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:41:12 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215276651/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 On July 1st, the Federal Passenger Company (FPC) is launching the first passenger train between Moscow and St. Petersburg that will provide an opportunity to passengers to transport their vehicles, the director of the FPC, Mikhail Akulov, said ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215276652/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:41:11 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215276652/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 LOUGH ERNE, June 18 (Itar-Tass) - Russia has no evidence the Syrian government has used chemical weapons. Some G8 countries, too, believe such weapons were not used, Russian President Vladimir Putin ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215274975/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:10:00 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215274975/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Russian lawmakers on Tuesday backed a bill that would place tough restrictions on adoption to countries where same-sex marriages are legal, following France's vote last month allowing such unions.The bill could ban people in over a dozen countries from adopting Russian orphans even if they are single, according to an amendment that passed in the key second reading in the Duma, or lower house ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215274959/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:07:57 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215274959/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 US lawmakers have imposed new conditions the administration of President Barack Obama would need to meet before the United States can fulfill its obligations under the 2010 START nuclear arms reduction agreement with Russia, recently-approved legislation ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215274978/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:59:58 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215274978/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 WASHINGTON, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – US lawmakers have imposed new conditions the administration of President Barack Obama would need to meet before the United States can fulfill its obligations under the 2010 START nuclear arms reduction agreement with Russia, recently-approved legislation shows. The restrictions stipulate that no funds may be spent to decommission US nuclear weapons ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215274979/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:59:56 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215274979/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 LOUGH ERNE, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russia and the United States will bear primary responsibility for developing a peace plan for Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday at a press conference following ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215274980/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:59:54 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215274980/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov walks to a meeting with Latin American Foreign Ministers in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, May 29, 2013. Russia's foreign minister has sharply criticized a draft resolution on Syria to be considered by the United Nations' top human rights body. (AP Photo/Misha ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215275006/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:58:12 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215275006/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Russian President Vladimir Putin (L), British Prime Minister David Cameron (C) and U.S. President Barack Obama take part in a group photo for the G8 Summit in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. REUTERS/Kevin ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215275260/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:55:20 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215275260/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Anton Siluanov on Tuesday rejected proposals to lay responsibility for growth on the Central Bank and offered his way out of the government's predicament - devalue the ruble. Siluanov's ministry will use oil revenue destined for the Reserve Fund to buy currency on the market and weaken the ruble by 1 to 2 rubles ($0.03 to $0.06), he told Bloomberg. Insisting that strictly "market ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215275261/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:49:13 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215275261/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 The G8 summit ended today with Russia far from agreement with the West over how to resolve the Syrian civil war. Russian experts say the rift is probably ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215274994/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:38:05 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215274994/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Russian multi-purpose fighter jet Su-35S that has never been presented abroad, successfully performed its first demonstration flight at the air show in Le Bourget, near ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215274996/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:34:19 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215274996/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 The plane, which attracts a lot of attention of potential buyers, bears a resemblance to its predecessor, the Su-27, but the new aircraft has been thoroughly modernized. Mikhail Pogosyan, the President of United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) said that the complex avionics of the Su-35S was capable of detecting targets with the help of a radar at a distance of more than 300 km. A highly powerful ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215275265/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:34:19 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215275265/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Moscow, Jun 18 (Prensa Latina) The Prime Minister of Russia, Dmitri Medvedev, backed the decision of Irkutsk region''s management of closing permanently the Baikal Cellulose Plant, which was fiercely criticized by ecological organizations that accuse it of damaging the environment. During a meeting with the regional management about the ecological situation of Baikal Lake's ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215273468/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:07:25 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215273468/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 The IMF on Tuesday cut its forecast for economic growth in Russia in 2013 to 2.5 percent from its previous projection of 3.4 percent due to weak investment and external demand."Russia's growth has slowed while inflation remains high," the IMF said in a statement after a staff visit to Russia this ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215273472/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:01:23 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215273472/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 President Obama meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, Monday, where they discussed the ongoing conflict in Syria during their bilateral ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215273477/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:57:44 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215273477/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Planes The Russian delegation has landed its first deal at the Paris air show, selling all-weather K-52 Alligator helicopter gunships to Iraqi officials. Airplanes of all shapes, sizes, and nationalities have taken to the Parisian sky this week at 50th Le Bourget air show, and Russia has concluded its first sales on day two of the bi-annual exhibition. The Iraqi order is part of a $4 ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215273478/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:54:00 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215273478/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 MOSCOW, June 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russia has seen both the number of young people in the country and their share in the total population decline steadily in recent years, an Education Ministry official said on Tuesday. "According to the Federal State Statistics Service, in 2012 there were 31.6 million people in the 15-29 age group – making up 22 percent of the country’s total ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215273480/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:52:50 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215273480/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 MOSCOW, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russia needs to carry out "ambitious" economic policy reforms to realize the economy’s midterm potential and reduce its vulnerabilities to a slump in oil prices or acceleration of capital outflows, the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday. "The pre-crisis growth model, based on increasing oil prices and rising use of spare capacity, ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215273481/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:52:43 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215273481/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Russian sailors suspected of trafficking arms, their lawyer said, but another seven will face trial. The 15 Russian sailors were charged with illegally bringing weapons ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215273783/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:50:22 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215273783/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland -- Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking after two days of tense G8 talks on Syria, said on Tuesday he did not feel isolated at the summit despite clashing with leaders on how to resolve Syria's civil ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215273482/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:48:15 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215273482/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Rostec said in a statement Tuesday that it signed a framework agreement during the Le Bourget Paris Air Show with Austrian Diamond Aircraft Industries to manufacture light aircraft in Russia. The Austrian producer signed a two-year contract with Rostec, worth 2.5 billion rubles ($77.9 million), to buy 114 Da40 Tundra planes, localizing their production and larger aircraft in the future. Rostec ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215273799/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:42:19 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215273799/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 The current wave of young job candidates entering the labor market are presenting unique challenges to hiring managers, experts said at a forum dedicated to human resources on Tuesday. Freedom loving, soul searching and socially conscious are some of the hallmarks of young professionals from Generation Y, an age group born in the period from the late 1970s to the mid 1990s. And they are the ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215273800/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:42:18 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215273800/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 MOSCOW (Reuters) - Iran has taken constructive steps toward compromise in the decade-old standoff over its nuclear program and world powers should reciprocate, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in remarks published on ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215273367/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:42:02 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215273367/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Stephen Harper said on Tuesday. "We have a very different outcome and much better outcome than I thought we were going to have," Harper told reporters. Before the summit, Harper had said he feared Putin's support for Syria would make a G8 agreement difficult. "I think this was a very significant move on the part of Mr Putin and the Russians," he said. (Reporting by ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215273486/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:40:41 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215273486/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Alex Brooks started studying Russian because he needed a language class and didn't want to take French. Spanish class was filled, so the Friends School student settled for Russian. "I was willing to take a risk with a new alphabet," said Brooks, a science fiction fan who was raised in Bangladesh. Now, Brooks, who graduated from Friends on June 10, is reaping rewards from ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215273489/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:39:22 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215273489/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Russia and the United States have reached an agreement on the nuclear problem. After lengthy negotiations, the two leaders agreed to cut the military ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215273492/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:27:36 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215273492/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue Jun 18, 2013 11:15am EDT * Could raise up to $200 mln from 25 pct stake - sources * Plans to raise stake in global anthracite market to 17 pct By Megan Davies and Alessandra Prentice MOSCOW, June 18 (Reuters) - Russian niche coal miner Siberian Anthracite plans to list its shares in London and could raise up to $200 million, two market sources said, but it may struggle to attract investors ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215273797/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:15:13 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215273797/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 U.S. President Barack Obama walks with Prime Minister Stephen Harper during the G8 summit at Lough Erne Resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday. (KEVIN ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215271945/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:04:22 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215271945/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 KIEV, June 18 (Itar-Tass) - Ukraine’s membership in the Common Economic Space will help make this association among the most powerful, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday at a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovich. "The positions of the three states - Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia - coincide on both the Customs Union and the Common Economic ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215271942/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:56:23 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215271942/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 MOSCOW, June 18 (Itar-Tass) - Russia’s Federal Migration Service has detected over 3 million migrant workers, who will be banned from entering Russia over the violation of new migration laws. "As of January 1, 2013, a new law banning entry to Russia for those citizens, who exceeded the legal period of stay in the country entered into force," the migration service told Itar-Tass ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215271949/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:56:21 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215271949/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 MOSCOW, June 18 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's Federal Migration Service has barred entry into Russia to more than 100,000 foreigners who have violated migration legislation since the beginning of this year, the FMS press service told Itar-Tass. "As of today, the number of foreigners who were denied entry into the country reached over 100,000," an FMS official said. The law barring entry ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215271624/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:56:20 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215271624/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 RIGA, June 18 (Itar-Tass) - A new ferry boat line will link Russia, Latvia and Germany, a member of the board of Terrabalt company, Aris Ozolins, told Latvia’s Rietumu Radio on Tuesday. Latvia’s LSEZ Terrabalt SIA that services ferry boat lines in the port of Liepaja will launch this ferry boat line together with Alfastar ferry boat operator. The ferry boats will run between ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215271740/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:56:20 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/215271740/scat/70b0e247ff7c0078