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Putin and Medvedev celebrate Christmas separately
Putin and Medvedev celebrate Christmas separately
18:52 07.01.2013 | Politics
On January 7th, millions of Christians celebrate Christmas not only in the Russian Orthodox Church, but also in Serbian, Jerusalem, Georgian churches
United Russia wins parliamentary elections
United Russia wins parliamentary elections
10:17 05.12.2011 | Politics
Russia's Central Election Commission has processed 92 percent of votes as of Monday morning, Dec. 5. United Russia, the ruling party, has gained 49.67 percent of votes
North Caucasus is in Fast Grip of the Russian Rulers
08:42 24.01.2010 | Politics
Russian president and prime minister put things in order in the rebellious region in the country's south.
Putin is Unstopabble on Offensive Weapons System Issue
10:40 29.12.2009 | Politics
Russia  can't give up on development new offensive weapons systems to counter US missile defences and prevent Americans from feeling they can "do whatever they want," Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Tuesday.
Putin Is Firm in his Intentions and Popular as Ever
08:15 03.12.2009 | Politics
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin vowed Thursday that the Russian government will step up the fight against terrorism following a deadly train bombing that killed 26 people last week.
Islamic militant Hamas' landslide victory in Palestinian elections unnerves world
02:57 27.01.2006 | World
Islamic militant Hamas' landslide victory in Palestinian elections unnerved the world, darkening prospects for Mideast peace and ending four decades of rule by the corruption-riddled Fatah Party. The parliamentary victory Thursday stunned even Hamas leaders, who mounted a well-organized campaign but have no experience in government. They offered to...
Japan appeals for world community to bring Hamas into peace process
01:48 27.01.2006 | World
Japan called for the international community to bring Hamas into the Middle East peace process, following the Islamic militant group's sweeping victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections. "We must make efforts so that Hamas will adopt a proactive attitude toward the peace process," Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe told reporters

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Nearly 50 countries helped CIA torture prisoners
Nearly 50 countries helped CIA torture prisoners
USA considers scenario of war with China
USA considers scenario of war with China
Japan declares propaganda war on China, Korea and Russia
Japan declares propaganda war on China, Korea and Russia
Israel shocked with the move of Iran and Argentina
Israel shocked with the move of Iran and Argentina
Pope Benedict XVI understands demands of today s world
Pope Benedict XVI understands demands of today's world
Is Turkey bluffing about joining Shanghai Cooperation Organization?
Is Turkey bluffing about joining Shanghai Cooperation Organization?
Hamas captures majority of parliament seats in Palestinian elections
04:48 26.01.2006 | World
The Islamic militant group Hamas captured a majority of seats in Palestinian legislative elections, officials in Hamas and the ruling Fatah Party said Thursday, a devastating upset that is sure to throw Mideast peacemaking into turmoil. Israel and the United States have said they would not deal with a Hamas-led Palestinian government. Palestinian...
Duma to discuss British espionage allegations
05:10 24.01.2006 | World
Russia's lower house of parliament will take up allegations by the country's main intelligence agency that four British diplomats have been involved in espionage and have funneled funds to non-governmental organizations, news agencies reported Tuesday. Duma speaker Boris Gryzlov was quoted as saying that lawmakers were concerned by the allegations...
African summit to discuss human rights
02:44 23.01.2006 | World
African leaders gathered Monday for a summit fraught with human rights issues in a country the United States accuses of genocide, one day after Sudanese police raided a meeting of civil and human rights groups and briefly detained participants. The meeting location has divided leaders in the 53-member African Union, whose two-day meeting will...
Likud ministers to quit cabinet
10:30 12.01.2006 | Politics
The four Israeli government ministers from the right-wing Likud party have agreed to resign from cabinet on Sunday after a dispute with party leader Benjamin Netanyahu who wanted them to resign on Thursday. But according to Tel Aviv daily Haaretz, close aides of the ministers have criticised Netanyahu in what seemed as an attempt to undermine the...
Presidents of Russia and Ukraine to meet Wednesday
02:12 11.01.2006 | Politics
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko were to meet Wednesday for the first time since an economic divergence that resulted in the near doubling of gas prices for Ukraine and brought ties between their countries to a new low. The two leaders attended President Nursultan Nazarbayev's inauguration on Wednesday...
International assessment team to review Iraqi elections
02:16 30.12.2005 | World
An international team agreed to review Iraq's parliamentary elections, a decision lauded by Sunni Arab and secular Shiite groups who have staged repeated protests around Iraq complaining of widespread fraud and intimidation. Meanwhile, gunmen killed 12 members of an extended Shiite family near Latifiyah, a Sunni Arab-dominated town about 20 miles...
Mexican Congress calls on to condemn proposed U.S. border wall
02:48 27.12.2005 | World
The president of Mexico's lower house of Congress is asking legislatures throughout Latin America to condemn a U.S. proposal to extend walls along the Mexican border and tighten border enforcement, in a letter send Monday. Congressman Heliodoro Diaz called on other congresses to join what he called "an act of unity among Ibero-American legislatures...
Support rises slightly for Japan’s Junichiro Koizumi's Cabinet
02:06 27.12.2005 | World
Support rose slightly for Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Cabinet with the public thinking highly of his reforms, according to newspaper poll results released Tuesday. The Cabinet's approval rating stood at 59 percent, up 3 points from a similar survey in November, a poll report by the business newspaper Nihon Keizai showed

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Likud gains weight ahead of Israel election
11:47 21.12.2005 | Politics
Israel's right-wing Likud party has strengthened slightly since the election of Benjamin Netanyahu as its new leader to campaign in national polls in March, an opinion poll showed on Wednesday. That means the party was starting to bounce back after being left in tatters by the departure of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
Outgoing Kwasniewski knows what Russia deserves
10:41 20.12.2005 | Politics
Outgoing president Aleksander Kwasniewski has warned the ruling party in Poland against a tough stand towards Russia. President Kwasniewski considers that Poland’s future head of state should place Polish Russian reconciliation as one of top priority goals in Poland’s foreign policy
Koizumi criticizes Beijing-Seoul stance
09:57 14.12.2005 | Politics
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has criticized Chinese and South Korean leaders for refusing to hold meetings with him during the ASEAN summit. Koizumi said that he was ready to meet "anytime" with his Chinese and South Korean counterparts, but added, "I don't know what China and South Korea think about that"
Germany calls Iranian president’s behaviour "shocking and unacceptable"
07:48 14.12.2005 | Politics
Germany's foreign minister described as "shocking and unacceptable" Wednesday the Iranian president's description of the Holocaust as a "myth," warning that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's comments weighed on relations and talks over Iran's nuclear program. Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said his government had summoned the charge d'affaires at the...
Sino-Thai cooperation improves
11:58 12.12.2005 | Politics
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao met here Monday with his Thai counterpart Thaksin Shinawatra on bilateral ties and regional cooperation. During the meeting, Wen said that with the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Thailand falling this year, the political ties between the two countries are developing very...
Car bomb kills anti-Syrian member of parliament and Lebanese newspaper magnate
04:48 12.12.2005 | World
A car bomb explosion killed Gebran Tueni, a staunchly anti-Syrian member of parliament and Lebanese newspaper magnate, in Beirut on Monday, police said.Three other people died and 10 were wounded in the blast that blew up Tueni's armoured sports utility vehicle as it was driving in the Mekalis area of mainly Christian east Beirut
U.S. beef returns to Japan
11:24 08.12.2005 | Politics
Japan's food commission Thursday declared American beef safe, paving the way for the government to ease a two-year ban and resolve a bitter trade dispute with its top ally. The Food Safety Commission agreed unanimously to send its conclusions to the Health and Agriculture ministries, which will make a final recommendation to the government
U.S. conquers Romania's bases
10:46 07.12.2005 | Politics
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Romanian counterpart have signed a historic pact establishing the first American military bases in a former Warsaw Pact country. The U.S. takeover of bases near the Black Sea - putting U.S. forces within closer striking distance of potential targets in the Middle East and Central Asia - would help...
Egypt choose between autocracy and Islamism
10:31 07.12.2005 | Politics
Voting began in Egypt Wednesday in 127 districts, the final day of a monthlong poll where a banned Islamic party has already become the official opposition. President Hosni Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party has maintained its two-thirds majority in the 454-seat parliament, while the banned Muslim Brotherhood has won 76 seats
Dariga Nazarbayeva might seek to take over from her father
06:41 06.12.2005 | World
The daughter of President Nursultan Nazarbayev signaled Tuesday that she might seek to take over her father's office in the next elections. Dariga Nazarbayeva's statement followed the long-ruling Nazarbayev's landslide re-election to a seven-year term in a Sunday's vote that Western observers said was flawed
Moscow: vote in city council election seen as bellwether of Putin's political changes
07:54 04.12.2005 | Politics
Muscovites voted for the Russian capital's city council Sunday in a ballot seen in part as a bellwether for parliamentary elections due in 2007 following sweeping political changes pushed by President Vladimir Putin.
Russia: Indian prime minister traveling to Moscow
05:00 04.12.2005 | Politics
India's prime minister was traveling to Moscow Sunday for talks with President Vladimir Putin and other Russian officials on energy and security cooperation and increasing purchases of Russian military hardware.
Moscow: polls in City Council election
03:36 04.12.2005 | Politics
Muscovites went to the polls Sunday to choose members of the Russian capital's city council, in a vote seen in part as a bellwether of political changes under President Vladimir Putin.
Russia: Sergey Lavrov, foreign minister, praises plan to enrich Iranian nuclear fuel in Russia
14:46 03.12.2005 | Politics
Russia's foreign minister on Saturday praised a plan to enrich Iranian nuclear fuel in Russia as a way to defuse the crisis surrounding Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program.
U.S. checking reports of Iran-Russian missile deal
14:25 02.12.2005 | Politics
The United States said Friday it was looking into reports that Russia and Iran had signed an agreement for Russia to provide Tor M-1 air defense systems to Iran.
Japan's defense chief to visit Iraq
10:58 02.12.2005 | World
Japan's defense chief left his country Friday on a trip to visit Japanese troops in Iraq, news reports said, amid rising expectations that Tokyo would extend its mission into next year. Citing unidentified government sources, Kyodo News agency said Nukaga will inspect the 600 troops Japan has dispatched to the southern Iraqi city of Samawah on a...
Abortion becomes major issue in Italian election
10:43 02.12.2005 | World
An increasingly influential Catholic Church has turned abortion into an election issue again in Italy, more than two decades after it was legalized following a fierce battle that pitted the Vatican against lay forces. The procedure was legalized in 1978, and Italians voted to uphold the law three years later in a Vatican-backed referendum that...
Blair hopes to change EU budget
08:15 02.12.2005 | World
British Prime Minister Tony Blair's hopes of reducing the amount of EU aid to Eastern European nations met with firm resistance Friday, prompting a blunt warning from him that time is running out for the bloc to reach a deal on a 2007-2013 budget. "If there is no agreement now ... I think it's unlikely we will get an agreement under the next two...
Koizumi remains deaf
10:45 01.12.2005 | Politics
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi promises he will not heed criticism from China and South Korea over his visits to the Yasukuni Shrine. He also criticized Beijing and Seoul for using the shrine visits as diplomatic leverage against Japan
Peres to join Sharon government
10:26 29.11.2005 | Politics
Shimon Peres has decided to leave the Labour party and join Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's next government. Earlier Tuesday, a Labour lawmaker, Dalia Itzik, announced she is joining Sharon's new party. Itzik is close to Peres, and a senior Labour official said her departure signalled that her mentor Peres would do the same
Ireland helps Croatia to join to EU
10:06 29.11.2005 | World
Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern on Tuesday pledged to help Croatia in its drive for membership in the European Union with the kind of know-how that elevated Ireland among the wealthiest countries in Europe. Croatia was given the green light to start accession negotiations with the EU on Oct. 3 after lengthy delays due to its patchy record of...
- 28 November, 2005
11:58 28.11.2005 | Politics
Canada's fragile minority Liberal government, which has never managed to shake off the effects of a patronage scandal, is set to be defeated in a parliamentary vote on Monday after 17 months in power. The opposition says the scandal - one of the main driving forces in Canadian politics - means Prime Minister Paul Martin must quit immediately
Merkel to lead her own way
10:47 28.11.2005 | Politics
Angela Merkel made few waves in her first week as German chancellor, sticking to her script as she darted to Paris, Brussels and London. But as she prepares to lay out her government's priorities in her first major speech to parliament on Wednesday, signs are already emerging that she will run Germany very differently from her predecessor Gerhard...
Former Kyrgyzstan prime minister lose Parliament by-elections
07:59 28.11.2005 | World
A former foreign minister who spearheaded a popular uprising that brought the opposition to power in Kyrgyzstan, as well as the prime minister of the ousted government, have both lost a race for a vacant seat in Parliament, officials said Monday. According to preliminary results from Sunday's election, the seat was won with 52 percent of the votes...
Sri Lankan government to continue peace process with Tamil Tiger rebels
05:28 28.11.2005 | World
The Sri Lankan government said Monday it is committed to a lasting peace with Tamil Tiger rebels and is taking steps to resume the stalled talks. "The government wants to make it clear that we are in favor of starting the process as soon as possible," government spokesman and media minister, Anura Priyadarshana Yapa, told reporters
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The American Police
The American Police
Russia Threatens the West
Russia Threatens the West
True motives behind Obama s gun control stance
True motives behind Obama's gun 'control' stance
The global crisis and the appropriation of wealth
The global crisis and the appropriation of wealth
The rise of Bolshevik America?
The rise of Bolshevik America?
American education system: Critical infrastructure, ignorant adults
American education system: Critical infrastructure, ignorant adults

Science

Smart helmets and super-protective uniforms for soldiers of future
Smart helmets and super-protective uniforms for soldiers of future
Mysteries of stone circles in Russia s Bashkiria
Mysteries of stone circles in Russia's Bashkiria
Scientists seek woman to give birth to Neanderthal child
Scientists seek woman to give birth to Neanderthal child
Most mysterious seas on the planet
Most mysterious seas on the planet
New mysteries of red supergiant Betelgeuse
New mysteries of red supergiant Betelgeuse
Investigation reveals that Neanderthals died out earlier than thought
Investigation reveals that Neanderthals died out earlier than thought

Incidents

U.S. hawks worry over military inferiority
U.S. hawks worry over military inferiority
Air passengers go bananas over duty free alcohol
Air passengers go bananas over duty free alcohol
Man commits suicide in public by stabbing himself 5 times in the heart
Man commits suicide in public by stabbing himself 5 times in the heart
Syria: brave nation of survivors
Syria: brave nation of survivors
Judge falls asleep during trial in Russia
Judge falls asleep during trial in Russia
Israel, Iran and Turkey use Syria as whipping boy
Israel, Iran and Turkey use Syria as whipping boy

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