Putin reportedly moving to shut down independent pollster
Source: Telegram & Gazette
Moscow :: Russia | updated 2013-05-20 18:18:32 -0700 | political-news
The Levada Center, a Russian independent pollster, may be forced to close after prosecutors said it may be violating President Vladimir Putin's law on foreign agents, said Lev Gudkov, head of the researcher. The center received a warning from prosecutors...
Student arrested for posing by Russian World War Two memorial with an inflatable sex doll
Source: Mail Online UK
Stavropol :: Russia | updated 2013-05-20 10:02:40 -0700 | disasters-news
Anastasia Polnikova, 23, was charged with hooliganism after she and three friends took the inflatable sex aid to the memorial near the Federal University in Stavropol, Russia. Russian flag, the drunk students borrowed the doll from a friend and walked...
Russia wants Interpol to impose 'All Points Bulletin' on British hedge fund boss Bill Browder
Source: The independent
Moscow :: Russia | updated 2013-05-20 09:59:04 -0700 | sports-news
Russia has applied to Interpol to monitor the travel and whereabouts of a British hedge fund boss wanted by Moscow who is at the heart of a diplomatic stand-off over the alleged killing of whistle-blowing lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. The international...
2 dead, 20 injured after explosions in Dagestan
Source: Fox
Moscow :: Russia | updated 2013-05-20 09:09:26 -0700 | travel-news
Russia Two people are dead and at least 20 are injured after two car bombs exploded Monday in Dagestan, in Russia's North Caucasus region, where armed militias are leading an Islamist insurgency. Both blasts were near the headquarters of the...
Video Premiere: Anton Zap "Water"
Source: XLR8R
Moscow :: Russia | updated 2013-05-20 09:04:00 -0700 | entertainment-news
Directed by Ernest Yakovlev, the black-and-white video parallels the peaceful and hypnotizing nature of the recording, as kaleidoscope-inspired shapes expand and compress to the tune's rhythms. Zap's seven-track Water LP will drop on June 18th via R&S sub-label Apollo ....
Farce at Alexander Lebedev trial as five witnesses fail to turn up i¿½ and another says he was ...
Source: Mail Online UK
Moscow :: Russia | updated 2013-05-20 13:24:46 -0700 | political-news
20 May 2013 The trial of media magnate Alexander Lebedev got off to a farcical start in Moscow today when at least five prosecution witnesses refused to give evidence against him...Mr Ledebev, 53, a former KGB spy in London, owns...
Russian Dash Cam Catches Car Flipping 15 Feet In The Air
Source: BusinessInsider
Bryansk :: Russia | updated 2013-05-20 08:18:44 -0700 | business-news
The latest clip, dated May 13, shows a car careening off the road, hitting an embankment and flipping about 15 feet in the air. It happens near the city of Bryansk by the Belorussian border, according to the clip's title...It...
The incompetent many or the corrupt few?
Source: Open Democracy
Ryazan :: Russia | updated 2013-05-20 08:08:33 -0700 | political-news
Recent protest rallies and continuing opposition sentiment have provoked the Kremlin into reform. The first part of the process sees the partial return of regional governor elections, abandoned nine years ago in favour of appointment by the president.
Several killed by car bombs in Dagestan
Source: Al Jazeera English
Makhachkala :: Russia | updated 2013-05-20 15:04:38 -0700 | travel-news
47 At least three people have been killed after two car bombs exploded in Russia's Dagestan province, investigators have said. Monday's incident also injured 10 people, making it one of the deadliest attacks this year in the violence-plagued region.
Stress Test May Help Predict Increased Mortality Risk in Sleep Apnea Patients
Source: Newswise
Osa :: Russia | updated 2013-05-20 07:43:43 -0700 | health-news
Now, a study from researchers at the Cleveland Clinic shows that OSA patients who also have poor functional capacity have an even greater risk of mortality and suggests that an assessment of functional capacity in this population can help physicians...
James Bond's Breitling geiger counter wristwatch from Thunderball to be sold for i¿½60,000 after it ...
Source: Mail Online UK
Moscow :: Russia | updated 2013-05-20 07:00:33 -0700 | entertainment-news
Thunderball was the only time a Breitling made an appearance in the films, while Hamilton and TAG Haeur made one-off appearances in Live and Let Die and The Living Daylights respectively...In 1962's Dr No, producer Cubby Broccoli had to lend...
Stephen Colbert Addresses UVA Class of 2013: 'So Self-Obsessed'
Source: Gawker
Uva :: Russia | updated 2013-05-20 06:57:20 -0700 | entertainment-news
Colbert told 12,000 graduates during his keynote address at Saturday's valedictory exercises. "And that's very upsetting to us baby boomers because self-absorption is kind of our thing." But boomers have bequeathed to millennials at least one useful thing: A world...
Natasha, Imelda and the Great Immersion of 2013
Source: Time-Arts Entertainment
Moscow :: Russia | updated 2013-05-20 06:25:53 -0700 | entertainment-news
The waiters were serving borscht and blinis while we sat at our tables in the faux-Russian supper club, waiting for the show to start the other night. A sociable young women in 19 th- century period dress stopped by to...
Reader essay: An Encounter with Greatness
Source: The Bellingham Herald
Moscow :: Russia | updated 2013-05-20 06:02:16 -0700 | entertainment-news
The Community Concert Series was held in the auditorium on Western Washington University's campus some 30 miles away from where we were living at the time, and on Thursday evening Van Cliburn would be playing the Steinway. My husband, Frank,...
Russia targets pollster for 'political activity'
Source: Boston.com
Moscow :: Russia | updated 2013-05-20 12:39:20 -0700 | political-news
Russia's only independent polling agency says it may have to close after prosecutors targeted it for political activity.' Levada Center on Monday published a letter from prosecutors who said its polls and publications are aimed at shaping public opinion on...
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