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Beauty & the Beast? “Ethnic” Pageant Winner Enrages Russian Nationalists
Mezhdurechensk :: Russia | 3 months ago
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Eighteen year-old Elmira Abdrazakova likely did not anticipate winning the Miss Russia pageant last Saturday, March 2, 2013. If she had, she would likely have made her profile on the Russian social network VKontakte private beforehand...Having grown
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PRA buys ClinStar for undisclosed sum
Moscow :: Russia | 3 months ago
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ClinStar provides Phase I-IV clinical research trials and clinical development services to a wide range of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic States. The acquisition also includes
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Governors who fail to stem race attacks could be sacked
Moscow :: Russia | 3 months ago
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The bill adds to the duties of the heads of both legislative and executive branches of power and makes them responsible for the prevention of discrimination on the basis of race, religion or language, and also for social and cultural adaptation of
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Cossack cadets fill a gap in Russia's sense of security and patriotism
Volgograd :: Russia | 3 months ago
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Matytsin Valery/Tass/Corbis A motley battalion is trooping the colours in the snowy yard at the Cossack military school near Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad), nearly 1,000km south-east of Moscow. Aged seven to 17, the cadets, wearing camouflage
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Pakistan blocking FMCT negotiations, alleges US
Geneva :: WA :: USA | 3 months ago
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United States and for the vast majority of states, and we have been working to initiate such negotiations at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva," said Rose Gottemoeller, the Acting Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International
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Russian party wants fines on use of foreign words
Moscow :: Russia | 3 months ago
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American and British "loan-words" that have Russian equivalents. The State Duma press service said the bill seeks to amend the Law on the State Language of the Russian Federation and the Code of Administrative Offenses. American and British words,
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Russia spells out arctic strategy
Upi :: Philippines | 3 months ago
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Russia announced a development agenda for its arctic territories that embraces energy development under the premise of national security interests. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed off on the 10-page "Strategy of the Russian Arctic Zone
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Red Russia Goes Black
New York City :: NY :: USA | 3 months ago
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States at the height of the Cold War, the last thing I thought I would be attending is a showcase of up-and-coming Russian designers at the Consulate General of the Russian Federation. Yet there I was, awed by the resplendent setting of the consulate,
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"Traditonal Values" vs Human Rights at the UN
Geneva :: NY :: USA | 3 months ago
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A dangerous process is taking place in the UN system that threatens the universality of human rights by seeking to make them contingent on subjective traditional values' such as responsible behaviour'...For decades, lawyers have chiselled away at
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South Jordan family adopts Russian girl with Down Syndrome
Moscow :: ID :: USA | 3 months ago
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The moment marked the end of a long and laborious process that began in December 2011, when Jeana and her husband, Wayne, decided to adopt a special needs child from Russia. The couple already had two biological children Kaelyn, 3, who has Down
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