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  • Whose cat is beautiful Chechen leader vs TV celebrity

    Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov entered into a bizarre public row with a Russian socialite over whose cat was the "most beautiful". "Dear friends! Me and Tina Kandelaki are having an argument over whose cat is more beautiful. I think it's mine. What do you think?" Kadyrov tweeted. Kadyrov also posted a photo of his white cat, Zazulya, on Instagram. "Tina Kandelaki is a friend, but the truth is ...

  • Foreign defence officials visit Russian military base

    Members of foreign delegations attending an international conference on European security visited a military base near Moscow that has a motorized infantry division. Defence officials and military experts from Armenia, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, the US and Zimbabwe were shown a training centre, a shooting range and the barracks at the Taman ...

  • Liquor production in Russia drops 23 percent

    Production of vodka and other spirits in Russia dropped 23.3 percent in the first four months of 2013 year-on-year to 5.7 million decaliters, a report said. The Federal Statistics Service (or Rosstat) said in a report that beer production declined 10.7 percent compared to the same period last year, to 78.2 million decaliters. Production of wine rose 19.1 percent in the reporting period to 3.5 ...

  • North Koreas bid to return to n-talks welcomed by Moscow

    Russia regards as a "positive development" reports that North Korea is willing to return to six-party talks on the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula, a Russian diplomat said. China's Xinhua news agency and South Korea's Yonhap reported Friday that Choe Ryong Hae, a special envoy for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, met Chinese President Xi Jinping and reaffirmed that Pyongyang "is ready ...

  • Russian social network blacklisted by mistake

    Vkontakte, Russia's biggest social networking website, was put on a state registry of blacklisted websites by mistake Friday, an official said. "This was a mistake. Our employee put a tick in the wrong place," said Vladimir Pikov, spokesman for Russia's telecom watchdog Roskomnadzor. "We will remove VKontakte from the registry and it should be accessible for everyone." Some 40 million people ...

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The Ringer

The Ringer

It sounds like the worst bad-joke movie ever -- a guy pretends to be mentally challenged in order to fix the Special Olympics -- but The Ringer is actually a surprisingly sweet comedy that draws its laughs not from its characters handicaps, but from a consistent upending of stereotypes ... ...

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  • Siberian polar bear to undertake mating trip

    A male polar bear in Russia's Siberia region is to be transferred from one zoo to another in a bid to produce offspring, a zoo official said. The polar bear -- Sedov -- has been resident at the Krasnoyarsk zoo since 2004. He was transferred from a zoo in St. Petersburg when he was just two years old. The polar bear is to be sent to mate at the request of a zoo in Stary Oskol, in the nearby ...

  • Putin Obama to meet in June September

    President Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama will meet at the G8 summit in June and during the US president's visit to Russia in September, a Kremlin aide said Friday. "The first meeting will be in Lough Erne (Northern Ireland) on the sidelines of the G8 Summit and then (during) Obama's visit [to Russia] in September, early September," Putin aide Yury Ushakov said. Obama's visit will take place ...

  • Ecuadorian footballer feels it is best to ignore racism in Russia

    Lokomotiv Moscow forward Felipe Caicedo has said that he tries to block out racist chants at Russian football stadiums. "I try not to notice these things, not to react in any way," the 24-year-old Ecuadorian told R-Sport Thursday. "It's not easy because you are agitated during the game and the smallest thing can throw you off the balance, but I try so it doesn't bug me." Caicedo is completing ...

  • Russia rejects Paul McCartneys plea to free jailed Pussy Riot band

    Russia has rejected Beatles legend, Sir Paul McCartney's plea to free jailed female punk band Pussy Riot. McCartney, 70, had asked for Maria Alyokhina, 24, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 23, to be given parole. They are serving two years for a protest show at a cathedral labelled "religious hatred and hooliganism", reports the Daily Star. Last night Maria went on hunger strike after she was ...

  • Big undersea quake off Russia

    An 8.2-magnitude earthquake under the Sea of Okhotsk was recorded early Friday, the US Geological Survey said. The temblor was at a depth of 601.80 km, reported Xinhua. The epicentre was located nearly 360 km southwest of Esso, a town in Russia's Kamchatka Krai region. The West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center of the US said in a statement that no tsunami is expected due to the depth ...

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