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  • Kiev court says no to gay rights march Kiev court says no to gay rights march

    A court in Kiev has banned Ukraine's first gay pride event. The court ruled the march, would have attracted anti-gay activists into the centre of the city, where annual Kiev Day celebrations would also have been taking place. A group of opponents led by the Orthodox Church led the objections to the march. The Church, through its Archpriest Georgy Kovalenko, issued the grounds for ...

  • Russia plans four spacecraft launches in 2014

    Russia's Energia Rocket and Space Corporation will make four launches next year from the Pacific Ocean-based Odyssey platform under the Sea Launch programme, an official said. Corporation president Vitaly Lopota said that after 2014, Energia will be able to make five or more launches a year. Next year's launches will be the first since one of Sea Launch's Zenit vehicles carrying an Intelsat-27 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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The Gift [DVD]

The Gift [DVD]

The Gift is a gripping genre concoction stirred together out of equal parts suspense-thriller, horror film, ghost story, and rural small-town melodrama. This Southern Gothic mix was brewed by writers Billy Bob Thorton and Tom Epperson, whose previous work together includes A Family Thing (1995) and One False Move (1991), and brought to a boil by director Sam Raimi, whose skil ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Russia The Day the Inspectors Came

    This is how it is in today's Russia, one year since Vladimir Putin returned to the presidency. Over the last twelve months, the authorities have introduced a sweeping set of restrictive new laws. In addition to raids on nongovernmental groups, they are harassing, intimidating and imprisoning political activists. Government critics and even charities that can in no way be thought of as ...

  • Russias Putin Hails Ties With African Union As It Turns 50

    MOSCOW, May 25 (RIA Novosti) – Russian President Vladimir Putin called for closer cooperation with the African Union on Saturday, marking the organization's 50th anniversary. In his congratulating letter Putin praised the 53-member union’s role in a wide range of international and regional issues, including its peacekeeping efforts and economic development, the Kremlin said. ...

  • Activists arrested during gay pride events in Moscow

    At least 30 people were arrested Saturday during gay pride events in Moscow, police said. Most were detained while attempting to hold a rally at City Hall in the Russian capital, RIA Novosti reported. Officials had denied a permit for an event there. In Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, 50 activists were permitted to rally. Police kept a group of 400 anti-gay demonstrators away. In Moscow, ...

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