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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 ...

  • Police arrest 30 at gay pride rally in Moscow

    Russian police arrested at least 30 activists in central Moscow on Saturday at a gay pride rally to mark 20 years since homosexuality was decriminalised.Police officers pounced on the gay campaigners moments after they unfurled banners and rainbow-coloured flags outside the State ...

  • Female Suicide Bomber Attacks Police in Russias Dagestan

    MAKHACHKALA, May 25 (RIA Novosti) – A female suicide bomber in Russia’s turbulent region of Dagestan blew herself up on Saturday killing one and injuring at least 14 others, including police officers, officials said. The attacker, later identified as a 25-year-old widow of two Islamic militants killed by security forces, attempted to target regional police headquarters in the ...

  • Black widow suicide bomber injures 18 in Russian region of Dagestan

    In this Monday, May 20, 2013 image taken from video people run after a blast of a bomb in downtown Dagestani regional capital of Makhachkala, Russia. A female suicide bomber blew herself up in the southern Russian region of Dagestan on May 25, 2013 injuring at least 18, including two children and five police officers, police said. The attacker was later identified as a widow of two Islamic ...

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