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  • Cheruiyot to miss World championships for pregnancy

    Kenya's Vivian Cheruiyot will not be able to defend her 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres titles at this year's Moscow World championships as she is expecting her first child. The runner said in a statement Wednesday that she felt it was "the right time to start a family" at the age of 29, reports Xinhua. Cheruiyot plans to return for the 2014 season and compete in the 2015 World championships in ...

  • Russian rocket wreckage threatens Ecuador satellite

    The Ecuadorian Civil Space Agency issued an alert Wednesday about a possible collision of its Pegaso satellite, launched last month, with the wreckage of a Russian rocket. "ALERT: Possible collision of NEE-01 PEGASO and remains of Russian rocket," appeared Wednesday on the Twitter account of the space agency known as EXA. EXA's director, astronaut Ronnie Nader, published a notice from the ...

  • Over 10 new oil fields found in Siberia

    Space imaging studies have revealed over 10 new oil deposits in Krasnoyarsk territory in Siberia, a scientist said. "The method of space imaging quantum-optical filtration allows us to identify the boundaries of deposits," said Valery Rostovtsev, associate professor of Tomsk Polytechnic University's geology and prospecting department. "We can see four deposits near Bely Yar in the Tomsk ...

  • Hollywood star Steven Seagal visits Chechnya

    Hollywood star Steven Seagal spent some time with Ramzan Kadyrov, the former militant fighter who now heads Chechnya, in the latest in a series of visits by Western celebrities to the volatile Russian republic. "The famous American actor, film producer, writer, director and martial arts expert (seventh dan aikido) Steven Seagal visited our republic today (Wednesday)," Kadyrov wrote on ...

  • Farmer chains employee scalds him with boiling water

    A farmer in south Russia allegedly chained up an employee and scalded him with boiling water, police said. The alleged victim in Krasnodar territory told investigators that he had worked for the farmer for a certain period of time, but when he decided to leave, unsatisfied with his working conditions, his former employer caught him. "The victim says the farmer hunted him down and put him on a ...

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Ghost World [DVD]

Ghost World [DVD]

Ghost World is an often funny, often painful portrait of the abyss that is postadolescence. In the void between high school graduation and full adulthood, we find Enid (Thora Birch) and her best friend Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson), bound together by their mutual misanthropy and desire not to go with the crowd, but still struggling to define themselves in a bland, commercialized world that ... ...

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  • Council of Europe Concerned About Russias Human-Rights Record

    MOSCOW Thorbjorn Jagland, secretary general of the Council of Europe, has told President Vladimir Putin that the human rights body is concerned about Russia's law requiring non-governmental organizations to register as foreign agents. Jagland said Europe will watch how the Kremlin implements the law that went in effect last November, a measure requiring non-governmental organizations ...

  • Irans n-power plant to be launched shortly Russian agency

    Iran's first nuclear power plant in Bushehr could start working "shortly", Xinhua reported Wednesday, quoting Russia's state atomic energy agency Rosatom. "I have never announced the exact timing because our absolute priority is safety and the final decision will be made by the customer," Rosatom chief Sergei Kirienko told reporters. He added that Rosatom completely understands Iran's concerns ...

  • FMS plans to limit inflow of migrants from CIS countries to Russia

    According to the Federal Migration Service’s data, one of every five crimes in Moscow is committed by non-residents. It became known at the FMS board meeting on Wednesday that Russia intends to tighten up the immigration laws. A proposal was presented to oblige CIS citizens to receive an invitation to arrive in the Russian Federation. Experts believe it will not complicate life of illegal ...

  • Russian commando killed in shootout with gunmen in Dagestan

    MAKHACHKALA, May 23 (Itar-Tass) - A law enforcer was killed in a shootout with gunmen in the Karabudakhkent district of Dagestan near the settlement Gubden on Thursday morning. "A commando of the task force Vityaz has got a lethal wound," a spokesman of the republican investigation department of the Russian Investigative Committee told Itar-Tass. The special operation near Gubden was ...

  • Bolotnoye Case Sent to Court

    Prosecutors have sent to court a criminal case against 12 opposition activists allegedly involved in clashes with police at an opposition rally on Bolotnaya Ploshchad last May. "A list of charges in the so-called 'Bolotnoye case' against 12 people has been approved," the Prosecutor General's Office said in a statement late Wednesday. According to investigators, the 12 ...

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