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  • More Russian Oil Flows to China in Shift From Europe

    MOSCOW Russia is steeply ramping up oil deliveries to China, with Asia now importing almost a fifth of oil exports from the world's largest crude producer in a strategic shift meant by the Kremlin to end reliance on weak and saturated European markets. Russia will increase oil supplies to China by 13 percent in July-September from the previous three months, a shipping schedule obtained ...

  • Russian multimillionaire wants humans to become immortal by 2045

    A Russian tycoon said that he is interested in developing a technology that will allow humans to outlive their bodies. 32-year-old Dmitry Itskov has an aggressive timetable in which he would like to see his milestones toward his goal met. He visions that by 2020 robots that can be controlled remotely with our brains will be built. By 2025, he wants robot prosthesis that could replace an ...

  • Putin Obama agree to push for Syria talks in Geneva

    Beijing, June 18 (Xinhua-ANI): Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday held here face-to-face talks on Syria on the sidelines of the G8 summit in Lough Erne, Britain. At a press conference after their two-hour talks, the two leaders admitted they had big differences on Syria, but they agreed to push for a summit in Geneva, Switzerland. "Our positions do not ...

  • 6000 Evacuated in Russian Ammunition Depot Fire

    At least five people have been injured and some 6,000 local residents have been evacuated from a village near an ammunition depot in central Russia where a fire caused massive explosions of stored artillery shells, according to officials. The fire at the Volga Federal Ammunition Testing Site in the Samara region broke out late Tuesday, followed by a series of explosions that continue to rock ...

  • Russia considers falsification of history unacceptable - Lavrov

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Escape From the Planet of the Apes [DVD]

(Warning: As it is difficult to discuss adequately the Planet of the Apes series without giving away some important plot information and potential surprises (especially in the first film), the following article contain numerous spoilers. If you have not yet seen the films, proceed at your own risk.) ...

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  • United Russia party urges probe into US secret services’ access to Russians’ private info

    MOSCOW, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Deputy secretary of the United Russia party’s General Council, Sergei Zheleznyak has urged a probe into the reported instances of US secret service’ access to Russian citizens’ private information. "We should not let the affair be played down. There should be thorough investigation of all instances of US companies and secret services getting ...

  • Eleven Russian seafarers rescued in Arabian Sea after wreckage

    NEW DELHI, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Eleven Russian seafarers were rescued from the MOL Comfort container ship that wrecked in the Arabian Sea, the Sri Lankan authorities said on Wednesday. They will be delivered to Colombo on Friday. After this a decision on restoring seafarers’ documents and their return to Russia will be taken. The Mol Comfort flying the flag of the Bahamas broke into two ...

  • Putin gives instructions to help injured in shell explosions consider material aid

    MOSCOW, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conference on Monday, listening to reports by the Samara region governor, the emergencies minister, the defense minister and the healthcare minister on the situation around the city of Chapayevsk, where shells exploded at a testing range, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. According to him, "the ...

  • Russia’s largest diamond miner Alrosa will not be privatized

    MOSCOW, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Russia’s largest diamond miner Alrosa will be excluded from the list of organizations subjected to privatization, Yakutia President Yegor Borisov told a news conference on Wednesday. According to Borisov’s website, the Russian government is drafting a relevant decree. The meeting of the government that will consider exclusion from the list of subject ...

  • Obama Putin on a New START duo agrees to reduce nuclear weapons

    A reduction in U.S. and Russian deployed nuclear weapons is set to be announced by President Barack Obama on Tuesday, a senior administration official said. The move aims to cut the weapons by up to one third below the level achieved in the last "New START" treaty with Russia. (Al Bawaba file photo) A reduction in U.S. and Russian deployed nuclear weapons is set to be announced by ...

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