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  • 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 ...

  • Russia keen to help India establish 16 more nuke power plants Envoy

    Russia's Ambassador to India Alexander M Kadakin has said that his country is ready to help India establish 16 nuclear power generating stations. Welcoming the Supreme Court of India's green signal to the controversial Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP), Ambassador Kadakin said: "It (apex court verdict) was a good development, and also the cabinet clearance for ministry, and so forth, was ...

  • Ecuadorian satellite escapes collision with Russian rocket

    Ecuador's first satellite avoided a direct collision with the remains of a Russian rocket, but whether the device is still operating remains unclear, the head of the country's EXA space agency told EFE. The US-based Joint Space Operations Center, which had alerted EXA to the possible threat to Pegaso, informed the Ecuadorian agency Thursday that the Russian wreckage did not hit the satellite ...

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Virus

"Virus," directed by FX guru John Bruno, is another in a long line of recent graphic-novels-turned-movies. This one is, however, perpetually ugly--violent in a grisly kind of way and utterly dark. Not dark as in dark-natured or dark-humored (although it is those things as well), but more along the lines of darkly lit. The action sequences in "Virus" are bathed in an incessant gloom that makes it l ... ...

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  • Russia to build new parliament compound

    A new Russian parliamentary centre will be built in central Moscow, that will house both the upper and lower houses as well as their administrative and support services, an official said. The idea of building such a parliamentary compound has been considered for a while. The upper and lower houses, their administrative and support services are currently scattered around Moscow at over 10 ...

  • Sale of Russian weapons to Syria destabilising Kerry

    The sale of S-300 air defence systems by Russia to Syria would be "destabilising" for the region, US Secretary of State John Kerry said. "S-300 missiles coming from Russia, or other countries, Iranian missiles, are destabilising to the region," Kerry said. "The United States is committed, not only in its defence of Israel, but in its concerns for the region to try to address this ...

  • New Russian spacecraft reusable for up to five flights

    Russia's new reusable spacecraft being developed by the Energia Rocket and Space Corporation will be able to make up to five space flights, the rocket maker said. The spacecraft's technical design has been finalised but is yet to be officially approved, Energia deputy general designer Alexander Chernyavsky said. The new reusable craft is to replace the Soyuz carrier rocket and is expected to ...

  • New light rocket Angara ready for launch

    Russia's first light-class modification Angara 1.2PP carrier rocket is ready for its maiden launch, its manufacturer Khrunichev Center said. The first Angara will be sent to the Plesetsk space centre in northern Russia later this month, the manufacturer said in a statement, but did not give a precise launch date. Meanwhile, the first heavy-class Angara-A5 has been completed and will soon be ...

  • On US request Russian arms dealer held in Lithuania

    Lithuanian security services have arrested a Russian national at the request of the US Justice Department, which suspects him of smuggling export-restricted military equipment. Dmitry Ustinov, 46, was detained over a month ago at Vilnius airport in Lithuania, after he arrived from the US to allegedly negotiate a sales deal for night vision equipment used by the US military, the Delfi news ...

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