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  • Obama to propose further U.S. Russain nuclear arms cut

    Berlin, June 19 (Xinhua-ANI): Visiting U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday will propose plans for the United States and Russia to further cut strategic nuclear warheads during his high-profile speech at the landmark Brandenburg Gate, a senior U.S. official said. During his first visit to Berlin as U.S. president, Obama will propose reducing atomic weapons by a third below the 1,550 agreed ...

  • 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 ...

  • Baltic states top Russians’ list of hostile countries

    . The NGO conducted a survey which polled 1,600 people in 130 population centres around Russia, asking the residents to name the five countries that are the ...

  • Russia to take measures to preserve global strategic deterrence system

    ST. PETERSBURG, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Russia will take measures to preserve the global strategic deterrence system in balance, President Vladimir Putin said. "We cannot allow the strategic deterrence system to be upset or the effectiveness of our nuclear forces to be decreased," he said at a meeting on the aerospace defence system, held on Wednesday, June 19. "The creation of ...

  • ONF and United Russia nominate common candidate for regional governor post

    VIDNOYE, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - The All Russia People's Front (ONF) and the United Russia party have nominated Acting governor of the Moscow region Andrei Vorobyov a candidate for the post of the Governor of the Moscow ...

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Son of Rambow [DVD]

Son of Rambow [DVD]

At least when compared with books, movies have often been disparaged as a waste of time for kids because they dont encourage the imagination. The argument goes something like this: Because reading requires that you produce your own images to bring the words to life, they are more intel ... ...

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  • Russian Japanese diplomats to meet in Moscow ahead of Lavrov’s visit to Tokyo

    MOSCOW, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Russian and Japanese diplomats will hold consultations in Moscow in August ahead of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s visit to Tokyo, presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said on Wednesday, June 19. He recalled that the agreement on Lavrov’s visit to Japan was reached between President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Lough Erne on ...

  • Putin urges military industry to coordinate work on aerospace defence

    ST. PETERSBURG, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - President Vladimir Putin urged the Defence Ministry and defence enterprises to coordinate their work to create an aerospace defence system. "The creation of such a system requires careful preparation, effective organisation and thorough analysis of threats and offensive arms development plans and, of course, close coordination with other armed ...

  • Putin Dutch premier to discuss bilateral relations within SPIEF

    MOSCOW, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte in St Petersburg on June 20 for talks on bilateral cooperation, the Kremlin press service reported on Wednesday. The Dutch prime minister will stay in St Petersburg as an honourable guest of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum. "During the talks, Putin and Rutte are ...

  • Baltic Shipyard to launch first Russian Mistral in time

    MOSCOW, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - The United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) said the Baltic Shipyard (St Petersburg) would launch the first Russian Mistral helicopter carrier in time. Thus, the Corporation has denied the statement by Russian Deputy Defence Minister Yuri Borisov saying the first Mistral helicopter carrier would be built in France due to Russian shipwrights’ sluggishness. ...

  • Statement by Russian US French presidents on Karabakh conforms to Azerbaijan’s position

    BAKU, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - The statement on the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement made by the co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group conforms to Azerbaijan’s position, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman Elman Abdullayev said on Wednesday. Commenting on the G-8 summiteers’ statement on the Karabakh settlement, Abdullayev said, "Azerbaijan reiterated that it opposes the status quo, ...

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