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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Yuri Gagarin movie attracts criticism

    Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev embraces cosmonauts Gherman Titov and Yuri Gagarin after Titov became the second man to orbit our planet. He spent 25 hours in space, becoming the first person to sleep in orbit. Just 25 years old at the time, he remains the youngest person ever to go into ...

  • Russia Probes Blasts at Depot Storing ‘Millions’ of Shells

    June 19, 2013 Russian investigators have launched a probe into multiple explosions that have rocked an ammunition depot in central Russia believed to be storing millions of shells. The fire at the ammunition testing site near the city of Chapaevsk, in Russia's Samara Region, broke out late Tuesday, followed by a series of explosions that have ripped through the area, sending shrapnel ...

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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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  • Obama Putin at G8 summit differ sharply over Syria

    ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland - President Barack Obama differed sharply with Russia's leader over the Syrian civil war in an icy encounter Monday illustrating how difficult it may be to drive Syrian President Bashar Assad from power, even after some rebel groups begin to receive U.S. weaponry. Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin held their first face-to-face meeting in a year at ...

  • Russia maintains time for launching last chemical disposal facility in Udmurtia

    KIZNER, Udmurtia, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Russia maintains the time for launching the Kizner chemical disposal facility in Udmurtia, officials in the group for the work with the Kizner public told Itar-Tass on Wednesday. All milestone dates are maintained, the official said. "The construction and assembly works are being done under schedule. The commissioning will be started in September. In ...

  • Russian foreign companies to sign important agreements within SPIEF

    MOSCOW, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Russian and foreign companies will sign several important agreements during the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) due to open in the Northern Capital on June 20, the SPIEF website reports on Wednesday. Ust-Luga Company and the ICT Group will sign an agreement on cooperation within carrying out a project to create an industrial zone on the area ...

  • Russian Deputy Foreign Minister reiterates his countrys support to the ongoing reform process initiated by HM the King

    Moscow: June 19-- (BNA)-- The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister cum Special Envoy of the President of the Russian Federation for Middle East Affairs, Mr. Mikhail Bagdanov, accentuated that bilateral relations between the Kingdom of Bahrain and the Russian Federation are solid at the level of leaderships and executive authority, stressing that Russian welcomes Bahraini delegations and any efforts ...

  • Price of cigarettes in Russia to jump 50 next year

    USA The Russian Ministry of Finance plans to raise tax on tobacco by 50% to bring it closer to European levels. The World Health Organization has suggested Russia needs a seven-fold increase by 2020. The draft legislation is to be presented to the government on June 20, Izvestia daily reports. Excise duty on filter cigarettes will be raised to 820 roubles ($25) per thousand cigarettes ...

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