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Russian independent media facing testing times

Journalists from small independent radio stations across Russia have been told they must go online and embrace social networking to help them survive. The Yekaterinburg Independent Radio Festival heard that many radio stations...

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Police in Yekaterinburg seize 20 kg of heroin

MOSCOW, October 30 (RIA Novosti) - Police in Russia's Urals city of Yekaterinburg have seized around 20 kg (44 lbs) of heroin from Tajik and Kyrgyz nationals, a police spokesman told RIA Novosti on Friday. "Yekaterinburg police...

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Comstar enters second stage of consolidation

Russian fixed line operator Comstar United TeleSystems has announced that it has commenced the second stage of its structural reorganisation programme. As reported by CommsUpdate on 11 August, the first stage was successfully...

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Chinese, Russian and Indian FMs reach major consensus at meeting in Bangalore

BANGALORE, India, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi Tuesday met with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrovand Indian counterpart S.M. Krishna in the southern Indian city at the 9th meeting of foreign...

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Russia: Jehovah's Witnesses to be banned?

Following more than 500 check-ups on Jehovah's Witness communities across Russia, prosecutors in several regions are going to court to have various of their publications declared extremist. This would see their distribution...

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Theatre Web 2009 festival identity completed

The 6th Theatre Web festival allowed spectators in Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Khabarovsk, Yekaterinburg and Perm to see Moscow and St. Petersburg theatre performances in their cities. The rest of theatre-lovers could traditionally...

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Oct 20. TGK-9 plans to launch a new combined-cycle unit at the...

Oct 20. TGK-9 plans to launch a new combined-cycle unit at the Novo-Sverdlovskaya CHPP in the Sverdlovsk region in 4Q 2013, the Urals Generation division said in a press release of. Total electric capacity of the unit will be...

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Over 10 kg of heroin seized from 3 Tajiks in Russia's Urals

YEKATERINBURG, October 15 (RIA Novosti) - Drug enforcement officers in the Sverdlovsk Region in the Urals have detained three Tajik nationals and seized 13 kg (29 pounds) of heroin, the Federal Drug Control Service said...

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Prime ministers' meeting of SCO member states opens in Beijing

GREATER practical economic and cultural cooperation is the main topic on the agenda of the eighth prime ministers' meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states which opened in Beijing today....

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2009 Taiwan Trade Mission to Russia

The Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) will lead a delegation consisting of 13 Taiwanese companies to visit Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Moscow from 6th - 18th October. The purpose of this visit is to...

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