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SOCHI, May 19 (Prime) – The Russian supervision might cut a state’s holding in Rosneft, a nation’s largest oil company, to 51 percent, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev pronounced on Sunday. “The doubt is, what distance interest in Rosneft do we need? We can go down to 51 percent,” he said. The state can revoke a [...]

BRUSSELS, May 19 (RIA Novosti) – The European Union appealed to Russia on Sunday not to deliver a law banning supposed “gay propaganda,” a EU said. Russia’s reduce residence of parliament, a State Duma, intends to pass a law by a finish of a stream event (mid-July) banning distribution of information among minors compelling homosexuality. [...]

MOSCOW, May 19 (R-Sport) – Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has hailed a attainment of a initial all-athlete troops units given Soviet times. Thirty-six athletes who could paint Russia during a Sochi Olympics took their troops promise Sunday during Central Museum of a Great Patriotic War in Moscow. “Sports units are a right preference from a [...]

MOSCOW, May 19 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s Public Television started broadcasting on Sunday, charity TV viewers newscasts, films, party and cognitive programs. The new TV channel, that will not run any commercials, is to turn permitted giveaway of assign on Sunday in a networks of all operators of cable, satellite and IP-television. The TV channel [...]

MOSCOW, May 19 (RIA Novosti) – United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrived on Sunday during RIA Novosti news group as partial of his revisit to Russia. At a opening to a RIA Novosti general press center, Ban Ki-moon was welcomed by RIA Novosti Editor-in-Chief Svetlana Mironyuk. During his revisit to a agency, Ban Ki-moon [...]

MOSCOW, May 19 (RIA Novosti) – The returnable plug of a biological investigate satellite has landed in a Russian Orenburg Region nearby a limit with Kazakhstan, bringing mice, Mongolian gerbils, geckos and several microorganisms and plants behind to Earth after their month-long flight, Mission Control pronounced on Sunday. “The skirmish car distant from a apparatus [...]

VLADIVOSTOK, May 19 (RIA Novosti) – A vehicle tour opposite Russia by former adult video star Sasha Grey finished after a Russian-made Lada Kalina she was pushing pennyless down 3 days after a start. Grey, escorted by several other cars, began her several weeks’ tour from Vladivostok in Russia’s Far East to Moscow on Thursday [...]

MOSCOW, May 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s antithesis and tellurian rights activists devise to theatre a convene in Moscow on Jun 12, Russia Day, Ilya Yashin, a member of a opposition’s Coordination Council pronounced on Saturday. “The idea of a movement is to demonstrate support to a Bolotnaya box “prisoners” and voice criticism opposite bootleg [...]

MOSCOW, May 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russian cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin wished thespian Dina Garipova success and feat during a Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden. “Our hearts pain for Dina Garipova, who represents a nation during Eurovision,” Vinogradov pronounced during a communication event with a International Space Station (ISS). “We wish a [...]

MOSCOW, May 18 (RIA Novosti) – Four inmates jailed for murder and thievery have transient from a jail in a Irkutsk Region, East Siberia, by digging a tunnel, internal investigators pronounced on Saturday. The prisoners transient from an industrial area of a cluster in a encampment of Markovo, where they worked as carpenters, by digging [...]

MOSCOW, May 18 (RIA Novosti) – Hollywood luminary Brad Pitt is due to arrive in Moscow in Jun to foster his new film World War Z during a Moscow International Film Festival, a festival’s ubiquitous writer has said.   The 35th film festival will flog off with a premiere of a arriving baleful fear film, [...]

MOSCOW, May 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s children’s rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov pronounced on Saturday Russia might change a adoption agreement with France in response to a country’s new happy matrimony law. Earlier on Saturday French President Francois Hollande sealed into law a argumentative check permitting same-sex marriage. The check has sparked mass protests via [...]

GROZNY, May 18 (RIA Novosti) – Filming of a thriller starring the mythological French actor Gerard Depardieu and a British singer Elizabeth Hurley began in Russia’s Chechen commonwealth on Saturday, a deputy of Chechnya’s Culture Ministry told RIA Novosti. “Today a devise is to fire a scenes featuring Elizabeth Hurley, who is already in [the [...]

  MOSCOW, May 18 (RIA Novosti) – Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad is approaching to revisit Russia in Jul to attend a Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), a orator for Iran’s Embassy in Moscow pronounced on Saturday.   The Iranian personality has supposed Russia’s invitation to attend a event. “Now we are operative on this visit, [...]