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Russia Summons U.S. Ambassador Michael Mcfaul Over Spy Scandal (Video)
U.S. ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul is summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry after Moscow expelled a U.S. diplomat suspected of recruiting spies.
The U.S. ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul arrives at the Foreign Ministry in Moscow on Wednesday.
5 Facts To Know About Misha, The Armenian Muslim Who Influenced Tamerlan Tsarnaev
Last Friday night, after a day-long manhunt using helicopters and heavily armed officers, one of the two suspects of Boston Marathon explosions was caught alive. The other one was shot dead during the chase.
The Boston Police said later revealed the names of the two alleged bombers who were brothers. The older was known as Tamerlan Tsarnaev while the one in custody is called Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
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How Russia’s Volatile Dagestan May Have Influenced Tsarnaev (VIDEO)
To understand Tamerlan Tsarnaev, it might help to understand Dagestan, the volatile Russian region that is said to have deeply influenced him.
When he returned here in 2012, family members who hadn’t seen him in years, say they were surprised by his new interest in religion.
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, The ‘White Hat’ 19 Year Old Boston Marathon Bomber (PHOTOS)
The manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombers is still on as one of the suspect remains at large.
The authorities have identified the two as brothers, 19 and 26 years of age, originating from Chechnya near Russia. According to AP, “A law enforcement intelligence bulletin obtained by the AP identified the surviving bomb suspect as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old who had been living in Cambridge, just outside Boston, and said he “may be armed and dangerous.”"
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Dmitry Itskov Russian Billionaire Plans To Make Humans Immortal By 2045
Thirty two-year-old Dmitry Itskov, a Russian billionaire has big bucks, big dreams and big plans. He has unveiled plans to make humans immortal by converting them into ‘Terminator-style’ cyborgs and he has put all his might and money behind the dream. Not only that, he has set himself the time limit of three decades.
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Underground Concert Helps Miners Shake The Blues
These Musicians play for Russian nickel miners as they head in to work as part of a special program called “Prosmart”- an acronym that stands for production, advancement, art and mood.
Workers seemed to be enjoying themselves. They snapped photos of the group as they played traditional Russian instruments.
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The Vatican, Iran And Russia Resist UN Efforts To Prevent Violence Against Women
This year’s annual UN Commission on the Status of Women has been more emotive since a Pakistani schoolgirl was fatally injured by the Taliban and a medical student was gang-raped in Delhi, India. But three countries are being blamed for not helping the commission to create stricter global laws to prevent violence against women.
Iran, Russia and the Vatican, already notorious for their treatment with women, are resisting changes in tougher regulations being adopted to prevent criminal acts against women in the world. The three countries are making efforts to wipe out language in a draft communiqué that says ‘religion, customs or traditions can no longer be used as an excuse to avoid government’s obligation to prevent violence against women’.
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Breathing’ Lenin Exhibit Causes A Stir (Video)
A Moscow exhibit has caused controversy by displaying a statue of the Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin that breathes.
Woman Breaks Up With Fiancé Finding Out He Was Cheating On Her On Russian Google Maps Equivalent (Video)
Yandex Maps, Russian equivalent of Google Maps, recently helped a woman from Perm find her fiancé, cheating on her with another girl!
In this video, Marina Voinova narrates her story about how she was going to marry her fiancé whom she loved dearly but broke up with him after she (accidentally) found a photo on Yandex when she was looking for the location of one building on the street’s panoramic view. But instead, she found a photo of her own boyfriend with arms wrapped around some other girl. (Uh-oh!)
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Asteroid 2012 DA14 Set For Record-Breaking Earth Pass
On Friday, asteroid 2012 DA14 will make a close approach to our planet than any other known asteroid since systematic surveys of the sky began in the mid-1990s.
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Is Russia’s YouTube Video Ban A Tool For Censorship By The Government?
Google has filed a lawsuit against a Russian federal agency’s ban on one of its hosted videos on YouTube. The video in question is a make-up tutorial video that demonstrates how a blunt razor, glue and fake blood can make it look like an actual suicide attempt.
Russia’s Internet blacklist is a database containing URLs, domain names and IP addresses of websites that may contain child pornography, drug abuse and production, suicide advocacy or any information that is prohibited by Russian law to be circulated.
However, the blacklist has been met by a lot of criticism by the Russian Internet industry. It can block whole domains when only a certain part of a website contains illegal or blacklisted material.
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Fatal Zorbing Accident On The Slopes Of Russia (Video)
Zorbing, also called sphering or globe-riding, involves getting into a huge plastic ball and rolling downhill at great speed. It is indeed a thrilling sport but it dangers cannot be overlooked! This video is just such an example.
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What Happens When You Throw Boiling Water Out The Window In 41°С (Video)
Just looking at this video will make your toes freeze!
A Russian man braving -41 degrees of cold made this amazing video. He boiled a pot of water, and threw it out of his balcony. It turned to snow before it even reached ground level! In fact it froze just as it contacted the chilling air outside!
Russian Drivers Stuck In Snow For Days In Huge Traffic Jam
Uncountable trucks and cars have been stuck on a major highway, some for actually more than two days now, in a huge traffic jam which is dozens of kilometers (miles) long and is caused by heavy snow in the northwest of Moscow, Russian media reported on Sunday.
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Trolley on Road in Russia VIDEO
The title says it; there can’t be a better description of what’s going on here. It’s a man on a trolley in the middle of the road disturbing the traffic in Russia. Either he thinks he is on the playground or this may be a failed suicide attempt. Whatever it is, it looks bizarre.
