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Russian pro-, anti-gay activists arrested after defying ban
Reuters* Police arrest around 30 at unauthorised gay rallies * Arrested include gay rights, anti-gay activists * Banned Moscow rallies highlight divisions over homosexuality By Jason Bush MOSCOW, May 25 (Reuters) - Russian police detained around 30 pro-...Tags: Politics, Parliament, Religion and Belief, Christianity, Georgia
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CORRECTED-Interpol rejects Russia's "political" case against fund manager Browder
Reuters(Corrects para 6 to make clear countries are not obliged to act on information provided by Interpol) * New setback to Russia in scandal over dead lawyer Magnitsky * Browder campaigning to expose rights abuses in Russia * Seeks to have Europe follow the...Tags: Interpol, Trials, Mutual Funds, Politics, Justice System
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Interpol rejects Russia's 'political' case against fund manager Browder
ReutersMOSCOW, May 25 - Interpol has refused to include UK-based fund manager William Browder on its international search list after deciding that Russia's tax evasion case against him is "of a predominantly political nature". The decision is the latest twist...Tags: Interpol, Mutual Funds, Politics, Government, National Government
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Suicide car bombing in Russia's Dagestan injures 11
ReutersMOSCOW, May 25 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew herself up in car near a police building in Russia's Dagestan region on Saturday, injuring 11 policemen and passers-by, Russian media reported. Dagestan, an ethnically mixed, mostly Muslim region between...Tags: Religion and Belief, Islam, Rebellions, Transportation Accidents, Suicide
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Interpol rejects Russia's "political" case against fund manager Browder
Reuters* New setback to Russia in scandal over dead lawyer Magnitsky * Browder campaigning to expose rights abuses in Russia * Seeks to have Europe follow the U.S. in imposing visa sanctions By Jason Bush MOSCOW - Interpol has refused to include UK-based...Tags: Interpol, Trials, Politics, Justice System, Government
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Russia's oldest rights group fights 'foreign agent' tag
ReutersMOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's oldest rights group began a legal battle on Friday to avoid being branded a "foreign agent" under a new law it sees as a tool of repression by President Vladimir Putin. Memorial, which has fought to preserve the memory of...Tags: Labor Legislation, Politics, Parliament, Justice System, Prosecution
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Moscow, St Petersburg vie in Impressionist tug-of-war
ReutersMOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's cultural elite is at loggerheads over whether to rebuild a museum closed by the late Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, with the fate of masterpieces by Monet, Renoir and Picasso at stake. Shut down in 1948 for being too...Tags: Artists, Museums, Russia, Museum of Modern Art, Arts
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Russia's leading social network banned by "mistake"
ReutersMOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's leading online social network was briefly banned on Friday, in a move dismissed as a "mistake" but which follows intensifying official pressure on the company as President Vladimir Putin consolidates his power. VKontakte (www....Tags: Sociology, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Media Industry, United Capital Corp., Computer Networking and Internet
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Reuters World News Highlights at 1800 GMT, May 24
ReutersMay 24 (Reuters) - TOP STORIES ----------- LONDON - British fighter jets escorted a Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane to Stansted Airport near London on Friday, where police went on board and arrested two men on suspicion of endangering an...Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Washington, DC, Republican Party, John Kerry
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Petrovictoria de Venezuela bombeará 120.000 bpd desde 2016
ReutersPor Marianna Párraga JOSE, Venezuela (Reuters) - Petrovictoria de Venezuela, una sociedad entre la petrolera estatal PDVSA y la rusa Rosneft, comenzará a bombear 120.000 barriles por dÃa en 2016, informó el jueves la empresa venezolana. La empresa...Tags: Venezuela
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Russia's oldest human rights group fights "foreign agent" tag
ReutersMOSCOW, May 24 (Reuters) - Russia's oldest human rights group went to court on Friday to try to stop state prosecutors forcing it to register as a "foreign agent" under a law it says is intended by President Vladimir Putin to silence dissent. Memorial,...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Justice System, Lawyers, Russia
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Global Voices: The six personalities of Russia's Putin
Vladimir Putin emerged from the obscurity of a secret agent’s life when called to Moscow in 1997 by power-hungry oligarchs in search of a pliable accomplice to plant in the Kremlin. In little more than two years, Putin was president of Russia and...Tags: 2014 Winter Olympic Games, Petroleum Industry, Politics, Brookings Institution, Government
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