• USS Rhode Island, the world's largest nuclear submarine, has docked in Gibraltar for a scheduled port visit in what will be seen as a clear signal to Vladimir Putin about Western capability. (express.co.uk)
  • Foreign investors who left Russia after selling their businesses there between March 2022 and March 2023 withdrew about $36 billion from the country, the state RIA news agency reported on Monday, citing analysis of data from the Central Bank. (yahoo.com)
  • FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Russian Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov during a meeting at the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. (fourstateshomepage.com)
  • On the evening of February 21 of last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a speech officially recognizing the independence of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR). (rt.com)
  • WASHINGTON (AP) - A U.S. official said Monday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may travel to Russia soon to meet with President Vladimir Putin as the Kremlin tries to acquire military equipment for use in its war in Ukraine. (abc4.com)
  • President Vladimir Putin said last year that the country's Arctic fleet would operate at least 13 heavy-duty icebreakers, the majority of which would be powered by nuclear reactors. (cbc.ca)
  • Also watching, from a window across the street, was thirty-seven-year-old Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Putin, who was temporarily in charge of the mansion, its voluminous intelligence records, and its staff of four. (nybooks.com)
  • Born in Soviet Latvia, Kudrin, who turns 50 this year, began building his career in St Petersburg, taking a PhD in economics from Leningrad State University, the alma mater of both prime minister Vladimir Putin and his protégé, president Dmitry Medvedev. (euromoney.com)
  • The New York Times first reported that Kim planned to meet with Putin in Russia this month. (abc4.com)
  • Kudrin himself acknowledges that the worst might lie ahead, as the ruling United Russia party, headed by Putin, seeks to spend its way to electoral popularity. (euromoney.com)
  • These outbreaks occur globally, including recently documented outbreaks in Italy, Russia, Spain, South Africa, and just a few weeks ago in Namibia. (cdc.gov)
  • America, South Africa, and Russia ( 14-16 ). (cdc.gov)
  • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Congo's president wants the world's second largest United Nations peacekeeping force to move up its departure from the country, starting this December, saying it has failed to rein in conflicts in the country's east. (8newsnow.com)
  • A series of summits between the US and USSR dedicated to decreasing each country's nuclear arsenal thus occurred over the next five years. (worldatlas.com)
  • Multiple broadcasters and print media in Russia are increasingly voicing despair over the country's war in Ukraine. (express.co.uk)
  • State media in Russia was, at first, determined to conceal Putin's failures in Ukraine from the country's citizens. (express.co.uk)
  • The country's MY 2021-22 wheat harvest was at around 79.1 million mt as of Dec. 30, below from 88.1 million mt produced a year ago, according to the agricultural ministry. (spglobal.com)
  • But over the country's thousand-year history, the system has undergone major changes. (rt.com)
  • Several milestones marked those years: Russia's decision to recognize documents issued in Donbass (2017), the simplified acquisition of Russian citizenship for residents of the self-proclaimed republics (2019) and their right to vote in the parliamentary elections of the Russian Federation (2021). (rt.com)
  • Ukraine's capital was subjected to the largest drone attack since the start of Russia's war, local officials said, as Kyiv prepared to mark the anniversary of its founding on Sunday. (kktv.com)
  • Russia's defence minister and his Indian counterpart, along with India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his Russia counterpart Sergey Lavrov, held a 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue in the Indian capital. (wionews.com)
  • America's other big rival, Russia's Pacific Fleet, is expected to receive two nuclear submarines and one diesel-electric attack submarine this year. (scmp.com)
  • Under siege: How has Donbass lived through its first year of official separation from Ukraine? (rt.com)
  • When the Western-backed coup (directed against Russia, among other things), took place in Kiev on February 23, 2014, it launched counter-processes in what was then eastern Ukraine. (rt.com)
  • As part of the Minsk Agreements, Russia recognized the republics of Donbass as an autonomous part of Ukraine while protests in other regions were suppressed by Kiev. (rt.com)
  • In an indication of the importance of the drone battle, Ukraine has stepped up attacks deep inside Russia, including on its oil infrastructure. (yahoo.com)
  • Though Russia denies it's planning an invasion of Ukraine, it has laid out a series of demands it says will improve security in Europe. (abc15.com)
  • North Korea has been accused of covertly shipping ammunition to Russia to help its invasion in Ukraine. (express.co.uk)
  • Russia has repeatedly launched waves of drone attacks against Ukraine, but most are shot down. (kktv.com)
  • However, because Russia is a permanent member of the Security Council, along with its ally China, a U.N. referral concerning actions in Ukraine is considered a dead end for now. (politifact.com)
  • The main events that you and I will talk about today: The cost of war, six months after Russia invaded Ukraine, and the shape of the global economy has changed. (cnn.com)
  • It was 31 years ago that Ukraine broke free from the then failing Soviet Union. (cnn.com)
  • But the West's main attack back against Russia has been to supply arms to Ukraine and sanctions. (cnn.com)
  • Study in 2021 found that based on eDNA, woolly mammoths survived on the Taymyr Peninsula until 3,900 to 4,100 years ago, roughly concurrent with the Wrangel population. (wikipedia.org)
  • FILE - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny looks at photographers from inside a glass cage in the Babuskinsky District Court in Moscow, Russia, on Feb. 20, 2021. (ktsm.com)
  • The momentum of Russian wheat exports during marketing year 2021-22 (July-June) remained slow with the year-on-year gap in exports at 18% in the week to Dec. 30, according to data released on Jan. 12. (spglobal.com)
  • We continue our coverage from the U.N. climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, with prominent Russian environmentalist Vladimir Slivyak, co-chair of the Russian environmental organization Ecodefense and winner of the 2021 Right Livelihood Award for defending the environment and mobilizing grassroots opposition to the coal and nuclear industries in Russia. (democracynow.org)
  • Reuters) - With a long-promised Ukrainian counteroffensive looming to recapture territory taken by Russia in 15th months of fighting, Moscow launched a series of attacks on Kyiv over the weekend targeting military infrastructure and supplies. (yahoo.com)
  • Russia unleashed what Ukrainian officials said was the largest drone attack on Kyiv since the start of the war on Sunday, killing one and injuring several people. (yahoo.com)
  • He translated a number of newspaper articles and state TV broadcasts that covered Ukraine's counteroffensive in Kharkiv where Ukrainian forces were able to take back a large area of territory previously occupied by the Russians. (express.co.uk)
  • The Russia-backed governor of Luhansk province in Ukraine's far east, Leonid Pasechnik, said two people were killed Sunday in Ukrainian shelling of the town of Almaznaya. (kktv.com)
  • The General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces said on Monday that Russia continues its main efforts to fully occupy the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. (yahoo.com)
  • The 23-year-old had been studying nuclear engineering at Moscow Engineering Physics Institute but was handed a nine-and-a-half year jail term in April 2020 over a drugs offence. (africanews.com)
  • He says Moscow has now deployed more troops and military equipment to neighboring Belarus than at any time in the last 30 years. (abc15.com)
  • The UK's ambassador to Russia was summoned by Moscow to answer for unfounded allegations that Britain was involved in the attack last weekend, which sank four Russian warships. (express.co.uk)
  • Strategy 31 protests were held throughout Russia on Sunday, with a rift between organizers in Moscow making for an unusual series of events. (theotherrussia.org)
  • Approximately 100 participants of the largest-ever Strategy 31 in defense of free assembly rally were detained by police in Moscow on Tuesday, with other rallies held throughout Russia and Europe. (theotherrussia.org)
  • At least 60 opposition protestors were detained on New Year's Eve night in Moscow during a rally to promote the freedom of assembly, including 82-year old rights activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva, drawing scorn from the EU, the USA, and human rights organizations. (theotherrussia.org)
  • Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, members of the Pussy Riot Group who were controversially jailed for performing in a Moscow cathedral in 2012, spoke in the Russian capital to highlight the plight of drug users in Russia. (ipsnews.net)
  • The privileges, allowance, and a rather free lifestyle made the new profession extremely popular, and within 50 years, there were over 20,000 Streltsy in Moscow and the regions. (rt.com)
  • The commercial fluorine production capacity of the United States and Canada is over 5,000 tons/year (Shia 1994). (cdc.gov)
  • Siberia Taymyr Strait Siberia portal Russia portal Geography portal Ziker Hoppál 2005 BioMed Central (6 October 2005). (wikipedia.org)
  • Bu now, 98% of the total harvest has been barned, with the exception of not many fields in the south of Russia and Siberia. (pravda.ru)
  • The US has claimed the dictatorship is smuggling a "significant number" of artillery shells to Russia, as the Kremlin appears to be increasingly turning to pariah states to shore up its ailing war effort. (express.co.uk)
  • 77°43'22''N, 104°15'13''E Taymyr landscape Muskox, an Arctic mammal of the family Bovidae, successfully reintroduced to the Taymyr Peninsula region in 1975 The peninsula is the site of the last known naturally occurring muskox outside of North America, which died out about 2,000 years ago. (wikipedia.org)
  • Moving up the start of the peacekeeping mission's "accelerated retreat" by a year, from December 2024, will help ease deadly tensions in the region, said the president, who is seeking a second term in a general election in December. (8newsnow.com)
  • This is summarized as a deglaciation map of the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet with isochrons marking every 1000 years between 22 and 13 cal kyr BP and every hundred years between 11.6 and final ice decay after 9.7 cal kyr BP. (lu.se)
  • National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson noted Monday that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu traveled to Pyongyang recently and tried to persuade North Korea to sell artillery ammunition to Russia. (abc4.com)
  • Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu highlighted the importance of defence cooperation between Russia and India during his meeting with Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday (December 6). (wionews.com)
  • In his opening remarks, Shoigu said, "Russia-India defence cooperation is important for the relations between our two countries during these times. (wionews.com)
  • Earlier this year, Navalny himself was convicted on extremism charges and sentenced to 19 years in prison. (ktsm.com)
  • A former Bureau of Prisons supervisor, Kevin X. Pearce, 39, was sentenced yesterday to 66 months in prison followed by one year of supervised release for leading two cover-ups of assaults of inmates held at U.S. Penitentiary Big Sandy. (justice.gov)
  • U.S. District Judge Lydia K. Griggsby sentenced William Reyes Garcia, a/k/a "Will," age 33, of Silver Spring, Maryland, yesterday to 15 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute cocaine, for possession with intent to distribute cocaine, as well as for being a felon in possession of ammunition. (justice.gov)
  • These dolmens cover the Western Caucasus on both sides of the mountain ridge, in an area of approximately 12.000 square kilometers of Russia and Abkhazia. (beforeitsnews.com)
  • Of Lake Baikal's 27 islands, the largest is Olkhon , at 280 square miles (725 square kilometers). (mapquest.com)
  • Russia launched air attacks on Kyiv in the early hours of Monday using drones and cruise missiles. (yahoo.com)
  • In the northeastern Kharkiv province, regional Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said a 61-year-old woman and a 60-year-old man were killed in two separate shelling attacks. (kktv.com)
  • The situation is deterio- ground attacks were reported in places with large civilian popu- rating, largely related to the worsening hygienic sanitation situ- lation. (who.int)
  • During the same period, however, rail transport volume measured in ton-kilometers fell nearly threefold in Estonia by the year 2015. (err.ee)
  • Just as in Estonia, the trade relations of many neighboring countries still rely on Russia. (err.ee)
  • This according to a new study in which researchers have analysed iodine and calcium in limestone samples from Sweden, Estonia and Russia. (lu.se)
  • Through advanced analyses of the elements iodine and calcium in a large collection of limestone samples from Sweden, Estonia and western Russia, they have been able to map out and visualise how oxygen levels varied over time and space during a period of around 20 million years (~477-457 million years ago). (lu.se)
  • Russia made the threat after accusing the UK of being involved in a key defeat it suffered in the Black Sea. (express.co.uk)
  • Addressing the threat of occupational reproductive toxicity in Russia. (cdc.gov)
  • If you don't even have a job, it's difficult to get a job now, because these events (war) have been going on since last year. (kktv.com)
  • At the beginning of the year, before the coronavirus crisis, the FAO estimated Azerbaijan would need to import 10 percent less wheat in 2020 than it did last year. (eurasianet.org)
  • I know last year [in North Carolina], they had almost totally defoliated a large elm tree in someone's yard. (fox4kc.com)
  • General Dynamics signed more than US$10 billion in contracts last year for the first two Columbia-class boats. (scmp.com)
  • Pentagon report last year. (scmp.com)
  • Melissa Marx] Anthrax outbreaks have been known to occur among wildlife in Zambia before and since this outbreak, as recently as last year, at this time. (cdc.gov)
  • Despite Covid-19 restrictions and challenges brought on by both summer and winter operation, TAKRAF's 6,000 t/h material handling export terminal, celebrates a successful first year of operation. (takraf.com)
  • Other archaeologists put the age of these megalithic structures at 4000 to 6,000 years old. (beforeitsnews.com)
  • That's according to the most recent Global Business Outlook Survey from Markit, which monitored more than 6,000 businesses and conducts its research three times a year. (londonlovesbusiness.com)
  • In the past year, the political and security environment has deteriorated sharply, creating a severe humanitarian and protection crisis," said a report last month by the U.N. secretary-general discussing options for the peacekeeping mission's withdrawal. (8newsnow.com)
  • If Russia had gone into the crisis without its stabilization fund and massive reserves, it would have been 1998 all over again, only worse," says Alexander Kliment, an analyst at political risk consultancy Eurasia Group. (euromoney.com)
  • Instead, Russia entered the crisis with nearly $600 billion in foreign reserves, allowing it to manage a 30% decline in the rouble. (euromoney.com)
  • The stabilization fund enabled Russia to pay off its foreign debt early and later acted as a multibillion dollar cushion that helped Russia weather the financial crisis. (euromoney.com)
  • Storchak was released one year later, the charges dropped without explanation, as the financial crisis began to unfold and Kudrin's star started to rise once again. (euromoney.com)
  • The participants of unauthorized street protests against integration with Russia are mostly punished with huge fines. (euroradio.fm)
  • A new wave of mass detentions and trials took place on 27 December in Belarus, with the majority of the participants in the street protests aganst integration with Russia sentenced to huge fines. (euroradio.fm)
  • The participants of anti-integration protests were also tried en mass on Thursday . (euroradio.fm)
  • ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's junior oil minister and the petroleum secretary have flown to Russia for talks on issues including oil and gas supplies, two people close to the matter told Reuters on condition of anonymity. (dawn.com)
  • European oil companies are shunning petroleum supplies from Russia as the fighting spills into a second month, and instead seeking shipments from as far afield as the Middle East, Asia and the U.S. Oil majors including Shell Plc, BP Plc and TotalEnergies SE are already restricting deliveries of the fuel in Germany. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • An estimated 8,000-10,000 metric tons of fluorspar are recovered each year from uranium enrichment, stainless steel pickling, and petroleum alkylation. (cdc.gov)
  • Earlier this year, the Southern African Development Community also decided to deploy forces to eastern Congo. (8newsnow.com)
  • If you look at the US Navy, submarines are its top priority and the Columbia in particular," head of US defence giant General Dynamics Phebe Novakovic said earlier this year. (scmp.com)
  • According to the statement made on Friday at a press conference by Alexei Gordeyev, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Agriculture of Russia, in 2002, our country will have the largest grain harvest in the past decade. (pravda.ru)
  • Fortunately, Russia expects a good harvest this year. (eurasianet.org)
  • The nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika is seen drawn by tugboats as it starts sea trials in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Dec. 12, 2019. (cbc.ca)
  • This time the city was Dresden, the year was 1989, and the outpost was the KGB 's mansion on Angelikastrasse, directly across from the local headquarters of the Stasi, the KGB 's East German counterpart. (nybooks.com)
  • Russia harvested 85.9 million mt of wheat in MY 2020-21. (spglobal.com)
  • Businesses across the world are feeling less confident about their futures than they have in five years. (londonlovesbusiness.com)
  • Article is more than five years old, has been archived and is no longer updated. (err.ee)
  • The UN was tasked with der five years of age. (who.int)
  • Some sources mention large raids as far away from the center of Rus as the southern Caspian lands. (rt.com)
  • The creation of a modern nuclear icebreaker fleet capable of ensuring regular year-round and safe navigation through the entire Northern Sea Route is a strategic task for our country,' Vyacheslav Ruksha, head of Rosatom's Northern Sea Route Directorate, said in a statement. (cbc.ca)
  • Its President says the country was reborn six months ago when Russia attacked. (cnn.com)
  • Not just in the west, where his championing of the free market and fiscal prudence long made him a darling of foreign investors, but also inside Russia, a country that has not taken kindly to reformers in the past. (euromoney.com)
  • Fortunately, cereal crop conditions are looking favorable this year, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on April 14, but the country will need to import far more wheat than in recent years "as a result of the sharp decrease in domestic production. (eurasianet.org)
  • About one-third of arable farmland in the country has been abandoned in recent years due to "inefficient farm structures, aging rural population, and labor out-migration," the FAO said on April 20. (eurasianet.org)
  • The country is not a member of the EAEU, so Russia, Azerbaijan's traditional source of grain, is, in theory, not available to provide. (eurasianet.org)
  • Although South Korea was the most common country of origin for adoptions in the United States in the early 1990s, Russia and China became prominent in international adoption in the late 1990s, and currently the largest numbers of adopted children come from Guatemala, China, Russia, and Ethiopia. (cdc.gov)
  • In addition to the Arresødal Hospice on Denmark's largest island, there are 18 other hospices scattered throughout the country, serving its 5.9 million residents. (who.int)
  • How can universities in Sweden and elsewhere contribute to training a larger number of skilled human rights defenders in a country where so many students and researchers have been forced to flee, are fighting on the front lines, and live with grief? (lu.se)
  • The " Asparagus Valley" company from North Ossetia calls itself the largest producer of asparagus in Russia. (countreefood.com)
  • Russia, the world's largest wheat producer, has limited exports this year. (eurasianet.org)
  • Since there will be fewer events this year, I do not expect our team to get as many medals. (arrl.org)
  • It said in its report that the political uncertainty caused by the general election in 2015 will mean fewer business will invest next year than this year. (londonlovesbusiness.com)
  • China has the largest contingent, with 64 registered competitors. (arrl.org)
  • Russia (along with China) hasn't joined the International Criminal Court, either. (politifact.com)
  • The Columbia is key for the US to maintain its competitive advantage, especially with China now operating the world's largest naval force. (scmp.com)
  • It's most common to look at the BRIC market, namely Brazil, Russia, India and China. (lu.se)
  • A nuclear-powered icebreaker that Russia says is the world's largest and most powerful set off on Tuesday on a two-week journey to the Arctic as part of Moscow's efforts to tap the region's commercial potential. (cbc.ca)
  • Brazil became the ninth largest and fastest-growing economy in the world. (bvsalud.org)
  • Russian state firm Rosatomflot has called the vessel the world's largest and most powerful icebreaker. (cbc.ca)
  • The project started in January this year and the researchers have already interviewed a number of company representatives on site in Sweden. (lu.se)
  • I am confident Russia and India will help in enhancing regional security. (wionews.com)
  • India values its special and privileged strategic partnership with Russia. (wionews.com)
  • The Nenets people, also known as Samoyeds, are an indigenous people in northern arctic Russia, and some live at the Taymyr Peninsula. (wikipedia.org)
  • But in particular in Europe, it has really surged over the past six months and look at the news today, for example, which is the UK has just announced that it's stopped by as of June all fuel imports from Russia. (cnn.com)
  • This is a challenging year for news organizations and nonprofits across the board, so please don't close this window before making your gift. (democracynow.org)
  • The Taymyr Peninsula (Russian: Таймырский полуостров, romanized: Taymyrsky poluostrov) is a peninsula in the Far North of Russia, in the Siberian Federal District, that forms the northernmost part of the mainland of Eurasia. (wikipedia.org)
  • The area cultivated with asparagus at the Russian Asparagus Valley has increased by about 35 hectares in three years, i.e., the company plants 10-15 hectares of asparagus annually and has good prospects in this business. (countreefood.com)
  • EastFruit also found many small, semi-commercial asparagus plantations, usually near large Russian cities. (countreefood.com)
  • ANDREW BAILEY, GOVERNOR, BANK OF ENGLAND: The Russian shock is now the largest contributor to UK inflation by some way. (cnn.com)
  • During July 1 to Dec. 30, Russia exported 21.6 million mt, according to the Russian Federal Service for veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance data released on Jan. 12. (spglobal.com)
  • Export prices of Russian wheat has seen choppy trade over the last few weeks as Russia introduced new export tax mechanisms and imposed an export tax. (spglobal.com)
  • by the Russia-Turkey tensions. (who.int)
  • Russia, the world's largest wheat exporter, on April 26 suspended grain shipments until July 1 except for members of its trade bloc, the Eurasian Economic Union. (eurasianet.org)
  • No, it's nothing to do with Halloween, but markets can get spooked and at this time of year, such irrational moves are not unknown. (londonlovesbusiness.com)
  • The sources provided no further details, such as the exact agenda, who the Pakistani officials would meet in Russia or when the talks will take place. (dawn.com)
  • This editorial discussed the need for both men and women to be provided with appropriate protection to minimize possible hazards to reproductive functions while on the job in Russia. (cdc.gov)
  • For scale, it reportedly takes about 330 years for one water molecule to flow from inlet to inlet. (mapquest.com)
  • Nepal wants Russia to stop recruiting Gurkha soldiers. (pravda.ru)
  • This first army wasn't large - it consisted of no more than 3,000 soldiers. (rt.com)
  • The 1-year celebration marks an important milestone of this large material handling export terminal in far eastern Russia, where TAKRAF successfully overcame multiple challenges. (takraf.com)
  • Variola major was the predominant endemic strain throughout the world, and by the end of the 18th century, it was responsible for approximately 400,000 deaths a year in Europe. (medscape.com)
  • Which countries have the largest gender gap in life expectancy? (weforum.org)
  • The COP climate meetings are organised in a way that benefits richer and larger countries at the expense of smaller and poorer countries, according to a new study from LUCSUS and the University of Leeds. (lu.se)
  • S&P Global Platts assessed FOB Russia 12.5% protein wheat down 75 cents/mt at $336/mt Jan. 11. (spglobal.com)