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13.01.2010, 17:29
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Since credit cards began replacing cash in our wallets, for many in the west the word “visa” has come to denote universal acceptance. Yet for people in many non-western countries it carries the exact opposite connotation
13.09.2010, 18:40
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European Union’s failure to make a political decision on switching to visa exempt travel with Russia has been slammed as unseemly by Moscow.
22.05.2009, 10:35
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Russia should incorporate the issue of travel restrictions into its negotiations with the EU on energy, says political analyst Ekaterina Kuznetsova.
12.05.2010, 14:31
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Moscow and Ankara have signed an agreement to cancel the visa regime between the two countries as President Dmitry Medvedev is on an official visit to Turkey to sign strategic deals.
30.01.2010, 18:01
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In the 1990s, Russian Studies was not a popular pick for students in American universities. However, nearly 20 years on from the collapse of the Soviet Union, things are changing.
24.08.2009, 15:34
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Residents of a small Russian village are struggling for life. Local authorities have stopped sending food supplies to a remote settlement that has no shops and only five ageing residents.
24.08.2009, 15:41
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“The roads are bad, and there needs to be a national program to deal with the issue,” said William Craft Brumfield, professor of Slavic studies at Tulane University and recognized author on Russian architecture.
01.09.2009, 16:46
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Almost two thirds of Russians (63%) are confident the USSR could have won the Second World War without any help from the Allies, a nationwide survey has concluded.
23.09.2009, 13:54
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The Polish parliament has adopted, without a vote or debate, a resolution that blames Russia for genocide, an allegation Moscow denies. Russia says the move will strain already tense bilateral relations.
30.09.2010, 14:05
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Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of a Polish opposition party, has called on Europe and the US to counter Moscow’s influence abroad.
Published: 10 July, 2009, 15:15
According to Infox.ru website on July 8, a Paris-Moscow flight successfully landed in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo-2 airport thanks to a local onboard who interpreted for the pilots and ground control.
Lovely story, but is it true? Possibly the Pilot wanted to have a closed look at Marina? I am surprised that Moscow ATC does give its instructions in Russian to foreign flights? The cockpit's instruments have feet/meters readings, as well as the QNH (pressuree)in inches&kilo/Pascal. US ATC gives the temperature in Celcius for the past years.