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Scientists say the sea turtles have been swimming our planet’s oceans for over 100 million years now. It is very painful to see a serious reduction in the population of turtles worldwide due to fishing nets. In order to protect these rare sea...
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Days before a historic visit of the US President to Russia gambling was narrowed just to four geographical areas of a country, far away from capitals and significant...
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Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev will be looking to trumpet their commitment to reducing nuclear arms when they meet in Moscow next week. Resetting U.S.-...
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At the Metelitsa casino, the oldest private gambling house in Moscow, which opened in 1993 after the fall of the Soviet Union, they are packing up the card shoes and...
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Filed under: Sports, News, Weird Passengers on a new cruise along the coast of Somalia are paying to catch more than just salmonella. A Russian luxury yacht company is...
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NATO and Russia are likely to resume formal military ties Saturday at their first high-level meeting since last year’s war between Russia and Georgia.
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Once it would have been Cold War rhetoric and “fraternal greetings” to Marxist guerrillas. Yesterday Russia returned to Africa in a scramble to restore its...
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The leader, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, president of Ingushetia, was being driven to work in a motorcade when it was hit by an enormous bomb. One or more of his bodyguards may...
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In a strange demonstration of what we would call supernatural celebrity power, Brad Pitt, or rather his cardboard cutouts seem to be helping ease traffic problems in...
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Tired of trying your hands with the computer in a game of chess? Now, here is a robot from Russia, designed to play chess and frequently beat you at it. The robot’s...
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Anatoly Boiko stands in front of a pile of neatly sawn planks. The wood, he says, is one of the oddest government handouts he’s ever received.
To help the...
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The “age of empires has ended” and the “international capitalist order is retreating,” declared a beaming Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday,...
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Russian crime gangs on the Costa del Sol are injecting kidnap victims with what they claim is an experimental KGB virus to terrify them into paying ransoms.
In the...
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High level Kremlin officials close to Prime Minister Putin have expressed deep concerns with regard to the delays to law enforcement actions being sanctioned by...
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Russia will rebuild its Soviet-era network of polar stations and use its icebreaker fleet to help support its claim to the vast resources of the Arctic, the man who led...
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President Dmitri A. Medvedev, who rarely misses a chance to accuse the United States of causing the global financial crisis, told an economic forum on Friday that...
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Filed under: News, Weird, Nature Motorcycle riding offers a unique sense of freedom and excitement, but these advantages are weighed against significant safety issues....
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The Russian nesting doll, the pride of a nation, is in trouble. For more than 200 years, the matryoshka has come to symbolise Russian handicraft at its finest, the...
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Feral children are long known to display animal behavior but here is a case of a five-year-old Russian girl who has been raised in a city but who barks and behaves like...
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Months of infighting between Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev over Russia’s budget ended on Monday - with Medvedev on top. At a...
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As a young officer fresh out of a Soviet military academy, Alexander Primak was assigned to serve in this frontier city in the Russian Far East, eight time zones away...
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Dear readers, amidst all the mayhem, I just couldn`t pick up my pen to write these words until the dust settled a little. The infamous Crisis is by now becoming...
made popular Dec 18 2008
By Vincent Van Ross
In a country like India where there is rampant unemployment and underemployment amongst the adults, what is it that encourages child labour? It...
made popular Sep 16 2008
Two months ago, Human Rights Watch published a 75-page white paper reviewing the effect of a 2006 Russian enactment known as the “Law on Extremism.” Just...
made popular Apr 28 2008
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Thousands of Russian non-governmental organizations face audits, searches and possible closure now that the deadline has passed for meeting stringent new regulations...
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“Alarmed by the recent Israeli incursion into Gaza and the continuing socio-economic deterioration of the occupied territories, several NGOs have launched crisis...
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Nokia and Vodafone have launched a new website to help NGOs to brainstorm on how mobile technology can be used as a tool for social and environmental improvement. The...
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Samarpana is a voluntary organization that serves spastics and mentally challenged persons. Samarpana, the home for spastics and the mentally challenged is celebrating...
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Ever imagined a BPL status for officers of high rank, retired Army personnel and government servants? If not, then have a peep into this article and you will find how...
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By now, most of the efforts of US have ended in smoke to trammel the spread of sexually transmitted diseases in her territory and the nation is constantly seeing a...
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The land degradation is continuously going on and if the process will go without any hurdle, Orissa will be changed in a desert in next 150 years. An NGO’s wing,...
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Bollywood Glam Doll Kareena Kapoor has been chosen for Smita Patil Memorial Award for her contribution to Indian film industry.
Priyadarshini Academy, a prominent NGO...
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After the destruction caused by the October 8 earthquake last year, nearly 73,000 people were displaced in Pakistan. The worst condition was in Balakot town, which had...
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Education is becoming a far-fetched dream for the girls in Afghanistan. With the Taliban’s gaining satanic strength in the southern and southeastern Afghanistan...
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Jordan is a nation where the judiciary is solely a male-dominated territory. However, Jordanian National Forum for Women (JNFW), a local NGO is trying to motivate more...
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After the Supreme Court settled the whole grime whipped up over raising the height of the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP), a group of NGOs has embarked on a new mission...
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Lords of Poverty by Graham Hancock dares to reveal not only the failure of the big projects, but also unmasks the immoral character of the protagonists. Hancock has...
made popular Oct 21 2005
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