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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – May 6, 2013

By Citizen M | Published: May 6, 2013

TODAY: Protesters gear up for May 6 anniversary march; poll says Russians believe Navalny trial is corrupt; Putin praises Kirill as 4 million gather for Easter mass; bird group branded ‘foreign agent’; Moscow official shot dead; missing plane found. As some protesters await trial and others remain under house arrest for taking part in protests on [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast- April 12, 2013

By Citizen M | Published: April 12, 2013

TODAY: ‘Irreplaceable’ reporter Mikhail Beketov laid to rest; NGOs hit back at Putin over foreign funding claims; COE joins in criticism of the ‘foreign agents’ law; Kremlin considers legislation to protect religious sentiments. Moscow renews commitment to Baikonur cosmodrome; heavy losses in steel sector; Rosneft and Exxonmobil unveil LNG project; warming ties with Georgia Activist Yevgenia [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – March 19, 2013

By Citizen M | Published: March 19, 2013

TODAY: Proposed Cyprus bank levy prompts criticism from Putin; President’s judo partner going for gold (of a kind) at Sochi Olympics; economic growth looking sluggish. Max Shatto’s parents will not face charges in adopted son’s death; Foreign Ministry concerned about Washington’s missile defence system; hate crimes report; Ultra Orthodox group take on Yabloko and Darwin.  A [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Jan 23, 2013

By Citizen M | Published: January 23, 2013

TODAY: Gay rights protest turns violent; May 6 protesters are sentenced, await trial, go on hunger strikes; man charged with slander over church criticism; Lavrov promises retaliation against and a commitment to better ties with U.S.; post Jan 1 adoptions to be granted; Syria evacuation; Medvedev at Davos. Yesterday’s gay rights demonstration against a new [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – December 13, 2012

By Citizen M | Published: December 13, 2012

TODAY: Putin lambasts foreign interference in state of the nation address; vows to tackle elite’s offshore holdings; affirms need for traditional values. NGOs under pressure; Moscow City Hall says no to opposition rally; controversial Politkovskaya plea bargain upheld; US attacks US adoption failings. Renault takes control of Avtovaz.  In his state of the nation address, [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Dec 11, 2012

By Citizen M | Published: December 11, 2012

TODAY: Tit-for-tat response to Magnitsky law; Putin emphasises need for patriotism, pledges to tackle graft; man held over TV host murder. Moscow ready to relinquish Azerbaijan radar base; Russia’s oil spill rap sheet. British conservative party denies links with Kremlin; Abramovich set for reduced stake in Norlisk; economic growth slows.  In a ‘symmetrical’ response to Washington’s Magnitsky bill, Russian [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Dec 3, 2012

By Citizen M | Published: December 3, 2012

TODAY: E.U. court seeks information on Razvozzhayev case; new evidence against Udaltsov; Coryn amendment; Perepilichnyy case unsolved; religious law under review; Putin in Turkey; crude output at record high; two-day traffic jam. The European Court of Human Rights is seeking information from Russia and Ukraine regarding its criminal case against opposition activist Leonid Razvozzhayev.  The [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Nov 5, 2012

By Citizen M | Published: November 5, 2012

TODAY: 6,000 Nationalists march against Putin, his industrial support wanes; homophobic attacks; prosecutors probe Left Front; Kirill warns against return to troubles; Lavrov in Cairo for Syria; Japan to build Russian gas pipeline? A reported 6,000 nationalists (‘from moderate to far-right’) gathered in Moscow for an anti-Kremlin march yesterday, with a small group detained for [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Oct 31, 2012

By Citizen M | Published: October 31, 2012

TODAY: Treason law passed; Stalin’s terror remembered; opposition hold rally for modern day victims of repression; Pozner seconds criticisms of the treatment of Leonid Razvozzhayev. Russian orthodox monastery faces unseemly allegations; Altimo takes control of Vimpelcom; TNK-BP profits soar; Sochi compensation  The Federation Council has passed a controversial new bill that would redefine high treason [...]

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Apple Blasphemy?

By Citizen M | Published: October 19, 2012

Russia’s Orthodox believers, perhaps goaded by the Pussy Riot scandal into a heightened sensitivity to all things potentially blasphemous, have apparently found a new target in the Apple logo (CNet has the story).  Although supposedly inspired by Isaac Newton’s ‘apple incident‘, some conservative believers apparently ‘see the image of the bitten apple as a symbol [...]

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