By Kevin Spak
Edward Snowden has finally left the Moscow airport he’s been calling home for more than a month now, after getting papers granting him temporary asylum in Russia. “I have just handed over to him papers from the Russian Immigration Service,” Snowden’s lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, told Russian media. “They are what… …read more
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NSA leaker Edward Snowden reportedly has left the Moscow airport and entered Russian territory after receiving refugee status in the country.
A Russian lawyer for National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden says he has received papers that allow him to leave the transit zone of Moscow’ airport and enter Russia pending a decision on his request for asylum in Russia. …read more
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FBI officials reportedly tried to entice the father of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden to fly to Moscow to persuade his son to return to the United States, but the effort ultimately collapsed when a way for the two to speak once together in Russia could not be established. …read more
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MOSCOW, July 30 (UPI) — Moscow police said they have busted a ring of professed so-called psychics accused of convincing people they were cursed and then charging to remove the hexes. …read more
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Former Olympic, World and Commonwealth 400m champion Christine Ohuruogu was on Tuesday named captain of Britain’s squad for the World Championships in Moscow. …read more
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Pyotr Ofitserov, a smiley round-faced businessman and father-of-five, kicked a ball in the living room of his Moscow apartment playing with his seven-year-old son. …read more
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1402 – Battle at Ancyra/Angora/Ankara: Timur Lenk beats sultan Bajezid I
1858 – William Herschel of the Indian Civil Service in India
1858 – Nadar takes 1st airborne photo (in a balloon)
1943 – World War II: Operation Gomorrah: The British bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.
1988 – Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for 1st visit in 21 years
1991 – Buffalo Bills beat Philadelphia Eagles, 17-13 in American Bowl in Wembley
1833 – James Henry Lane, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) [or Jun 22 1814]
1947 – Elena Novikova-Belova, USSR, foils (Olympic-gold-1968)
1948 – Sergei Bodrov, Khabarovsk Russia, director (Katala, Somebody to Love)
1954 – Gerd Faltings, German mathematician
1964 – Bruce Wilkerson, NFL tackle (Jaguars, GB Packers-Superbowl 31)
1985 – Tynisha Keli, American singer
1057 – Victor II, [Gebhard], Pope (1055-57), dies
1711 – Gerard Lairesse, painter, buried
1956 – Ludwig Klages, German philosopher/graphologist, dies at 83
1969 – Frank H Loesser, US songwriter/composer (Guys and Dolls), dies at 59
1973 – Royal Butler, actor, dies at 80
1980 – Cecil Burleigh, composer, dies at 95
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CSKA Moscow’s Brazilian forward Vagner Love is leaving the Russian champions for Chinese league high-flyers Shandong Luneng Taisan, the Moscow side said in a surprise announcement Wednesday. …read more
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Edward Snowden, who leaked documents revealing U.S. National Security Agency surveillance programs, has received a document that allows him to leave Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, according to news reports.
The document allows Snowden to leave the transit zone of the airport, according to a report by Russian state-owned news agency Ria Novosti on Wednesday. He can do so provided that the border service does not object, the report said.
Snowden is expected to meet his lawyer at the airport later today, according to an unnamed official cited by Reuters.
Snowden requested temporary asylum in Russia earlier in July in an effort to avoid prosecution by the U.S. government, which has indicted him on charges related to the leaks. Snowden is believed to have been staying at the Moscow airport since arriving there on June 23 on a flight from Hong Kong.
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Russian state news agency says US leaker Edward Snowden has been granted a document that allows him to leave the transit zone of a Moscow airport and enter Russia. …read more
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Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor on the lam in Russia after disclosing secrets about the U.S. spying program, may be leaving Moscow soon.
One of the jailed members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot on Wednesday asked again to be released on parole after serving almost a year in prison for a protest againt President Vladimir Putin in a Moscow church. …read more
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By hnn
Cultural heritage activists in Moscow, St Petersburg and across the rest of Russia are warning that a string of important architectural monuments are falling prey to a dangerous combination of Soviet-style brutality and capitalist greed, and might soon be irrevocably lost.
Landmarks such as the Bolkonsky House, which inspired scenes in Leo Tolstoy’s novels, and a seminal 1850s roundhouse railway depot that inspired similar depots in Europe and the US are hanging by a thread, they say, or have, for all practical purposes, been destroyed.
Their warning calls also underscore a growing activism, or at least a sense of an active preservationist community linked by social networking resources such as Facebook.
When Yevgeny Sosedov—a 25-year-old preservationist who has been battling for years to save Arkhangelskoye, the Yusupov family estate—recently raced to save an historic avenue of linden trees nearby, he was surprised by the intensity of the reaction….
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After a month-long layover from hell in Sheremetyevo Airport’s transit area, Edward Snowden may finally be able to leave and head into Moscow on Wednesday. The NSA leaker should receive the initial response to his temporary asylum request by then, and that will allow him to exit the Moscow airport,… …read more
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By Dean Popplewell, Contributor
Despite the onset of the summer doldrums, a busy weekend in Moscow, Tokyo, and Beijing will possibly inject some life into the financial markets. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe got what he wanted over the weekend: control of the upper house of parliament. The Liberal Democratic Party-New Komeito coalition Abe leads now holds 135 seats after the election, regaining a majority and surpassing the “stable majority” threshold of 129 seats that enabled the coalition to control the house. Abe’s coalition already owns 325 seats and enjoys the so-called “super majority” in the lower house. Armed with a new, strong mandate, the country’s political stability is on solid footing for the first time in six years as Abe presses ahead with his economic reforms. …read more
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Whoops. That’s a word nobody wants to hear in racing, and that’s especially true in Formula 1, where the cars cost untold millions to design, develop, build and operate. In other words, just about any ‘whoops’ is an expensive ‘whoops.’
Kamui Kobayashi, who made his F1 debut in 2009 driving for Toyota, has always been known as a bit of a wild card in the sport. He is notoriously difficult to pass, driving as he does with seemingly reckless abandon, and he’s not afraid to get tangled up with the world’s best drivers in the world’s fastest race cars.
That brash attitude sometimes serves him well. Other times… well, not so much. See what happens with Kobayashi tries to show off in a Ferrari F1 car for fans on a wet track in Moscow in the twin videos below.
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Russian protest leader Alexei Navalny was on Sunday preparing his campaign to challenge the pro-Kremlin elite in Moscow mayoral elections after returning home to a hero’s welcome following his release from prison. …read more
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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has returned to Moscow after his surprise release from jail and says he will push forward in his campaign to become mayor of the Russian capital. …read more
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Top Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny told hundreds of cheering supporters that he would push ahead with his bid to become Moscow mayor after his surprise release from jail pending an appeal of an embezzlement conviction. …read more
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