| June 2013 |
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The next G8 summit will take place in the southern Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi in June 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Tuesday.
Russia has paid off a $2 billion Soviet-era debt to Serbia and Slovakia, the Russian Finance Ministry said Tuesday.
Seattle photographer Andrew Miksys was in the eastern Lithuanian village of Svencionys in 2000 when he spotted young people walking into a Soviet-era cultural center.
Russia will develop a national plan to deal with offshore tax havens, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted on Tuesday that disagreements over the deployment of a US missile shield in Europe still remain, but Moscow and Washington should boost the transparency of actions related to the dispute.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday played down assertions that, regarding how to deal with the Syria conflict, he alone was opposing all other leaders of the Group of Eight powerful economies in talks this week in Northern Ireland.
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Russia has seen both the number of young people in the country and their share in the total population decline steadily in recent years, an Education Ministry official said on Tuesday.
Moscow hopes that upcoming three-way talks will result in an agreement that will help end Syria's two-year civil war, a senior Russian official said on Tuesday, as the issue of Syria opened up a chasm between Russia and the West at the ongoing G8 summit in Northern Ireland.
Russia will issue a separate statement on the use of chemical weapons in Syria as an attachment to the G8 joint declaration, underscoring the divergence of opinions on the issue among the participants of the summit, a senior Russian diplomat said Tuesday.
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Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service plans to separate smokers and non-smokers in prisons and other detention facilities, an official said on Tuesday.
Russia moves to ban smoking in public places in an effort to stamp out a habit which kills up to 500,000 people every year. 

Russian energy giant Gazprom avoided making a final investment decision Tuesday on the giant Shtokman field in the Arctic amid falling European demand and cheap shale gas in the United States.
Russian lawmakers have unanimously approved amendments banning the adoption of Russian children by foreign couples in same-sex relationships, in a second reading vote on a broader bill.
Scientists in southern Russia are working to clone a 100-year-old poplar tree that survived the Battle of Stalingrad, a spokesperson for the local environmental authority said.
Russian investigators have launched a formal enquiry into a senior executive at the country's biggest airline, Aeroflot, over allegations he abused his authority by lobbying in favor of deals with tour companies owned by his family, the Investigative Committee said on Tuesday.
June 18 (RIA Novosti) – The number of minors behind bars in Russia has fallen by over 70 percent in the last five years, a prison service official said on Tuesday.
A Russian businessman is suspected of having killed a fortune-teller who had allegedly caused his marriage to fall apart, investigators in the Moscow Region said on Tuesday.
The southern Russian resort city on the Black Sea won the right to host
the Olympics at an IOC session in Guatemala in July 2007 after a close
race with South Korea's Pyeongchang and Austria's Salzburg. More than 200 sports and infrastructural facilities are to be built in
Sochi by the time of the 2014 Winter Games. The cost of building the
facilities and infrastructure is estimated at more than $30 billion.
