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Omaha World-Herald
April 29, 2018
He likes this part of the lake.” Male mandarin and wood ducks are two of the most beautiful ducks in God's creation. Mandarins are natives of the Far East — China, Japan, Korea and southeast Russia. Wood ducks are North America's entry in the waterfowl beauty contest. Although they normally are a worldÃâà...
New York Times
April 27, 2018
Every year, officials say, at least one big rig goes through the ice of a lake or big river. “The danger is always with the daring truck drivers,” said Aleksandr A. Kondratyev, the director of the regional department of roads in Mirny, a diamond-mining town in northeastern Siberia linked to the rest of Russia to theÃâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
April 19, 2018
... Donald Trump expressed deep concerns about the judgment of his national security adviser Michael Flynn weeks before forcing him to resign, according to memos kept by former FBI Director James Comey that recount in detail efforts by Trump to influence the bureau's expanding investigation of Russia.
HeritageDaily
April 18, 2018
During deep drilling in 2007-2009 on the shores of the Lake Onega in Karelia, Russian geologists stumbled upon thick salt beds that had been buried 2-3 km below the surface. These beds contained extraordinarily well preserved evaporite minerals – salt deposits of halite and anhydrite left behind byÃâà...
Lake Placid News
April 18, 2018
Syria and its ally Russia have denied any chemical attack took place, and Moscow accused Syrian rebels of fabricating the attack with British assistance, a claim Britain has rejected. The Russian military claimed Tuesday it found rebel chemical weapons stockpiles in Douma, including chlorine and mustardÃâà...
Nhan Dan Online
April 18, 2018
... utmost to connect Vietnamese and Russian businesses in their search for investment and cooperation opportunities. Irkutsk boasts substantial potential for investment and economic development, such as the province's advantages in holding the largest area of forest in Russia, the largest freshwater lakeÃâà...
ecns
April 17, 2018
Ice is melting in Xingkai Lake, which runs along the border of China and Russia in northeast China's Heilongjiang province. Stunning views of cracked ice have drawn visitors from far and wide to witness the awe inspiring scenery. The freshwater lake boasts a variety of fish and birds, as well as a largeÃâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
April 15, 2018
Mr. No Comment: Meet the Utahn who speaks for the special counsel's Russia-Trump probe, but don't expect him to say too much. Mr. No .... After graduating from BYU, Carr spent a year at the public relations firm Richter7 in Salt Lake City before joining Hatch's team as a press assistant. It was the first timeÃâà...
Lakenewsonline.com
April 15, 2018
The U.S. ambassador in Moscow, John Huntsman, said in a video, “Before we took action, the United States communicated with” Russia to “reduce the danger of any Russian or civilian casualties.” Russia has military forces, including air defenses, in several areas of Syria to support Assad in his long warÃâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
April 2, 2018
Of the seven new temples announced Sunday by new LDS Church President Russell M. Nelson, one is planned for Russia, a country where Mormon proselytizers can't even call themselves “missionaries,” another will go up in India, the world's largest Hindu nation, and yet another will be in, well, Utah,Ãâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
March 27, 2018
London • NATO on Tuesday joined a wave of countries and groups expelling Russian diplomats over the nerve-agent attack on a former spy in Britain. Russia ... The mass expulsions were a show of solidarity for Britain, which blames Russia for the poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.
Lake Placid News
March 23, 2018
But European politicians and leaders varied in how far they were willing to go in blaming Russia President Vladimir Putin's Kremlin. The president of former Soviet state Lithuania said she was considering expelling Russian diplomats in the wake of the March 4 attack. The Greek prime minister, in contrast,Ãâà...
Kyiv Post
March 23, 2018
Former CIA director John Brennan, who was in his post right up until Trump's inauguration, told MSNBC's “Morning Joe” panel that he thinks Trump is afraid of Russian president Vladimir Putin. “The fact that he has had this fawning attitude towards Mr. Putin and has not said anything negative about him,Ãâà...
Lake Country Calendar
March 22, 2018
The Russian Embassy is firing back at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for criticizing President Vladimir Putin at a news conference this week. But a leading expert on Russia and the Arctic is dismissing the dust-up as the result of a mistaken prime minister, and a junior Russian diplomat with an itchy TwitterÃâà...
South China Morning Post
March 22, 2018
Close to the border with Russia, at the foot of the eastern Sayan Mountains, the “blue pearl” – as it is known in this part of northwestern Mongolia – is classified as one of the 17 ancient lakes of the world, having held water consistently for more than 2 million years. With mirror-like azure waters stretching toÃâà...
Journal Times
March 11, 2018
Ron Johnson, R-Wis., speaks to the Union Grove Area Chamber of Commerce at Michael's On The Lake on Friday. ... “The narrative from the administration to members of Congress was 'We have evidence that Russia has attempted certain things in our election, but we're aware of it, we've got it underÃâà...
The Indian Express
March 11, 2018
After their successful and sold-out shows at the Siri Fort auditorium in New Delhi last September, the Royal Russian Ballet has landed in Mumbai this weekend to perform Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's spectacular ballet, Swan Lake, at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA). There will be 15 showsÃâà...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
March 11, 2018
It's too soon to conclude whether the former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia are Moscow's latest overseas victims. U.K. authorities have just begun their investigation into the poisoning, while health officials treat nearly 20 others “in connection” with the incident. Regardless, theÃâà...
Stuff.co.nz
March 10, 2018
In southern Siberia, Lake Baikal is not just the deepest lake in the world – plunging to depths of 700 metres – but is estimated to hold 20 per cent of the ... The capital of the republic of Tatarstan, Kazan is a city of minarets as well as onion domes, a place where the street signs are in Tatar as well as Russian.
The Storm Lake Times
March 9, 2018
This may read like a romance novel, but you can't make this stuff up any better than true life —A self-proclaimed “seductress, with a Russian passport, claims she can fill in the missing puzzle pieces on the Russian collusion with Trump's election. It all broke with an opposition Russian politician, barred fromÃâà...
Lake Country Calendar
March 8, 2018
Skripal, a former colonel in Russia's GRU military intelligence service, was convicted in 2006 of spying for Britain and imprisoned. He was freed in 2010 as part of a widely publicized spy swap in which the U.S. agreed to hand over 10 members of a Russian sleeper cell found operating in America in returnÃâà...
Detroit Free Press
March 7, 2018
A diver working on behalf of the nonprofit National Wildlife Federation inspects the Line 5 oil pipelines at the lake bottom in the Straits of Mackinac during a July 2013 dive. (Photo: ... "The people who want to see the Great Lakes protected and Line 5 decommissioned aren't Russian trolls." Sierra ClubÃâà...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
March 1, 2018
Democrats are furious. Leaders of the U.S. intelligence community have no doubt that Russian trolls, bots and hackers are planning to meddle in the midterm elections this fall and to date President Donald Trump has not instructed his cyber generals to hit back. This was the upshot of Senate testimonyÃâà...
Sputnik International
February 26, 2018
The festival is held in the village of Listvyanka, in Irkutsk region. The entertainment program includes perfomances by musicians from different cities across Russia as well as winter amusements such as skating. The heart-shaped rink on Lake Baikal perfectly fits in with this year's slogan of the festivalÃâà...
The Economist
February 22, 2018
ON AN early winter morning, with temperatures below –20ÃâúC and a fierce wind whipping off the water, Vasily Sutula, the stern, moustachioed director of a nature reserve on the shores of Lake Baikal, happily surveyed a dozen young volunteers. The youngsters declared the day dubak, slang for a freezeÃâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
December 31, 1999
Moscow • Early results and an exit poll showed that Vladimir Putin handily won a fourth term as Russia's president Sunday, adding six years in the Kremlin for the man who has led the world's largest country for all of the 21st century. The vote was tainted by widespread reports of ballot-box stuffing andÃâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
December 31, 1999
According to the article, Romney's hawkish approach to Russia made the country's government dislike the idea of him being the United States' top diplomat. The memo indicates that the Russian government asked Trump to nominate someone who would remove U.S. sanctions on Ukraine and push aÃâà...
Lake Country Calendar
December 31, 1999
Russia is using Ukraine as a test ground for its information war against Western democracy, Ukraine's foreign minister told G7 ministers meeting here on Sunday. Foreign Affairs Minister Chystia Freeland wants the disruptive influence of Russia on the West to be a top agenda item, and she set the tableÃâà...
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