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Freed Pussy Riot punk slams Kremlin amnesty as 'PR stunt' Pussy Riot bandmember Maria Alyokhina, who was freed from prison Monday under a Kremlin-backed amnesty, slammed the measure as a mere publicity stunt and said that she would have preferred to remain in prison.

23 December 2013

Khodorkovsky to stay out of Russia, help jailed dissidents Russia's former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky said Sunday after walking free from a decade in jail that he would stay away from his homeland but help to free Russian political prisoners still behind bars.

23 December 2013

Pussy Riot punk Alyokhina freed from Russian prison: lawyer One of the jailed members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot, Maria Alyokhina, was freed from prison on Monday after receiving amnesty.

23 December 2013

Morgan Stanley sells oil trading assets to Rosneft Investment bank Morgan Stanley Friday announced plans to sell part of its commodity business to Russian oil giant Rosneft for an undisclosed sum.

21 December 2013

Kazakhstan-born Mitalipov among Nature's Top 10 scientists of 2013 Kazakhstan-born Shoukhrat Mitalipov is among the Top 10 scientists, who have made the most significant breakthroughs this year.

20 December 2013

Putin pardons Khodorkovsky after 10 years in jail President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed a decree granting a pardon to Russia's former richest man and bitter Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky, allowing his release after more than a decade in prison.

20 December 2013

China to build two new Antarctic bases: state media Chinese workers are on their way to build the country's fourth Antarctic research base and a fifth is being planned, state-run media said Thursday as the country expands its imprint on the icy continent.

20 December 2013

Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine to storm global grain market together Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine are intending to coordinate their actions at the global grain market: Vladimir Putin.

18 December 2013

Russian missile deployment raises alarm Washington has joined Russia's neighbours in voicing alarm after Moscow revealed it had moved nuclear-capable Iskander missiles closer to EU borders in response to the US-led deployment of a disputed air defence shield.

18 December 2013

World experiences hottest November in 134 years: US The month of November was the hottest experienced on Earth since record-keeping began in 1880, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Tuesday.

18 December 2013

West has 'lost sense of reality' over Ukraine: Russia Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday said that Western countries appear to have lost "their sense of reality" over the pro-EU protests in Ukraine, which he called the work of provocateurs.

14 December 2013

French court urged to extradite Kazakhstan tycoon Ablyazov Prosecutors on Thursday urged a French court to grant requests from Russia and Ukraine for the extradition of exiled Kazakh oligarch Mukhtar Ablyazov wanted on embezzlement charges.

13 December 2013

Russia and Kazakhstan agree to resume Proton-M launches from Baikonur Russia has agreed with Kazakhstan to resume Proton-M rocket launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome.

12 December 2013

Russia court orders review of Pussy Riot verdicts The Russian Supreme Court has ordered a review of the guilty verdicts handed to two members of punk band Pussy Riot, three months before the pair are due to be released from prison, it said Thursday.

12 December 2013

Canada vows to defend Santa Claus Canada vowed Tuesday to defend the North Pole and Santa Claus, insisting the mythical figure is a citizen, after Russia ordered its military to step up its Arctic presence.

11 December 2013

Kazakhstan offers Russia to develop new cooperation program for Baikanur Kazakhstan has offered Russia to develop a new cooperation program for Baikanur Cosmodrome to be implemented until 2030.

11 December 2013

China seen as 'confident', 'belligerent': state media People around the world see China as "confident", "belligerent" and "arrogant", state-run media reported Tuesday in an unusually direct survey of attitudes towards the country.

10 December 2013

Kazakhstan national wins Miss Asia Moscow 2013 Saida Adilova, a model from Kazakhstan, has won the Miss Asia Moscow 2013 beauty contest in Russia.

09 December 2013

Sambo: Kazakhstan wins 2 gold medals at World Sambo Championship The national team of Kazakhstan got the 3rd place by medal count at the World Sambo Championship held in St. Petersburg on November 21-25.

09 December 2013

Elton John challenges Russian gay ban from stage British pop icon Elton John escaped serious criticism in Russia on Saturday after using a sold-out Moscow concert to challenge a highly contentious law banning the "propaganda of homosexuality" to minors.

09 December 2013

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