AP - Russia is expelling two Moscow-based NATO employees who are Canadian diplomats in retaliation for NATO’s recent expulsion of two Russian envoys from its headquarters, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
Reuters - Russia will order out two Canadian NATO envoys on Wednesday in response to the alliance’s expulsion of two Russian diplomats, Interfax news agency quoted an unnamed Foreign Ministry official as saying on Tuesday.
AP - Russian gay rights activists announced plans Tuesday to hold a parade hours before this month’s finals of the Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow, potentially setting the stage for a confrontation with city authorities and extremists.
AP - Russia’s foreign minister has pulled out of a NATO-Russia Council meeting planned for Brussels this month to protest the alliance’s upcoming military exercises in Georgia and the expulsion of two Russian diplomats from its headquarters, a senior diplomat said Tuesday.
Reuters - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has dropped plans to attend a meeting of the NATO-Russia Council this month in protest at NATO’s expulsion of Russian diplomats, Russia’s NATO envoy said on Tuesday.
Reuters - Russia has extended its ban on imports of live pigs and raw pork to include the United Kingdom because of fears about the spread of a deadly flu virus, the country’s chief veterinarian said on Tuesday.
AFP - Russian billionaire and Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich lost one of the yachts in his sizeable personal fleet in a game of poker, Russian newspapers reported on Monday, prompting a strong denial from the oligarch.
AFP - It has not been an easy year for Dmitry Medvedev.
Reuters - A British charity fundraiser won the “best job in the world” Wednesday — caretaker of an Australian tropical island — after an innovative marketing campaign that highlighted the power of social media.
AP - A bungee jumping, ostrich-riding British charity worker was named the winner Wednesday of what’s been dubbed the “Best Job in the World” a six-month contract to serve as caretaker of a tropical Australian island.
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