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Dalai Lama calls on people to think 'world first’

18:04 30/12/2011 Exclusive interview by RIA Novosti’s Olga Lipich

Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has called on people to think more of the entire world they live in rather than caring about their own interests first as a way out of the global crisis.

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Interview with Alexei Kudrin on potential return to government, euro’s future
13:55 19/12/2011
Former Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Kudrin, who served as Russia’s Minister of Finance for over a decade, explains why he had asked Vladimir Putin to replace former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, the conditions under which he would consider returning to the government, his thoughts on the acting finance minister and his forecast on the situation with the euro in an interview with RIA Novosti.
"Jobs saw himself as an artist, he was a perfectionist"
16:02 09/11/2011
Jobs always kept improving his products and changing the way he did things. He had a passion for perfection which meant he had trouble in compromising which meant that it was sometimes hard to get a product but when it came out, it was beautiful.
Russia-U.S. relations after 2012 elections
18:36 02/11/2011
I do not think they will undergo drastic changes after the 2012 elections in Russia. I think, that president Medvedev and prime-minister Putin are basically in agreement about the advisability of the, so called “reset” of the Russian-US relations that has taken place over the last nearly three years.
Nord Stream and South Stream inefficient for Russia – expert
15:27 26/09/2011
In recent years Russia has faced some serious problems with gas transit. Many believe that Russia’s Nord Stream and South Stream projects will be a way out of the situation.
Adam Michnik: “We need a Russian-Polish coalition against idiots”
18:10 23/09/2011
His enemies seldom dare to accuse him directly, preferring to tar him with guilt by association for his family’s past. Adam Michnik, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, has been called a “traitor to the nation” in marginal nationalist publications and at meetings of “anti-liberals.”
Cameron’s visit to Moscow: Views from Russia and Britain
16:11 15/09/2011
The first Russian visit by a British prime minister in the last six years has begun a thaw in bilateral relations. President Dmitry Medvedev said after his meeting with David Cameron that there is no need to over-dramatize differences between the two countries on a number of issues. RIA Novosti has asked a British and a Russian analyst to share their views on David Cameron’s recent visit.
Roza Otunbayeva: we’ve been uncomfortable in our new skin for 20 years now
13:35 09/09/2011
During its independent existence Kyrgyzstan has sustained severe economic downturns, regional upheavals, two revolutions and high ethnic tensions. Moscow News interviewed Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbayeva about the past and future under its joint project with RIA Novosti and the magazine Russia in Global Affairs “Twenty Years without the Soviet Union.”
Stepan Grigoryan on Kremlin’s inability to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh issue
19:09 06/09/2011
A joint session of the Nagorno-Karabakh regional and the Shaumyan district councils took place in the Karabakh capital of Stepanakert twenty years ago – on September 2, 1991.1
Russia 'have a chance to beat USA' in Rugby World Cup says coach Jones
17:15 31/08/2011
Russia have a real chance of beating the United States in the first game of their debut Rugby World Cup on September 15, insists assistant coach and team director Kingsley Jones.
How the United States slept while the Soviet Union crashed
11:32 19/08/2011
Lt. General Brent Scowcroft served as National Security Advisor under President George H. W. Bush when the coup against Mikhail Gorbachev occurred on August 19, 1991. He was in the White House team when all dramatic changes were happening in Eastern Europe and in the USSR, including the rapid growth of nationalism in the Soviet republics, the movement for independence from the USSR, and, finally, the breakup of the Soviet Union after the coup.2
Former KGB officer describes arrest in Austria
15:43 22/07/2011
Former commander of Russia’s Alpha Group, retired KGB Colonel Mikhail Golovatov, was detained at Vienna’s Schwechat International Airport on an arrest warrant issued by Lithuania. In an exclusive interview with RIA Novosti correspondent Valery Yarmolenko, Golovatov spoke about his detention and his return to Moscow.
St. Basil’s: No Need to Invent Mysteries
10:47 12/07/2011
St. Basil's the Blessed (Protection Veil of Our Lady) Cathedral, better known as St. Basil's (Intercession) Cathedral, is an architectural symbol of Moscow and Russia. The church, now a museum, is celebrating its 450th anniversary on July 12.
Legal protection of unborn children could boost Russia’s poor demographics
16:42 17/06/2011
Rising abortion rates are deepening Russia’s demographic crisis. The Russian Orthodox Church is becoming increasingly vocal in urging a review of current abortion policies, putting forward a series of legislative measures, which include limiting public funding and introducing a so-called “Week of Silence”.
Serzh Sargsyan: Territorial integrity does not mean inviolability of borders
00:06 21/05/2011
For a large number of people, the Soviet Union’s collapse was a tragedy because they lost a familiar life and apparent prosperity and had to abruptly change their lifestyles.
Interview with Leila Aliyeva, daughter of Azerbaijani president
18:19 18/05/2011
At the initiative of Azerbaijan’s First Lady, Mehriban Aliyeva, a concert dedicated to Azerbaijan was hosted at the State Kremlin Palace on May 17.
Syria: too much, too late?
17:40 05/05/2011
While a civil war accompanied by regular NATO airstrikes continues in Libya, massive opposition protests continue to break out in Syria. Can we expect the same scenario in the country that used to be one of the most stable in the region?
Natural catastrophes grow 6% annually
19:10 27/04/2011
Global warming has long become one of the hottest topics for scientists, politicians and mass media. While it is posed as a serious threat to humanity, there are many experts who believe that the idea of global warming is being promoted in order to avoid addressing more significant issues or even benefiting from it.2
Work days and weekends affect global climate
23:28 21/04/2011
Over the past year alone Moscow was affected by different climate anomalies – last summer’s two-month heat wave, winter’s ice rain and recent April snow. Is it a tendency? If so, what may be next? Nikolai Yelansky, head of the trace gas laboratory at the A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, answers these questions and also claims that due to the growth of worldwide industrial production, weekly work cycles now can influence the global climate.1
What is more dangerous for the enviroment – chemical weapons or ignorance?
20:31 19/04/2011
When speaking about the arms race, people tend to mention nuclear rather than chemical weapons. But ecologists consider the latter one of the biggest threats to the environment. Professor Sergei Baranovsky, President of Green Cross Russia, tells RIA Novosti’s Samir Shakhbaz what steps are being taken to reduce this threat.

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