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Main News of May 2

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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

RUSSIA

*Russian President Vladimir Putin toured on Thursday a new stage of the Mariinsky Theater and gave an opening speech at the official ceremony marked with a gala concert.

*Deputy prime minister and influential Kremlin ideologue Vladislav Surkov mounted a vigorous defense of the embattled Skolkovo innovation hub and of the Russian political system during a visit to London on Wednesday.

*Russian law enforcements have killed 73 alleged members of the Islamist insurgency in the North Caucasus over the first three months of 2013, a police spokesman said.

WORLD

*An Irish parliamentary committee avoided pushing for a blacklist on Russian officials implicated in rights abuse following a warning that it could jeopardize a bilateral adoption agreement.

*Bolivian President Evo Morales followed the example of his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, expelling Wednesday the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) from the country.

*Ukraine was designated the world’s top violator of intellectual property rights in a new annual report by US Trade Representative (USTR) released Wednesday.

* NASA scientists provided details this week of how they dodged a 1.5-ton bullet in space last year when they had to fire the thruster engines on the Fermi Gamma-ray Telescope to nudge it out of the way and narrowly avoid a collision with a 26-year-old defunct Soviet-era satellite.

SPORT

*Georgia will not boycott next year’s Winter Olympics in the Russian city of Sochi after the country’s National Olympic Committee voted unanimously Thursday in favor of taking part.

 

 

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