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Mr Ban also called on Russia - a member of the stalled six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programme - to help bring Pyongyang back to the negotiating table.
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Another rally, organized by TV anchor Sergei Kurginyan, will take place on Thursday at the All-Russia Exhibition Centre in north-eastern Moscow.
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China and Russia, North Korea's closest allies, called for a resumption of the stalled multi-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programme.
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As in previous years the Arctic Sea is opening up on the Atlantic side, north of Scandinavian countries and Russia.
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"There's pressure on forests in north-western Russia, touching Scandinavia, but the main problem is in far-eastern Siberia where the mafia is particularly violent, " Mr Bismarck told me.
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It says it then aims to manufacture the device in Asia so that it can go on sale in Russia "in the summer", and in Europe and North America before the end of 2013.
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The author of this masterpiece was born in 1894 in Galicia on the Austro-Hungarian empire's north-eastern border with Russia.
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Compare, he suggests, a shade smugly, Narva, Estonia's virtually all-ethnic-Russian town on the north-eastern border, with Ivangorod, just across the river in Russia.
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Whereas most continental power providers, often state-backed, tied in supplies through long-term contracts (notably with Russia), British firms happily tapped the North Sea and planned to top up as necessary on the open market.
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Other Fossil Fuel companies on a divestment strategy are BP who are selling their stakes in fields in the North Sea, Russia, the Arctic and the Gulf to name but a few and not even batting an eyelid about being refused license to buy future assets in the Gulf.
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Mr Bush has insisted that the talks must also include China, Russia, Japan and South Korea on the grounds that any deal struck would only have a fair chance of sticking if the North's neighbours were involved.
ECONOMIST: Dangerous and nuclear