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A capsule look at the NCAA tournament games in Charlotte on Friday.Michigan State vs ... TV ... Tap-ins ... ▪ Michigan State is among the nation’s top 10 in assists per game (fourth) and assist/turnover ratio (seventh), and Georgia is fifth in defensive rebounds per game ... TV ... Tap-ins. ▪ Virginia leads the nation in points allowed (50.8 per game) and is third in defensive field-goal percentage (39.5 percent) ... TV ... Tap-ins ... TV ... Tap-ins....
The Charlotte Observer 2015-03-19Over the past year, Russia has seen an unprecedented rise in the activity of "Kremlin trolls" - bloggers allegedly paid by the state to criticise Ukraine and the West on social media and post favourable comments about the leadership in Moscow ... Prominent journalist and Russia expert Peter Pomerantsev appears on Ukrainian internet-based Hromadske TV....
BBC News 2015-03-19and European Union sanctions on Russia for its involvement in the Ukraine crisis, Putin warned Thursday of a possible "limit on the use of these capital amounts which are located in foreign jurisdictions." ... The speech was followed by a private meeting with several top oligarchs, at which Putin emphasized funds should be brought to Russia promptly, billionaire Oleg Deripaska told local TV....
Dayton Daily News 2015-03-19More ‘Biggest Loser’ contestants reveal secrets.” The gist of the article is this, many of the hit TV show’s contestants have not only put their weight back on, but they suffered other consequences such as injuries and additional health conditions ... According to contestant Suzanne Medonca, contestants were working out four hours a day, sitting in the sauna for hours on end and not eating or drinking fluids for successful weigh-ins....
The Examiner 2015-03-19Press TV has conducted an interview with Stephen Lendman, an author and radio host from Chicago, to discuss the ongoing tensions between the West and Russia over the crisis in Ukraine....
Press TV 2015-03-19“The UK is committed to supporting Ukraine’s sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity in the face of Russia’s aggression”, an MoD spokeswoman said ... Everything has got to be done in order to support them, but the solution is not going to be and is not a military solution and I think there got to be a diplomatic solution”, Andrew Smith of Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT), told Press TV....
Press TV 2015-03-19In an apparent reference to the possibility of further US and European Union sanctions on Russia for its involvement in the Ukraine crisis, Mr Putin warned of a possible "limit on the use of these capital amounts which are located in foreign jurisdictions.". Citing "disturbing information from a number of countries," Mr Putin told the conference in Moscow that measures could be introduced to prevent capital being returned to Russia....
Belfast Telegraph 2015-03-19A huge, eery flash that appeared to shoot up as a beam of light into the night sky has spooked residents of a city in southern Russia ... the light was part of huge military exercises, which are currently underway across Russia involving 80,000 troops; others believed the inexplicable lights were proof of aliens, pointing to the fact that similar flashes have appeared in at least four other cities....
ABC News 2015-03-19Papers want China to have a bigger say in the international credit ratings system to end the "monopoly" of Western agencies ... According to the China News Service, Dagong Global Credit Rating, China's largest ratings agency, has assigned a high A- investment rating to Russia's Gazprombank ... Sanctions and the tumbling oil price have sent the Russian economy spiralling into recession, following the crisis in Ukraine....
BBC News 2015-03-19Hamilton and teammates Monica Walker (Brighton, Mass.), Tara Peterson (Eagan, Minn.), Vicky Persinger (Fairbanks, Alaska), and Aileen Sormunen (Duluth, Minn.) conclude their week in Japan with a final ranking of 10th place ... The loss means that China (7-4) will play Scotland (7-4) in a tiebreaker game tomorrow morning with the winner becoming the fourth seed and taking on Russia in the Page 3-4 playoff ... *last rock in first end....
noodls 2015-03-19Ukraine has urged the European Union (EU) to stay united in keeping up sanctions pressure on Russia over the conflict in eastern Ukraine ... Russia and the conflict in Ukraine figure high on the agenda of the summit in Brussels but the leaders are unlikely to announce any new sanctions ... If Russia divides opinion on sanctions, "this will be the biggest success story for president Putin," Mr Yatsenyuk said ... Most Read in this section....
Belfast Telegraph 2015-03-19Two Asiatic cheetahs, a critically endangered species, are kept in the Iranian capital of Tehran far from their natural habitat as part of a special conservation program, Press TV reports ... But no one in the world could dare to see this beautiful animal become extinct,” project manager Houman Jowkar told Press TV....
Press TV 2015-03-19Starbucks delivery to start in Seattle, New York City ... MOSCOW (AP) — General Motors will slash production in Russia and pull its mass-market Opel brand completely in the face of plummeting sales in the economically troubled country. Mainstream GM brands have been among the biggest losers as Russia's auto market shrinks, with sales of Chevrolet down 74 percent year-on-year in February and those of Opel plunging 86 percent....
The Charlotte Observer 2015-03-19Television in Russia was introduced in 1931, when Russia was still known as the Russian SFSR.
Between 1941 and 1945 all television broadcasts in the nation were interrupted because of Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union. During these early years, most television programs were about life in the Soviet Union, cultural activities and sports.
In 1960 a second national television channel was established. This initial expansion of activity encompassed mostly the city of Moscow, but to a lesser extent also Leningrad, the Urals, Siberia and the Ukrainian SSR. Each republic, area or region had its own television station.
In the 1970s and 1980s, television become the preeminent mass medium. In 1988 approximately 75 million households owned television sets, and an estimated 93 percent of the population watched television. Moscow, the base from which most of the television stations broadcast, transmitted some 90 percent of the country's programs, with the help of more than 350 stations and nearly 1,400 relay facilities.
Russia i/ˈrʌʃə/ or /ˈrʊʃə/ (Russian: Россия, tr. Rossiya; IPA: [rɐˈsʲijə] ( listen)), also officially known as the Russian Federation (Russian: Российская Федерация, tr. Rossiyskaya Federatsiya; IPA: [rɐˈsʲijskəjə fʲɪdʲɪˈratsɨjə] ( listen)), is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both via Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It also has maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk, and the US state of Alaska by the Bering Strait. At 17,075,400 square kilometres (6,592,800 sq mi), Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than one eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area. Russia is also the eighth most populous nation with 143 million people. It extends across the whole of northern Asia and 40% of Europe, spanning nine time zones and incorporating a wide range of environments and landforms. Russia has the world's largest reserves of mineral and energy resources and is the largest producer of oil and natural gas globally. Russia has the world's largest forest reserves and its lakes contain approximately one-quarter of the world's fresh water.