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At least 34 people were killed and more than 180 injured in the blast which occurred inside the airport’s...
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(Reuters) - Japan is closely monitoring stepped-up activity by Russia’s military near disputed islands, Japan’s chief spokesman said Thursday after Moscow...
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Three days ago the Guardian’s Moscow correspondent returned to Russia to resume his duties there after a period of secondment in London, where he had been working...
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West African nations will send a high-level mission to Moscow, in a bid to persuade the Russian government to accept tougher action against Ivory Coast’s Laurent...
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A Moscow judge found Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the jailed former head of Yukos Oil Co., guilty of stealing crude from the company during a six-year period, his lawyers...
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MOSCOW — The 2018 World Cup will ramp up the quality of life in Russia so much that it will help reduce crime and make the nation healthier, Prime Minister Vladimir...
made popular Dec 16 2010
Russia may import gran if the country doesn’t have enough supplies after its worst drought in at least 50 years, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said.
“I asked...
made popular Nov 30 2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will come to Israel on an official visit January 17, in what will be his first trip to the country since becoming president, a senior...
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MOSCOW, November 9 (Itar-Tass) — Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev will have negotiations with Finland’s President Tarja Halonen, who has come to Moscow on...
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The Russian tourists who were unfortunately trapped in Sharm el-Sheikh will be allowed to fly home, after a 24 hour delay due to a plane breakdown. Russian passengers...
made popular Oct 20 2010
Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, whose 18-year rule transformed Moscow from a grey Soviet city into a glitzy, gritty showcase of Russia’s booming economy and its glaring...
made popular Sep 28 2010
“Mutual trust” will be the key to developing the vast resources of the Arctic and protecting its fragile ecosystems, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin...
made popular Sep 24 2010
Three years after Russian divers thrust a rust-proof flag into the seabed below the North Pole, the country is again staking its claim on the Arctic region.
An...
made popular Sep 23 2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who subjected President Barack Obama to a tirade last year during their only meeting, offered unusually warm words for the...
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Galina Litvyak had stopped by the kiosk down the road, wandered through nearby supermarkets and badgered friends for the latest rumors. Nobody knew where to find it....
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Police sealed off a central Moscow square and skirmished with anti-Kremlin activists Tuesday evening, detaining at least three Russian opposition leaders and dozens of...
made popular Sep 1 2010
For years, environmentalists have risked arrests and sometimes beatings by the police and masked plainclothes thugs in their efforts to halt the construction of a...
made popular Aug 27 2010
President Dmitry Medvedev asked Russia’s business elite Monday to help rebuild villages destroyed by fierce wildfires after rain and strong winds looked set to...
made popular Aug 17 2010
Footage of a brutal Russian brawl that may jeopardize the career of two military commanders has made its way online.
The incident, which occurred in July, took place...
made popular Aug 16 2010
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Russia said on Wednesday it had deployed high-precision air defense missiles in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia, sending a defiant signal to Tbilisi and the...
made popular Aug 12 2010
Muscovites are dying from extreme heat and smoke faster than their bodies can be stored, cremated or buried, and Russians are worried the death toll could be far higher...
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Moscow residents choked on a thick, gray smog that seeped into apartments, offices and even underground metro stations Wednesday as raging wildfires billowed...
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Hundreds of new fires broke out yesterday in Russian forests and fields that have been dried to a crisp by drought and record heat, but firefighters claimed success in...
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Vast sections of Russia were under a state of emergency yesterday as more than 10,000 firefighters battled to save villages and forests from being reduced to ash and...
made popular Jul 31 2010
Ethnic tensions have flared in Moscow after investigators freed a Chechen native who admitted to killing an ethnic Russian in a brawl earlier this month.
Thousands of...
made popular Jul 27 2010
In the final chapter of a saga worthy of a spy novel, the U.S. and Russia agreed to one of the biggest prisoner swaps between the countries since the Cold War.
The...
made popular Jul 9 2010
Copies of ‘Putin. The Results. 10 Years on’, written by opposition politicians Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Milov were “intended for participants of the...
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The Russian Supreme Court on Tuesday hears an appeal of 12 Muslims from the republic of Tatarstan imprisoned on charges of attempting to overthrow the local government....
made popular May 26 2010
Nearby famous French Quarter, under the old trees well shadowing a heart part of historically world-known New Orleans, LA, the D-Day Museum is located.
Its...
made popular May 10 2010
They’re called “black widows”, those wives of dead militants who line up to volunteer as walking suicide bombs in Russia. Whether seeking revenge for...
made popular Apr 3 2010
Islamic extremists said they would start using more women as suicide bombers, and they obviously are making good on their promises. This time, 2 female suicide bombers...
made popular Mar 29 2010
At least 35 people were killed on Monday when two separate blasts rocked metro stations in central Moscow during the rush hour, law enforcement and emergency officials...
made popular Mar 29 2010
A visa-free system between Finland and Russia would have EU-wide implications.
Visa-free travel between Finland and Russia may well become a reality – but on certain...
made popular Mar 18 2010
In a garage on 144 Warsaw Hwy., Moscow, lovers did it in a car with an engine working – ther is still winter in Russia, perhaps.
An exhaust gases inhalation caused...
made popular Mar 16 2010
Moscow’s police chief has been forced to apologize after allegations that motorists were ordered to move their vehicles into the path of a speeding getaway car,...
made popular Mar 12 2010
And after Wednesday, a few days on The Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine had accepted Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s request (hugely unpopular among the...
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Thousands of snow-clearing machines have been working to dig the Russian capital Moscow out of a record-breaking fall of 63cm (nearly 25 inches).
After a weekend of...
made popular Feb 23 2010
Yury Luzhkov, Mayor of Moscow, told a conference on Monday that he would not allow a gay rights parade in the city and any unsanctioned efforts would face police...
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An enormous television screen showing a pornographic film caused a midnight traffic jam in central Moscow Thursday as stunned motorists slammed on the brakes to gawk at...
made popular Jan 18 2010
The violence stems from deep animus between two aggressive camps with starkly different visions of Russia’s future — neo-Nazi skinheads who rank in the tens of...
made popular Nov 19 2009
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Nikola Pekovic, left, of Athens and Sasha Kaun, right, of Moscow challenge for the ball during the Euroleague Basketball Final Four final match between Panathinaikos Athens and CSKA Moscow in Berlin Germany, Sunday, May 3, 2009.
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