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CNN
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Russian President Vladimir Putin made an unspecified proposal about Iran's nuclear program at a private meeting with the country's supreme leader during a brief trip to Tehran, Iran's state news agency said Wednesday. Russian officials could not immediate..
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CNN
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Iran should be allowed to pursue its nuclear program for peaceful purposes, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday during the first visit to the country by a Kremlin leader since 1943. Putin, who is in Tehran to attend a summit of Caspian Sea na..
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Bloomberg
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A U.S. military strike on Iran would have ``catastrophic consequences,'' Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov said.
``Bomb attacks on Iran would be a wrong move leading to catastrophic consequences,'' Losyukov said in an interview with ne..
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Al Jazeera
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Russia's defence ministry published a statement on Thursday which said 14 Russian strategic bombers had started routine patrol operations on Wednesday evening over the Pacific, the Atlantic and the Arctic. "The planes flew only over neutral water and did..
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Sun Times
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The man reported by British media to be a suspect in the murder of a former Russian agent in London hit out Saturday at ''lies, provocation and government propaganda,'' denying any role in the radiation poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko...
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Reuters
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Russia has delivered new anti-aircraft missile systems to Iran and will consider further requests by Tehran for defensive weapons, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Tuesday...
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CNN
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Murdered Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was killed because of an eight-page dossier he had compiled on a powerful Russian figure for a British company, a business associate told the BBC on Saturday...
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BBC News
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Russia has warned it will retaliate if Georgia uses force against its breakaway regions.
Moscow has accused Georgia of preparing to invade Abkhazia, and says it is boosting Russian forces there and in the South Ossetia region.
Georgia has reacted an..
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SF Gate
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A Russian fighter jet has shot down an unmanned Georgian spy plane as it flew over the breakaway region of Abkhazia, Georgia's air force commander said Monday.
The two countries' presidents discussed the incident by telephone Monday in what Georgian le..
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BBC News
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At least eight people have been killed and more than 50 injured in an explosion on a bus in the southern Russian city of Togliatti.
The governor of the Samara region said the attack was being treated as a "terrorist" act.
Security officials say an e..
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BBC News
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is in Iran for a historic visit, the first by a Kremlin leader since Stalin joined a summit there in World War II.
Mr Putin attended a summit of heads of countries in the Caspian Sea area and is set to meet Iran's leade..
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BBC News
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Moscow has no information that Iran is trying to build a nuclear bomb, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.
But he said the Kremlin shared the West's concern that Tehran's nuclear programme should be "transparent".
Mr Putin was speaking after..
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BBC News
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Russian bombers have flown to the US island of Guam in the Pacific in a surprise manoeuvre reminiscent of the Cold War era.
Two Tu-95 turboprops flew this week to Guam, home to a big US military base, Russian Maj Gen Pavel Androsov said.
They "excha..
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BBC News
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Russia has committed an "act of aggression" against Georgia by firing a guided missile at its territory, officials in Tbilisi say.
They say the missile landed outside the village of Tsitelubani on Monday, some 60km (37 miles) north-west of the capital..
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CNN
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The former Soviet republic of Georgia said on Tuesday that two Russian fighter jets had overflown its territory and dropped a 700 kilo bomb but this had not exploded.
Shota Utiashvili, the head of Georgia's interior ministry's public relations departme..
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FOX News
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Russia has accepted a U.S. request that a Russian bank help end a stalemate over frozen North Korean funds that has halted progress in the North's nuclear disarmament, a news report said Sunday.
Moscow agreed to a U.S. request that a Russian bank accep..
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USA Today
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Gunmen kidnapped six Russian workers of an aluminum-smelting plant in Nigeria's lawless southern oil-producing region Sunday, blowing up their homes before taking them away, a company official said.
Felix Nxong, the general manager of the plant in sout..
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SF Gate
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The suspect in the fatal poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, the former KGB officer and Kremlin critic who died last year in Britain, said Thursday that Britain's foreign intelligence agency and a self-exiled Russian tycoon had organized the killing and fr..
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USA Today
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British prosecutors said Tuesday that a Moscow businessman should be charged with murdering former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko here late last year in a case of poisoning that left a radioactive trail across Europe.
Ken Macdonald, director of publi..
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BBC News
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A former KGB officer should be charged with the murder by poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, the director of public prosecutions has recommended.
Sir Ken Macdonald said Andrei Lugovoi, who has denied any involvement, should face trial for the "grave cr..
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