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CNN
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Russian President Vladimir Putin met NATO leaders Friday amid fresh tensions between Moscow and Washington over the future expansion of the military alliance and U.S. moves to install missile defense bases in eastern Europe. Speaking after the meeting wit..
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CNN
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A Russian serial murderer dubbed the "Chessboard Killer" was given the maximum sentence of life in prison Monday and ordered to undergo psychiatric therapy for a string of at least 48 murders that terrorized Moscow for years. A Moscow jury convicted Alexa..
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BBC News
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Moscow may target weapons at Europe if the US builds planned missile defence facilities in the region, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.
Russia has not pointed missiles towards Europe since the end of the Cold War.
Last week, Russia said it..
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BBC News
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The body of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin is to lie in state in Moscow ahead of a funeral on Wednesday.
His body will be viewed in the Church of Christ the Saviour, a cathedral rebuilt during his presidency and a symbol of the post-communist e..
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CNN
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Fire broke out in a Moscow nightclub early Sunday, killing 10 people, an Emergency Situations Ministry spokesman said.
The cause of the blaze had not been determined, but some witnesses said it broke out during a "fire show" that was part of the club's..
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Guardian Unlimited
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In a move likely to inflame tensions ahead of next week's Nato summit in Latvia, Russia's foreign intelligence service, the SVR, yesterday declassified documents claiming that Britain and the US had approved of the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states..
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Reuters
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Heavily armed riot police foiled attempts by Russian nationalists to hold a banned march in Moscow on Saturday, making scores of arrests...
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BBC News
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko is in Moscow to try to persuade Russia not to cut gas supplies to his country in a dispute over an unpaid bill.
He has just five hours with President Vladimir Putin to settle the row over a demand by Russian gas mo..
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BBC News
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The Russian government has ordered the British Council to close down its two offices outside Moscow by the beginning of January.
The Russian foreign ministry said the council, which promotes British culture abroad, was operating illegally.
The UK go..
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BBC News
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A Moscow court has found the exiled businessman Boris Berezovsky guilty of embezzling millions of dollars from the Russian national airline Aeroflot.
Mr Berezovsky, who has political asylum in Britain, controlled the airline in the 1990s.
The court..
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BBC News
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A Moscow court has sentenced serial killer Alexander Pichushkin, known to the Russian media as the "Bittsa maniac", to life imprisonment.
The Russian shop assistant was found guilty of 48 murders, which he once said he recorded on a chessboard.
Most..
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BBC News
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A Russian shop assistant has been found guilty of 48 murders, which he recorded on a chessboard.
A Moscow jury convicted Alexander Pichushkin, known to the Russian media as the "Bittsa maniac", after four hours of deliberation.
Most of the murders w..
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BBC News
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A man has gone on trial in Moscow accused of killing at least 49 people.
The Russian media has dubbed him the "Bitsevsky Maniac" after the park in southern Moscow where most of the murders were carried out.
The accused man, Alexander Pichushkin, far..
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CNN
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Galina Dzhugashvili, a granddaughter of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin who challenged widely accepted accounts of her father's internment at a Nazi prison camp, has died in Moscow, a hospital official said Tuesday. She was 69. Dzhugashvili died Monday eveni..
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BBC News
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Russia is to expel four UK embassy staff in the row over Moscow's refusal to extradite the man suspected of Alexander Litvinenko's murder.
The four must leave Russia within 10 days, and Moscow is to review visa applications for UK officials.
UK Fore..
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CNN
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British Foreign Secretary David Miliband will make a statement on Monday in which he is expected to outline measures against Moscow for its refusal to extradite the murder suspect in the case of emigre Alexander Litvinenko. Miliband will speak to parliame..
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SF Gate
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, bitterly opposed to a U.S. missile shield in Eastern Europe, told President Bush on Thursday that Moscow would drop its objections if the system were located in Azerbaijan.
Putin told Bush he would not seek to retarget..
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BBC News
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Moscow city authorities are planning to reduce the number of migrants working in the Russian capital.
Mayor Yury Luzhkov says the demands for foreign labour should be lowered in favour of "our own workers".
Rights groups argue few Russians would cho..
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FOX News
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Sharp differences between the United States and Russia over President Bush's plan to build a missile defense system on Moscow's doorstep are likely to dominate talk during Bush's European tour.
Bush, who left Monday at the start of an eight-day trip to..
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USA Today
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Sharp differences between the United States and Russia over President Bush's plan to build a missile defense system on Moscow's doorstep are likely to dominate talk during Bush's European tour.
Bush, who left Monday at the start of an eight-day trip to..
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