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CNN
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Fourteen more members of a doomsday cult in southern Russia left a cave Tuesday after waiting inside for the end of the world since November, authorities said. The group included two children, ages 8 and 14, Dmitry Eskin of Russia's Emergency Situations M..
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CNN
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Dmitry Medvedev has celebrated his landslide victory in Russia's presidential vote, amid claims by electoral observers questioning the fairness of the result, according to agency reports. With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Medvedev -- President Vlad..
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MSNBC
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But Russia, Serbia's key ally, and emerging global power China remained adamantly opposed to Kosovo's independence, warning of the danger of inspiring separatist movements around the world, including in their own sprawling territories.
As veto-wielding..
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BBC News
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Russian authorities have halted a major London exhibition of French and Russian art over claims Britain has failed to guarantee the paintings' return.
Russia's culture agency said the show could not go ahead unless the British government took further s..
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BBC News
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Russia has delivered its first shipment of nuclear fuel to a reactor it is helping to build at Bushehr in Iran.
The two sides reached agreement last week on a schedule to finish building the plant after years of delays.
Some Western countries fear I..
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BBC News
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Russia and Iran have agreed a schedule for finishing building the Bushehr nuclear plant, reports from Russia say.
"Difficulties with the Iranian client are resolved and we have agreement on the timetable for construction," said the state contractor, At..
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SF Gate
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Russia's parliamentary elections, which the pro-Kremlin United Russia party won handsomely, were "not fair" and failed to meet international democratic standards, according to observers from two leading European organizations.
The groups' scathing asse..
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BBC News
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President Vladimir Putin has urged Russians to vote for his United Russia party in Sunday's parliamentary election, in a televised address.
"I ask you to come to the polls and vote for United Russia," he said.
President Putin, who cannot run for a t..
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CNN
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Russian President Vladimir Putin's choice for new prime minister, Viktor Zubkov, was overwhelmingly approved in a Friday vote by Russia's lower house of parliament, a live broadcast on state-run TV showed. Zubkov was tapped for the position by Putin last..
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Yahoo News
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Make a baby. Win a car. Don't be surprised if the streets are empty and curtains drawn in this central Russian region Wednesday as residents take up an offer by the regional governor to help stem Russia's demographic crisis.
Ulyanovsk Gov. Sergei Moroz..
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CNN
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Canada's prime minister has begun a three-day trip to the Arctic in an effort to assert sovereignty over the region a week after Russia symbolically staked a claim to the North Pole by sending submarines. Although Stephen Harper's visit has been planned f..
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BBC News
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has suspended the application of a key Cold War arms control treaty.
Mr Putin signed a decree citing "exceptional circumstances" affecting security as the reason for the move.
Russia has been angered by US plans to b..
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CNN
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Britain has condemned Russia's refusal to extradite Andrei Lugovoi to face murder charges for the poisoning death of an ex-KGB agent in London as "extremely disappointing." Prime Minister Gordon Brown's spokesman said Tuesday an offer of a trial in Russia..
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Reuters
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Russia successfully tested its newest Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile on Thursday, sending it thousands of km away from the White Sea to the Kamchatka peninsula in the Far East, Russian agencies said.
"It all went off without a glitch at all..
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FOX News
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An explosion in a coal mine in Russia's Arctic killed seven people and left three missing, the Emergency Situations Ministry said Tuesday.
The blast hit the Komsomolskaya mine in Vorkuta, about 1,200 miles northeast of Moscow, on Monday evening. There..
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USA Today
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President Bush on Wednesday discounted Vladimir Putin's threat to re-target missiles on Europe, saying "Russia is not going to attack Europe."
Bush, in an interview with the Associated Press and other reporters, said that no U.S. military response was..
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Washington Post
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Russia and the United States sparred yet again Thursday, continuing a war of words that has raised tensions across the Atlantic.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, accepting an award for her contributions to German unification more than a decade and..
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Guardian Unlimited
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A group of journalists at a state-controlled broadcast news agency in Russia have resigned en masse in one of the few open rebellions in recent years against censorship imposed by the Kremlin.
Eight reporters from the Russian News Service said they cou..
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BBC News
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Russia, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan have agreed to build a new natural gas pipeline north from the Caspian Sea.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin announced the deal at a summit with Central Asian leaders in Turkmenistan.
The agreement ensures Russia..
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Yahoo News
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Residents of Belarus' capital stocked up on warm clothes and electric heaters as fears rose Tuesday that Russia is about to cut off the natural gas on which the country depends...
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