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CNN
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American fighter jets intercepted two Russian bombers, one of which buzzed a U.S. aircraft carrier in the western Pacific on Saturday, U.S. military officials told CNN Monday. Russia's Defense Ministry said Tuesday that there was no violation of flight re..
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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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Russian President Vladimir Putin has signalled he will not support a US plan for a missile defence system in Europe, at the start of key US-Russia talks.
He urged Washington "not to force" a planned deployment of a radar in the Czech Republic and inter..
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CNN
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A Russian court sentenced an American man to nine years in prison Tuesday for strangling his wife's uncle in a fight that broke out over an apartment, his lawyer said.
The Industrial Federal Court in the far eastern city of Khabarovsk handed down the s..
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CNN
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President Vladimir Putin dissolved the Russian government Wednesday in a major political shakeup ahead of parliamentary elections in less than three months and a presidential vote next year, news agencies reported.
The dissolution is expected to result..
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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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SF Gate
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Ten suspects, including Russian police and security officials, have been arrested in the killing last year of crusading investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, the country's top prosecutor announced Monday.
"I would like to point out that regretfu..
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CNN
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The Russian explorers who planted a flag beneath the North Pole have made a triumphant homecoming and say they do not care about foreign critics who have complained their mission was a crude land grab. "The Arctic always was Russian, and it will remain Ru..
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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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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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Daily Mail
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Russian leader Vladimir Putin has made an astonishing bid to grab a vast chunk of the Arctic, giving himself claim to its vast potential oil, gas and mineral wealth.
His audacious argument that an underwater Russian ridge is linked to the North Pole is..
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BBC News
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Russian men are risking death by drinking aftershave and cleaning agents, a study has suggested.
UK researchers estimated that half of all deaths in working age men in the country are due to hazardous drinking.
The products, which also include herba..
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Washington Post
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After days of escalating rhetoric about missile defense, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a surprise offer to President Bush on Thursday, proposing that Russia join with the United States and some of its European allies to operate a shield intended a..
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BBC News
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The Russian man the UK wants to charge with murdering Alexander Litvinenko has denied any involvement and said the case is "politically motivated".
Andrei Lugovoi, a former KGB officer, told Russian TV: "I'm a victim not a perpetrator of a radiation at..
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BBC News
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A blast has destroyed a section of one of the main gas pipelines in Ukraine exporting Russian gas to Europe, Ukraine's emergencies ministry says.
It says about 30m (98ft) of the Urenhoi-Pomary-Uzhhorod pipeline was damaged by the explosion.
Russia's..
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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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BBC News
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Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin has died, Russian media report, citing a Kremlin statement.
Yeltsin became Russia's first democratically elected president after Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as Soviet leader in December 1991...
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SF Gate
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The Russian Academy of Sciences, historic home to Russia's brightest scientists, rejected a government demand Wednesday that it cede more control to the state, instead adopting a charter that preserves its centuries-old autonomy.
The almost-unanimous d..
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CNN
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At least 74 miners are dead, a number that could rise, and at least 43 are missing after a methane gas explosion Monday at a coal mine in southwestern Siberia, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations said.
The ministry said 83 miners have been res..
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BBC News
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Russian prosecutors are investigating allegations that hospital staff in Yekaterinburg gagged babies because they did not want to hear them crying...
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