Putin hints at return to Russian presidency
(AFP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 1 hour agoAFP - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday said he had not yet decided to run for the Russian presidency but noted that Franklin D. Roosevelt had served four terms legally as US president.
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Russia's Putin hints at Kremlin return in 2012
(Reuters)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 5 hours agoReuters - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gave a strong hint on Monday that he would run for president in 2012, a step that would almost certainly give him a second spell as Kremlin chief.
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Eccentric Russian regional strongman to step down
(AP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 6 hours agoAP - A Russian regional leader who claims to have visited an alien spaceship says he is retiring.
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Russia's Medvedev forecasts early grain ban removal
(Reuters)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 7 hours agoReuters - Moscow on Monday gave another mixed signal about the duration of a grain export ban set initially from August 15 to December 31, but European Union grain markets continued to rise, apparently ignoring the latest twist.
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Russia boosts military cooperation with Israel
(AFP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 13 hours agoAFP - The defence ministers of Russia and Israel on Monday signed an agreement on military cooperation, hailing the unity between Moscow and the Jewish state.
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3 killed in suicide attack on Russian base
(AP)
Sun, 5 Sep 2010 10:14:26 PMAP - A suicide car-bomber killed three soldiers and wounded 32 others in an attack on a military base in Russia's violence-plagued republic of Dagestan on Sunday, officials said.
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Three killed, scores hurt in Dagestan suicide bombing
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Sun, 5 Sep 2010 05:46:16 PMAFP - A suicide bomber rammed a Russian military base Sunday, killing three people and wounding some thirty more in the North Caucasus region of Dagestan, law enforcement sources said.
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Suicide bomber kills three in southern Russia
(Reuters)
Sun, 5 Sep 2010 03:31:44 PMReuters - At least three people were killed and 33 wounded on Sunday when a suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a military camp in Russia's southern region of Dagestan, the Defense Ministry said.
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Relics of Russian saint, icons stolen
(AP)
Sun, 5 Sep 2010 11:51:54 AMAP - A Russian news agency is reporting that three ancient icons, one of which contained relics of Russia's most venerated saint, have been stolen.
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Car bomb in Caucasus wounds minister, kills driver
(Reuters)
Sat, 4 Sep 2010 07:55:07 AMReuters - A senior official in the province of Dagestan in Russia's Caucasus was wounded on Saturday and his driver killed by a bomb planted in their car, a police spokesman told Reuters.
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Eight dead as fires flare up again in southern Russia
(AFP)
Fri, 3 Sep 2010 07:02:33 PMAFP - Forest and brush fires flared up again in Russia's southern farmlands, killing eight people and burning down more than 400 homes, officials said on Friday.
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8 killed in latest wave of Russian forest fires
(AP)
Fri, 3 Sep 2010 05:39:58 PMAP - The latest wave of forest fires in Russia has killed eight people and injured 17, authorities said Friday.
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Eight die as wildfires consume Russian villages
(Reuters)
Fri, 3 Sep 2010 05:32:38 PMReuters - Wildfires swept through dozens of villages in southern Russia, killing at least eight people and reducing more than 400 homes to smoldering ruins, officials said Friday.
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Zebra-painted horses walk Moscow intersections
(AP)
Fri, 3 Sep 2010 04:15:57 PMAP - A peculiar sight greeted drivers in Moscow on Friday: zebras walking back and forth across some of the city's busiest intersections.
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Gazprom to double gas imports from Azerbaijan
(AP)
Fri, 3 Sep 2010 12:29:04 PMAP - Russia's Gazprom on Friday clinched a deal to double supplies from Azerbaijan in a bid to expand its control over gas produced by former Soviet republics.
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Russian fires start up again: ministry
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Thu, 2 Sep 2010 09:33:20 PMAFP - Forest and brush fires have flared up again in southern Russia, killing two people and burning down nearly 500 houses and buildings, the emergencies ministry said Thursday.
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Russia extends ban on grain exports until 2011
(AP)
Thu, 2 Sep 2010 05:28:09 PMAP - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday he has extended Russia's ban on wheat exports until next year's harvest to ensure it has bounced back from a severe drought and wildfires that destroyed 20 percent of the crop this year.
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Russian police raid opposition magazine
(Reuters)
Thu, 2 Sep 2010 05:19:23 PMReuters - Armed and masked Russian police raided an opposition magazine on Thursday, pressing journalists to hand over interview recordings used in reports on alleged abuse of authority by the much-feared OMON riot police.
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Putin says no grain exports before 2011 harvest
(Reuters)
Thu, 2 Sep 2010 03:46:45 PMReuters - Russia abruptly signaled Thursday it would extend a grain export ban until late 2011 and ordered authorities to prevent speculators driving up food prices after the worst harvest in years.
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US leasing firms orders 6 Russia's Superjets
(AP)
Thu, 2 Sep 2010 01:49:59 PMAP - Producers of Russia's new regional passenger aircraft, the Sukhoi Superjet, said Thursday that a leading U.S. leasing firm has committed to buy six aircraft and has an option for four more.
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