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5 killed, 39 hurt in Dagestan suicide bombing
(AFP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:53:31 GMT
 AFP - A suicide bombing at a military installation in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region of Dagestan killed five people Sunday and wounded 39, Ria Novosti news agency said, citing a top security source.
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Car bomb in Caucasus wounds minister, kills driver
(Reuters)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:55:07 GMT
 Reuters - 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, 03 Sep 2010 19:02:33 GMT
 AFP - 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, 03 Sep 2010 17:39:58 GMT
 AP - 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, 03 Sep 2010 17:32:38 GMT
 Reuters - 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, 03 Sep 2010 16:15:57 GMT
 AP - 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, 03 Sep 2010 12:29:04 GMT
AP - 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
(AFP)
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:33:20 GMT
 AFP - 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, 02 Sep 2010 17:28:09 GMT
AP - 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, 02 Sep 2010 17:19:23 GMT
Reuters - 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, 02 Sep 2010 15:46:45 GMT
Reuters - 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, 02 Sep 2010 13:49:59 GMT
AP - 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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Gazprom's Q1 profits triple to $10.6 bln
(AP)
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:35:55 GMT
AP - Russia's gas giant Gazprom said Thursday its net profit tripled to 324.9 billion rubles ($10.6 billion) in the first quarter of the year as the company capitalized on a cold winter in Europe.
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Germany charges Austrian with spying for Russia
(AP)
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:42:43 GMT
AP - German prosecutors have charged a 54-year-old Austrian man with feeding Russia's spy agency with information and technical materials from the military and civilian helicopter industries.
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Survivors mark six years since Beslan massacre
(AFP)
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:09:05 GMT
 AFP - Thousands of mourners lit candles and laid flowers on Wednesday in this southern Russian town as they remembered over 330 people who died in Russia's most shocking hostage tragedy six years ago.
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3 Russians kidnapped in Darfur freed
(AP)
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:34:49 GMT
AP - Three Russians abducted by gunmen in Sudan's restive Darfur region were freed by security forces after a clash with their kidnappers, a Sudanese news website reported Tuesday.
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Russian protesters defy Putin warning – and meet tough response
(The Christian Science Monitor)
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:23:00 GMT
The Christian Science Monitor - Defying a warning from Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that anybody trying to stage unsanctioned political rally would be "beaten on the head" by police, hundreds of mainly youthful protesters showed up Tuesday night at Moscow's fenced-off and police-barricaded Triumph Square to demand that Russian authorities honor their constitutional right of free assembly.
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Dozens detained at anti-Kremlin rallies
(Reuters)
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:38:17 GMT
 Reuters - Russian police detained more than 150 people including prominent opponents of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at anti-Kremlin protests Tuesday, after Putin said demonstrators without permits could expect harsh treatment.
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Summary Box: Lukoil's 2Q profit drops 16 pct
(AP)
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:49:43 GMT
AP - RESULTS: Lukoil, Russia's second-largest oil producer, reported a 16 percent drop in second-quarter profit to $1.9 billion due to a rise in export duties and cost inflation. Higher oil prices lifted sales to $25.8 billion from $20.1 billion a year earlier.
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Top US lawmaker condemns Putin protest threat
(AFP)
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:47:59 GMT
 AFP - A top US lawmaker on Tuesday denounced Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's recent warning that anti-government demonstrators at banned protests would get "a cudgel to the head" from police.
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