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Skyscraper on fire in Chechnya
Firefighters early Thursday extinguished a massive blaze that scorched the exterior of a 40-story apartment building in Grozny, Russia's state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported.
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Fight Over Woman Ends in Death After Man Shoves a Foot Up His Friend’s Ass
A Russian man was arrested late last month and charged with homicide after killing his friend by shoving a foot up his ass. Literally.
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Russia may ban Wikipedia over article on smoking pot
The country's controversial 2012 Internet blacklist law is primed to take down its most prominent victim yet.
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'I Liked It,' Putin Says Of Protest By Topless Women
In Hanover, Germany, the Russian leader was greeted by three women protesters who stripped off their tops before shouting expletives at him. While he professed to enjoy their demonstration, Putin's aides want the women punished.
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Frozen car in Russia
Ouch, hopefully it gets warm soon.
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Putin’s critic put on trial.
Russian authorities have put on trial the most vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin in what experts said was a risky attempt to shut out of politics the country’s most charismatic opposition leader.
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Why Chechens Think The Tsarnaev Brothers Were Framed
Even paranoids have real enemies. Especially in Russia.
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Boston suspect was under FBI surveillance, mother says
One of the two ethnic Chechens suspected by U.S. officials of being behind the Boston Marathon bombings had been under FBI surveillance for at least three years, his mother said.
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U.S. and Russia to bolster ties after Boston bombings
Russia and the United States agreed Saturday to step up cooperation in their fight against terror in the wake of news that two ethnic Chechens were suspected of organising the deadly Boston Marathon bombings.
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Russian shooting suspect still at large after killing 6, including 14 year old girl
Police are searching for a suspect in the Monday shooting in the Russian city of Belgorod. A gunman opened fire near an arms shop, leaving six people dead and one injured. A 14-year-old girl is among those killed.
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What was Tamerlan Tsarnaev doing in Russia?
Something struck Tamerlan Tsarnaev's aunt when her nephew arrived in southern Russia last year.He prayed regularly, she said. He avoided looking women in the eye. His transformation into a devout Muslim was a radical change.
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Abandoned village
I think it's somewhere in Russia
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How Many People Have Been Killed by Chernobyl?
When the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, experts predicted as many as 40,000 extra cancer deaths from the radiation spewed onto parts of what was then the Soviet Union. Friday is the 27th anniversary of the disaster. How many people has Chernobyl killed so far?
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38 people dead in fire at psychiatric hospital in Russia
A fire tore through a psychiatric hospital near Moscow, killing 38 people, Russian officials said Friday.There were 41 people in the building and three escaped the blaze early Friday, according to the Russian Emergencies Ministries. Officials retrieved 38 bodies from the site of the fire.
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Boston bomb suspects' parents retreat to village, cancel U.S. trip
The parents of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects have retreated to a village in southern Russia to shelter from the spotlight and abandoned plans for now to travel to the United States, the father of the suspects told Reuters on Sunday.
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Japan and Russia want to finally end World War II, agree it is 'abnormal' not to
Today's summit between Shinzo Abe and Vladimir Putin comes at an opportune moment but may founder on the old problem of the Kuril Islands, which Japan still wants back.
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A 17th-Century Russian Community Living in 21st-Century Alaska
This clan has traveled from Russia through China, Brazil, and Oregon to make a home in the remote north, struggling to avoid modernization.
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Clouds Over Cuba (An Interactive Experience)
Relive the Cuban Missile Crisis 50 years later and discover what might have been.
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Why Wikipedia's Millionth Russian Page Is Worth Celebrating
In the early hours of 11 May, a volunteer somewhere wrote the millionth substantive page on the Russian-language edition of Wikipedia. Crossing the 1,000,000 mark is mainly a symbolic one, an aesth...
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Russia's Internet Use Is Exploding
Levada just released a fascinating poll on Russians’ use of computers. While I knew that Russians were increasingly likely to use the internet, a phenomenon which largely explains the emergence of a tech-savvy person like Alexey Navalny, even I was shocked by the sheer scale of change and the rapidity with which internet use has become the norm.
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