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Gas price for Belarus will be 30-40% below price for other countries The price of gas for Belarus will be 30-40% below the price for countries bordering Belarus next year, President Dmitry Medvedev's aid.
Nov 23, 2009 at 23:26 | Interfax-Ukraine
Report: Russian billionaire buys Hitler's car BERLIN (AP) — A German newspaper is reporting that Adolf Hitler's original Mercedes has been sold to an unidentified Russian billionaire for several million euros.
Nov 23, 2009 at 18:51
Armenia threatens Azeris with Karabakh recognition YEREVAN, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Armenia said onNov. 23it could recognise breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh as an independent state if Azerbaijan carries out its threat of military action to take back the mountain territory.
Nov 23, 2009 at 18:35 | Reuters
Blast at Russian arsenal kills 8 during cleanup MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's Defense Ministry says eight military personnel were killed when a truckload of ammunition exploded as they cleaned up after a huge conflagration at a munitions depot earlier this month.
Nov 23, 2009 at 18:25
Uzbekistan closes border with Kazakhstan ASTANA, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Uzbekistan has closed its border with central Asian neighbour Kazakhstan to all but citizens of each nation returning home, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry said on Nov. 23, as swine flu spreads in both countries.
Nov 23, 2009 at 15:06 | Reuters
Hiddink among top five foreigners highlighted in Russian media Moscow, November 23 (Interfax) - The Russian defeat in the World Cup 2010 qualifying match intensified media attention to coach Guus Hiddink and added him to the list of the top five foreigners most frequently mentioned in last week's news.
Nov 23, 2009 at 14:02 | Interfax-Ukraine
AP reporter was caught up in Stalin family's agony WASHINGTON, Connecticut (AP) — Newly arrived in Moscow on his first foreign assignment, Associated Press correspondent George Krimsky sensed he had a sensational Cold War scoop on his hands, and he pounced. The story was the possible defection to the United States of the grandson of Josef Stalin, the notorious Communist dictator and World War II hero of the Soviet Union.
Nov 23, 2009 at 13:07
French ship Russia wants docks in St.Petersburg ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — A French navy ship of the type that Russia hopes to buy has arrived for a visit to St. Petersburg.
Nov 23, 2009 at 12:27
OSCE: Progress in Azerbaijan-Armenia talks BERLIN (AP) — The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe says a weekend meeting between the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia produced progress but no solution to their dispute over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave.
Nov 23, 2009 at 11:29
RIA Novosti: Hundreds of people pay last respects to murdered Moscow priest Hundreds of people came on Sunday to a southern Moscow church to pay their last respects to a well-known Russian Orthodox priest who was recently murdered. Read the story here.
Nov 23, 2009 at 10:39 | Wire reports