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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Russia's president has fired the police chief of St. Petersburg, where a 15-year-old boy died after being beaten while in police custody.
Yesterday at 20:48 | Associated Press
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ST.PETERSBURG, Feb 10 (Reuters) - President Dmitry Medvedev dismissed the police chief of St. Petersburg, Russia's second largest city, on Friday after he had complained about an internal inquiry into the death of a teenager alleged to have been beaten by police. Yesterday at 21:37 | Reuters |
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MOSCOW (AP) —A rash of teenage suicides in Russia has set off alarm bells and experts are urging the government to take immediate action. Yesterday at 19:21 | Associated Press |
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MOSCOW (AP) —A military court on Friday convicted a Russian officer of providing the CIA with secret information on Russia's new intercontinental ballistic missiles and sentenced him to 13 years in prison. Yesterday at 19:13 | Associated Press |
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MOSCOW, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin received a drink fit for dinosaurs on Friday when he was presented with a sample of ancient water from a sub-glacial Antarctic lake pierced by Russian scientists. Yesterday at 18:58 | Reuters |
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MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday praised the Russian scientists who have reached a gigantic freshwater lake in Antarctica hidden under more than two miles (3.2 kilometers) of ice, a pristine body of water that may hold life from the distant past. Yesterday at 15:30 | Associated Press |
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MOSCOW - Vladimir Putin has tamed the gangster capitalism which accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union to make Russian corruption "normal and civilised", his presidential election campaign chief said in an interview published on Friday. Yesterday at 14:50 | Reuters |
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MOSCOW — A Russian security agency says a Russian military officer has been convicted of passing missile secrets to the CIA and sentenced to 13 years in prison. Yesterday at 14:08 | Associated Press |
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MOSCOW - The organizers of a series of opposition actions entitled 'For Fair Elections' plan a number of mass events in Moscow within the next month, including a rally on March 5 following the outcome of the presidential election scheduled for March 4, Sergei Udaltsov, a coordinator of the opposition group Left Front, told Interfax on Friday, Feb. 10 Yesterday at 11:02 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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TBILISI, Georgia — A candidate who claims victory in the presidential election in Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia has been hospitalized after a police raid on her headquarters. Yesterday at 10:42 | Associated Press |
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MOSCOW — Russian lawmakers are voicing strong support for the Kremlin's action to shield Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime from international sanctions over its crackdown on a 11-month old uprising. Yesterday at 10:04 | Associated Press |