Friday, September 15, 2006

Death of a Russian Hero?

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Yesterday, deputy head of the Russian Central Bank, Andrei Kozlov, died from gunhot wounds protracted when shot down by armed assailants in ...
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Thursday, September 14, 2006

Ukrainian Lighthouses & Landmarks

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Little more than a month after becoming Ukrainian Prime Minister, Viktor Yanukovich, seems poised to break his pledge to president Viktor Yu...
Sunday, September 10, 2006

Putin's Presidential Pseudo-News

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Putin will not run for a third presidential term in 2008. This is a message that he has been repeating every other month over the past year...
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Friday, September 08, 2006

Kazakhstan: Diverted Mind Diverts Rivers?

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Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev is considering reviving old plans of diverting Siberian rivers to the Central Asian region, according ...
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Sunday, August 27, 2006

Russia Between Oligarchs & Tycoons

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Who were the oligarchs? The question may seem premature, while Russia's economic élite still exerts disproportionate influence over Russ...
Saturday, August 26, 2006

Russian Cathedral in Flames

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Yesterday, the St. Petersburg Troitsky (Trinity) Cathedral was rampaged by a violent fire, destroying its main dome and severely damaging th...

Ukraine: Lazarenko Gets 9 Years Jail

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Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavel Lazarenko was sentenced to nine years' imprisonment by a Federal Court in San Fransisco on Friday,...
Friday, July 28, 2006

Come Rob a Botanical Garden!

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"Shut up! It's a hold-up, not a Botany lesson. Now, no false moves please. I want you to hand over all the lupins you've got....
Thursday, July 27, 2006

Lukashenko No Rocket Scientist

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Yesterday, a Russian space rocket carrying 18 satellites crashed shortly after takeoff from Baikonur spacebase in Kazakhstan, as reported by...
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Russia Convicted by Court of Europe

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On Thursday, the European Court of Human Rights made its first ruling on Russia's war in Chechnya, BBC reports . The verdict, which rul...