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    Moscow court orders Bolshoi dancer to stay in jail
    A Moscow court on Tuesday ordered the Bolshoi ballet dancer suspected of ordering an acid attack on its artistic director Sergei Filin to stay in detention until at least June 18, rejecting a petition for him to be freed. The judge extended the arrest of leading Bolshoi dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko for the investigation to finish, ruling that he was suspected of a serious...
    April 16, 2013 21:55
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    Putin restores Soviet ‘Hero of Labour’ title
    Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday restored an honorary Hero of Labour title that was first awarded in the Lenin era to workers who outperformed their Communist work quotas. The Russian leader — a former KGB agent who once called the dissolution of the Soviet Union one of the great tragedies of the 20th century — signed a presidential decree restoring...
    March 29, 2013 20:52
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    Fire and ice: Thrill-seekers flock to witness volcano’s dramatic eruption over snow-covered Russian forest
    An erupting volcano creates an awesome spectacle as it spits molten lava over a remote snow-covered forest region in the far east of Russia. Tourists have flocked to witness the eruption of the Plosky Tolbachik volcano located hundreds of kilometres from the nearest residential areas on Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula. The shocking pictures shows thrill-seekers risking...
    March 26, 2013 22:34
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    Russia says U.S.-Georgia military exercises threaten peace
    Russia criticized the United States and Georgia on Friday over their joint military exercises in the former Soviet republic, accusing Washington of putting peace at risk five years after a war between Moscow and Tbilisi. The United States started annual training exercises in Georgia in 2010, two years after Tbilisi fought a five-day war with its former Soviet master over...
    March 22, 2013 22:37
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    Bolshoi dancer who played villains admits acid attack
    A dancer at Russia’s Bolshoi ballet who made his name playing villains has confessed to ordering the acid attack that nearly blinded its director, angry that his lover was being kept out of leading roles. Pavel Dmitrichenko, who has danced the crazed monarch in Ivan the Terrible and the villain in Swan Lake, was detained on Tuesday for a crime that shocked Russia...
    March 6, 2013 18:53
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    Russia, China oppose military intervention in North Korea
    Russia and China said on Friday they would oppose any foreign military intervention in North Korea over its recent nuclear test. The two countries’ foreign ministers condemned last week’s test but said any action against North Korea had to be agreed at the United Nations, where Russia and China have the right of veto as permanent members of the Security Council. Lavrov...
    February 23, 2013 10:08
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    Russia worried orphan ‘harmed by US lesbian couple’
    Russia expressed “serious worry” Wednesday over the fate of a Russian boy adopted by an American woman who did not reveal that she is a lesbian, Moscow’s latest broadside in a growing war of words over adoption. The ministry’s human rights envoy Konstantin Dolgov said the situation in which the boy was placed under his new American family subjected...
    February 20, 2013 20:43
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    (Հայերեն) Forbes ամսագրի «Ռուսաստանի անշարժ գույքի արքաները» վարկանիշային ցուցակում երեք հայ կա
    February 1, 2013 8:24
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    (Հայերեն) Թմրաառաքիչ հոգևորականը կուլ էր տվել կոկաինով 18 պահպանակ
    January 30, 2013 17:03
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    Bolshoi ballet chief has operation to save eyes
    The Bolshoi ballet’s artistic director Sergei Filin underwent an operation on his eyes Wednesday as doctors battled to restore his sight after a horrific acid attack that he has linked to professional intrigue at the legendary Russian dance company. Russia’s chief eye-doctor Vladimir Neroyev told RIA Novosti state news agency that the operation in a Moscow...
    January 23, 2013 20:44
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    Man survives falling from Siberian train and running FOUR MILES in -40C temperatures wearing just a T-shirt, shorts and slippers
    A man has survived after falling off a moving train in Siberia, forcing him to withstand temperatures of -40C dressed in only shorts, t-shirt and a pair of slippers. After leaving his compartment to go for a cigarette, Valery Malkov opened a door that should have been locked, hurling the 42-year-old into the hostile Siberian wilderness. But the hardy truck driver, thought...
    January 23, 2013 8:02
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    Bolshoi ballet chief convalesces after acid attack
    The Bolshoi ballet’s artistic director Sergei Filin was convalescing in Moscow on Saturday following an acid attack to his face, but doctors said they would need at least a week to know how much vision he will retain. A masked man cornered Filin near his house late Thursday and threw acid on his face. Following emergency surgery on his eyes, the former dancer was...
    January 19, 2013 18:22
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    Pictured: Russian Bolshoi director who could lose his sight after acid attack in ‘ballet civil war’
    Doctors are fighting to save the sight of the artistic director of Russia’s illustrious Bolshoi Ballet after an acid attack on a Moscow street. Sergei Filin, a 42-year-old former Bolshoi star, said a man threw the acid into his face late on Thursday evening near the gate of his apartment building. The attacker wore a hood and either a mask or a scarf, so only his...
    January 18, 2013 23:32
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    Depardieu invited to join Russian Communist party
    Russia’s Communist party has invited Gerard Depardieu to join its ranks after the French actor gained a Russian passport amid a tax row with Paris, a top party official said Friday. “Today I sent Depardieu an official letter offering him membership of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation,” the head of the Moscow party committee, Valery Rashkin,...
    January 11, 2013 20:47
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    Orphan asks Putin to let him live in US
    A 14-year-old Russian orphan with a debilitating genetic disease has reportedly asked President Vladimir Putin for the right to live with his prospective adoptive family in the United States. The letter from a boy named Maxim in the hardscrabble industrial Urals city of Chelyabinsk came two weeks after Putin signed into law a bill banning all US adoptions. The measure...
    January 10, 2013 19:50
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    Two killed as Russian passenger plane splits apart after landing
    A Russian passenger plane with up to 12 people on board split into three pieces after sliding off a runway and crashing into a highway outside a Moscow airport on Saturday, officials said. A photograph posted on the Internet showed a wrecked plane on a highway outside Vnukovo airport, with smoke billowing from the back end and only a mangled part of the front half visible. “After...
    December 30, 2012 6:49
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    Putin signs ban on U.S. adoptions of Russian children
    President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Friday that bans Americans from adopting Russian children and imposes other sanctions in retaliation for a new U.S. human rights law that he says is poisoning relations. The law, which has ignited outrage among Russian liberals and child rights’ advocates, takes effect on January 1. Washington has called the law misguided...
    December 28, 2012 22:06
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    Americans may lose right to adopt Russian kids
    Russia’s parliament on Wednesday gave overwhelming preliminary approval to a measure banning Americans from adopting Russian children, a harsh retaliatory move against U.S. human rights legislation. But the proposal appears to be too extreme for some senior Russian officials. The foreign minister and the education minister spoke out flatly against an adoption ban,...
    December 20, 2012 19:52
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