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King Abdullah, Medvedev to discuss Mideast
(AFP)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:51:15 GMT
 AFP - Jordan's King Abdullah II will discuss arms contracts and the Middle East peace process with Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev Thursday, news agencies reported.
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Putin eyes multi-billion dollar deals with old ally India
(AFP)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:37:47 GMT
 AFP - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin heads to India Thursday to strengthen the close partnership Moscow and New Delhi have enjoyed since the Soviet era with an estimated 10 billion dollars of new deals.
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Russian drivers forced to act as shield
(AP)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:27:49 GMT
AP - Russian traffic police are under investigation for ordering civilian motorists to park their cars across a highway — and remain inside — to block a fleeing criminal suspect, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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Russia urges Sweden to extradite Chechen "bandits"
(Reuters)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:41:47 GMT
Reuters - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev urged Sweden Tuesday to extradite two men it says are Chechen separatists and accuses of involvement in killings and kidnappings.
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New US-Russia nuclear treaty possible in next weeks: Lavrov
(AFP)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:56:24 GMT
 AFP - There is a chance that a new US-Russian treaty on nuclear arms cuts will be ready in the next two or three weeks, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday.
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Russia sees new nuclear arms treaty by April
(AP)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:51:49 GMT
AP - A new treaty limiting U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear arsenals could be signed within two or three weeks, Russian news agencies cited Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov as saying Tuesday.
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Severstal posts $162 mln net loss in Q4
(AP)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:57:41 GMT
AP - Russia's largest steelmaker Severstal on Tuesday posted a $162 million net loss in the fourth quarter of 2009 but signalled confidence in the year ahead.
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Anti-Putin Movement Gains Confidence in Russia
(Time.com)
Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:25:00 GMT
Time.com - A wave of anti-Putin protests across Russia offers a glimmer of hope to those working to end his rule. But the Russian Prime Minister is not going anywhere soon
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Russian forces kill eight, find train attack clues
(AFP)
Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:19:34 GMT
 AFP - Russian forces have killed eight suspected rebels and arrested 10 others in a raid that also found clues on two bomb attacks on trains in 2007 and 2009, the FSB security service said Saturday.
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Russia says Islamist rebel leader killed
(Reuters)
Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:01:29 GMT
Reuters - Russia's Federal Security Service chief on Saturday confirmed the death of a prominent Islamist rebel who he accused of plotting a bomb attack on a Moscow-to-St Petersburg train that killed 26 people last year.
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Iran gives Russia pilots two months to leave: report
(Reuters)
Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:41:21 GMT
Reuters - Iran has given Russian commercial pilots working in the Islamic Republic two months to leave the country as it has no need for them, Transport Minister Hamid Behbahani was quoted as saying on Saturday.
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New Ukraine leader soothes Russia, no gas deals
(Reuters)
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:50:30 GMT
Reuters - Ukraine's new president Viktor Yanukovich soothed Moscow Friday by suggesting he would reverse key policies of his pro-Western predecessor, but won no public promise that Russia will lower Kiev's onerous gas bills.
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Fatal car crash has Russians seething
(AP)
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:42:24 GMT
AP - A fatal car crash in downtown Moscow has exposed growing public anger at officials who seem to live above the law, as they flout the rules of the road and endanger the lives of ordinary Russians.
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Ukraine and Russia vow 'new page' in ties
(AFP)
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:24:06 GMT
 AFP - Ukraine's new President Viktor Yanukovych vowed Friday to end years of acrimony with giant neighbour Russia, as he paid his first visit to Moscow since taking office last week.
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Gorbachev lashes Kremlin for failure on democratic reform
(AFP)
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:38:35 GMT
 AFP - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Friday accused the current Russian authorities of backsliding on democracy and rolling back the process of reform he began in the 1980s with perestroika.
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Liberals rap Kremlin as Stalin is worshipped
(Reuters)
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:32:47 GMT
Reuters - Russian communists paid homage on Friday to Soviet leader Josef Stalin, while liberals accused the Kremlin of conniving to whitewash the dictator.
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Ukraine's president heads to Moscow to talk gas
(AP)
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:57:00 GMT
 AP - Ukraine's new president is meeting with his Russian counterpart to talk gas.
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Russia unveils 20-billion-dollar plan to save car industry
(AFP)
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:56:48 GMT
 AFP - The government unveiled a plan to invest almost 20 billion dollars over the next decade to transform the embattled Russian car industry into a major global player.
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Russia's Olympic flop sparks Soviet nostalgia
(AP)
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:38:06 GMT
 AP - Anger and Soviet nostalgia are sweeping Russia after its dismal showing at the Vancouver Olympics, triggering a purge of sporting officials in an effort to prevent another humiliation when the nation hosts the Winter games in Sochi in 2014.
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US gives Russia back Czar's stolen medallion
(AP)
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:29:05 GMT
 AP - The U.S. Ambassador to Russia returned a stolen silver medallion that belonged to the last Russian czar to Moscow Thursday after it was recovered from an online auction by U.S. investigators.
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