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Russian police arrest Kremlin opponent at rally
(AP)
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:59:13 GMT
AP - Russian police arrested a leading Kremlin opponent and dozens of fellow activists Sunday at a demonstration demanding freedom of assembly.
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Thousands fight forest fires in Russia heatwave
(AFP)
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:14:56 GMT
 AFP - Hundreds of thousands of firefighters, including army troops, on Saturday battled forest fires raging across central Russia in a heatwave that has killed more than 30 people.
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Russia sends army to battle deadly wildfires
(AP)
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:14:30 GMT
 AP - Russia sent the army on Saturday to battle wildfires that have killed at least 28 people and were threatening dozens of towns and villages. Thick smoke and ash slowed firefighting efforts and thousands of people were being evacuated.
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Wildfires spread in western Russia, kill 28
(Reuters)
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:30:31 GMT
 Reuters - Raging wildfires spread across parts of western Russia on Saturday, engulfing 30 percent more land in just 24 hours, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin described the situation as very difficult.
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Forest fires kill 29 in Russia heatwave
(AFP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:42:01 GMT
 AFP - Forest fires in Russia's worst heatwave in decades killed 29 people, officials said Friday, as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited one of the worst hit areas and a storm claimed seven more lives.
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Peru: Spy husband could face fraud charges
(AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:06:01 GMT
 AP - A Peruvian journalist whom the U.S. deported to Russia this month in a spy swap is free to return home but her Russian husband could be charged with lying on his citizenship application, Peru's foreign minister said Friday.
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Russian president's top rights advisor quits
(AFP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:34:30 GMT
 AFP - The head of the council advising Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on rights unexpectedly quit Friday, in a blow for the Kremlin chief who has made developing civil society a priority of his rule.
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Russian official resigns over youth group comments
(AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:56:21 GMT
AP - President Dmitry Medvedev's human rights adviser has resigned after a Kremlin-backed youth organization threatened her with a libel suit for her harsh criticism.
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Death toll in Russian forest fires reaches 25
(AFP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:52:36 GMT
AFP - The death toll from forest fires sweeping across Russia amid a record-breaking heatwave grew to 25 on Friday, with three firefighters among the dead, officials said.
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Raging Russian fires destroy homes, people flee
(AP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:38:25 GMT
 AP - Raging forest fires encircled a southern Russian city and tore through provincial villages Thursday, forcing mass evacuations as Moscow suffered through a record, weeks-long heat wave and smog cloud caused by peat-bog fires.
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Russia foils passenger plane hijacking
(AP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:57:35 GMT
AP - Russian special forces quickly overpowered a man after he briefly seized a plane with 105 passengers and crew at a Moscow airport on Thursday, officials said.
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Medvedev orders corruption investigation into Putin's Sochi Olympics
(The Christian Science Monitor)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:43:07 GMT
The Christian Science Monitor - In an apparent bid to dramatize his flagging anticorruption drive, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has taken the unusual step of ordering an investigation into allegations that a top Kremlin official took huge bribes in connection with the troubled 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
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Hijacking of plane from Caucasus foiled in Moscow: reports
(AFP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:32:44 GMT
 AFP - Russian special forces on Thursday foiled the attempted hijacking of a plane coming from the Caucasus at Moscow's Domodedovo airport, Russian news agencies quoted an airport official as saying.
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Russia foils plane hijacking in Moscow
(Reuters)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:19:22 GMT
Reuters - Russian special forces staged a lightning strike on Thursday to detain a man who had seized an aircraft on a domestic flight to Moscow's Domodedovo airport, a spokeswoman for the airport said.
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Medvedev boosts KGB successor
(Reuters)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:05:57 GMT
 Reuters - President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a new law to boost Russia's security service, restoring a Soviet-era practice of issuing warnings to people it believes are about to commit a crime, the Kremlin said on Thursday.
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Russian president signs law to expand ex-KGB powers
(AFP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:20:53 GMT
 AFP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday signed into a law a bill expanding the powers of the successor to the KGB security service which critics say will give it Soviet-style powers.
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Russia grants more powers to KGB successor agency
(AP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:50:41 GMT
 AP - Russians may now face jail time for crimes they have not yet committed under a new security law signed Thursday by President Dmitry Medvedev.
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Russia to open $29 billion asset sales to foreigners
(Reuters)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:44:36 GMT
Reuters - Russia will open its most ambitious privatization programme since the 1990s to foreign investors, its economy minister said on Thursday, while the government gave its initial approval to the planned $29 billion in asset sales.
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Protesters attack Russian town hall to save forest
(AP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:15:43 GMT
AP - A band of 100 masked people staged a violent environmental protest in a quiet Moscow suburb, hurling Molotov cocktails and fireworks at city hall while objecting to plans for clearing a local forest for highway construction, Russian police said.
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Russia to sell $29 billion state assets on market
(Reuters)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:31:28 GMT
Reuters - Russia plans to sell $29 billion worth of assets on the open market, a senior government official said on Wednesday, allaying investors fears about the transparency of the biggest privatization since the 1990s.
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