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Medvedev submits bill on presidential terms
Combined report AP, RIA Novosti
On Tuesday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev submitted to the parliament a bill to extend Russia's presidential term from four years to six, as he promised in his recent state of the nation address.
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Sub tragedy blamed on sailor’s error
MOSCOW (RIA Novosti)
- A crew member activated without permission a fire safety system on board the Russian nuclear submarine Nerpa, causing the deaths of 20 people, investigators said on Thursday.
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Time for a Survey?
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In Brief - US, Russia to hold nuclear talks in Geneva
US, Russia to hold nuclear talks in Geneva; Russian, British warships battle Somali pirates; Russia to build reactor, generator for Bulgarian nuclear plant; UN report predicts steady decline of Russian population
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“Ukrainians took part in Georgia war”
KIEV (RIA Novosti)
- A Ukrainian parliamentary commission investigating illegal weapon supplies to Georgia has established that over 15 Ukrainians were involved in Tbilisi's attack on South Ossetia, the group's head said on Tuesday.
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U.S. Orthodox Church elects new leader
PITTSBURGH (AP)
- A monk who until recently was an abbot of a San Francisco monastery will be the new leader of the Orthodox Church in America.
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Chavez wants nuclear energy
CARACAS (AFP)
- President Hugo Chavez said that he was looking forward to signing nuclear cooperation agreements with Russia during an upcoming visit to Venezuela by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
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In Brief - Sentence passed in Central Banker’s murder case
Sentence passed in Central Banker's murder case, U.S. woman arrested in Ukraine for adoption fraud, Trade Union leader at Russian Ford plant attack
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Lessons from the Nerpa sub accident
Ilya Kramnik
An accident on the Nerpa nuclear-powered submarine claimed 20 lives, the largest number of casualties since the sinking of the Kursk submarine in 2000. The Russian and international press are highlighting the tragedy because it happened on a nuclear submarine, engendering many rumors.
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Russia, U.S. still at loggerheads over missile shield
By Anna Arutunyan
A compromise has yet to be reached on the controversial missile-defense system that the United States plans to set up in Eastern Europe, after Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Saturday to mull over the two countries' defense policies. After an hour of direct talks, the two countries apparently remained in stalemate.
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Gates says NATO integration no threat to Russia
TALLINN (AFP)
The United States continues to push for increasing the ranks of NATO membership, despite the ill-feelings the initiative is causing in both Europe and Russia
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Thousands rally against Saakashvili in Tbilisi
TBILISI (AFP)
- More than 10,000 opponents of President Mikheil Saakashvili rallied in Tbilisi on Friday in the first major show of discontent since Georgia's crushing defeat in an August war with Russia.
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Planned tax on winter tires
Combined Reports The Moscow News
As Moscow basks in its warmest ever fall, a row about winter motoring is heating up - with the authorities planning to put the skids under drivers using spiked snow tires in the city.
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French films undubbed – at last
By Andy Potts
Film-lovers have a chance to catch up on their ‘cahiers du cinema' thanks to a new French language cinema club in Moscow. The group, which meets at the Mir Iskusstva independent cinema most Wednesday evenings, is committed to bringing the best in Francophone films and showing them in their original language.
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Ruler, ruler on the wall...
By Daria Chernyshova
Foreigners often ask me if I think life is good in Russia. My answer is always immediate and positive: ‘Of course it is!’ But there remains the nagging question as to exactly what Russians believe to be “the good life”
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