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Russian Parliament Backs 'Anti-Gay' Bill
Russia's parliament gave initial backing Friday to a controversial bill banning homosexual "propaganda" among minors that could lead to gays being fined for demonstrating or kissing in public.The vote...
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Russian Soldiers Encouraged To Look For 'Intimate' Tattoos On Each Other's...
Russia is encouraging its soldiers to check each other's "sexual organs" and "buttocks" for clues on sexual orientation according to a BBC report.From the report:The guidelines, which cover all aspects...
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Russian Prime Minister: Assad's Chances Of Holding On 'Shrinking By The Day'
President Bashar al-Assad's chances of staying in power are "shrinking by the day," Dmitri Medvedev said on Sunday in Russia's sternest criticism of the Syrian regime to date.Mr Assad, a Russian...
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Svetlana Lunkina, renowned Russian ballerina with the famed Bolshoi Theatre, this week told a Russian newspaper that she is afraid to return home to Moscow due to threats on her life.33-year-old...
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Spectacular 360-Degree Aerial Footage Of The Tolbachik Volcano Erupting
This is the best thing I've seen in some time: A zoomable, panable 360-degree VIDEO of the erupting Tolbachik Volcano, taken from a helicopter. The video goes along with this article in Speigel Online...
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Russian Rocket Crashes Into Pacific Ocean After Failed Launch
A Russian rocket carrying a US communications satellite plunged into the Pacific Ocean moments after being launched from a mobile sea platform.In Russia's latest space failure, the accident, meant the...
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Russian Judge Goes On Vacation To Syria's Front Lines, Gets Shot In The Face
A Russian judge who decided to spend his vacation moonlighting as a war correspondent in Syria survived being shot in the face and arm this week, Robert Mackey and Ellen Barry of The New York Times...
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Russia's Old Soldiers Remember The Country's Bloodiest Battle
Russia has marked the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad with memories of survivors and fallen soldiers as President Vladimir Putin warned the country can be 'invincible'.Safron Ryzhakov, 90,...
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Death Of Russian Mobster Sparks Fears Of Turf War In Sochi
Fears of a brewing mafia war have begun to grip Russia three weeks after a top mobster was killed, as rival clans seek control over his vast empire, including prime property in the Olympic host city of...
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Incredible Aerial Photos Show Moscow's Snowiest Winter In 100 Years
Russia's winters are the stuff of legend, inspiring centuries of writers and defeating both Napoleon and Hitler.Amazingly, this year's winter may be one for the history books, with Russia Today...
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Reports Surface Of Monster Lurking In Russian Lake
For centuries, strange reports of a large, underwater creature have come from people living near the remote Lake Labynkyr in Siberia.Now, a team of scientists from the Russian Geographical Society...
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Russia Is Already Hoarding Snow In Case It's Hot During The 2014 Olympics
After a slopestyle skiing test event in Sochi, Russia had to be cancelled this week because of lack of snow, concerns are building that high temperatures could wreck havoc on next year's Winter...
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Japan Says Two Russian Su-27s Violated Its Airspace In Another Territorial...
As if Japan didn't have enough on its national defense plate before, two Russian Su-27s allegedly slipped Thursday into its airspace. Tokyo's now scrambling jets to chase off Russia, while maintaining...
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That Time Matt Taibbi Was Detained In A Russian Airport
Rolling Stone's Wall Street reporter, Matt Taibbi is having an AMA (question and answer session) on Reddit right now.A lot of the people participating are fans of his work, and merely offering their...
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A Photographic Tour Of Russian Corruption
Russia's corruption is the stuff of legend, and, despite the country leaving the "Wild East"-tag of the 1990s behind, still endemic.Just last year Transparency International ranked it 33rd-most corrupt...
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Putin Demands That The Russian Olympic Committee Fire One Of Its VPs
SOCHI, Russia (AP) — A year before the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics begin, President Vladimir Putin has demanded that a senior member of the Russian Olympic Committee be fired.Putin's move came after he...
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Russia Is Spending A Ludicrous Amount Of Money On The Winter Olympics
A few days ago, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak estimated that the Sochi Winter Olympic Games would cost $51 billion.That's a lot of money — as the AP notes, it's way more than the $6 billion...
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Russia Is Now The World's Largest Gold Buyer
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been loading up on gold.As Bloomberg reports, the Russian central bank has amassed 570 metric tons of it in the last 10 years, making it the biggest global gold...
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Russia Is Supplying Syria And Mali With Arms
Russia said Wednesday it was delivering military hardware and light weapons to the governments of Syria and Mali as it expands sales and maintains its footing in some of the world's deadliest...
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Russia Is Paving The Way For A Pork Oligarchy
Russian pork farmers and producers told Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev last week that government action is stripping them of profitability, as the squeeze between the rising price of feed grain and the...
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