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A former commander of Russia's Northern Fleet says warship decommissioning could cause the Russian navy to shrink significantly by 2015...Vyacheslav Popov said the Russian navy would be seriously weakened if more money not allocated to increase the number...
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At least 10 people were feared dead and dozens injured when four carriages of a train travelling from Moscow to Russia's second city of St Petersburg derailed on Friday. A spokesman said the accident happened at 9:30 p.m. (1830 GMT) near the town of Bologoye...
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The Russian Foreign Ministry said Friday the country is ahead of an international deadline to destroy its chemical weapons stockpile. The ministry said in a statement Russia has already destroyed 45 percent of its chemical weapons as called for under...
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Russia announced earlier in August that it had deployed an S-400 battalion near its far east border to counter a potential threat by North Korea's missile tests. "So far we have two S-400 battalions," said the Air Force Commander Col...Alexander Zelin...
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Russia's representative, Dmitry Rogozin, did not say when the suggestion was made, only that Moscow "is still waiting for an answer," the news agency RIA Novosti reported. "We do not understand why our western neighbors, primarily East European and Baltic...
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But the sector will still need $22 billion in investment – while import duties on foreign-made cars will have to rise to at least 40%. VTB Analyst Elena Sakhnova says the decision now facing the government stems from past policy failures. “Either you...
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Estonian officials said that if Russia buys a French amphibious assault ship, Estonia should consider taking security measures. The Mistral-class helicopter carrier ship, for which the French are asking between $600 to $700 million, is scheduled to arrive...
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Russian prosecutors say an anti-hate crimes campaigner has been shot and killed in Moscow. The Prosecutor General's Investigative Committee says the man killed Monday was an active campaigner against neo-Nazi groups. It said in a statement Tuesday that...
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Nov 17 (RIA Novosti) A Russian police officer from the Urals city of Severouralsk killed himself after accidentally shooting his female colleague dead, an official said Tuesday. Pavel Limonov, 26, accidentally fired a shot as he was handing over his weapon...
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A young antiracist campaigner who frequently clashed with Russian nationalists has been killed in Moscow in what investigators and analysts suggest is probably part of an increasingly violent conflict between ultranationalists and groups that oppose them.
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