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The death toll from last weekend's nightclub fire in Perm, Russia, has risen to 119, medical officials said Tuesday. A local medic told RIA Novosti that one more victim had died in hospital, but a spokesman for Perm emergencies services did not confirm...
Tags: Russian, nightclub fired, death toll, Vladimir Putin, Russia, Perm, Disaster Accident, Beslan school hostage crisis, Moscow theater hostage crisis, RIA Novosti, Information Telegraph Agency of Russia, Law Crime, Ural
Charges against Moscow store massacre cop confirmed Published 08 December, 2009, 19:43 Russia’s General Prosecutor’s office has confirmed the charges against a policeman who went on a shooting rampage in a Moscow supermarket back in April 2009. The...
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At least 109 people were killed and 134 injured when a blaze ignited by fireworks ripped through a packed Russian nightclub, starting a stampede as revelers rushed to escape clouds of toxic black smoke. The pyrotechnics show went wrong at the Lame Horse...
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Data from developed markets showed that the compounded annual growth rate for advertising on mobile phones was projected to be sharply higher than the rate for the Internet between 2008-12 in the United States and Japan. Surveys also showed that areas...
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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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