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Navy officer jailed for throwing 8-year-old twins out of window
Lon :: Burkina Faso | 3 years ago
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Back in November 2009, the story of Nikolay Zakharkin's family drama caused a stir in the Russian media. The 31-year-old lieutenant commander was reportedly enraged by the girls' mother, Irina, as she was not at home late that night. He eventually
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Somalia calls for Russian explanation on pirates
Nairobi :: Kenya | 3 years ago
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May 14, 2010 15:00 Somalis vow revenge on any Russians they capture as Russian media report possible death of pirates the Russian Navy had captured in the Gulf of Aden. Somalia's transitional government called on Russia on Friday to explain why it
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Russia plans several new high-speed train routes
Moscow :: Russia | 3 years ago
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Russia n Railways plans to expand its network of rapid trains, Sapsan, to connect Moscow with other Russia n cities and also with Ukraine , the company's head said on Thursday. "We will be developing the projected directions [from Moscow] to Sochi,
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Did Russian-captured Somali Pirates Walk The Plank?
No sign of them after being releasedAlmost from the moment the Russian Navy claimed to have rescued 23 Russian sailors from the Moscow University questions were raised about the ten pirates they captured.Initially, Moscow
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Captured Somali pirates 'evidently dead': Russia
Moscow :: Russia | 3 years ago
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The Russian warship Marshal Shaposhnikov, pictured in 2003 during exercises in the Indian Ocean. A group of Somali pirates captured by Russian marines on the Marshal Shaposhnikov and then set free in a boat are most probably dead after failing to
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Ukraine's dangerous ode to Stalin
Kiev :: Ukraine | 3 years ago
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This week Ukrainian Communists unveiled a bust of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in the mainly Russia-speaking city of Zaporizhya in eastern Ukraine...The bust is the first monument to Stalin in Ukraine's modern history. Skip to next paragraph
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Sevastopol siege: surrounded and soaked in blood
Lon :: Burkina Faso | 3 years ago
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Ivan Losev was a teenager when the Second World War reached his home...The beautiful seaside town of Sevastopol in the Crimea was soaked in blood. When the Nazi troops came there, we were evacuated to a bunker on the coast...There was no water, so we
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Hijacker of “conspiracy freighter” sentenced
Moscow :: Russia | 3 years ago
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LON) (MOW) Hijacker of conspiracy freighter sentenced Published 07 May, 2010, 14:47 One of the people who hijacked the motor vessel Arctic Sea has been sentenced to five years' prison. The story of the ship spurred the wildest conspiracy theories
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Russia launches criminal proceedings against captured Somali pirates
Moscow :: Russia | 3 years ago
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The Moscow Universitet tanker with 23 Russian crewmembers and 86,000 tonnes of oil was hijacked near the Gulf of Aden by Somali pirates around 0800 hrs (local time) yesterday, when it was on its way from the Red Sea to China. The pirates attacked the
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British, Russian Veterans Recall Arctic Convoys
Murmansk :: Russia | 3 years ago
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Frank Bond, 87, who came from London accompanied by his daughter Emma, had not been back to Russia since the war until this week. He first came to Russia with a convoy in 1942 as a teenage sailor in the Royal Navy on the HMS Suffolk. �I remember
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