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Swimming World Magazine - Mon Nov 9, 2:23 am ET
Universal Sports FINA World Cup Dashboard, including webcasts and highlights MOSCOW, Russia, November 6. THE second set of preliminaries at the FINA World Cup stop hosted by Moscow featured some fa...
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Bloomberg - Mon Nov 9, 6:06 am ET
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Russian stocks rallied the most among global equity markets and the ruble strengthened as oil climbed above $78 a barrel and the Group of 20 nations agreed to maintain stimulus efforts.
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International Herald Tribune - Mon Nov 9, 4:48 pm ET
Mr. Ginzburg, a Russian physicist, helped develop the first Soviet hydrogen bomb and went on to win the Nobel Prize.
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Bloomberg - Mon Nov 9, 10:35 am ET
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Chancellor Angela Merkel called it the “happiest day in German history.” French President Nicolas Sarkozy drove all the way from Paris to witness it, and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said it helped build trust.
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SPACE.com - Mon Nov 9, 6:59 pm ET
A new Russian room that doubles as a docking port for the International Space Station is poised to launch Tuesday.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Sun Nov 8, 10:44 pm ET
The Russian film "A Room and a Half" is about as different as you can get from standard-issue Hollywood biopics.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 5, 3:55 pm ET
A Russian rights group said Chechen authorities on Thursday abducted a human rights advocate in Moscow who has been critical of Chechnya's Kremlin-backed leader.
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Bloomberg - Mon Nov 9, 2:20 am ET
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- AFK Sistema , billionaire Vladimir Yevtushenkov’s holding company, has held talks on acquiring oil producer OAO Russneft, Kommersant reported, citing people it didn’t identify.
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The Epoch Times - Mon Nov 9, 3:15 am ET
A Russian Professor discusses the fall of the Soviet Union.
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Technology Review - Tue Nov 10, 12:14 am ET
Russia is set to add a new module to the International Space Station after an eight-year hiatus.
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Pioneer Press - Sun Nov 8, 1:21 am ET
MOSCOW — When Russian businessman Yevgeny Ostrovsky decided to name his kebab joint Anti-Soviet Shashlik, he thought of it as black humor.
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Washington Post - Sat Nov 7, 8:22 pm ET
Replacing the 1991 treaty is a critical first step in Obama's ambitious global arms-control agenda.
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UPI - Mon Nov 9, 4:14 pm ET
TEHRAN, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- The relationship between Moscow and Tehran could be damaged if the Kremlin does not move on deliveries of the S-300 missile defense system, lawmakers said.
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USA Swimming - Mon Nov 9, 7:19 pm ET
American swimmer Jessica Hardy won two events and set a world record Friday and Saturday at the FINA World Cup meet in Moscow. Hardy shattered the world record in the in the 50m breast in 29.36, and set a World Cup record in the 100m breast in 1:03.75.
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UPI - Sun Nov 8, 5:36 pm ET
NOVOROSSIISK, Russia, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- A police department in southern Russia will be investigated after a critical video by a local police officer was posted on a Web site, officials said.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 7, 7:31 am ET
Sanctions against Iran should not be ruled out if it fails to agree to restrictions on its nuclear program, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told German weekly magazine Der Spiegel in an interview.
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AP via Yahoo! Sports - 4 minutes ago
Jing Zhao of China has set a world record in the women's 50-meter backstroke at a short-course World Cup meet. Jing won a qualifying heat Tuesday in 26.08 seconds, beating the previous record of 26.17 set by Marieke Guehrer of Australia four days ago at the World Cup in Moscow. Jing's record was set on the first day of competitions in Stockholm.
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Bloomberg - 31 minutes ago
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Mikhail Kalashnikov , the self-made inventor of the world’s most popular assault rifle that’s in use in about 100 countries and adorns the flag of Mozambique, celebrates his 90th birthday today.
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Washington Post - Tue Nov 10, 12:00 am ET
BERLIN -- For once, Germans celebrated a moment from their tumultuous past without a pang of guilt.
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New York Times - Mon Nov 9, 1:38 am ET
Europe was transformed in 1989, but the events of that year are seen differently in Europe, the U.S. and Russia.