Eight killed in plane crash near Moscow
Eight people were killed when a Cessna business plane crashed and burst into flames near the Russia capital Moscow, probably due to bad weather. The aircraf...

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3 Killed in Moscow High-Rise Blaze
A fire in a 25-story apartment building in the Russian capital killed three people Friday night and forced hundreds of other residents to evacuate, the Associat...

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Pork thief rumbled by webcam
A couple living in a communal apartment in Moscow, set up a webcam to monitor the goings on in their shared kitchen after a number of their most succulent pork ...

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Switzerland returns art to Moscow
A Swiss government official says a collection of paintings from Moscow's Pushkin Fine Arts Museum can return to Russia. The paintings, which had been sent to...

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Pupil of British school killed in Mafia shooting
A PUPIL at a British boarding school has been shot in a suspected contract killing in Moscow, while on a visit to her home country. Elizaveta Slesareva, 15,...

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Palermo 0 - Lokomotiv Moscow 0
Lokomotiv Moscow held firm with 10 men to claim a creditable point from their tricky UEFA Cup tie at Palermo. Neither side could make the breakthrough at La ...

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G8 to meet in Moscow and St. Petersburg
The Russian Minister of Finance, Alexei Kudrin announced that two G8 summits will be held in Russia in 2006. "Two G8 meetings will be held next year when Rus...

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Smuggler caught red-handed
Police arrested a would-be smuggler last week after he tried to sneak through customs at Domodedovo airport with $150,000 worth of jewels. The Russian citize...

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Russian “Bonnie and Clyde” Go On Trial
A Moscow regional court opened the trial today of a couple dubbed the “Moscow region’s Bonnie and Clyde” for their alleged violent attacks aga...

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Partying in Moscow
Design duo of Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana visited Moscow last week. The Dolce & Gabbana brand has long been viewed in Russian as a symbol of belonging to...

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Victims of repression remembered in Moscow
Over a thousand people gathered in central Moscow to remember victims of political repression in Russia, the Interior Ministry said last Sunday. Public figu...

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18th Moscow International Book Fair opens
The 18th Moscow International Book Fair (MIBF 2005) opened yesterday in Moscow, and will run until the 12th September. The event, which grows in popularity e...

Art and Culture

Putin and Schroeder make deal
Russian President Vladimir Putin will make one last deal with his old friend Gerhard Schroeder just days before an election that is expected to throw the German...

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Maniche to stay in Moscow?
It seems no one is quite certain as to whether Nuno Maniche, the Portuguese International Midfielder who won the Champions League with Porto two seasons ago, is...

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Moscow celebrates anniversary
Amid sounds of the Moscow anthem and countless bright balloons, the Russian capital celebrated its 858th anniversary on Sunday. Over 3,000 festive events we...

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Renault plays to 100,000 crowd in Moscow.
Renault F1 stars Fernando Alonso and Giancarlo Fisichella acquired a new army of fans at the weekend as they took the spectacle of the regie's F1 roadshow to th...

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The new Moscow: Experimental cool
MOSCOW Enter into the cavernous nightclub where three middle-aged men are playing industrial music on homemade electric instruments while young men in black and...

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Moscow Mayor, Luzhkov, to quit office
Yury Luzhkov, currently visiting Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, announced on Friday that intended to quite his Mayordom after 2007. "I have made a clear a...

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Air taxis won't bother residents
Atlant-Soyuz, the company that is responsible for the development and implementation of the Moscow air taxi program, has promised that the service will not oper...

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Moscow Motor Show 2005
Moscow's ninth international car show, will feature vehicles from more than 1,000 companies representing 28 countries, an event organizer said Wednesday. Al...

Business

Bolshoi rebuilding project falters as Putin cuts budget
It was supposed to be the mother of all makeovers — a £492million reconstruction of the Bolshoi Theatre to put it on a par with Covent Garden and La ...

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Russian police say robbers killed spammer Kushnir
The murder of Russia’s biggest spammer Vardan Kushnir was not connected with his Internet activity, but with a straightforward robbery, Moscow investigato...

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‘Asian Gene’ lets Russians drink more
Scientists at the Russian University for National Friendship claim to have found a gene in Russians that enables them to imbibe excessive amounts of alcohol. ...

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Russia's power chief says he won't quit over blackout
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The head of Russia's state-owned electricity monopoly said on Saturday he would not bow to demands for his resignation over a blackout this w...

Business

Paris Hilton of Moscow scoffs at reality TV prudes
A raunchy reality television show hosted by Russia’s first “It girl” has aroused the wrath of Moscow’s council, which is trying to have ...

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Putin meets Abramovich
President Vladimir Putin has had a working meeting with Roman Abramovich, the governor of the Arctic province of Chukotka. To begin with, Abramovich told the pr...

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Blackout costs Moscow $1 billion
The economic costs of Wednesdayís blackout in Russiaís capital Moscow may total over U.S. $1 billion, an official with the cityís administration told ITAR-TASS ...

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Fire damages historic Moscow theatre
A blaze severely damaged a historic music and dance theatre in central Moscow early today but nobody was hurt, the Emergency Situations Ministry said. The fire ...

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