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Peru: Spy husband could face fraud charges
(AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:06:01 GMT
 AP - A Peruvian journalist whom the U.S. deported to Russia this month in a spy swap is free to return home but her Russian husband could be charged with lying on his citizenship application, Peru's foreign minister said Friday.
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Wildfires sweeping Russia kill at least 25
(Reuters)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:30:44 GMT
 Reuters - Wildfires sweeping across European Russia killed at least 25 people on Friday and forced the evacuation of thousands in the hottest weather since records began 130 years ago.
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Russia mobilizes army to fight fires that kill 25
(AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:29:35 GMT
 AP - Vast sections of Russia were under a state of emergency Friday as more than 10,000 firefighters fought to save villages and forests from being reduced to ash and ember during the country's hottest summer on record.
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Forest fires kill 29 in Russia heatwave
(AFP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:20:36 GMT
 AFP - Forest fires in Russia's worst heatwave in decades killed 29 people, officials said Friday, as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited one of the worst hit areas and a storm claimed seven more lives.
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Russian president's top rights advisor quits
(AFP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:34:30 GMT
 AFP - The head of the council advising Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on rights unexpectedly quit Friday, in a blow for the Kremlin chief who has made developing civil society a priority of his rule.
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Russian official resigns over youth group comments
(AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:56:21 GMT
AP - President Dmitry Medvedev's human rights adviser has resigned after a Kremlin-backed youth organization threatened her with a libel suit for her harsh criticism.
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Death toll in Russian forest fires reaches 25
(AFP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:52:36 GMT
AFP - The death toll from forest fires sweeping across Russia amid a record-breaking heatwave grew to 25 on Friday, with three firefighters among the dead, officials said.
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Raging Russian fires destroy homes, people flee
(AP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:38:25 GMT
 AP - Raging forest fires encircled a southern Russian city and tore through provincial villages Thursday, forcing mass evacuations as Moscow suffered through a record, weeks-long heat wave and smog cloud caused by peat-bog fires.
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Russia foils passenger plane hijacking
(AP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:57:35 GMT
AP - Russian special forces quickly overpowered a man after he briefly seized a plane with 105 passengers and crew at a Moscow airport on Thursday, officials said.
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Medvedev orders corruption investigation into Putin's Sochi Olympics
(The Christian Science Monitor)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:43:07 GMT
The Christian Science Monitor - In an apparent bid to dramatize his flagging anticorruption drive, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has taken the unusual step of ordering an investigation into allegations that a top Kremlin official took huge bribes in connection with the troubled 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
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Hijacking of plane from Caucasus foiled in Moscow: reports
(AFP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:32:44 GMT
 AFP - Russian special forces on Thursday foiled the attempted hijacking of a plane coming from the Caucasus at Moscow's Domodedovo airport, Russian news agencies quoted an airport official as saying.
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Russia foils plane hijacking in Moscow
(Reuters)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:19:22 GMT
Reuters - Russian special forces staged a lightning strike on Thursday to detain a man who had seized an aircraft on a domestic flight to Moscow's Domodedovo airport, a spokeswoman for the airport said.
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Medvedev boosts KGB successor
(Reuters)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:05:57 GMT
 Reuters - President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a new law to boost Russia's security service, restoring a Soviet-era practice of issuing warnings to people it believes are about to commit a crime, the Kremlin said on Thursday.
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Russian president signs law to expand ex-KGB powers
(AFP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:20:53 GMT
 AFP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday signed into a law a bill expanding the powers of the successor to the KGB security service which critics say will give it Soviet-style powers.
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Russia grants more powers to KGB successor agency
(AP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:50:41 GMT
 AP - Russians may now face jail time for crimes they have not yet committed under a new security law signed Thursday by President Dmitry Medvedev.
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Russia to open $29 billion asset sales to foreigners
(Reuters)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:44:36 GMT
Reuters - Russia will open its most ambitious privatization programme since the 1990s to foreign investors, its economy minister said on Thursday, while the government gave its initial approval to the planned $29 billion in asset sales.
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Protesters attack Russian town hall to save forest
(AP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:15:43 GMT
AP - A band of 100 masked people staged a violent environmental protest in a quiet Moscow suburb, hurling Molotov cocktails and fireworks at city hall while objecting to plans for clearing a local forest for highway construction, Russian police said.
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Russia to sell $29 billion state assets on market
(Reuters)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:31:28 GMT
Reuters - Russia plans to sell $29 billion worth of assets on the open market, a senior government official said on Wednesday, allaying investors fears about the transparency of the biggest privatization since the 1990s.
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Sizzling Moscow shrouded in polluting smog
(AP)
Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:15:35 GMT
 AP - A cloud of harmful smog has enveloped Moscow, raising airborne pollutants to four times the norm, officials said Wednesday, and prompting doctors to urge residents to stay indoors as the city swelters in a record heat wave.
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Russian pilot missing in Darfur copter incident
(AP)
Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:35:00 GMT
AP - A Russian-owned helicopter that landed in the wrong place in Darfur has been recovered with all the passengers and crew except the Russian pilot, the top international envoy in the volatile Sudanese region said Tuesday.
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