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Ukraine's 'hot Air' Bedevils Global Climate Deal

Closed Communist-era Factories Reap Windfall Profit For Ukraine But Problem For Climate Deal (AP) KONSTANTINOVKA, Ukraine (AP) - Vladimir Gapor is a plumber by trade, but now he's a scavenger, prying bits of scrap steel from...

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Hirscher, Borssen win parallel slaloms

MOSCOW MILLS — Marcel Hirscher of Austria won the second edition of the parallel slalom Champions Cup on a giant ramp in a promotion of Alpine ski events for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Therese Borssen of Sweden dominated...

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Through a glass darkly

On the driver’s side the window came down. Vakha looked inside. The driver's face was half-concealed by a white mask. The face of the woman passenger was also obscured – by the end of a trailing headscarf.

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Australian police want to take from Kadyrov laundered by him half a million USD

Publication time: 20 November 2009, 12:40 Australian newspaper Herald Sun has reported on plans of the Australian police to take away from Kadyrov half a million US dollars laundered by him at the Melbourne race. The newspaper...

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What Risk Does The Opening Of Larsi Entail

WHAT RISK DOES THE OPENING OF LARSI ENTAIL Kviris Palitra Nov 9 2009 Georgia Eka Asatiani's interview with Caucasus affairs expert Mamuka Areshidze Translated from Georgian Many details of the patriarch's visit to Baku have not...

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Isa Yamadayev says he does not want to die and asks Medvedev to protect him from Kadyrov's hitmen

Isa Yamadayev has appealed to formal Kremlin ringleader Medvedev in an open letter published by the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper. Yamadayev says in the letter that Kadyrov wants to kill him and asks Medvedev for help and...

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Council of Europe welcomes Russia's extension of death penalty ban

The court said that the ban, introduced in 1999, had begun an "irreversible process" toward the abolition of the death penalty in the country. The 1999 decision imposed a moratorium until jury trials were introduced in all of...

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State Lays Claim to Geography Society

MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s passion for geography was on full display Wednesday as he became head of the Russian Geographical Society’s board of trustees, a day after Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu...

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Russian corruption fight explodes on YouTube

Russian police official sacked after making claims of corruption on YouTube MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- The month of November has been a poignant one for Russia and its fight against corruption -- arguably its biggest vice. It...

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Politkovskaya expected death: new film (AFP)

AFP - Two years before she was killed in the stairwell of her Moscow apartment, Anna Politkovskaya mused about life as the Kremlin's number one enemy and pronounced it a "miracle" that she was still alive.

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