| In Russia, suicide attack targets police officer's funeral |
The explosion in Ingushetia, in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region, kills seven and injures 10. The officer was slain by unknown gunmen.MOSCOW — A suicide bomber on Sunday attacked the funeral of a police officer shot to death by unknown gunmen the previous day in the volatile North Caucasus region of Russia, killing seven and injuring 10 others in the crowd of mourners, officials said.
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| In Russia, suicide attack targets police officer's funeral |
The explosion in Ingushetia, in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region, kills seven and injures 10. The officer was slain by unknown gunmen.MOSCOW — A suicide bomber on Sunday attacked the funeral of a police officer shot to death by unknown gunmen the previous day in the volatile North Caucasus region of Russia, killing seven and injuring 10 others in the crowd of mourners, officials said.
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| Bomber Kills 7 Police Officers in Russian Republic |
The victims were attending the funeral of a slain colleague in Ingushetia, a predominately Muslim republic in the volatile North Caucasus.
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| Madonna sued in Russia for supporting gays |
 Some Russian activists have sued Madonna for millions of dollars, claiming they were offended by her support for gay rights during a recent concert in St. Petersburg.
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| Suicide bomber kills 7 at funeral in Russia |
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| Satanists Desecrate 2 Churches in Russia |
Two churches in the Russian Far East have been desecrated, with Satanist symbols inscribed on their facades. The overnight incident has happened in the city of Yuzhnosakhalinsk on the Far East island of Sakhalin. Local police have started an investigation and are searching for the unknown perpetrators, reports RIA Novosti. ...
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| Madonna adds her voice to critics of Russian female punk rock band verdict |
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Madonna, who had already voiced her support for the Russian punk band Pussy Riot, on Saturday joined a chorus of celebrities in slamming a jail sentence handed down in Moscow to three women from the group over a protest against President Vladimir Putin. "I protest the conviction and sentencing of Pussy Riot to a penal colony for two years for a 40-second performance extolling their political opinions," Madonna said in a statement. ...
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| Gunmen Open Fire in Mosque in Dagestan |
The interior ministry for the Russian Caucasus region said eight people were wounded in the attack as they celebrated the end of Ramadan.
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| Russian clerics forgive Pussy Riot, ask for mercy |
Russian Orthodox Church clerics have asked the country's authorities to "show mercy" on the three members of the punk band Pussy Riot, who were sentenced to two years in jail each on Friday in a trial seen as a test of President Vladimir Putin's tolerance of dissent.
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| Madonna adds her voice to critics of Pussy Riot verdict |
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Madonna, who had already voiced her support for the Russian punk band Pussy Riot, on Saturday joined a chorus of celebrities in slamming a jail sentence handed down in Moscow to three women from the group over a protest against President Vladimir Putin. "I protest the conviction and sentencing of Pussy Riot to a penal colony for two years for a 40-second performance extolling their political opinions," Madonna said in a statement. ...
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| Video: Countdown to Sochi Games begins |
 As the Olympics come to an end in London, there are the 2014 Sochi Games in Russia to look forward to. NBC's Jim Maceda reports. (Nightly News)
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| Russia defeats Brazil for Olympic volleyball gold |
LONDON (AP) - Dimitriy Muserskiy and Russia managed to stay alive long enough to wear out Brazil.
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| Madonna Breaks Speech Ban, Spins Russian Concert Into Pride Rally [VIDEO] |
 Following through on her promise, Madonna spoke out against discrimination of people based on sexual orientation during her MDNA tour concert in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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| Russia defeats Brazil for Olympic volleyball gold |
LONDON (AP) - Russia won its first men's volleyball gold in 32 years by rallying past Brazil in five sets in Sunday's final at the London Olympics.
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| Russia defeats Brazil for Olympic volleyball gold |
LONDON (AP) - Russia won the gold medal for the first time since 1980 with a come-from-behind five-set victory over Brazil on Sunday in the Olympic volleyball final.
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| Russia wins men's bronze, beats Argentina 81-77 |
LONDON (AP) - Alexei Shved scored 25 points - 13 in the fourth quarter - and Russia won its first medal in Olympic men's basketball with an 81-77 win on Sunday over Argentina, whose players confronted the referees after the final horn following a wild scramble in the closing seconds.
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| Uzbek wrestler wins 3rd straight Olympic gold |
LONDON (AP) - As a young boy in Russia, Artur Taymazov wanted to be like Alexander Karelin, his country's most famous wrestler.
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| Spain beats Russia 67-59 in men's Olympic hoops |
LONDON (AP) - The euphoria was mixed with relief. Spain nearly lost its chance at Olympic gold, and maybe worse, another shot at the Americans.
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| As London wraps up, Sochi prepares for Olympics |
SOCHI, Russia (AP) - The idea of holding the Winter Olympics in Sochi once seemed as much of a long shot as a gold medal for Jamaica's bobsledders - a city that few outside Russia had ever heard of, in a country notorious for inefficient construction, corruption, and a byzantine visa regime.
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| Russian official appears to target Madonna in his tweet after she backed anti-Putin rockers |
MOSCOW - A Russian deputy premier has made a rude statement apparently aimed at Madonna regarding her support for the jailed members of a Russian punk band awaiting a verdict in their trial.
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| Russia to investigate failed rocket launch |
 The Russian Space Agency, Roscosmos, has promised that there will be no "witch hunt" by the interagency commission established to investigate Monday's failure of the Proton rocket's Breeze-M upper stage and the likely loss of two telecommunications satellites.
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| US' Claressa Shields advances to gold-medal bout |
LONDON (AP) - U.S. middleweight Claressa Shields dominated Kazakhstan's Marina Volnova in the semifinals of the first Olympic women's boxing tournament Wednesday, earning a spot in the gold-medal bout against Russia's Nadezda Torlopova.
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| Russia beats Lithuania in quarters |
LONDON (AP) - Andrei Kirilenko scored 19 points, Timofey Mozgov added 17 and Russia, dismissed as a medal contender coming into the Olympics, moved into the semifinals of the men's basketball tournament with an 83-74 win over Lithuania on Wednesday.
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| Madonna shows support for jailed Pussy Riot band |
 Madonna has expressed support for the jailed members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot by donning a ski mask and scrawling the group's name on her back.
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| Verdict in Russian punk trial set for Aug. 17 |
 The Moscow judge presiding over the trial of three feminist punk rockers says she will issue a verdict in the controversial case next week.
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| Platon Lebedev’s Jail Term Lowered by Russian Court |
Platon A. Lebedev, an associate of the oil tycoon Mikhail B. Khodorovsky, had his prison sentence reduced in a rare show of leniency amid a spate of criminal cases against opposition leaders.
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| Syrian Rebels Claim Killing Russian General Aiding Assad |
The Free Syrian Army (FSA) has claimed responsibility for killing a Russian general who was allegedly working as a consultant for the Syrian defense minister, in an announcement broadcast by Al Arabiya TV on Wednesday. There was no independent confirmation of the death of General Vladmir Kojaiv, though Al Arabiya showed what the FSA claimed was his identity card with a photo, RIA Novosti reported. The rebel army said the killing of Kojaiv and his private translator, Ahmed Aiq, was evidence Russia was embroiled in the Syrian crisis. ...
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| The Lede Blog: Kremlin Critic Debugs Office. Tweets About It. |
Aleksei Navalny, a blogger and anticorruption crusader in Russia, arrived at work on Monday to find that his office had been bugged.
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| Violence threatened at Madonna concerts |
Russian authorities were stepping up security after a threat of violence at Madonna concerts this week, the U.S. Embassy in Moscow warned.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=U_YcOYdSWxM:0AMym20OtaU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=U_YcOYdSWxM:0AMym20OtaU:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=U_YcOYdSWxM:0AMym20OtaU:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?i=U_YcOYdSWxM:0AMym20OtaU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=U_YcOYdSWxM:0AMym20OtaU:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?d=qj6IDK7rI
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| Violence threatened at Madonna concerts in Russia, embassy warns |
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| Russia Drains Fountains for Paratrooper Day |
To prevent drownings, Russian cities drained public fountains on the soldiers’ national holiday.
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| Putin: Pussy Riot punishment mustn't be too severe |
 Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Thursday criticized the feminist punk rockers facing trial for performing a "punk prayer" against him at Moscow's main cathedral, but said that a punishment for them shouldn't be too severe.
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| Russia edges Brazil in men's hoops |
LONDON (AP) - Vitaliy Fridzon's 3-pointer with four seconds left gave Russia a 75-74 victory over Brazil, keeping the Russians unbeaten in the Olympic men's basketball tournament.
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| Air intruders must be shot down, Belarus leader says |
MINSK (Reuters) - BelaRussian President Alexander Lukashenko, smarting after a pro-democracy stunt in which teddy bears were dropped into Belarus, told his new border guards chief on Thursday to use weapons to stop any more unlawful air intrusions by foreigners. About 800 toy bears were dropped near the town of Ivenets from a light aircraft, chartered by a Swedish public relations firm, which crossed into BelaRussian air space from Lithuania on July 4, the day after Belarus marked independence day. ...
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| Judo diplomacy: Putin, Cameron differ on Syria |
Black-belted Russian President Vladimir Putin and British Prime Minister David Cameron locked horns Thursday over Syria and Moscow's crackdown on political opponents in a day of judo diplomacy at the Olympics.
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| IHT Rendezvous: What Other Professions Deserve $3 Million Prizes? |
The new physics prize from Yuri Milner, the Russian tech investment magnate, throws a new light on how we might correct some of the perverse priorities of capitalism.
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| Way of the World: Celebrating Impractical Physicists |
A Russian billionaire investor deposited $3 million in the bank accounts of each of the nine theoretical physicists he judged to be doing the most brilliant work in their field.
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| Celebrity rockers: Free band Pussy Riot |
Music stars including Pete Townshend of The Who, Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand and Corinne Bailey Rae called on Russia to free three members of the punk rock band Pussy Riot, who are on trial in Moscow on hooliganism charges.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=pseyK13st5s:cwc3J3xyAmc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=pseyK13st5s:cwc3J3xyAmc:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=pseyK13st5s:cwc3J3xyAmc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?i=pseyK13st5s:cwc3J3xyAmc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=pseyK13st5s:cwc3J3xyAmc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://
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| Russian punk band Pussy Riot gets celebrity backing |
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| Top British rockers seek release of Russian band |
Some of Britain's leading musicians have published a letter calling for Russian officials to release a punk band that has been jailed following a protest in Moscow's main cathedral.
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| World Briefing | Europe: Ukraine: Protester Accosts Patriarch Kirill I |
A topless activist tried to attack Patriarch Kirill I, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, on Thursday to protest what her group says are anti-Ukrainian policies by the church and the Kremlin.
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| Topless feminist confronts church patriarch |
 A topless woman confronted the head of the Russian Orthodox Church as he arrived in Kiev on Thursday in the latest in a string of eye-catching stunts pulled by a Ukrainian feminist group.
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| House committee approves normal trade with Russia |
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress has taken another step toward ending Cold War restrictions on trade with Russia....
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| In Russia, Aleksei Navalny Accuses Chief Investigator of Secret European Holdings |
The allegation touched on the personal dealings of Aleksandr I. Bastrykin, head of the Russian agency that coordinates criminal investigations and Aleksei A. Navalny, a figure loathed by anticorruption activists.
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| Tires made from Russian dandelions? It could happen |
 If demand for tires keeps rising and raw material shortages persist, you may be driving soon  on flowers and beans.
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| Capello signs 2-year contract as Russia coach |
MOSCOW (AP) - Former England coach Fabio Capello signed a two-year contract on Thursday to guide Russia's national soccer team through to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
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| Russian adoption outrage |
Americans are afraid of an adoption treaty with Russia that may allow Russians into their homes. Kyung Lah reports.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=73RfCXneg-I:OLBh-i_e4oI:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=73RfCXneg-I:OLBh-i_e4oI:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=73RfCXneg-I:OLBh-i_e4oI:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?i=73RfCXneg-I:OLBh-i_e4oI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=73RfCXneg-I:OLBh-i_e4oI:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss
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| Russia’s Top Health Official Pours Cold War Sauce on American Fast Food |
Gennady Onishenko seized on a public complaint about McDonald’s saying that burgers “are not a sensible dietary choice for the population of Moscow and Russia.”
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| Singer quits Wagner festival over Nazi tattoos |
BERLIN (Reuters) - A Russian opera singer has pulled out of the Bayreuth opera festival over Nazi tattoos on his chest days before the start of the celebration of Richard Wagner's works that was once popular with Third Reich leaders. Evgeny Nikitin was meant to play the Flying Dutchman in Wagner's opera of the same name but German newspaper and TV images have shown him bare chested with tattoos that resemble symbols used by the Nazis. One looks like a swastika, which appears to be covered by a new tattoo in more recent pictures. "I had these tattoos done in my youth. ...
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| Report: Russia is stockpiling drones to spy on street protests |
Think the American drone invasion is bad? Across the ocean, Russia seems hell-bent on outdoing its former Cold War enemy.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?a=HJEi2-sQzSQ:E3jDDNymeYY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?a=HJEi2-sQzSQ:E3jDDNymeYY:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?a=HJEi2-sQzSQ:E3jDDNymeYY:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?i=HJEi2-sQzSQ:E3jDDNymeYY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?a=HJEi2-sQzSQ:E3jDDNymeYY:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a hr
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| Emergency Arab League Meeting to Be Held on Syria |
The Foreign Ministers of the Arab League Council will hold an emergency meeting on Syria in Doha on Sunday amid an escalating armed conflict between the government forces and rebels. Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Al-Arabi will deliver a report on the Syrian developments, RIA Novosti says. Arab League and UN deputy special envoy Nasser al-Kudwa, who has recently held consultations with Russia and Iran, and also met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, will report on the efforts to halt the armed conflict in the war-torn country. ...
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| Singer quits Wagner festival over Nazi tattoos |
BERLIN (Reuters) - A Russian opera singer has pulled out of the Bayreuth opera festival over Nazi tattoos on his chest days before the start of the celebration of Richard Wagner's works that was once popular with Third Reich leaders. Evgeny Nikitin was meant to play the Flying Dutchman in Wagner's opera of the same name but German newspaper and TV images have shown him bare chested with tattoos that resemble symbols used by the Nazis. One looks like a swastika, which appears to be covered by a new tattoo in more recent pictures. "I had these tattoos done in my youth. ...
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| Barclays: Lessons in risk from Russia |
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| Bayreuth: Samuel Youn steps in after Russian quits |
 The Bayreuth opera festival says bass-baritone Samuel Youn has stepped in to take the lead role in "The Flying Dutchman," the annual event's opening production, after Evgeny Nikitin withdrew when it emerged he once had Nazi-related symbols tattooed on his body.
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| Singer with Nazi tattoo cancels Germany appearance |
Russian opera singer Evgeny Nikitin pulls out of the Bayreuth Festival in Germany because he has a Nazi tattoo, organizers said Sunday.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?a=yyClMKxz3ak:vyCBpTSprZA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?a=yyClMKxz3ak:vyCBpTSprZA:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?a=yyClMKxz3ak:vyCBpTSprZA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?i=yyClMKxz3ak:vyCBpTSprZA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?a=yyClMKxz3ak:vyCBpTSprZA:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></
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| Russians are first-time entrants in San Diego RoboSub competition |
For the first time, a team from the Russian Federation has entered the annual RoboSub competition, co-sponsored by the Pentagon's Office of Naval Research. For the engineering-minded, it's the Super Bowl of underwater contests.SAN DIEGO — In a huge tank at a once-secret Navy base on Point Loma, students from the Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok are testing their autonomous underwater vehicle, the AUV Junior.
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| Stuart R. Schram, Physicist and Mao Scholar, Dies at 88 |
After working on the Manhattan Project, Mr. Schram published works in French and German and taught himself Russian and Japanese before turning to the study of Mao Zedong.
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| Opinion: What’s Lenin’s Dead Body to Do? |
Since the Soviet Union folded, Russia has been tippy-toeing around the dead mouse on the national living room floor, namely Lenin’s embalmed corpse.
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| Russian opera singer quits Bayreuth over Nazi tattoo |
A Russian opera singer on Saturday pulled out as the star of this year's legendary Bayreuth Festival just days before the opening premiere in a row over a Nazi tattoo.
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| Russian quits Bayreuth festival over Nazi tattoos |
A Russian baritone who was due to sing the lead role in Richard Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman" when the Bayreuth opera festival opens next week withdrew from the event Saturday after it emerged that he once had Nazi-related symbols tattooed on his body.
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| 'Anonymous' hackers target Exxon, Shell and others for melting polar ice caps |
 Anonymous hackers have released more than 1,000 email credentials from five multinational oil companies that the group accuses of being responsible for the melting polar ice caps. The companies targeted include Shell, Exxon, BP, and Russian firms Gazprom and Rosneft, TheNextWeb reported. While most of the information is encrypted, the hackers have posted it online with the hope that like-minded individuals will help crack the security and obtain the passwords for the corresponding email addresses. The information was reportedly obtained through shell domains and other sub-domains, and was made available due to poor website management. Read
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| Anonymous targets oil companies in email hack |
 Hacking group Anonymous has posted 1,000 email credentials from employees working at Shell, Exxon Mobil, BP and and two Russian oil companies on a file-sharing site to protest Arctic drilling.
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| No surprise Capello going to Russia |
PST: Fabio Capello is a good fit for Russia, and he should be able to get this team to Brazil in 2014.
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| TIMESCAST: TimesCast | July 16, 2012 |
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visits Israel after a challenging trip to Egypt. | The United Nations special envoy, Kofi Annan, visits Moscow to discuss Russia’s position on Syria.
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| Fabio Capello appointed new Russia manager |
The Russian Football Union (RFU) has appointed Italian Fabio Capello as the new national team manager.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?a=Ysvrmi-P-HY:FELKcjkgitQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?a=Ysvrmi-P-HY:FELKcjkgitQ:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?a=Ysvrmi-P-HY:FELKcjkgitQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?i=Ysvrmi-P-HY:FELKcjkgitQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?a=Ysvrmi-P-HY:FELKcjkgitQ:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.
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| Russian man narrowly avoids massive car crash at gas station (VIDEO) |
Some people are calling him the "luckiest dude in Russia," after a Russian man narrowly avoided being crushed in a massive car accident at a gas station. Russia Today reports that the accident happened in Orenburg, a transcontinental city near the Ural River. In the 32 second video, a bus reportedly carrying 30 passengers crashes [...]
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| Marussia F1: Car was not a factor in De Villota crash |
The MaRussia Formula One team has ruled out a mechanical fault as the cause of a test crash which resulted in its female driver losing her right eye.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?a=FRuJ4NL8cgM:fRDtauVrmJY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?a=FRuJ4NL8cgM:fRDtauVrmJY:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?a=FRuJ4NL8cgM:fRDtauVrmJY:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?i=FRuJ4NL8cgM:fRDtauVrmJY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?a=FRuJ4NL8cgM:fRDtauVrmJY:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"><
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| Report: Capello set to be hired as Russia coach |
MOSCOW (AP) -The acting head of Russia's football federation reportedly says former England coach Fabio Capello has been chosen to lead the national team and is expected to soon visit Moscow to sign a contract.
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| Russia Says It Will Not Back Britain on Syria Sanctions |
Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov made clear that the Kremlin has no intention of supporting a proposal to enact United Nations sanctions to the Syrian crisis.
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| New Fighting in Damascus After Syria Denies Attack on Civilians |
Some of the heaviest fighting yet in Damascus erupted in a neighborhood about a 20-minute drive southwest of the city center, while diplomatic efforts seemed on track to run into Russian resistance.
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