Russian teenager attempts ‘bank robbery’ for suicide
September 7th, 2012 - 1:14 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, Sep 6 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A teenage girl tried to 'rob' a bank in a region in western Russia so that she could afford to leave her native city and ... Read more...
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Hunt for tent rapist in Russia
July 27th, 2012 - 6:09 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, July 27 (IANS) Police are searching for a man accused of raping women in forests throughout western Russia and recording the acts on video, reported RIA Novosti.The man has ... Read more...
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Barrels of human embryos found in Russian forest
July 23rd, 2012 - 7:03 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, July 23 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Four barrels containing human embryos have been discovered in a remote forest in western Russia's Urals region, police said Monday.Residents of Sverdlovsk region came across ... Read more...
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Man attempts bank robbery with toy gun
July 13th, 2012 - 10:46 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, July 13 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A man in western Russia's Urals region tried to rob a bank with a toy pistol in a bid to save his money-losing business, the ... Read more...
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Russian cops accused of filming prison sex
July 12th, 2012 - 9:34 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, July 12 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Police officers in western Russia's Sverdlovsk region are suspected of filming a detainee sodomising a fellow inmate instead of stopping the violence, officials said.The officers ... Read more...
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Ammo blast kills six in Russia
May 3rd, 2012 - 12:12 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, May 2 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Six soldiers died in western Russia Wednesday when ammunition they were unloading for destruction exploded, the defence ministry said.Three others were injured in the explosion ... Read more...
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Russian woman kills hubby with frying pan
April 29th, 2012 - 9:47 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, April 29 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A Russian man died after his jealous wife hit him on the head with a frying pan, officials said.The incident took place in Orenburg city ... Read more...
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Four Russians held for poisoning 11 people
April 28th, 2012 - 10:40 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, April 28 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Four people, including two former policemen, have been arrested in Russia on charges of poisoning at least 11 people in a bid to illegally seize ... Read more...
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Plane crash kills four in Russia
April 7th, 2012 - 2:32 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, April 7 (IANS/RIA Novosti) At least four people died when an SM 2000 turboprop plane crashed during a training flight in Russia, an official said.The plane crashed in central ... Read more...
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Eight babies die in Russian hospital
January 22nd, 2012 - 4:36 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, Jan 22 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Eight newborn babies have died in a children's hospital in western Russia, forcing officials to launch an investigation.The deaths took place in the North Caucasus ... Read more...
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Russia observes ‘Day of Silence’ ahead of polls
December 3rd, 2011 - 3:15 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, Dec 3 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A national 'Day of Silence' was observed in Russia Saturday ahead of the parliamentary elections Dec 4.During the silence period no active campaigning by the ... Read more...
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Europe’s largest emerald mine reopens in Urals
December 3rd, 2011 - 8:40 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, Dec 3 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Production has resumed at Europe's largest emerald deposit in Russia's Sverdlovsk region in the Ural mountains following an idle period of several years.The Ural Mountains, ... Read more...
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I have an alien in my fridge: Russian woman
November 16th, 2011 - 6:33 pm ICT by IANS
London, Nov 16 (IANS) A Russian woman has claimed she has had an extra-terrestrial creature in her fridge for the past two years.Marta Yegorovnam told investigators she found the alien ... Read more...
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Russian ‘genius’ lived with 26 female bodies
November 4th, 2011 - 3:08 am ICT by BNO News
NIZHNY NOVGOROD, RUSSIA (BNO NEWS) -- Police in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod have discovered the remains of more than two dozen women who were dug up from their graves by ... Read more...
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UFO over Russia?
October 26th, 2011 - 7:05 pm ICT by IANS
London, Oct 26 (IANS) A burning object, a smoke trail and six mysterious red dots were reportedly seen in the sky over two Russian towns.The pilot of a London-Moscow flight ... Read more...
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Nine held trying to take control of mosques
September 27th, 2011 - 6:32 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, Sep 27 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Nine Islamists were arrested in Russia Tuesday after they attempted to take control of several mosques, police said.The incident took place in the republic of ... Read more...
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Passenger plane carrying ice hockey team crashes in western Russia, killing 43
September 7th, 2011 - 8:16 pm ICT by BNO News
MOSCOW (BNO NEWS) -- Forty-three people, including several foreigners, were killed on Wednesday when a passenger plane carrying an ice hockey team crashed in western Russia, officials said. Two people survived the ... Read more...
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Tornado hits city in Russia’s far-east, killing one
July 31st, 2011 - 11:29 pm ICT by BNO News
BLAGOVESHCHENSK, RUSSIA (BNO NEWS) -- One person was killed on Sunday when a rare tornado hit the Russian far-eastern city of Blagoveshchensk, officials said. Dozens more were injured.The tornado hit the city ... Read more...
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Over 50 fall ill after eating at Russia cafe
July 14th, 2011 - 11:42 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, July 14 (IANS) At least 52 people fell ill Thursday after eating at a cafe in western Russia. The cafe was previously also in the news for serving unhealthy ... Read more...
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Japan n-plant crisis may be worse than Chernobyl (Second Lead)
April 12th, 2011 - 4:33 pm ICT by IANS
Tokyo, April 12 (IANS) The crisis at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant, the level of which has been raised from five to seven, the worst on an international scale, may ... Read more...
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Japan upgrades nuke emergency to highest level 7, says disaster as bad as Chernobyl
April 12th, 2011 - 12:18 pm ICT by ANI
Tokyo, Apr 12 (ANI): Japan's nuclear authorities have raised the nuclear emergency level at the Fukushima nuclear plant to seven on par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, described as the world's worst ... Read more...
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Fukushima crisis level raised to highest level-7 (Lead)
April 12th, 2011 - 12:15 pm ICT by IANS
Tokyo, April 12 (IANS) The crisis level of the accident at the troubled Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan has been raised from the earlier five to seven, the worst ... Read more...
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Poland to reconstruct jet crash that killed president
January 23rd, 2011 - 11:53 am ICT by IANS
Warsaw, Jan 23 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Poland plans to reconstruct the crash that killed then Polish president Lech Kaczynski, a top official said.A Tu-154 plane that crashed near Smolensk, in western Russia, in ... Read more...
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Top 10 global weather events in 2010
January 14th, 2011 - 3:39 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Jan 14 (IANS) A panel of experts has ranked the top 10 global weather and climate events of 2010 as follows.According to Christian Science Monitor, voters considered the scope and unusualness ... Read more...
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Poland rejects Russia’s report on President Kaczynski’s death
December 17th, 2010 - 10:52 pm ICT by BNO News
WARSAW, POLAND (BNO NEWS) -- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Friday rejected Russia's report on the causes of the plane crash which killed late President Lech Kaczynski and other high-ranking officials ... Read more...
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Poland unhappy with Russia’s investigation on plane crash that killed President Kaczynski
September 24th, 2010 - 1:21 am ICT by BNO News
MOSCOW, RUSSIA (BNO NEWS) – Poland on Thursday expressed its dissatisfaction with the progress of the Russian investigation on the accident in which President Lech Kaczynski lost his life among other high-ranking ... Read more...
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Russian wildfires reach nuclear disaster zone
August 12th, 2010 - 4:35 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, Aug 12 (IANS) Wildfires in Russia have reached areas contaminated by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, raising concern among people that radioactive material could be released into the air.
Russia's Federal Forestry ... Read more...
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Komorowski to be inaugurated as Polish president
August 6th, 2010 - 1:33 pm ICT by IANS
Warsaw, Aug 6 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Bronislaw Komorowski will be sworn in as new Polish president Friday at a joint session of the two chambers of parliament.
Komorowski, a 58-year-old pro-European Union (EU) moderate ... Read more...
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Poland votes in close presidential run-off
July 4th, 2010 - 2:51 pm ICT by IANS
Warsaw, July 4 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Poles will choose Sunday a new president with the twin brother of the late Polish president and the interim head of state facing each other in a ... Read more...
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Study finds echoes of the Holocaust in Russia’s economy, politics
June 18th, 2010 - 5:29 pm ICT by ANI
Cambridge (Massachusetts, US), June 18 (ANI): A detailed new analysis of seven decades of Soviet and Russian data has revealed that Russian cities and regions whose Jewish populations bore the brunt of ... Read more...
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Russia to prosecute Polish plane crash plunderers
June 8th, 2010 - 7:07 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, June 8 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russian investigators Tuesday confirmed that charges had been brought against four servicemen accused of stealing bank cards from a top Polish official who died in the plane ... Read more...
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Transcript from the ill-fated polish flight published
June 2nd, 2010 - 7:58 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
June 2, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): On Tuesday, Poland published the transcript recovered from the black box of the doomed Polish government jet that crashed on April 10. The ... Read more...
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Russia designs patriotic computer games
May 12th, 2010 - 10:13 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, May 12 (IANS) The next generation of computer games in Russia will not be providing "simple entertainment" - they aim to nurture patriotism among the younger generation by eliminating any "falsification ... Read more...
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Nuclear safety needed to avoid Chernobyl like tragedy: UN
April 27th, 2010 - 9:31 am ICT by IANS
New York, April 27 (DPA) The explosion of the nuclear reactor in Chernobyl, Ukraine, 24 years ago showed graphically the need to strengthen the safety and security of nuclear material and power ... Read more...
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Poland uncertain whether to reveal black box records
April 23rd, 2010 - 6:40 am ICT by IANS
Warsaw, April 23 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Polish investigators have not yet decided on whether to make public data from flight recorders of the Tu-154 plane, which crashed April 10 in western Russia, killing ... Read more...
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