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29/11/2009 00:26
Russian police officer shoots colleague, commits suicide
28/11/2009 23:37 A police officer who shot his colleague in the head and then turned his weapon on himself near Moscow earlier on Saturday has died in hospital, investigators said.
Passengers on Russian blast train tell of chaos, confusion
28/11/2009 23:09 Survivors of a terrorist attack on a luxury high-speed Moscow-St. Petersburg train that killed at least 26 people described on Saturday the chaos and confusion in the aftermath of the blast.
Two dead as bus hits runaway truck near Moscow
28/11/2009 21:49 Two people were killed on Saturday when a bus collided with a runaway KamAZ truck near Moscow, traffic police said.
Two police officers injured in gun attack near Moscow
28/11/2009 20:18 Two police officers were injured in a shooting near Moscow on Saturday, a police spokesman said.
Rescue work ends at site of St. Petersburg-bound train attack
28/11/2009 20:04 Russian rescue workers rounded up on Saturday work at the site of a deadly attack on a Moscow-St. Petersburg train.
Russian police issue description of train blast suspect
28/11/2009 19:16 One of the main suspects in an attack on a Moscow-St. Petersburg train that killed at least 26 people was described by the Interior Minister on Saturday as "over 40, stocky and ginger-haired."
Moscow-St. Petersburg train derailment
28/11/2009 19:16
Hunt for bomb called off at Moscow train station
28/11/2009 17:29 Reports of a bomb planted at Moscow's Kievsky train station were false, a police source told RIA Novosti on Saturday.
Britain to begin piping in Russian gas in 2012
28/11/2009 17:28 Britain will start piping in gas directly from Russia in late 2012, the chief executive of Nord Stream has said.
Police search for bomb at Moscow train station
28/11/2009 17:05 Police in Moscow are searching for an explosive device at the Kievsky train station, a spokesman told RIA Novosti on Saturday.
Bomb caused fatal train crash - Russia's security chief
28/11/2009 16:45 An explosive device equivalent to 7 kg of TNT caused Friday evening's deadly derailment of a train travelling from Moscow to St. Petersburg, the Russian federal security chief said on Saturday.
Reports on Russian train derailment deaths still vary
28/11/2009 15:15 Russia's health minister said on Saturday the derailment of a train going from Moscow to St. Petersburg late on Friday left 26 people dead, with other officials putting the toll at 25 to 30 people.
Russia upbeat about IAEA resolution on its uranium initiative
28/11/2009 13:30 Russia's Foreign Ministry welcomed on Saturday the UN nuclear watchdog's resolution on Moscow's initiative to establish a reserve of low-enriched uranium.
Russian, Turkmen leaders to talk economy, trade in Moscow
28/11/2009 12:32 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Turkmen counterpart, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, will discuss bilateral economic and energy cooperation in Moscow on Sunday, a Kremlin source said on Saturday.
Moscow reinstalls landmark Soviet statue
28/11/2009 10:30 A giant Soviet-era statue was put back on its pedestal early on Saturday in northeast Moscow after a five-year restoration.
Two policemen found dead in Chechnya
28/11/2009 09:31 Two police officers were killed in the town of Gudermes in the volatile Russian North Caucasus republic of Chechnya last night, a local police spokesman said on Saturday.
Nevsky Express train derails in Russia: 25 killed, 95 injured
28/11/2009 08:06 Twenty-five people died in the derailment of a Nevsky Express train that could have been a terrorist attack, and 95 were injured, according to the latest data from the Russian health minister
Derailed Nevsky Express train was blown up - law enforcement source
28/11/2009 05:12 The Nevsky Express train bound for St. Petersburg that got derailed Friday evening killing at least 25 people was blown up, a law enforcement source said Saturday
Putin calls Hermitage Capital lawyer Magnitsky's death "tragedy"
28/11/2009 03:57 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday called the death of hedge fund Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in prison "a tragedy" but made no other comments.

Nevsky Express train derails in Russia: 25 killed, 95 injured Twenty-five people died in the derailment of a Nevsky Express train that could have been a terrorist attack, and 95 were injured, according to the latest data from the Russian health minister	Mrs World 2009 Russia's Victoria Radochinskaya Russian Victoria Radochinskaya has won the Mrs World 2009 beauty pageant, which took place in the Vietnamese city of Vung Tau
The aftermath of the attack on the Nevsky Express A bomb derailed three carriages of the Moscow-St.Petersburg high-speed Nevsky Express train on Friday evening, killing at least 26 people and injuring over 90.	European Jews say equating Nazism with Stalinism unacceptable Any comparison between Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union is unacceptable, the head of the European Jewish Congress said on Thursday.

		28/11/2009 The aftermath of the attack on the Nevsky Express
		27/11/2009 Storm hits across Victoria, Australia

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