| March 2008 |
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Russian Su-25 strike aircraft will take part in a parade on Moscow's Red Square on VE Day, May 9, despite a ban on their flights after a recent crash, a deputy Air Force commander said on Saturday. 
Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova defeated Maria Sharapova 6-3 5-7 6-2 in the Pacific Life Open semi-final, ending her compatriot's 18-match winning streak. 
The leader of Russia's Communist Party, who came a distant second in the presidential election, has called for a special commission to be set up to investigate ballot rigging in the March 2 vote. 
A policeman fatally shot a man who tried to grab the officer's Kalashnikov automatic rifle on a road in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, local police said on Saturday. 
The two journalists from south Russia's republic of Daghestan murdered on Friday were on a list of names that reporters of a local paper were banned from mentioning, a former editor said on Saturday. 



