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19:38 19/04/2008

Workers stop hunger strike at RusAl mine
19:30 19/04/2008
The workers at a Urals mine owned by Russia's aluminum giant RusAl have stopped a hunger strike they had gone on almost a week ago to demand higher wages.
Georgian speaker urges Russia to review aid for breakaway regions
19:24 19/04/2008
The Georgian parliament speaker has again called on Russia to review its decision to establish legal relations with the unrecognized republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Russian space capsule lands 260 miles away from target site - 2
18:39 19/04/2008
Russia's space capsule carrying International Space Station crew landed 420 km (260 miles) away from the target site in northern Kazakhstan, but the crew are safe, Mission Control said Saturday.
Man injured in homemade explosive blast in Moscow south
17:25 19/04/2008
Russia-West relations cannot be called confrontation - FM Lavrov
17:01 19/04/2008
The Russia-NATO Council summit in Bucharest and the Russian-American summit in Sochi in early April showed that the Russia-West relations cannot be called "confrontation", the Russian foreign minister said.
Russian space capsule lands 260 miles away from target site
13:39 19/04/2008
Russia's space capsule carrying the International Space Station crew and a South Korean astronaut landed 420 km (260 miles) away from the target site in northern Kazakhstan, but everyone is safe, Mission Control said Saturday.
At least five dead in Daghestan car crash
12:25 19/04/2008

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