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20:00 29/11/2008

Sevastopol residents crush NATO-touting billboards
18:06 29/11/2008
Residents of the Crimean city of Sevastopol in south Ukraine are destroying billboards put up by the country's authorities to promote NATO membership, a RIA Novosti correspondent said Saturday.
Russia communists slam authorities, call for U.S.S.R. revival
17:06 29/11/2008
Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov criticized the Russian leadership's domestic policies on Saturday and said communism was the only remedy for the current financial crisis.
Seventh young woman murdered in Chechnya in a week
17:02 29/11/2008
Russia's state-run Sberbank raises individual account rates
13:37 29/11/2008
Russia's state savings bank Sberbank has increased rates for ruble-denominated individual deposit accounts by 1 to 2.5 percentage points from December 1, the bank said on Saturday.
One police officer killed, five wounded in Chechnya shootout
10:35 29/11/2008
One police officer was killed and five others wounded in a clash with militants in southern Chechnya, a local police officer said on the telephone on Saturday.

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A brawl broke out in the Ukrainian Parliament on Thursday ahead of the consideration of a bill designed to expand the use of Russian language in the country, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.

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