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Moscow police detained 49 people at an unauthorized opposition protest on Triumfalnaya Square on Tuesday, a police spokesman said.
The Syrian Ambassador to Russia denied Western media reports that a Russian ship reportedly carrying weapons had docked in a Syrian port in an interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio station.
Russia indicated on Tuesday it will veto a draft resolution on Syria that calls on President Bashar Assad to step down and provides for “further measures” if he refuses.
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Bailiffs in St. Petersburg have seized a Porsche Cayenne worth about 2 million rubles ($66,000) due to unpaid road tax of 530,000 rubles ($17,500) as part of the so-called Potok-D project, the city’s bailiff service said.
Billionaire presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov said on Tuesday he would not launch attacks against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the frontrunner in the March 4 presidential election, unless the two men end up facing off in a second round runoff.
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A Communist candidate was elected mayor of the city of Oryol on Tuesday, winning endorsement from the ruling United Russia party.
Accusations that Joseph Stalin ordered thousands of captured Polish officers executed without trial at Katyn in 1940 are a violation of the Russian Constitution and an illegal slander against the Soviet leader, a lawyer for Stalin’s grandson Yevgeny Dzhugashvili said on Tuesday.
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Fourteen Moscow Region prosecutors have been fired following last year’s multi-million dollar gambling scandal, chief regional prosecutor Alexander Anikin said on Tuesday.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday he was amazed by the hullabaloo over his failure to discuss a UN Syria resolution with US State Secretary Hillary Clinton.
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Russia's Interior Troops, whose duties include dispersing mass protests, will switch to a new type of armored vehicle that allows for swift deployment, the force’s commander said on Tuesday.
The crash of Russia’s Meridian communication satellite late last year was caused by the destruction of one of the Soyuz-2 carrier rocket’s engines, the head of Russian space agency Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin, said on Tuesday.
Space radiation triggered a glitch in the on-board computer system causing the recent crash of Russia’s Mars probe, Federal Space Agency head Vladimir Popovkin said on Tuesday.
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Two offices of the ruling United Russia party in northeastern Moscow were pelted with Molotov cocktails overnight, a law enforcement source said on Tuesday.
Russia is set to sell up to 60 infantry fighting vehicles to Indonesia in a deal worth more than $100 million, the Izvestia newspaper cited an unnamed military source as saying on Tuesday.
The launch of two new crews to the International Space Station (ISS) will be postponed by about 45 days over the need to build a reserve capsule, a Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) official said on Tuesday.
The opposition liberal Yabloko party on Tuesday accused prosecutors in Moscow of trying to close down its web site over a list of officials it claimed helped rig parliamentary elections last month.
The Moscow Department of Education denied that schoolteachers in the capital have been ordered to attend a rally in support of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on February 4.
Russia’s Federal Penitentiary System has begun charging inmates who flee prison with the expense of their recapture, Rossiskaya Gazeta daily said on Tuesday.
The Russian government may provide support for industries which may face losses after the country's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said on Tuesday.



