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Smolensk Mayor Fined $70 for Snow-Clearing Fail

22:06 23/01/2012 SMOLENSK, January 23 (RIA Novosti)

Traffic police have fined Smolensk city manager Nikolai Alasheyev 2,000 rubles ($70) for failing to clear the streets of snow in a timely manner, a police spokesman said on Monday.

Putin: Ethnic Tensions could ‘Destroy’ Russia
21:42 23/01/2012
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin combined on Monday a stark warning that rising nationalism poses a threat to Russia’s very future with calls for a clampdown on “disrespectful” internal migrants.
Russian Government in for ‘Serious Rotation’ - Putin
20:38 23/01/2012
There will be far-reaching personnel changes in the Russian government after the March 4 presidential election, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday.
Depressurized Jet Makes Emergency Landing
19:27 23/01/2012
A passenger jet flying from Rostov-on-Don to Moscow had to make an emergency landing 20 minutes after takeoff over a depressurized cabin.
Supreme Court Cancels Opposition Party Ban
17:02 23/01/2012
Nearly a year after the Strasbourg Court said the 2007 closure of the tiny opposition Republican Party by the Russian authorities was unjustified, Russia’s Supreme Court ruled on Monday to reverse the case, the first such decision in years.
Putin Proposes New Interethnic Relations Agency
08:03 23/01/2012
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has proposed establishing a new state agency on national development and interethnic accord.
Putin Calls for Stricter Migrant Registration Rules
03:57 23/01/2012
Russia should have stricter registration rules for internal migrants and introduce criminal responsibility for violation of migration laws, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said.

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Twelve Russians, the crew members of a An-30 turboprop that crash landed on May 23 at an airport in the east of Prague, and Russian Defense Ministry inspectors returned to Russia on Saturday, the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry said.

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