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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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Earthquake Hits Russia’s Far East, Tremors Felt in Moscow

An earthquake measuring 8.2 on the Richter scale struck Russia’s Far East on Friday, with slight tremors felt thousands of miles away in Moscow.

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Thousands Expected at Marches Against Monsanto Around World

From a town called Moscow in the state of Idaho to the shadow of the Kremlin in the better known Moscow, protests are scheduled around the world Saturday against biotechnology giant Monsanto, which the demonstrators say is turning a blind eye to the potentially deadly effects of genetically modified foods produced from seeds it sells globally.

Russian Navy Shipbuilding Program ‘at Risk’

Russian Navy Shipbuilding Program ‘at Risk’ - Deputy PM

The Russian government is ready to step in to sort out the crisis in Russian naval shipbuilding which is threatening to derail the defense procurement program, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday.

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Ten months after the bloodshed in Syria was formally recognized as a civil war by the Red Cross, Moscow and Washington are finally working together to end it, at least in terms of public diplomacy.

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