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Top Russian sanitary inspector bans student trips to Britain over swine flu / MosNews.com
Russia’s chief sanitary inspector Gennady Onishchenko has forbidden groups of Russian children from traveling to Britain because of the flu outbreak. It was not clear though, how he wasCommunists urge Madonna to change outfit, repertoire for Russian concert / MosNews.com
Communists of Petersburg and the Leningrad Region addressed pop star Madonna, who is going to give a concert on Dvortsovaya Square in St. Petersburg on August 2, and urged her to "to mindAvtoVAZ threatens layoff of 27,000 people / MosNews.com
According to those present at an AvtoVAZ suppliers’ meeting today, Russia’s largest carmaker may lay off almost a quarter of its employees, Vzglyad newspaper reports. That information wasIran moves to ban Russian planes after 184 die in two air crashes / MosNews.com
The Iranian parliament has asked the government to avoid purchasing timeworn Russian-made passenger planes, after two air crash incidentsBritish Council to reopen in Russia / MosNews.com
The British Council will return to Russia, after a lengthy, politically-motivated closure, NEWSru.com writes. “As a goodwill gesture, the Russian side isArgentina’s head coach Maradona wants to cancel friendly with Russia / MosNews.com
Diego Maradona would prefer not to take his Argentina team to Russia for a friendly next month when he has a critical World Cup qualifier againstGerman millionaire detained in Moscow over knife attack on Russian girlfriend / MosNews.com
Russian police have arrested a German businessman, who cut up his Russian mistress Elena with a kitchen knife and threw her out of theRussia’s TNK-BP profit down 50% in first half of 2009 / MosNews.com
TNK-BP International, Russia's third-largest oil producer, announced Tuesday that net profit had more than halved to $2.01 billion in the first half ofMaria Sharapova needs 3 even sets to win in first round of West Classic / MosNews.com
Maria Sharapova shook off some inconsistent play to beat Ai Sugiyama, 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-1 in the first round of the $700,000 WTA Premier Bank of the11 killed in car crash in south Russia's Dagestan / MosNews.com
Eleven people, including two children, have been killed in a road accident in the Nogai district of Dagestan in south Russia, days after PresidentOpposition activist shot in the mouth near Moscow / MosNews.com
A Russian anti-corruption activist was attacked by a group of men who shot him in the mouth with a stun gun at the weekend, Reuters wrote Monday.11 years on, family urge new investigation into assasination of liberal Russian MP / MosNews.com
The family of liberal Russian lawmaker Galina Starovoitova, whose murder in 1998 caused a furore in Russia, has appealed to President Dmitry Medvedev to reopen the case, AFP writes.Obama's administration stands up for Biden after harsh Russia remarks / MosNews.com
White House Press Secretary Roberts Gibbs on Monday called Vice President Biden an "enormous asset to the administration," after the StateRussian patriarch’s visit leads to street fighting in Ukraine / MosNews.com
The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Kirill began a ten-day visit to Ukraine today, Unian news agency reports. A crowd of about 2000 people,Russia tests nuclear submarine 9 months after failed sea trial / MosNews.com
Russia has successfully tested a nuclear submarine nine months after 20 sailors were killed during a failed sea trial, RIA news agency reported onRussia welcomes North Korea's readiness for nuclear talks / MosNews.com
Russia has welcomed an announcement made Monday by North Korea that it was open to new nuclear arms talks as a "positive signal."Young lion found in a box in central Moscow / MosNews.com
Moscow police received a call saying that an adolescant lion was found sitting unattended in a wooden box in front of an apartment block in theRussia releases crime boss wanted by US for alleged fraud and racketeering / MosNews.com
Russia has released a suspected organized crime boss who is wanted by the United States for alleged fraud and racketeering, the Financial Times reported on Monday, citing his lawyer.Kyrgyzstan's President Bakiyev officially wins re-election / MosNews.com
Kyrgyzstan's Central State Election commission has officially announced that President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has been re-elected with more than 76Firefighter sentenced for growing marijuana at firestation / MosNews.com
A Moscow firefighter has lost his job after police discovered he had been growing marijuana at his firestation for 4 months.Russia has fastest hotel construction rate in Europe, report says / MosNews.com
Russia is the king of hotel development in Europe, according to the June 2009 Smith Travel Research Global Construction Pipeline Report, quoted by Business Travel News online.Blackburn boss Allardyce arrives in St Petersburg to take Zenit’s striker Pogrebnyak / MosNews.com
Blackburn Rovers boss Sam Allardyce is trying to take Zenit St Petersburg striker Pavel Pogrebnyak to Blackburn as a replacement for Roque SantaRussian dwarf gets extra 26 cm after surgery / MosNews.com
Russian surgeons from the city of Leninsk-Kuznetsk, western Siberia, have performed a unique bone lengthening operation on a 120 centimeter man, Russian website Life.ru reports.Adoptions from Russia losing popularity in the US – official / MosNews.com
The Americans are adopting fewer Russian orphans than they used to, a US official has said.Suicide airplane passenger cuts wrists during flight / MosNews.com
A passenger onboard an airplane attempted to commit suicide during an international flight from Novosibirsk, Russia, to Yerevan, Armenia.Japanese nationalist rams Russian embassy in Tokyo / MosNews.com
A member of a Japanese ultra-right organization drove his car into the police barriers of the Russian Embassy in Tokyo, demanding that Russia return to Japan the island archipelago which both statesPresident Medvedev says world must respect Russian bear / MosNews.com
The Russian bear needs to be attractive to be respected by the rest of the world and it cannot become stronger without good foreign relations, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Sunday,Clinton soothes Russia's feelings after Biden's criticism / MosNews.com
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Sunday the United States viewed Russia as a "great power," tempering earlier critical remarks aboutRussia's anti-corruption fight makes headway / MosNews.com
According to Russia's Investigative Committee head Alexander Bastrykin, 106 investigations are currently being conducted by the InvestigativeRussian Navy boss acknowledges breaching Russian-Ukrainian Black Sea agreement / MosNews.com
Russia made a rare admission on Sunday that it had violated Ukrainian law by trying to transport cruise missiles outside its Black Sea naval base of
