Russian police have started a homicide investigation after the discovery of a body, believed to be that of an Auckland woman last seen in a Moscow hotel more than two weeks ago, The New Zealand Herald reported on Monday, June 18.
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June 17, 2007All the miners in a Russian coal mine when methane gas exploded Thursday morning have been accounted for, with 38 dead and seven injured.
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May 24, 2007Leader of 21st Century – Language, Homeland, Faith opposition party Guram Sharadze, 66, was killed last night in central Tbilisi, Georgia, the REGNUM news agency reports.
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May 22, 2007The adoptive parents of a Russian child were each sentenced to four years in prison for causing the death of their son more than six years ago.
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May 13, 2007Six U.S. troops and a Russian photographer were killed by a roadside bomb blast in Iraq, the editor of the Russian edition of Newsweek magazine said Monday.
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May 7, 2007Unidentified assailants gunned down a customer at one of the popular PirO.G.I. cafes in central Moscow in what police said was likely an ordinary argument that turned deadly, The Moscow Times reported on Wednesday, May 2.
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May 2, 2007Mstislav Rostropovich, the ebullient master cellist who fought for the rights of Soviet-era dissidents and later triumphantly played Bach suites below the crumbling Berlin Wall, has died. He was 80.
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April 27, 2007Tearful Russians filed past the open coffin of former president Boris Yeltsin inside a vast Moscow cathedral Tuesday in a ceremony that reflected the changes that transformed the country during his eight years in power.
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April 25, 2007Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin will be buried at Moscow’s Novodevichy Cemetery on Wednesday, the Kremlin press service has said.
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April 24, 2007Boris Yeltsin, the first president of the Russian Federation died suddenly on Monday, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported quoting the Kremlin press service.
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