The Kremlin has vetoed a move to launch a fresh investigation into the death of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, despite aviation specialists’ belief that they have unraveled one of the 20th century’s greatest enigmas.
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April 12, 2007A district court in Moscow has sentenced two elevator mechanics to two years in prison colony each after an 8-year-old boy had been strangled by elevator doors in a high-rise apartment block, the Gazeta.ru online daily reported on Wednesday.
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April 4, 2007A gas explosion in a cafe in a school building in the Latvian capital Riga killed two people and injured one on Monday, the DPA press agency reported on Monday quoting rescue officials.
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March 26, 2007At least ten people were killed and four others suffered injuries in a blaze at a nightclub in Moscow, the Interfax news agency reported on Sunday.
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A Russian man has died after being attacked by an owl he tried to steal from Moscow zoo, the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily reported.
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March 22, 2007A British citizen was among dozens of people killed in a gas explosion at a remote Siberian coal mine, Telegraph.co.uk reported March 20. Total number of victims of the deadly blast is currently 106 people, at least a dozen have not been found yet.
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March 21, 2007A pensioner in the Russian region of Primorye blew up his neighbor’s toilet and then killed himself following an apparent quarrel between them on Monday afternoon, RIA Novosti reported March 20.
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A fire in a Russian home for the elderly killed at least 63 people on Tuesday night, the Associated Press news agency reported quoting officials from the Russian Emergencies Ministry.
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March 20, 2007Brian “DJ Coldblooded” White beat a former Soviet political prisoner to death with a rock Thursday at a highway rest stop in the United Stated after the victim declined to buy his religious CDs.
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March 17, 2007A Russian woman paid a former convict to kill her 17-year-old son because she was fed up with sharing her small one-room flat with him.
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