Three members of Razorlight were caught up in the drama of the poisoned Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, as they were travelling on one of the planes that contained traces of Polonium 210.
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December 6, 2006
Sale of the 2002 book co-written by the former Russian security agent Alexander Litvinenko who died of suspected radioactive poisoning are selling on the Internet at up to 30 times their original price, the AFP reports.
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December 4, 2006
Twin girls from Russia won Saturday the 4th Junior Eurovision song contest in Bucharest.
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UK band Razorlight have confirmed they were forced to cancel a gig in Russia on November 24 when Moscow officials demanded “an astronomical amount of cash” for a permit to perform.
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November 29, 2006
Razorlight reportedly cancelled a gig in Russia this weekend after officials demanded a huge sum of money before they played.
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November 27, 2006“Moscow City Hall’s Monuments Committee has decided that there needs to be a monument of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in Moscow,†Sergei Petrov, head of the committee, said in remarks carried by the Interfax news agency.
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November 20, 2006British police are investigating the poisoning of a former Russian spy and outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin and have placed him under protective guard at a London hospital, Washington Post reported citing a Scotland Yard spokesman.
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s wife on Thursday presented the initial three volumes of the first full collection of his works to be published in Russia.
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November 17, 2006Unidentified vandals defiled a tomb of Russian literary giant Boris Pasternak in the Moscow suburb of Peredelkino.
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November 10, 2006Russia’s government agency for culture and cinematography refuted earlier reports alleging it had effectively banned distribution of Baron Cohen’s controversial comedy Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan from theaters across Russia, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported.
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November 9, 2006
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