Headed by military drummers and the tricolor national flag, the red Victory flag and the Flag of Armed Forces with hammer and sickle, Russian troops on Wednesday held an annual military parade on the Red Square to mark victory in World War II.
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May 9, 2007A skeleton of a mammoth sold for 312,000 euros ($421,000) at a Christie’s International auction in Paris, double its estimate and setting a new record.
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April 17, 2007The Social Democratic Party of Russia, re-established in 2002 by former president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev was banned on Friday by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, the RIA-Novosti news agency reports.
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April 13, 2007The skeleton of a Siberian mammoth dating back some 15,000 years and a meteorite from Russia go on auction in Paris, April 16, in the first such sale of curiosities from paleontogy, Christie’s auction house said Tuesday.
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March 21, 2007Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev canceled a planned visit to Denmark after hurting his leg in a fall, his aide said Monday, adding that the injury was “nothing serious.”
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March 5, 2007Spy maps of Britain compiled by the Soviet Union during the Cold War contain such a wealth of information that a digital mapping firm has bought them for use by property developers.
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March 2, 2007Documents found in London’s National Archives reportedly show China, North Korea and the former Soviet Union may have planned an invasion of Japan.
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February 22, 2007An ancient Vishnu idol has been found during excavation in an old village in Russia’s Volga region, raising questions about the prevalent view on the origin of ancient Russia, the Reuters news agency reports.
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January 6, 2007
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev returned to Russia on Saturday, more than two weeks after undergoing surgery in Germany for a blocked artery in the neck, his aide said, according to The Associated Press’ report.
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December 11, 2006Half of population of Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus are sorry about collapse of the USSR and believe that the Soviet Union could have been preserved, the second half thinks the break-up was inevitable. At that the percentage of those feeling sorry for the collapse of the Soviet Union is the highest in Russia (68%). These are results of a study conducted in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus in November 2006 by Eurasian Monitor International Research Agency.
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December 8, 2006
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