The first Russian president Boris Yeltsin has been buried at Novodevichye cemetery in Moscow, the Interfax news agency reports.
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April 26, 2007Yelena Tregubova, a former Kremlin pool reporter and author of several books about Russian political elite, has applied for political asylum in Great Britain, the Ekho Moskvy radio reported on Tuesday quoting Tregubova’s own statement.
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April 25, 2007An anti-Kremlin rally in central Moscow on Saturday could spill over into violence, march organisers and their opponents said on Thursday, the Reuters news agency reports.
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April 13, 2007The 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, 2007According to a senior air defense commander Russia plans to put new air defense systems on combat duty around Moscow in the end of August.
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April 8, 2007The European Court of Human Rights ruled against Russia on Thursday for repeatedly refusing to recognise Moscow’s Church of Scientology as a legally valid religious association.
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April 6, 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, 2007Moscow mayor, Yury Luzhkov, wants to crack down on outsiders, whom he says are responsible for 40 percent of the Russian capital’s crime, the UPI news agency reported Tuesday.
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Moscow City Court has rejected the appeal filed by organizers of the Moscow gay pride parade challenging the Tverskoy district court’s ruling that banned the event, Interfax news agency reported April 2.
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April 2, 2007
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