Scientists from the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk claim that they have discovered several artifacts with extraterrestrial writings near the fall site of the Tunguska meteorite, the Regnum news agency reports.
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April 19, 2007A Russian court on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit brought by a 16-year-old student who said that being taught the theory of evolution in school violated her rights and insulted her religious beliefs, the Associated Press news agency reports.
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February 22, 2007
An unidentified flying object has crashed in Krasnoyarsk Region, Siberia, causing a forest fire, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported on Friday.
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December 4, 2006
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is recovering after undergoing surgery in Germany on a key artery in the neck that supplies blood to the brain, the Gorbachev Foundation said Wednesday.
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November 23, 2006Alexander 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, 2006Pioneering sociologist Yuri Levada died Thursday at his institute in Moscow.
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A joint Russian-American research team has found a genetic mutation that causes an unusual kind of baldness. The discovery may offer a path toward preventing the more routine kind of hair loss, they say, Health Day reports.
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November 10, 2006Relations between Russia and the United States will continue to worsen regardless of which political party is at the helm of the American legislature, the RIA Novosti news agency quoted a leading Russian expert as saying.
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November 9, 2006At the 12th session of the Assembly of Peoples of Kazakhstan (APK), one of its participants has proposed nominating Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev for the Nobel Peace Prize, Interfax quoted by BBC News reports.
The spokesman at the session suggested that the nomination of Nazarbayev’s candidacy be included in the APK’s final document.
The head of state expressed gratitude for having confidence in him, but he did not support this initiative. “We are working not for awards, but for our country’s prestige,†he said.
After the president’s statement, participants in the session omitted this proposal from the document.
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October 27, 2006Disgraced South Korean stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk said on Tuesday he spent part of private donations for research to pay the Russian mafia for mammoth tissues to clone extinct elephant species.
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