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10.06.2010, 10:58
An international master, a presidential official and a seven-year-old prodigy have tested Russia’s contestants in the upcoming chess tournament for robots.
03.03.2010, 20:53
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The military alliance has announced, it plans to carry out a series of air force exercises over Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia from March 17-20.
22.09.2010, 20:40
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President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday signed a decree which bans deliveries of S-300 missile systems to Iran.
01.09.2009, 12:55
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Leaders from around the world are in Poland to mark the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War Two. The country was the first to face the Nazis’ attack on September 1, 1939.
17.12.2009, 15:02
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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has visited Moscow to seek greater assistance from Moscow for the military effort in Afghanistan. His main argument was that the alliance does not consider Russia as an enemy.
22.12.2009, 21:21
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The memorial to WWII veterans that was demolished in the Georgian city of Kutaisi earlier this month will be rebuilt in Moscow, Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has declared.
22.05.2010, 10:41
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Russia’s lower house has harshly condemned Europe’s Court on Human Rights verdict to uphold Latvia’s war crimes conviction of Soviet WWII veteran Vasily Kononov. The State Duma dubbed the case “purely political”.
24.05.2009, 09:06
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President Medvedev has signed a decree on setting a commission to counter attempts to falsify history to the detriment of Russia's interests, the Kremlin said.
23.09.2009, 13:54
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The Polish parliament has adopted, without a vote or debate, a resolution that blames Russia for genocide, an allegation Moscow denies. Russia says the move will strain already tense bilateral relations.
30.11.2009, 18:41
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Europe has long been condemning the communist regime, but none of the countries has gone as far as Poland, where a law was signed allowing people to be fined or imprisoned for keeping and buying communist symbols.
Published: 07 September, 2010, 19:17
Edited: 08 September, 2010, 17:10
The president of the Russian republic of Kalmykia, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, is leaving his post after four terms in office.
This is the guy who claims he was abducted by aliens. RT did a story on that at one stage, but it appears to have been taken down (censored). http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8662822.stm and other articles from Google search.