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Russia admits warship faulty, delays delivery

Russia admitted Friday it would not be able to deliver to India by the yearend a refurbished but still-faulty Soviet-era aircraft carrier that has come to symbolise its recent military decline.

Russian teenage girl stages armed bank robbery

A 14-year-old Russian girl in the Urals city of Izhevsk staged an armed bank robbery as part of a plan to run away from home and commit suicide, investigators said on Thursday.

The girl, "wearing a m

Female bomber kills seven as Putin urges calm

A female suicide bomber posing as a Muslim pilgrim killed a leading Islamic scholar and at least five others on Tuesday in Russia's restive Muslim region of Dagestan.

The attack was reported just as

Greenpeace again raids Russian Arctic rig

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Greenpeace activists in an inflatable speedboat said on Monday they had attached themselves to the anchor of a Russian ship taking workers to the country's first Arctic oil production base.

The secon

Russian court acquits Kasparov regarding rally

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A Russian court unexpectedly acquitted opposition leader and chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov on Friday of participating in an unauthorised rally.

Kasparov, an anti-Vladimir Putin activist and forme

Russia warns West on Syria after Obama threats

* Top Chinese diplomat holds strategic talks in Russia

* Obama says could act against Syria over chemical arms

* Russia still smarting over intervention in Libya

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lav

Website of court that sentenced Pussy Riot hacked

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Russian hackers have attacked the website of a Moscow court where three members of the Pussy Riot punk band were tried and sentenced to two years in jail.

The Russian offshoot of the loose-knit movem

Masked gunmen attack Russian mosque: Ministry

Masked gunmen burst into a mosque in the troubled Russian Caucasus region of Dagestan, wounding eight, the regional interior ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

"The number of wounded in the sh

Russia faces international condemnation over Pussy Riot

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Russia on Saturday faced a storm of international criticism for sentencing three members of the Pussy Riot punk band to two years in prison for a political protest in an Orthodox cathedral.

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Pussy Riot punks await verdict amid global protests

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A Moscow court will pass judgement on Friday on three women from a tiny punk band who captured global attention by defying the Russian authorities and ridiculing President Vladimir Putin in a church.

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