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Russia to deliver five MiG-29K fighters to India
Russia’s MiG aircraft maker will deliver a final batch of five MiG-29K/KUB carrier-based fighters to the Indian Navy under a 2004 contract by the end of this year, the company said.
Russia, US plan new military cooperation deals
Russia and the US plan to sign more military cooperation deals, an official said on Thursday. This May, the US signed a $367.5 million contract with Russia to buy 21 Mi-17V5 military transport helicopters for the Afghan Army, said the deputy chief of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation.
Russia helicopter crash kills three
A helicopter with five people on board crashed in Russia on Monday, killing three and injuring the other two, a media report said.
An engine failure occurred when the Mi-8 helicopter was about to lan
Text messages go public in Russia after 'glitch'
Thousands of mobile phone text messages went public in Russia after an error occurred at one of the country's top mobile operators.
About 8,000 text messages - complete with their telephone numbers -
Russia prepares to raise sunken Volga boat
Russia on Sunday was preparing to raise the sunken riverboat from the bottom of the Volga River in an operation involving over 800 people, a week after it sank in a storm killing at least 114.
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40 children among 130 feared dead on Volga boat
Russian rescuers said on Monday the bodies of 40 children may be trapped in the playroom of a pleasure boat that went down with up to 130 people on board in a heavy Volga River storm.
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Russia says at least 116 died in worst river disaster
Russian divers pulled the first bodies of children from the packed playroom of a pleasure boat that sank on Sunday, killing at least 116 people in the country's worst river disaster.
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Little chance of Volga boat accident survivors: Ministry
Russian rescue officials on Sunday played down the chances of finding new survivors after more than 100 people went missing when their cruise boat sank in a Volga River storm.
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Hundred feared dead in Volga boat disaster
Russian divers scoured the murky Volga River on Monday as hopes dwindled of finding more than 100 people -- many of them children -- whose Soviet-era cruise ship went down in a heavy storm.
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Five die as Russian plane lands on river
A Russian passenger plane was forced to make an emergency landing on a Siberian river on Monday, killing at least five, and prompting President Dmitry Medvedev to call for the Soviet plane to be banne
