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Russia further delays delivery of Admiral Gorshkov to India

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Russia delayed delivery of a trouble-plagued aircraft carrier for at least a year on Friday, a blow to India's efforts to quickly build up naval strength as increasingly assertive Asian rival China ex

US charges against Russians not for espionage: official

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Charges in the United States against Russian members of an alleged military exports ring were not related to espionage, Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.

"The charges shown to us by the US

Putin hides Russia's troubles with summit glitz

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President Vladimir Putin impressed leaders by holding an Asian summit on an island off a revamped Pacific city but the surface shimmer hid underlying problems in the Russian Far East and the country a

China, Russia sound alarm on world economy at APEC summit

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China and Russia sounded the alarm about the state of the global economy at a summit on Saturday and urged Asian-Pacific countries to protect themselves by forging deeper regional economic ties.

Chin

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

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