Russia marks Army Day holiday
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Some Russians celebrated their military's tradition of dedication Friday while others protested its recent history of corruption and brutality in separate events marking the annual Defenders of the Fatherland holiday.
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Russians marked the anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution on Sunday with marches, Communist rallies and protests against a parliamentary proposal to scrap what was once the most sacred Soviet holiday.
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People in the Russian town of Beslan mark the end of 40 days of mourning for those who died in last month's school siege.
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Two years after a bloody hostage siege at a Moscow theater, survivors and victims' relatives on Tuesday commemorated the tragedy &#151; a precursor to the string of terrorist attacks blamed on Chechen rebels that have sent Russia reeling in recent months.
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Russian officials hope to prevent reprisals as 40-day mourning period ends for victims of the school siege. By Fred Weir | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Thousands of Russian soldiers and Chechen police are on round-the-clock vigils. Russian forces claim to have killed dozens of separatist fighters. Chechen police have orders to open fire on anyone wearing a mask.
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Russia's capital, renowned for its trademark frosty winters, started the calendar winter with the warmest day recorded in December, the state weather monitoring unit said on Friday.
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More than 10,000 Russians turned out to mark &quot;Tiger Day&quot; in Vladivostok, the main city in Russia's Far East that is home to the endangered Amur tiger.
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MOSCOW : Attacks by Chechen separatists late Saturday in Grozny, the capital of the Russian breakaway republic, left people several dead, including pro-Russian policemen, Russian news agencies reported, quoting pro-Russian officials.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Residents of this grief-stricken southern city on Tuesday marked the end of the formal, 40-day mourning period for the hundreds of victims of a school massacre, lighting thin prayer candles and propping up small icons and photographs among the flowers piled in the shattered gymnasium at the centre of the tragedy.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Tajik counterpart raised a Russian flag Sunday at a newly established permanent base for Moscow&#39;s forces in this former Soviet republic, staking Russia&#39;s claim for continued influence in
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Latvia's top government officials today laid flowers at the eternal flame in Riga's Brethren Cemetery today to commemorate soldiers, who died in battles for Latvia's freedom.
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Presidents Kuchma of Ukraine, Putin of Russia, Lukashenko of Belarus and Aliyev of Azerbaijan participated in the ceremony.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin issued New Year's greetings Saturday to a former pro-Soviet partisan convicted in Latvia of killing civilians during World War II.
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Russia marks the third anniversary of the Beslan school siege, in which hundreds of people died.
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Russia is observing an official day of mourning for the 89 people who died in the near-simultaneous crashes of two passenger jets.
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BESLAN, Russia - A numb Russia observed the first national day of mourning for the hundreds of victims of the terrorist school seizure on Monday, while desperate families searched for the missing and foreign planes delivered medical supplies to this grief-stricken southern region neighboring Chechnya.    In Beslan, townspeople crowded around the coffins of children, parents, grandparents and teachers ahead of the 120 burials scheduled in the town cemetery and adjoining fields...