Russia closes key Abkhaz railway
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Russia shuts down a vital railway link to Georgia's breakaway republic, Abkhazia amid post-election tensions.
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BESLAN, Russia - Trains passing a cemetery blew their horns in respect today as Russia began official mourning for the hundreds of victims of what increasingly appeared to have been a well-planned terrorist attack on a southern school.
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A U.S.-funded non-governmental organization that trains journalists has been effectively shut down and its director has left Russia amid criminal prosecution her lawyers said Friday was part of a government campaign against NGOs.
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Russian border guards killed two armed men on Wednesday who tried to cross over the border from Georgia, Russia's FSB internal security service told Russian news agencies.
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One of the country's few remaining coal mines is to close, the owners say.
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Text of report by Russian news agency Ekho Moskvy  Ulan-Ude, 6 June: The Republic of Buryatia's Supreme Court today ruled invalid the favourable conclusion made by the state environmental study on the route of an oil pipeline passing 800 m.
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BESLAN, Russia - President Vladimir Putin ordered the borders of North Ossetia closed Saturday as security forces searched the southern region for militants who escaped the Russian storming of a school where they had held hundreds of people hostage, many who fled the building under fire. Officials said at least 250 people were killed, mostly children...
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A pro-independence Chechen Web site was shut down by the Lithuanian government, officials said on Monday, two days after a message claiming responsibility for the school massacre in southern Russia was posted ...
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Russia halted operations of a U.S.-funded organization that trains Russian journalists and the head of the organization fled the country for fear she would be jailed, she and her lawyers said Friday.
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Russia cancelled an essential permit for a Shell-led consortium to develop the huge Sakhalin-2 oil and gas fields, as a top official warned foreign energy companies may lose their licenses.
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ELEANOR HALL: The 40-day mourning period being observed in Russia for the hundreds of men, women and children killed in the school siege in the North Ossetian town of Beslan is coming to an end today.
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LONDON, September 20  - Russian oil giant, OAO Yukos Oil Company (YUSA.FSE), has partly suspended its rail shipments to China, leading to increased supply disruption risks in the global oil market.
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Moscow calls off planned show of art masterpieces at Royal Academy in London as relations chill
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Russia said Saturday it will suspend participation in a key European arms control treaty, halting NATO inspections of its military sites and no longer limiting the numbers of its tanks and other heavy conventional weapons.
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MOSCOW, July 14 -- Russia on Saturday formally suspended its participation in a conventional arms treaty dating from the last years of the Cold War that limited NATO and Russian military deployments in Europe.
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Russia began pulling out some of its   officials from Georgia on Friday as the crisis mounted between   the two former Soviet states over spying charges.
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The UN closes down the inspections programme set up to monitor Saddam Hussein's arsenal.