Reborn city of the tsars
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There's still a Cold War thrill about crossing the border from Finland to Russia.
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A battle is under way in Russia for the stately homes of the country's former aristocracy.
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Politics: 6 February 2005, Sunday. After three days tightly embraced by blizzards, stormy winds and freezing temperatures, the residents of sea capital Varna started to return slowly to normal life with streets ...
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A British cultural organization reopened offices in two Russian cities Monday in defiance of an order to close, reportedly prompting Russian authorities to summon the British ambassador to the Foreign Ministry
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A British cultural organization reopened offices in two Russian cities Monday in defiance of an order to close, reportedly prompting Russian authorities to summon the British ambassador to the Foreign Ministry.
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THE OLD Christmas carolâs âlittle townâ is now a city larger than Charleston, and itâsa depressing place. Four years ago, more than 91,000 tourists visited in a year to see Bethlehemâs religious
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MOSCOW - A massive Russian church bell that hung for decades at Harvard was returned to a Moscow monastery yesterday, nearly 80 years after it and 17 others were rescued from Stalin's religious purges by a US industrialist.
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This old mining town in the northeast of England used to be a grimy industrial wasteland. Now it's becoming a gleaming cultural center and -- who would have thought it? -- tourist destination
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MOSCOW -- At the Danilov Monastery in a grubby industrial section of the Russian capital, the knots of believers inside the high walls share a sense of expectation.
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Images from Russia of the aftermath of the school siege bloodbath in Beslan.
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Emperor Nicholas and his family were executed in 1918. But with newly discovered remains, they're making headlines again in Russia
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Boston, cradle of the American Revolution, is making some new history for itself these days.
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Description: A religious icon missing from Russia for almost a century is returned to Moscow. Our Lady of Kazan represents the Virgin Mary and was at the center of a dispute between the Vatican and the Russian Orthodox Church.
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They came from Russia with love to a  tropical socialist utopia when the going was good.
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Afghans see a possible livelihood in the city, despite its crumbling infrastructure.
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While Moscow's historic Bolshoi Theater gets a makeover, its eponymous ballet company steps out of the wings and back into the spotlight, thanks to a daring new boss
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Prosecutors announced yesterday that they have reopened an investigation into the deaths of the last Russian czar and his family nearly 90 years ago after an archeologist reported that he may have found the missing remains of Nicholas II's son and heir to the throne.