Russian Koryaks drum and sing to save native culture
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PIMCHAKH, Russia  - Listening to enigmatic Koryak-language songs and eating traditional salmon soup and cutlets in this village, it is easy to imagine indigenous cultures still thrive on Russia's Kamchatka peninsula.
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Bureaucrats in a Russian region have been sent back to school to improve their spelling and grammar.
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Russia has launched a campaign to promote the national language after almost two decades of retreat -- to match the country's increasing economic and political confidence.
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MOSCOW, Dec. 21 -- "Wonderful, wonderful!" exclaimed Alexander Prakov, punching the air in delight after student Margarita Krupka performed a rhythmically perfect ringing of Russian Orthodox church bells.
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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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Cultural figures and celebrities on Friday criticized efforts to grant the Russian language special status in this ex-Soviet republic, calling it an act of war against Ukrainian.
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They came from Russia with love to a  tropical socialist utopia when the going was good.
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Spiritual leaders are in the capital of Kazakhstan for the Congress of World and Traditional Religions.
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Russia's Orthodox churches are due to hold services for the many victims of the school siege in North Ossetia.
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The up-to-date life in Belarus looks like a parody for the "best time" that people used to lead during the era of the USSR.
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Singing, socialising, and scepticism: the Chechen elections received a mixture of responses from the local population.
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A Russian province goes for a youth infusion the old-fashioned way.
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Russia has launched a campaign to  promote the national language after almost two decades of  retreat -- to match the country&#39;s increasing economic and  political confidence.
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Russia's constitutional court examines the legality of the language law forcing ethnic groups to use the Cyrillic script.
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Thousands of haggard, shivering and determined opposition protesters danced and sang in triumph yesterday after Ukraine&#39;s parliament approved amendments to ensure a fair ballot in the presidential rerun later this month.
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Russia's Red Army choir sings and Cossacks dance for a delighted Pope John Paul II in the heart of the Vatican.
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MOSCOW: Russia celebrated a holiday on Sunday that under the Julian calendar was in October, that commemorates the beginnings of a state that no longer exists.