Hobbled Russians Struggle to Advance
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STUTTGART, Germany, Sept. 3 -- Limping slowly on a severely wounded knee, Nikolai Kryukov dragged himself up the stairs, stopped when he reached the top and raised his hand to salute the judges on the floor exercise.
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Heavyweights America, Russia, France and Argentina moved closer to the Davis cup quarter-finals on Friday on a day when opponents were cursed by illness and missing stars.
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A spate of mishaps in Russia's navy has   exposed the gap between the Kremlin's ambition of restoring   lost military might and the reality of temperamental equipment   and badly paid crews.
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Cosmonauts aboard the international space station struggled for a second day Friday to try to reboot failed computers that control the orbiting outpost's orientation.
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With Adrian Mutu embroiled in a drugs scandal, Didier Drogba recovering from an operation and Mateja Kezman looking off-colour, Chelsea have few attacking options as they prepare to host CSKA Moscow on Wednesday.
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STAVROPOL, RUSSIA -- Once they were the outriders of the Russian empire, feared and fearless warriors who extended the Czar&#39;s authority as far as their horses would carry them.
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Theoretically, CSKA Moscow can still qualify for the next round of the Champions League, but last nightâs home defeat to reigning champions Porto has lengthened the odds greatly.
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STUTTGART, Germany - Nastia Liukin fell short of an individual gold medal again. Maybe the Chinese can give her one of theirs.
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STUTTGART, Germany  - Russia looked in danger of missing out on the men's team final at the world gymnastics championships after a dreadful qualifying session on Monday when they had to compete with two limping gymnasts.
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In 1999, President Vladimir Putin promised Russians a two-week war that would crush the separatist enemy. Instead, he has given them an endless struggle that haunts his presidency.
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Top-seeded Marion Bartoli of France was beaten in the first round of the Tashkent Open, while second-seeded Meghann Shaughnessy easily advanced Tuesday.
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Russian and Western leaders are sharply at odds over the country's election crisis.
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Shifting alliances raise tension with Moscow.
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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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The Russian hostage crisis ended, but the number of casualties continued to mount as many bodies were still trapped in the rubble.
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ELISTA, Russia -- Life is not all smooth sailing for Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the flamboyant leader of the remote Russian republic of Kalmykia.
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President Vladimir Putin's rise was powered largely by a pledge to take down Chechen separatists. Yet the rebels are still killing Russian soldiers and appear increasingly bold in spilling civilian blood &#151; blamed for three dramatic attacks in little over a week.