Russia's classical Olympiad hopes to restore glory
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Once the Olympiad of classical music, Russia's top international music prize the Tchaikovsky competition opened this week hoping to restore its lost glory after more than a decade in the doldrums.
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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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Olympic supremo Jacques Rogge Sunday offered gold medals all round to Athens for organizing a superb Olympics after years of doom and gloom leading up to the opening.
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RUSSIAâS stricken oil industry is facing what some have branded a return to Soviet Union days after gas monopoly Gazprom said it might bid for the production arm of energy giant Yukos.
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This year&#39;s opening ceremony to the Olympic Games in Athens was impressive for the mixture of allusions to antiquity and modern innovation.
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SUZUKA (Japan) - First football&#39;s English Premiership, then women&#39;s tennis. Now, the Russians are set to make their mark in Formula One.
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President Vladimir Putin makes a speech as he hosts Russia&#39;s Olympic athletes at a Kremlin banquet in Moscow, Thursday, Nov. 4, 2004.
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Russia hailed its winning bid to host the 2014 Winter Olympics on Thursday as proof of the country's return to global prominence following a post-Soviet slump, and as a personal triumph for President Vladimir Putin.
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Russia's second city St Petersburg will bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympics, the city governor said on Friday, a day after Russia's Sochi had won the right to stage the 2014 Winter Games.
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ATHENS, Greece -- A Russian shot putter tested positive for steroids after winning the first women&#39;s gold medal at the site where the Olympics were born 16 centuries ago, international and Russian officials said Sunday.
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Their success at the Games could be a catalyst for change in Greece.
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Elections, at home and abroad, are topping Russia s political agenda lately. While President Vladimir Putin is phasing out elections for governor and redesigning elections to parliament, Russia s political ...
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MOSCOW - Rivals for lunar conquest four decades ago, Russia hopes to join the U.S.
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It takes more than a little  imagination to see this Russian ski resort in the same bracket  as St. Moritz or Aspen.
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In another era, say as far back as the pre-BALCO days, it would have been a wonderful moment. The host country&#39;s new hero, a rising star, sets an Olympic
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The Russian government has returned to making select "acquisitions."
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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.