Environmental protester slain in Siberia
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Attackers dressed in dark clothes and wielding metal pipes raided a camp of environmental protesters in Siberia early Saturday, leaving one dead and several injured, a spokeswoman for the local administration said.
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A methane blast in a mineshaft in  Russia's Siberia killed at least 10 people and injured 30 on  Thursday, a government spokesman said.
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Hate crimes in Russia have grown increasingly brutal and deadly but authorities do little to combat xenophobia, one of the country's leading rights groups said Tuesday.
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A French anti-nuclear protester was fatally injured yesterday when his leg was severed by a train carrying radioactive waste to Germany.
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BRUSSELS, Feb 20 (IPS) - With the attention of the world's media rarely  turned towards Central Asia, it is easy to forget about the  Andijan massacre of May 2005. Several hundred demonstrators died  when Uzbek government forces opened fire on a demonstration, in  what is believed to be the worst mass killing since the 1989  Tiananmen Square massacre in China.
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A woman wounded during the 2004 school hostage-taking in the southern Russian town of Beslan died of her injuries Friday, bringing the total death toll to 334, a Beslan activist said.
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A policeman shot and killed an opposition lawmaker Thursday in what authorities say was a crime of passion over a woman. But machete-wielding protesters convinced it was an assassination clashed with police, leaving at least three dead.
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A Russian patrol boat opened fire on a Japanese vessel in disputed waters Wednesday, killing a fisherman and prompting a strong protest from Tokyo. Moscow urged Japanese boats to stay out of its waters, the Japanese government said.
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A Russian journalist known for her critical coverage of the war in Chechnya was shot to death Saturday in the capital, police said.
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A co-owner of a small Russian private bank was gunned down in an apparent contract killing in central Moscow, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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GUWAHATI, India  - An elephant named "Osama bin Laden" that has killed 27 people in northeast India, has been shot dead, triggering protests by conservationists who say forestry officials had probably shot the wrong animal.
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A filmmaker is shot and stabbed to death in broad daylight on the edge of a city park. Streets fill with tens of thousands of angry protesters.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - A young Vancouver man reported killed in Chechnya by Russian forces went to the region reluctantly, sources told The Canadian Press on Friday.
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Attacks by Chechen separatists in Grozny, the capital of the breakaway Russian republic, have left several people dead. Russian news agencies reported that a number of Chechen fighters had been killed along with several pro-Russian policemen.
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The chief engineer at a Siberian subsidiary of oil company BP's Russian joint venture was found shot dead over the weekend, the RIA Novosti agency reported Monday.
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A fire at a mental hospital in Siberia kills eight people on the day a fire at a Moscow clinic kills 45.
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A methane blast in a coal mine in southern Siberia kills at least 21 people, Russian officials say.