Rostropovich in Moscow hospital
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Cellist-conductor Mstislav Rostropovich has been hospitalized for an unspecified reason, and his manager said Tuesday "it does not look good."
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A Russian former spy died Thursday night in a London hospital three weeks after his suspected poisoning, with doctors unable to determine the cause of his illness, hospital officials and police said Thursday.
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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is recovering after undergoing surgery in Germany on a key artery in the neck that supplies blood to the brain, his foundation said Wednesday.
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Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko -- poisoned in London three weeks ago -- is critically ill in intensive care after his condition sharply deteriorated, the hospital treating him said on Thursday.
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PARIS:An ailing Yasser Arafat has arrived at a Paris military hospital for treatment of a blood disorder after leaving his West Bank compound for the first time in nearly three years.
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A former Russian spy and fierce Kremlin critic who is fighting for his life in a London hospital may have been given another poison in addition to thallium, perhaps a radioactive substance, a doctor said Tuesday.
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ormer President Bill Clinton has been moved from an intensive care unit to a hospital room and his recovery from a quadruple bypass operation is progressing smoothly, his office said yesterday.
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MOSCOW -- The Russian art collection of the late cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife, soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, is going home.
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Sitting at home in Moscow last May and resting his injured knee on a foot stool, Igor Andreev was beginning to enjoy the enforced break a little too much.
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A fire at a Russian psychiatric hospital killed nine people and wounded 16, local media reported on Sunday, just over a day after a blaze at a hospital in Moscow killed 45 women.
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The first deputy chairman of Russia's   Central Bank is in critical condition in hospital after being   shot, Interfax news agency quoted law enforcement sources as   saying on Wednesday.
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Newly sworn-in Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko is spending his first full day in office in Moscow in a bid to smooth ruffled relations with the Kremlin.
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Football legend Ferenc Puskas is reportedly in intensive care in a Budapest hospital.
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NAME: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
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MOSCOW -- A key witness in the poisoning death of a former Russian security agent was questioned yesterday by British investigators at the Moscow hospital where he was undergoing tests for radiation contamination.
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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is recovering after an artery operation in Germany, officials say.
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A friend who visited poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in the intensive care ward of a London hospital Wednesday said he looked much worse and was barely able to speak.