Russians given day off for sex
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Workers in Russian region encouraged to miss work  to have sex in bid to boost the birth rate.
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MOSCOW, Mar 12 (IPS) - Russian homosexuals are taking up a new fight to   assert their rights in the face of what the  mayor of Moscow has  called "satanic" practices.
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MOSCOW, November 25 (Itar-Tass) - A special task force unit freed both women who were held hostage by two armed army deserters in the Moscow region.
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Russia has postponed the test launch of a new booster rocket scheduled for Friday, the Defense Ministry said Thursday. The launch of the Soyuz-2 medium-size rocket from Russia&#39;s
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The first trip by a female space tourist, who was due to blast off September 14 on a Russian Soyuz vessel bound for the International Space Station, may be put off by four days, officials have said.
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Ukrainians having nightmares involving a politician&#39;s death ahead of parliamentary elections this Sunday should wake with a smile: an unexpected sexual encounter awaits.
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The flight of the world's first female space tourist to the International Space Station (ISS) will be put off by four days because of delays in launching the US space shuttle, the Russian space agency Roskosmos has said.
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The Russian space agency decided Thursday to postpone by four days its launch next month of a Soyuz capsule carrying the first female space tourist to the international space station, a spokesman said.
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Russian Orthodox-Catholic relations, France's 35-hour working week and Germany's peacekeeping role feature in today's review
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A survey produced by condom maker Durex - who else? - shows that we spend 22.5 minutes in foreplay, 36 seconds ahead of the German runners-up and more than three minutes more than the so-called sexy French.
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MOSCOW, May 31 (IPS) - "While UNICEF is happy that children's  rights are commemorated on Jun. 1, we would like to see every day  of the year be 'International Children's Day',  particularly in Russia, where children remain highly  vulnerable," says Carel de Rooy, the United Nations  agency's representative in Russia and Belarus.
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A senior official in Russia's justice ministry says some two thirds of the country's prisoners are ill.
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ST. PETERSBURG -- Russian prosecutors said yesterday they were investigating a campaign group's complaint that conscripts were bullied into working in a prostitution ring run by older servicemen. In the latest embarrassment for Russia's military, one soldier said he was tortured with electric shocks until he agreed to have sex with clients, according to testimony collected by a campaign group. ...
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ARKALYK, Kazakhstan Oct 23, 2004 - A US-Russian crew spent its last scheduled day on the International Space Station on Saturday, saying goodbyes to their replacements and catching up on sleep ahead of a 3 1/2 hour ride back to Earth strapped inside
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Qatar has said it would hand over to Moscow two Russians serving prison sentences in its jails at Russia&#39;s request. A Foreign Ministry official, quoted on the state&#39;s Qatar News Agency, did not name the Russians.
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As part of the BBC's coverage of World Aids Day, BBCRussian.com spoke to four Russians living with HIV.
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Sports: 12 October 2004, Tuesday. Fourteen Croatians and four Bulgarians have been sentenced to nine days in jail following their arrests before Saturday's World Cup qualifier, Bulgaria's Embassy in Zagreb ...