Volga road trip: Back in USSR
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Rupert Wingfield-Hayes finds plenty of Soviet reminders in Ulyanovsk, birthplace of Vladimir Lenin.
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Russians celebrated their Revolution Day holiday Sunday with marches and rallies in Moscow and many other cities. In contrast to monolithic displays of devotion to the Soviet state, a feature of that marked
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Ready for a trip down memory lane, comrade? Insert your "commie quarter" and have a blast.
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NALCHIK, Russia  - Find Moscow on a map of Russia,  trace a line south until you hit the Caucasus mountains, and  you are pointing at the heart of Russia's war on terror.
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DEMIDYV, Ukraine -- Nikolai maneuvered his bike through the ruts in a dirt road and shook his head in disgust. ''Can you call this a civilized country with roads like this?&quot; he said after swerving to avoid a deep mud puddle.
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It was shortly after eight o&#39;clock yesterday morning when the non-descript green army truck drew up outside school number one in Beslan, North Ossetia, a far-flung republic in southern Russia.
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Russian intelligence officers convicted in Qatar for the murder of Chechen ex-president  Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, return to Moscow.
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Two Russian intelligence agents convicted by a Qatar court of assassinating a Chechen rebel leader on Thursday arrived back in Russia, where the Kremlin had requested they be allowed to serve out their life sentences.
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A Chechen rebel website is back on the internet - three weeks after its closure by Lithuania.
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BBC Moscow correspondent James Rodgers reports on his experience of shopping, and has advice for the Russians on saving energy.
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ARKALYK, Kazakhstan -- A Russian-US crew returned safely to Earth from the international space station, their Soyuz space capsule streaking through the atmosphere and landing on target in the steppes of Kazakhstan early Sunday.
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Excerpt from report by Russian newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta on 12 February  How the Little Rural Community of Rastyapino Turned into a Big Chemical City  Dzerzhinsk, one of Russia's major chemical centres, was called Rastyapino in the tsarist era.
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Soviet air travel &#151; the phrase evokes stomach-churning journeys on rattling aircraft, surly service and rubber sandwiches. But since the Soviet Union collapsed, Russia has endeavored to overhaul the industry's sorrowful image. Those efforts now face a new challenge after last week's crashes of two airliners, apparently brought down by terrorists.
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Travel: Russia's capital can be dauntingly pricey for budget travellers, but thrifty Paul Torpey tips five hotels with a price tag you won't lose sleep over
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There was a vintage Paul Martin moment at the Kremlin that tells you much about his first major overseas tour as prime minister.
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We left Quebec City at 6 AM on our way to New York City via Montreal. It was my first train ride. I've been traveling by plane in the US for 30 years, and have seen the food go from reasonable to horrible, airline employees go from happy to surly, airport security go from somewhat inconvenient to completely ridiculous and the overall experience of plane travel go from enjoyable to barely endurable. That's really what airline travel has become, a barely endurable way to get from point A to point B. It is my hope that train travel will be a "eureka" experience.
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Travel: Michael Palin explains what drove him to make his latest odyssey, from Estonia to Albania - across the 'new Europe'.