Gorbachev returns to Russia post-surgery
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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev returned to Russia on Saturday, more than two weeks after undergoing surgery in Germany for a blocked artery in the neck, his aide said.
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Former President Bill Clinton left the hospital and returned home Friday, four days after undergoing heart bypass surgery, his office said.
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Russia returned to Japan on Wednesday  two sailors whose detention off its far eastern coast had  strained relations between the two countries.
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From Kyiv to Prague and Baku to Bratislava, presidents and prime ministers have sought medical treatment abroad since the fall of the Soviet Union.
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Russia is capable of quickly resuming production of short and medium-range nuclear missiles, the commander of Russia's rocket forces said on Friday.
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The Dalai Lama arrived Monday on his first visit to Russia after Moscow abruptly reversed its refusal to grant the Tibetan spiritual leader entry.
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Former soccer great Diego Maradona returned to Cuba on Monday to resume treatment for cocaine addiction after a relapse confined him to a psychiatric hospital in his native Argentine
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LONDON, Sep 24 (IPS) - Mikhail Gorbachev is an ex-president going after  weapons of mass destruction. But not the way U.S. President  George Bush thought he was going after them in Iraq.
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Former Russian PM Yegor Gaidar is being treated in a Moscow hospital after falling violently ill in Ireland.
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The former Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, blames the US for the current state of relations between Russia and the West.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair returned home Friday following a successful operation to correct an irregular heartbeat.
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Mikhail Gorbachev's battle to push through bold reforms in the USSR is revealed in a new book.
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The quality of mercy Mikhail Gorbachev, the former, and last, leader of the Soviet Union is asking Bill Gates to intervene in a case of a Russian school teacher who is facing time in a Siberian prison camp for using pirated software.â¦
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MOSCOW - A massive Russian church bell that hung for decades at Harvard was returned to a Moscow monastery yesterday, nearly 80 years after it and 17 others were rescued from Stalin's religious purges by a US industrialist.
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Russia's space program is recovering from its post-Soviet financial meltdown, but government spending is still just a fraction of what is needed to revive the program to its former glory, top Russian space experts said Monday.
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Argentina's former President Carlos Menem returns home for the first time in almost a year from self-imposed exile.
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HAMISH ROBERTSON: British Prime Minister Tony Blair has returned to Downing Street after undergoing hospital treatment for a heart ailment.