Russian women stranded in Cuba since USSR fall
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They came from Russia with love to a tropical socialist utopia when the going was good.
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Russian officials are checking the identity of two female passengers in their investigiation into almost simultaneous plane crashes earlier this week.
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Nearly 1,000 imprisoned Cuban refugees from the 1980 Mariel boatlift are waiting to be released now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the indefinite detention of illegal migrants was unconstitutional.
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Russian rescuers on Friday saved 11 people stranded for nearly three months in a remote area of the Pacific coast after a fishing trip went wrong, local media reported.
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A Georgian in Moscow describes the difficulties posed by Russia's economic sanctions against her country.
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MOSCOW -- She survived three days as a hostage and the destruction of the school where she has passed nearly all of her 72-year life. Now Lydia Tsaliyeva is heading home, and her life may be in danger all over again. This time, however, the threat comes from her neighbors.
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A Cuban woman tucked herself inside a wooden crate the size of a small filing cabinet and had herself shipped from the Bahamas to Miami aboard a cargo plane.
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Newly discovered documents reveal the Frank familyâs desperate efforts in 1941 to get to the U.S. or Cuba.
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Eleven fishing boat crew who had been stranded since October in a remote part of Russia's Far East have been rescued after sheltering nearly three months at an abandoned military base, according to television and Russian news agency reports.
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Cuba has freed one of the country&#39;s best-known dissidents, the acclaimed poet and journalist Raul Rivero. The 59-year-old was among 75 people arrested in a huge government crackdown last year and given long prison terms.
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It was the summer of 1953, and dozens of young men and women huddled before dawn in a red-and-white farmhouse listening to a young Fidel Castro detail their impossible mission.
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Vilma Espin de Castro, 77, a daughter of privilege who became one of the most powerful women in Communist Cuba -- as the de facto first lady for her brother-in-law, Fidel Castro, and as a champion of women's rights -- died June 18 in Havana. Her husband, Defense Minister Raul Castro, is acting pr...
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CASILDA, Cuba -- Tiny flames jump and sputter in the night here, suspended above the roadbed as if held by an invisible wand.
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A surge in the number of Venezuelans seeking asylum in the United States has some drawing parallels with Communist Cuba in the early 1960s.
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A mysterious death in London brings back bad memories--and disturbs the new dissidents who defend Russia's freedoms
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esilient Russia is going to another gold-medal game in women&#39;s volleyball, and it will take on China, which ended Cuba&#39;s streak of three straight Olympic championships.
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ROSKILDE, Denmark  - A ship carrying the remains   of the mother of Russia's last tsar set sail on Saturday from   Denmark for Russia, where they will be laid to rest next to her   late husband in accordance with her wishes.