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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MARKHAYANOVA, Russia  - The Kolyma used to be a river of death for prisoners in some of the harshest camps of Josef Stalin's Gulag empire. Now the camps are long gone, but so too is the activity of a once-bustling Soviet Arctic outpost.
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About 8,000 women lack permanent shelter. Need is likely to rise as more women return from war.
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MOSCOW, Oct. 21 -- 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. Only this time the threat comes from her neighbors.
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Dozens of ships remain stranded on Russia's key waterway, following an accident several days ago.
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MOSCOW -- Russia has restricted rights to such an extent that it has joined the countries that are ''not free" for the first time since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, Freedom House said yesterday, marking Moscow's march away from the Western democracies it has embraced as diplomatic partners.
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It's been nearly 13 years since the break-up of the former Soviet Union, and many Russians still are getting used to the freedoms which have followed.
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The last Britons held at the US jail for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba were flying home after a long ordeal that included almost two years of solitary confinement for some of them.
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TWO Chechen women suspected of blowing up two Russian passenger planes last month were detained but freed -- and then went on to bribe their way aboard.
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A Georgian in Moscow describes the difficulties posed by Russia's economic sanctions against her country.
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The locked gates and barred windows that kept 45 women from escaping a fire early Saturday at a drug treatment center pointed to conditions now common in post-Soviet Russia's state-run institutions.
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CIENFUEGOS, Cuba  - Supermodel Naomi Campbell, in Cuba seeking an interview with Fidel Castro in her new role as political reporter, visited homes donated by Venezuela to Cuban workers on Friday.
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Yuliya Tumash deejays through the night &#151; the faster the beat the better for the shivering occupants of Kiev's opposition tent camp. Nina Roi retires to the heated comfort of a former Soviet cultural center. And Nadezhda Bevz runs in place but admits that she still ends up frozen.
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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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In popular culture, GuantÃ¡namo Bay, Cuba, has become shorthand for hopeless imprisonment and isolation.
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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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Russia has restricted rights to such an extent that it has joined the countries that are not free for the first time since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, Freedom House said Monday, marking Moscow's march away from the Western democracies it has embraced as diplomatic partners.