Russia loses another friend
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PRESIDENT PUTIN faced the most serious foreign policy crisis of his five-year rule last night after the Kremlin s efforts to install a pro-Russian leader in Ukraine were left in tatters.
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After the Sept. 11 attacks, Vladimir Putin and George Bush ushered in a short-lived era of cooperation between Russia and the United States, which had been firm adversaries for most of the 20th century.
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BESLAN, Russia - A numb Russia observed the first national day of mourning for the more than 350 victims of the terrorist school seizure on Monday, while foreign planes delivered medical supplies to this grief-stricken southern region neighboring Chechnya.    In Beslan, townspeople crowded around the coffins of children, parents, grandparents and teachers ahead of the 120 burials scheduled in the town cemetery and adjoining fields...
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Relations between Britain and Russia take sharp dive over Litvinenko case.
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Russia's president installs a trusted ally, rather than one of the top contenders for the presidency, in the crucial post of prime minister. But does that really make him Putin's successor?
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There are growing fears that Russia is facing a population crisis that could see the country lose up to 50 million people in the next 50 years.
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President Bush&#039;s stalwart foreign friends are fading fast.
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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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MOSCOW - One of two Russian airliners that crashed nearly simultaneously was brought down by a terrorist act, officials said Friday, after finding traces of explosives in the plane's wreckage. A Web site connected to Islamic militants claimed the action was connected to Russia's fight against Chechen separatists...
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Some of the international challenges facing Russia's next leader:
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BESLAN, Russia - Trains passing a cemetery blew their horns in respect Monday as Russia mourned the hundreds of victims of what increasingly appeared to have been a well-planned terrorist attack on a southern school. State television sharply criticized government officials for understating the scope of the crisis...
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Russia have been hit by injury and illness as the departure of left winger Andrei Karyaka on Tuesday left the squad only 17 fit players for Wednesday&#39;s World Cup qualifier away to Portugal.
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The events in Ukraine have revealed serious problems in relations between Russia and the European Union. It has become obvious that declarations about building a single European home, about unified spaces
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Text of report in English by Moscow Times website, on 11 December  A BBC radio broadcast is off the Russian airwaves for the second time in one year.
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Russia observed a day of mourning on Thursday for the 89 people killed when two Russian passenger jets crashed almost simultaneously hundreds of kilometres apart after taking off from the same Moscow airport, raising new fears of terrorist attacks.
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His government had just suffered one of Russia&#39;s worst terrorist attacks, apparently stemming from a war he has neither won nor ended.
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Russia is increasingly worried its nuclear material may fall into the wrong hands, and is working with the US to try to recover it from third countries, writes the BBC's Gordon Corera.