Russia 'aftershave drink' fears
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A study says Russian men risk death drinking aftershave and cleaning agents with high alcohol levels.
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Russia warns Europe and US against recognising independent state
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Russia's lower house of parliament passed legislation that would make it illegal to drink beer in public, news reports said Thursday.
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Embattled Russian oil company warns that it may scale back oil output after more funds seized. MOSCOW  - Russian oil major Yukos again warned on Thursday that it may be forced to cut output after
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MOSCOW -- In the bloodstained post-Soviet period, feuds over money and power have often been solved by bullets or bombs. But confirmation that Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko was disfigured by dioxin draws attention to suspicious cases in Russia in which poison may have been used to silence political foes and settle business scores.
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President Vladimir Putin signed into law a series of tough new restrictions on beer ads, a measure that lawmakers said should help reduce youth drinking and hooliganism.
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MOSCOW, Mar 7 (IPS) - Russia is losing one in ten people in its active   population to drugs, a leading medical researcher told IPS.
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MOSCOW : Russia&#39;s first post-Soviet president Boris Yeltsin issued a veiled warning that President Vladimir Putin&#39;s decision to hand sweeping new powers to the Kremlin in the wake of the Beslan hostage crisis could roll back democratic freedoms.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that imposes severe restrictions on beer advertising across the country, the presidential website said Tuesday.
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At least two people have become intoxicated by drinking hand-sanitizing gels, a potentially deadly habit, doctors reported on Wednesday.
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MOSCOW, Dec. 8 -- A Russian businessman who met with a former Russian domestic intelligence officer in London the day the man fell ill from radioactive poison has himself become suddenly and seriously sick, Russian news organizations reported Thursday night.
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Bulgarian doctors tested a man's blood-alcohol level five times before accepting it was 0.914 - nearly twice the amount considered to be life-threatening. The 67-year-old man landed in hospital on Dec.
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[World News]: London, Oct 22 : A 150 pound bottle of Vodka and fruit juices along with tequila and beer was the cause of Prince Harry&#39;s lashing out at a photographer outside London&#39;s posh Pangaea nightclub.
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Business & money: Â·  British Gas owner Centrica may be target of Russians Â·  Putin shrugs off warning by Blair on economic ties
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"I personally talked to the Russian president about it. Unfortunately, there is no response to this issue whatsoever from the Russian side."  Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko says officials in Russia are hindering a probe to determine who poisoned him with dioxin during the 2004 presidential election campaign. via The Age
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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.
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Doctors treating former Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, who fell ill in Ireland last week, believe he was poisoned, an aide said Thursday.