Russia scraps Communist holiday
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Russia abolishes a number of key public holidays including the Soviet holiday marking the Bolshevik revolution of 1917.
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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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MOSCOW: Russia celebrated a holiday on Sunday that under the Julian calendar was in October, that commemorates the beginnings of a state that no longer exists.
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The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe on Thursday cancelled its observer missions to Russia's March 2 presidential election because of restrictions imposed by Moscow.
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Russia dismissed speculation on Wednesday it could hand over the man suspected of murdering Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in exchange for Britain extraditing a tycoon wanted in Moscow.
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Russia shuts down a vital railway link to Georgia's breakaway republic, Abkhazia.
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The Days of Russian Culture Festival in Hungary will be rounded off here on Thursday by the only performance of the St.
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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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Dissatisfied with Kremlin concessions, they plan a national 'day of protest' for February.
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by our Internet desk, 6 September 2004. Flags are flying at half-mast in Russia as the nation mourns last Friday&#39;s massacre at a school in Beslan.
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Russia said Saturday it will suspend participation in a key European arms control treaty, halting NATO inspections of its military sites and no longer limiting the numbers of its tanks and other heavy conventional weapons.
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Russia dismissed speculation on  Wednesday it could hand over the man suspected of murdering  Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in exchange for Britain  extraditing a tycoon wanted in Moscow.
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MOSCOW, Dec. 12 -- Russia on Wednesday ordered the closure of two offices of the British Council, the international cultural arm of the British government. The council responded that it has "no plans" to shutter the offices.
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Russia brushed aside an American court&#39;s attempt to halt the auction of the oil giant Yukos&#39; biggest production unit, but a consortium of international banks withdrew
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President Vladimir Putin has dissolved the Russian government on the request of the prime minister, the Kremlin said Wednesday, a major political shakeup that comes less than three months before crucial parliamentary elections.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Russia ruled out for now using  force to free hundreds of children, parents and teachers being  held under threat of death for a second day on Thursday by  armed men at a school near rebel Chechnya.
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Russia's plan to close regional offices  of the British government's cultural arm is totally  unacceptable, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Thursday,  demanding Moscow reverse its decision.