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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A group of Cubans say they defected from medical and social cooperation programs in Venezuela by crossing the border to Colombia but are trapped in Bogota after the U.S. government refused them visas.
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A Cuban rafter who was sent back to communist Cuba by the United States 11 months ago said Monday he would take to the sea again in a 19th bid to get to Florida if Cuban authorities do not allow him to emigrate legally.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- A Danish-born czarina who left Russia following the overthrow of the monarchy in 1917 was reburied in her adopted homeland yesterday. Many see the czarina's reburial as another step toward post-Soviet Russia's reconciliation with its turbulent past.
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PERICO, Cuba  - Four times Maria Galban's brother Jorge tried to make the clandestine trip from Cuba to Florida and failed. Now his family fears a fifth attempt to migrate may have ended with him losing his life at sea.
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At least 38 Cuban doctors who defected from a mission in Venezuela have been stranded for months in Colombia, where they have been refused refugee status as they await word on possible asylum in the United States, according to a relief organization.
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MOSCOW, November 25 (Itar-Tass) - A special task force unit freed both women who were held hostage by two armed army deserters in the Moscow region.
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Afghan women in New York have had to strike a balance growing up in a comparatively freewheeling society with parents who have held tight to their Afghan conventions.
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MIAMI, Oct 21  - Known as the capital of Cuban exiles, Miami was abuzz Thursday with news of President Fidel Castro&#39;s accident, with many Cuban-Americans bemoaning that the communist leader only fell on his face, and not from power.
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They came from Russia with love to a  tropical socialist utopia when the going was good.
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cuba HAVANA -- Cuba released dissident lawyer Rene Gomez Manzano yesterday after holding him in jail for 18 months with no charges, a fellow dissident said. The outspoken critic of Cuba's communist government was arrested in his home July 22, 2005, for allegedly planning to take part in a protest outside the French Embassy in Havana. Gomez Manzano is the ...
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Leading Cuban dissidents who are denied access to Internet at home now have their messages on Web sites thanks to the work of exiled friends and family abroad.
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Russian security officials are concerned two female suicide bombers who downed two planes last week arrived in Moscow with two other women from Chechnya.
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A Cuban woman made it to the United  States by stowing away in a wooden crate the size of a filing  cabinet on a cargo flight from the Bahamas, officials said on  Wednesday.
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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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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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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.