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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The mother of Russia's  last tsar, forced into exile by the Bolshevik revolution, was  to be laid to rest next to her family on Thursday, as Russia  tries to make peace with its dark past.
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia  - The mother of Russia's   last tsar, forced into exile by the Bolshevik revolution, was   to be laid to rest next to her family on Thursday, as Russia   tries to make peace with its dark past.
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Russian Internet enthusiasts are locked  in a tussle with an international body over a relic of the  Soviet past -- the .su domain name assigned to the country just  before the Soviet Union collapsed.
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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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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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A young Russian woman leaves terminally gray St. Petersburg behind for a better life, only to be sold into
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CAMAGUEY, Cuba -- Children swarmed the table outside Blanca Peleaz's concrete home in this central Cuban city. There were cakes and cookies, gooey frosting and candy speckles, rare abundance in a place where food shortages are the norm.
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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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Four crew members were missing from a boat found adrift and two passengers, one of them a fugitive from Arkansas, were being questioned by federal authorities Tuesday after they were rescued in the Florida Straits near Cuba.
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Sandra de los Santos became famous this summer when she left Cuba for the Bahamas and then, after a brief disappearance, climbed out of a wooden cargo crate in Miami. Her odyssey was one of the more creative ways that dozens of Cubans have made bids to reach the United States in recent years.
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A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying the world's first woman space tourist and the two crew members of the 13th International Space Station mission landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan, the control centre said.
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Russia agreed on Thursday to grant Cuba credit worth $350 million and restructure some of its recent debt during a visit by Russia's prime minister, officials said. The two countries also signed a military cooperation agreement.
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A mysterious death in London brings back bad memories--and disturbs the new dissidents who defend Russia's freedoms
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A U.S.-based organization that tracks the progress of political rights and civil liberties across the world said Monday that Russia had fallen to the status of "not free" &#151; far behind the democratic nations Moscow sees as its peers.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with President Fidel Castro and other Cuban leaders Wednesday as the countries worked on re-creating more modest versions of political and economic alliances that unraveled after the Soviet Union's collapse.