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 Russia mobilizes army to fight fires that kill 25
| MOSCOW - Vast sections of Russia were under a state of emergency Friday as more than 10,000 firefighters fought to save villages and forests from being reduced to ash and ember during the country's ... (photo: Creative Commons / asadamayu) Houston Chronicle
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 Russian oil companies may sell gasoline to Iran
0 0 0 | (07-30) 04:00 PDT Moscow -- | Three Russian state-controlled oil companies, including OAO Rosneft and OAO Gazprom Neft, may begin delivering gasoline to Iran in a month, said the head of the I... (photo: Creative Commons / qwertyuiop) San Fransisco Chronicle
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 Heat Wave Batters Russia
| RYBKHOZ, Russia — Ivan Tyurkin trudged along a pier and surveyed the breeding ponds all around him. He did not need a thermometer to know that the water was treac... (photo: AP / Sergey Ponomarev) The New York Times
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 Russia foils plane hijacking in Moscow
| MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian special forces staged a lightning strike on Thursday to detain a man who had seized an aircraft on a domestic flight to Moscow's Domodedovo a... (photo: AP / Mikhail Metzel) The Star
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 Sweltering heat breaks new record in Moscow
| MOSCOW (Reuters) - The summer heat set a new all-time temperature record in Moscow on Thursday, a leading forecaster said, adding that the unprecedentedly long heatwave... (photo: AP / Sergey Ponomarev) The Star
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 Russia grants more powers to KGB successor agency
| MOSCOW - Russians may now face jail time for crimes they have not yet committed under a new security law signed Thursday by President Dmitry Medvedev. | The law restore... (photo: AP/Ivan Sekretarev) China Daily
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 Russia grants more powers to KGB successor agency
| Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speaks during a meeting of presidential... | MOSCOW (AP) - Russians may now face jail time for crimes they have not yet committed unde... (photo: AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko) Breitbart
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 Russia's Medvedev signs law to boost KGB successor
| MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a new law to boost Russia's security service, restoring a Soviet-era practice of issuing warnings to people it b... (photo: Creative Commons / TCY) The Star
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