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• August 25, 2010
  TORONTO – Fighter jets were scrambled to intercept two Russian bombers in the Arctic as they approached Canadian airspace on the eve of a visit from Canada's prime minister who will observe an Arctic military exercise, a spokesman for the prime minister said Wednesday. Dimitri Soudas, Stephen Harper's director of communications, said two Canadian C […]
• August 25, 2010
  MOSCOW – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin fired darts from a crossbow at a gray whale off Russia's Far Eastern coast on Wednesday in the latest in a series of man-versus-nature stunts designed to cultivate the image of a macho leader. Putin held his balance in a rubber boat that was being tossed around in choppy waters off the Kamchatka Peninsula, […]
• August 25, 2010
  MOSCOW (AFP) – Russian authorities killed five suspected rebels in the volatile North Caucasus region of Dagestan who opened fire on police as they attempted to stop their car, officials said on Wednesday. The latest skirmish between authorities and militants took place during an attempted identity check late Tuesday in the town of Khasavyurt near Chechnya, […]
• August 23, 2010
  MAKHACHKALA, Russia – The partly decapitated bodies of two Russian border guards and a forest worker have been found in the country's volatile south, officials said Monday. The border guards were serving in Dagestan, a republic in the North Caucasus where law enforcement officers and other officials come under daily attack from militants. Authorities we […]
• August 22, 2010
  MOSCOW (AFP) – Some 2,000 people Sunday crammed into a Moscow square amid a heavy police presence for a banned rock concert to protest plans to build a motorway through a forest outside the Russian capital. The numbers were far higher than for past opposition rallies in Moscow but the concert failed to get off the ground after police refused to allow amplifi […]

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