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• July 11, 2011
  KAMSKOYE USTYE, Russia (AFP) – Russian rescuers said the bodies of 40 children may be trapped in the playroom of a pleasure boat that went down with up to 130 people on board in a heavy Volga River storm. Rescuers used life vests to bring dozens of bodies to shore in a grim recovery operation accompanied by wails from grieving parents and anger from the Krem […]
• July 11, 2011
  KAZAN, Russia – An aging cruise ship was severely overcrowded, had a malfunctioning engine and listed to one side before it sank in heavy wind and rain on a river east of Moscow, killing as many as 129 people, Russian officials said Monday. River cruise boats are highly popular among Russian holiday-makers and the Bulgaria was carrying 208 people, including […]
• July 11, 2011
  SYUKEYEVO, Russia (Reuters) – Russia said there was little hope of finding any more people alive on Monday after an overloaded tourist boat sank in the Volga River, killing 128 people in Russia's worst river accident in three decades. Eighty people were rescued on Sunday after the Bulgaria, a double-decked river cruiser built in 1955, sank 3 km (2 miles […]
• July 11, 2011
  MOSCOW – A Russian court on Monday handed down sentences ranging from 10 years to life in prison to 12 members of the country's most vicious neo-Nazi gang convicted of 27 hate killings, which included a videotaped decapitation of one of their own gang members and other crimes. The Moscow City Court sentenced five members of the group, the National Socia […]
• July 11, 2011
  MOSCOW (AFP) – Four Russian neo-Nazis were handed life sentences on Monday for the murder of 27 youths in a 2007-2008 spree that shocked Moscow and led to tougher hate crime laws. The court also convicted several of the 13 gang members of terrorism for plotting a suburban Moscow train station bombing that was uncovered in time by the police. The court handed […]

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