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On June 25th Petrozavodsk had 'day of your town' . There was band of bards in the main square of Petrozavodsk. It was the main celebrateshon in summer.
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Earlier this week, the Polish government gave its approval to an agreement with Russia on increasing Russian natural gas supply to Poland.Such cooperation was unthinkable before. However, it seems the foes have finally turned into friends and are ready to forget each others’ past mistakes for the sake of good and constructive relations.
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Foreigners visited lyceum. students got the chains to communicate with them, it was for them practice the languages they are studying.
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Mr. Medvedev ousted a heavyweight political rival, Moscow’s longtime mayor, who had tried in recent weeks to cast Mr. Medvedev as a weakling unfit to run the Kremlin.
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Russia and the U.S. are once again locked in a battle to reach space--but this time, the goal isn't the moon. It's the world's first commercial space station.
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The strike was called for by the public sector union AbvaKabo in protest at the cabinet’s plan to increase the state pension age from 65 to 67. A court in Amsterdam has banned the public transport strike.
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"A brilliant all-around performance by Aliya Mustafina led Russia past China and into the provisional lead of the women's team qualifying at the world gymnastics championships."
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Famished bears in northern Russia have resorted to digging up graves in cemeteries - and reportedly eating at least one body - after a scorching summer destroyed their natural food sources of forest berries and mushrooms.
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Russian and US agents destroyed four drug labs and nearly 1 tonne of heroin in a joint raid in Afghanistan
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They will discuss the Russian-Japanese relationship. talks certain to be dominated by their latest flare up over islands both claim.
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Postal delivery staff have begun a two-day strike in protest at the company’s plans to sack 3,100 workers.
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The International Tiger Summit held this week in St. Petersburg approved a wide-ranging program with the goal of doubling the world’s tiger population in the wild by 2022, backed by governments of the 13 countries that still have tiger populations
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Fans waved flags and screamed “Russia! Russia!” on Thursday after the country was awarded the 2018 World Cup
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Tonight’s strike will be the seventh by unions protesting at TNT’s plans to sack 2,800 delivery workers. the chance is growing of a four-day strike next week, according to news agency reports.
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35 people have been killed by an explosion in its international arrivals hall.
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the bommer turnd out to be a 20 year old suicide bomber from the North Caucasus who tried to kill as many foreigners as he could.
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MOSCOW - RUSSIA'S top military and space official launched a search on Tuesday for a missing military satellite that apparently was put into the wrong orbit shortly after its launch.
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animal rights activists say the city has dropped a plan to round the dogs up and ship them to a camp far outside of town.
Moscow has spent some 1.3 billion rubles ($45 million) on dog shelters, sterilization, and other programs to deal with the city's stray population between 2008 and 2009, but critics say much of the money has gone unaccounted for. -
strike action in protest at government plans to force the big cities to put their public transport services out to tender.
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The ‘animal cops’ will be ordinary police officers who have been trained to deal with animal welfare issues
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80,000 households applied for help from local authority-run credit organisations last year. An increasing number of people applying for help are said to be under the age of 25
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overspending has reached €2.3bn, up to €2bn of which is thought to be due to healthcare. no details have been given about what will be cut.
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hundreds of farmers and other investors have put €51m into Investment fund Phanos wich is on the verge of collapsing. only €8m of their investment remain.
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curently people who get personal health budgets have to show officials what they spent their money on.
On friday, a government committee looking at reducing red tape said that people who get special payments because they have chronic health problems should no longer have to justify how they spend the money, -
the new head of the public prosecution service Herman Bolhaar says "It is essential that the likes of bike thieves and vandals pay for their crimes within a few days of being caught and are ‘visible’ to others"
his plan is ‘Punishments will be speeded up, victims will be able to make damages claims more quickly and graffiti can be cleaned off a wall,’
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plans made and approved by parliament in 2006 are now being revoked. Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum argues there is no need for a separate historical museum.