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Syria, Russia look to revive peace initiative
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Russia and the U.N envoy for Syria both said Thursday that they want to revive a long-shelved peace initiative that would call for a transitional government to run the country until elections can be held.
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Russia adoption ban bill heads to Russian president
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The upper chamber of Russia's parliament on Wednesday unanimously voted in favor of a measure banning Americans from adopting Russian children. It now goes to President Vladimir Putin to sign or turn down.
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Russian parliament bans adoptions to Americans
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The lower house of the Russian parliament has passed a bill that would ban adoption of Russian children by Americans, sending the controversial legislation a step closer to President Vladimir Putin's desk.
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Russia backs adoption ban to the United States
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Russia's parliament on Wednesday gave overwhelming preliminary approval to a measure banning Americans from adopting Russian children, a harsh retaliatory move against U.S. human rights legislation.
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NATO predicts Assad will fall
CommentLeighton interview December 13, 2012
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U.S., Russia, U.N. in three-way talks on Syria strategy
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton joined Russia's foreign minister and the U.N. peace envoy to Syria for extraordinary three-way talks that suggested Washington and Moscow might finally unite behind a strategy as the Assad regime weakens.
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Russia's Medvedev calls for ban on tobacco ads
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Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday called for a ban on all tobacco ads, as the government prepares a bill that would also phase out smoking in public.
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Russia plane crash pilots were drunk, officials say
CommentRussia's investigative agency says both the pilots of a plane that crashed last month in Russia's far east, killing 10 people, were drunk. The investigation now centers on who let the pilots actually get on the plane.
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'Pussy Riot' guilty of hooliganism, sentenced to two years in prison
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Organizers of protests in more than three dozen cities around the world are hoping thousands of others will turn out in raucous support of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot, who were convicted of "hooliganism driven by religious hatred" in Moscow.
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'Pussy Riot' convicted and sentenced: Washington Russian Embassy sees protests
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About a dozen demonstrators were protesting outside the Russian Embassy in Washington as three members of the provocative punk band Pussy Riot were found guilty of hooliganism.
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Protest over jailed Russian band reaches embassy in D.C.
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Dozens of protesters demonstrated outside the Russian Embassy in Northwest Friday evening to support a feminist Russian band whose members have been jailed for speaking out against Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Syrian crisis leads to talks between Russia, Iran
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Russia's foreign ministry says Moscow will attend talks on the Syrian crisis organized by Iran.
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President Obama tells Dmitry Medvedev of 'flexibility' after election
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An open mic apparently caught a moment of political candidness between the presidents of the United States and Russia, with President Obama telling Russian President Dmitry Medvedev of 'flexibility' on missile defense after November.
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Putin regains Russian presidency
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There were "serious problems" in the vote that returned Vladimir Putin to the Russian presidency, the head of the major international election observer mission said Monday.
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Russian scientists find lost lake in Antarctica
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Russian scientists have reached the surface of a freshwater lake that
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Slippery stairs doom Russians to weeks of butthurt (VIDEO)
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The pelvic fracturing is almost audible.
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Russian billionaire gives Kennedy Center $5M
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Billionaire Russian investor Vladimir Potanin is making a $5 million gift to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington to mark its 40th anniversary and support its programs.
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'Ghost Stories' reveals Russian agents were 'very intellectual'
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The release of new, previously classified tapes by the FBI reveal that several prominent Russian spies were closer to fully integrating into U.S. policymaking circles than previously thought.
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