The 17-year-old widow of an Islamist militant from the North Caucasus is suspected of blowing herself up in suicide attacks that killed 40 in Moscow.
Russia was preparing to turn off gas deliveries to neighbouring Ukraine on Thursday, raising the spectre of disruptions to European Union supplies.
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/ 12 November 2008
The Kremlin on Wednesday rejected United States proposals aimed at easing concerns over a missile defence system in Europe.
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/ 9 November 2008
More than 20 people were killed and another 21 injured in an accident aboard a Russian nuclear submarine in the Pacific Ocean.
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/ 14 October 2008
The sons of a Russian cosmonaut and a United States astronaut met in space on Tuesday.
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/ 3 September 2008
Russia on Wednesday accused the US of stirring up instability in Georgia, hours after US Vice-President Dick Cheney landed in the region.
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/ 1 September 2008
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was feted by Russian media on Sunday for saving a television crew from an attack by a Siberian tiger.
Vladimir Putin says US advisers were involved in the Georgian conflict and accused the White House of provoking the crisis to help the Republicans.
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/ 16 January 2008
Britain warned Russia on Wednesday that any attempt to intimidate staff of its cultural arm was ”completely unacceptable” after Russia’s state security service summoned local employees to speak to its officers. Britain’s consulate in St Petersburg said the British Council office in the northern city had been forced to shut temporarily.
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/ 29 November 2007
A Russian businessman with a passion for Tsarist treasures said on Thursday he was behind the record purchase of a Fabergé egg in London for £9-million (,5-million), which he called inexpensive. Alexander Ivanov, who helped found Russia’s first private museum, bid in person at the tense Christie’s auction in London on Wednesday for the egg.