"Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy's bid for a second successive ATP title ended in disappointment after the top seeds were stunned by the Russian-German pair of Mikhail Youzhny and Mischa Zverev in the finals of AIG...
"Top seeds Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy edged towards back-to-back titles as they advanced to the finals of the AIG Open in Tokyo on Saturday. They had earlier won the Thailand Open a few days ago. The Indo-Czech pair beat USA’s Robert Kendrick and Finn Jarkko Nieminen...
"Declaring "the aggressor has been punished," the Kremlin ordered a halt Tuesday to Russia's devastating assault on Georgia — five days of air and ground attacks that left homes in smoldering ruins and uprooted 100,000 people. Both sides accepted the general outlines of a...
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"Russia opened a second front of fighting in Georgia on Monday, sending armored vehicles beyond two breakaway provinces and seizing a military base and police stations in the country's west, officials said.The new...
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" Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili proposed Saturday to declare a cease fire in the breakaway province of South Ossetia. Saakashvili, speaking at a news conference Saturday, also proposed that the warring parties be separated. Georgia's Security...
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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Grobachev has stated that the body of Vladimir Lenin should be finally committed to the earth. Currently Lenin's embalmed corpse is encased in glass and on display in a mausoleum in...
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Talking about Putin's poor decision making skills or even making jokes about it could get you banned from television in Russia and literally wiped from the screen. Expanding on an unofficial stance to censor any...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public Contributor"That's Telling em".SNOB Magazine, Wow, someone has a Death Wish!If this is a trend for things to come, whereby the Super Rich of Moscow will be featured in their...
""This is our strongest team," Tarpishchev told reporters at Memorial Coliseum on Tuesday."I think that these guys play better than Marat and he is not going to be here."Holders Russia will be represented by world number four Nikolay Davydenko, Mikhail Youzhny (19), Igor...
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What a bizarre story - no Viktor Yushenko - but still this takes the proverbial cake. Wait, maybe it was the cake (sorry). If this turns out to be true it's another example of the sad state of sports. "ITF...
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BREAKING STORY "DEVELOPING STORY: Russian news agencies cite the Kremlin as saying that President Vladimir Putin dissolved the government Wednesday.
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov asked the Kremlin to...
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What's with Russia? First they claim the North Pole and now they're firing missile's all over Europe. "GEORGIA accused Russia yesterday of violating its airspace and firing a missile at a village...
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A strange anniversary to acknowledge but no less significant significant in terms of world events. The history of the Kalashnikov rifle is perhaps the history of modern warfare and its current popularity...
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"Detectives are investigating letters smuggled out of Russia purporting to show the existence of a secret squad set up to target poisoned spy Alexander Litvinenko and others.
Scotland Yard has been passed copies of two letters apparently penned in jail by former Russian...
"Golf is an unforgiving game, wherever you play it.
In tricky conditions this morning, Mikhail Tyurin, an experienced Russian cosmonaut wearing an overheating space suit, did his best to address a ball. He was strapped upside-down to the International Space Station as it...