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Russia's Cossacks start patrolling Moscow streets

Source: FindLaw: AP News, Nov 27 2012, 7:52am CST

MOSCOW (AP) — Renowned for their sword-fighting prowess and notorious for their anti-Semitism in czarist Russia, the Cossacks are taking on new foes: beggars, drunks and improperly parked cars. With the approval of city ...

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Violence in Russia's North Caucasus kills four

Source: Reuters Mobile  |   May 23 2013, 2:16pm CDT

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Police killed two suspected Islamic militants on Thursday after one of them threw a grenade at a group of officers and two others died in a separate shootout in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region ...

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Sochi organizers pledge security at 'highest possible level' at 2014 Winter Olympics

Source: Calgary Herald  |   May 22 2013, 1:44pm CDT

 Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting at the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Tuesday, May 14, 2013. Putin hosting Neta ...

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"Cossacks have always been on the frontiers of the Russian empire, fighting foes and adversaries, illegal immigration — repulsing raids, as people say today"


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Sochi organizers pledge security at 'highest possible level' at 2014 Winter Olympics

Source: The Huffington Post: Canada Edition  |   May 22 2013, 8:48am CDT

MOSCOW - Sochi Olympic organizers say authorities will ensure security at the "highest possible level." A deadly bombing at the Boston Marathon in April has revived fears of security arrangements at the 2014 Games in Sochi, the reso ...

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Boston, Benghazi, and Barack

Source: American Thinker  |   May 22 2013, 1:03am CDT

Be careful what you wish for: being re-elected president of the United States is not all beer and skittles. It's called the Second Term Curse. Watergate. Iran-Contra. Lewinsky. The economy. These events torped ...

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Discovery of alleged Russian plot points to growing jitters

Source: Reuters Mobile  |   May 21 2013, 4:57pm CDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a meeting on shipbuilding industries in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, May 21, 2013. OREKHOVO-ZUYEVO, Russia (Reuters) - As Russia congratulated its ...

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Russia probes Moscow terror attack 'plot'

Source: The Nation - Pakistan  |   May 21 2013, 2:00pm CDT

MOSCOW Russia was Tuesday set to question the sole survivor of a deadly police raid outside Moscow that authorities said had prevented a major attack in the capital. The operation in the Moscow region to ...

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Boston bomb brothers more American than Chechen: Depardieu

Source: Reuters Mobile  |   May 21 2013, 12:27pm CDT

1 of 2. Actor Gerard Depardieu participates in a news conference in Grozny May 21, 2013. According to local media, Depardieu is visiting the Chechen capital for the filming of his new movie ''Turquoise''. GROZNY, Russia (Reuters) - ...

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Russia says kills senior Islamist insurgent

Source: Reuters Mobile  |   May 21 2013, 7:28am CDT

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The right-hand man of Russia's most wanted insurgent was killed by security forces on Tuesday, officials said, as Moscow tries to contain militancy in its Caucasus region before it hosts the Winter Olympics near there next Fe ...

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North Caucasus: Russia kills 2 suspected militants

Source: Global Post  |   May 21 2013, 6:46am CDT

Russian forces in a house raid turned gunfight killed two suspected militants outside the capital of Ingushetia, west of Chechnya. Special forces officers at the site of a militant bomb blast in the Dagesta ...

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