| Raging Russian fires destroy homes, people flee
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 AP - Raging forest fires encircled a southern Russian city and tore through provincial villages Thursday, forcing mass evacuations as Moscow suffered through a record, weeks-long heat wave and smog cloud caused by peat-bog fires.
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| Russia foils passenger plane hijacking
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AP - Russian special forces quickly overpowered a man after he briefly seized a plane with 105 passengers and crew at a Moscow airport on Thursday, officials said. |
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| Medvedev orders corruption investigation into Putin's Sochi Olympics
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The Christian Science Monitor - In an apparent bid to dramatize his flagging anticorruption drive, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has taken the unusual step of ordering an investigation into allegations that a top Kremlin official took huge bribes in connection with the troubled 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. |
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| Hijacking of plane from Caucasus foiled in Moscow: reports
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 AFP - Russian special forces on Thursday foiled the attempted hijacking of a plane coming from the Caucasus at Moscow's Domodedovo airport, Russian news agencies quoted an airport official as saying.
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| Russia foils plane hijacking in Moscow
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Reuters - Russian special forces staged a lightning strike on Thursday to detain a man who had seized an aircraft on a domestic flight to Moscow's Domodedovo airport, a spokeswoman for the airport said. |
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| Medvedev boosts KGB successor
(Reuters) |
 Reuters - President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a new law to boost Russia's security service, restoring a Soviet-era practice of issuing warnings to people it believes are about to commit a crime, the Kremlin said on Thursday.
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| Russian president signs law to expand ex-KGB powers
(AFP) |
 AFP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday signed into a law a bill expanding the powers of the successor to the KGB security service which critics say will give it Soviet-style powers.
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| Russia grants more powers to KGB successor agency
(AP) |
 AP - Russians may now face jail time for crimes they have not yet committed under a new security law signed Thursday by President Dmitry Medvedev.
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| Russia to open $29 billion asset sales to foreigners
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Reuters - Russia will open its most ambitious privatization programme since the 1990s to foreign investors, its economy minister said on Thursday, while the government gave its initial approval to the planned $29 billion in asset sales. |
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| Protesters attack Russian town hall to save forest
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AP - A band of 100 masked people staged a violent environmental protest in a quiet Moscow suburb, hurling Molotov cocktails and fireworks at city hall while objecting to plans for clearing a local forest for highway construction, Russian police said. |
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| Russia to sell $29 billion state assets on market
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Reuters - Russia plans to sell $29 billion worth of assets on the open market, a senior government official said on Wednesday, allaying investors fears about the transparency of the biggest privatization since the 1990s. |
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| Sizzling Moscow shrouded in polluting smog
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 AP - A cloud of harmful smog has enveloped Moscow, raising airborne pollutants to four times the norm, officials said Wednesday, and prompting doctors to urge residents to stay indoors as the city swelters in a record heat wave.
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