We have started to collect the most important news related to Russia in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
Russia observes a day of no political campaigning ahead of Sunday's keenly-awaited parliamentary elections.
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James Blake and Andy Roddick give the USA a 2-0 lead over Russia after the opening singles in the Davis Cup final.
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President Putin looks set for a landslide victory as Russia prepares for Sunday's parliamentary polls.
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President Vladimir Putin signs a law suspending Russia's participation in an arms limitation treaty in Europe.
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A Moscow court finds exiled businessman Boris Berezovsky guilty of embezzlement and jails him in absentia.
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President Vladimir Putin says the US is inciting Western observers to boycott Russian parliamentary elections.
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The Russian parliament's upper house sets 2 March 2008 as the date for the presidential election.
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Russian riot police break up a second opposition protest in as many days, detaining about 200 activists.
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Ex-chess champion and Russian opposition figure Garry Kasparov is jailed for five days after a protest march.
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A Russian finance minister has been charged with fraud and attempted embezzlement, his lawyer says.
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An explosion aboard a bus in Russia's North Caucasus region kills at least five people and hurts 12, officials say.
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Yukos, once Russia's biggest oil company, ceases to exit following its final liquidation.
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An opposition candidate in Russia's elections is seriously hurt in a gun attack in the Dagestan region.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin accuses the opposition of scavenging for foreign funds like jackals.
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The OSCE grouping reverses a decision not to send observers to next month's elections in Russia.
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Police in Russia try to coax members of a doomsday cult out of a cave they are threatening to blow up.
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The international election watchdog, the OSCE, says it will not cover Russian polls because of visa problems.
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A former Russian frogman claims that he killed British diver Cdr Lionel "Buster" Crabb in 1956.
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Supporters of Russia's president urge him to stay on as "national leader" after his term ends in 2008.
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Russia says its has pulled out its last troops from a base in Georgia, but Tbilisi has yet to confirm the move.
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A senior Russian general says missiles could be placed in Belarus to counter a planned US missile defence system.
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Some 30,000 birds have died after an oil spill in the strait linking the Black and Azov Seas, a Russian official says.
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India and Russia agree to boost ties at the end of Indian PM Manmohan Singh's two-day visit to Russia.
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Russian troops kill up to eight suspected militants in the southern republic of Dagestan, officials say.
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Indian PM Manmohan Singh is due to meet the Russian president for talks to boost economic and military ties.
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Tons of fuel oil leak into the Black Sea as a Russian tanker is torn in half in a storm that sinks four other ships.
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The International Tennis Federation is investigating claims Tommy Haas was poisoned during the Davis Cup defeat by Russia.
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Georgia's President Saakashvili accuses Russian special forces of stirring up unrest in the capital, Tbilisi.
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Russia's lower house of parliament votes to suspend Moscow's participation in a key European arms treaty.
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A fire engulfs a retirement home south of Moscow, killing at least 23 people, emergency officials say.
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Campaigning in the Russian parliamentary election begins with the party of power poised for a huge majority.
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Russia condemns the armed takeover of a Ukrainian oil refinery in which it has a stake.
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Russia allows cargo planes from German airline Lufthansa to resume using its airspace, after a short ban.
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Russia rejects Western criticism for reducing the number of foreign observers at December's polls.
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Russia wants "unprecedented" curbs on observers at parliament elections, the OSCE watchdog says.
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Eight people are killed and more than 50 hurt by a suspected bomb on a bus in Togliatti, southern Russia.
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At least seven people are killed and more than 20 injured by a bomb on a bus in a southern Russia city.
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Russia's foreign minister is to make an unannounced visit to Iran, amid rising tension over its nuclear programme.
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A major in the Russian army is sentenced to seven years in prison for selling military secrets to Poland.
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Russia reports a radiation leak at a nuclear plant in the Urals, but says that nobody was hurt.
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Russian killer Alexander Pichushkin is jailed for life for 48 murders which he noted on a chessboard.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin compares US plans for a Europe missile shield to the 1960s Cuban crisis.
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