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We have started to collect the most important news related to Russia in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
Russia marks the third anniversary of the Beslan school siege, in which hundreds of people died.
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IranRussia says it may support more UN sanctions against Iran if it does not stop some nuclear activity.
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UkraineRussia's Gazprom renews its threat to cut off gas to Ukraine on 1 January, saying a dispute is now at a "critical" stage.
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United StatesRussia agrees to discuss the transit of American military supplies to Afghanistan across its territory.
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ZimbabweRussia says it may refuse to back UN Security Council sanctions against Zimbabwe's president and his allies.
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A third of all money spent by the Russian government on its armed forces is lost to corruption, according to a senior Russian official.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev dismisses the head of the country's powerful GRU military intelligence service.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev dismisses the head of the country's powerful GRU military intelligence service.
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UkraineRussia holds a day of mourning for 170 people killed in a Russian plane crash in eastern Ukraine.
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Russia is holding a day of mourning for at least 176 people who died in three disasters over four days.
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GeorgiaRussia takes a series of diplomatic steps in an apparent effort to ease tensions with the West over the conflict in Georgia.
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Russian MPs pass a controversial bill to tighten state control over non-governmental organisations.
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Russian MPs are to resume debates on a controversial bill aimed to tighten state control over non-governmental organisations.
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Russia's next-generation manned spacecraft might use thrusters to perform a precision landing on its return to Earth.
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The trial of three men charged with involvement in the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya is re-opened to the public
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Russia names 17 groups it regards as "terrorist organisations", including al-Qaeda and the Taleban.
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Russia says it is now the world's biggest consumer of heroin, which it calls a threat to national civilisation.
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IranIran criticises Russia for holding up shipping nuclear fuel, delaying completion of its first nuclear power station.
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UkraineMoscow makes a compromise offer in its bitter dispute with Ukraine over the price of gas supplies.
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A military court in Russia convicts a senior officer serving in the elite forces of hiring out his troops as slave labour.
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Russia's election commission head admits media coverage for Sunday's presidential election has been unequal.
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BelarusRussia cuts oil supplies to Poland, Germany and Ukraine as a Moscow-Belarus trade row escalates.
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United KingdomRussia launches a spying case over claims by the man the UK accuses of killing ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko.
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United StatesA partly US-funded factory opens in Siberia to decommission vast stocks of chemical weapons held by Russia.
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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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President Vladimir Putin signs a law suspending Russia's participation in an arms limitation treaty in Europe.
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JapanAn international tribunal orders Russia to release a Japanese fishing vessel seized off the Kamchatka peninsula.
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Russian President Dmitri Medvedev replaces four of the country's regional governors, amid concern that the economic slump could lead to social unrest.
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The Russian Orthodox Church chooses a shortlist of three before electing a new leader, after the death of Patriarch Alexiy II.
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President Putin tells the Russian government to send humanitarian aid to Kosovo Serbs.
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Russia's defence minister announces widespread reform of the military including the axing of 300 senior posts.
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The death toll from Monday's accident at Russia's largest hydro-electric power plant rises to 67, officials say.
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Explorers plant a Russian flag on the seabed below the North Pole to further Moscow's Arctic claims.
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IranRussia plays down reports a draft UN resolution on Iran's nuclear programme calls for new sanctions.
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A blast damages a Russian naval submarine near the Arctic, but there are no reports of any casualties.
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GeorgiaRussian President Dmitry Medvedev says his forces will begin withdrawing from Georgia on Monday.
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Russia is to investigate the attempted poisoning of a contact of murdered ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko.
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Russian officials frequently beat, rape and torture detainees, a report by Amnesty International says.
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United KingdomRussian President Vladimir Putin says officials are still considering how to respond to the alleged UK spy scandal.
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A swimming pool roof collapses near the Russian city of Perm killing at least 14 people, officials say.
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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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Russia tells Nato to avoid any steps that could undermine Russia's security, as talks get under way in Moscow.
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