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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.
Israel, 
SyriaRussia expresses grave concern at an alleged Israeli air attack on Syria, amid reports that either a research facility or a weapons convoy had been targeted.
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United StatesThe Russian government abandons an agreement with the US on fighting crime and the drugs trade, in an apparent sign of worsening relations.
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The Russian parliament has backed a ban on the promotion of homosexuality among children in its first reading, amid scuffles on the street outside.
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The Russian parliament backs a ban on the promotion of homosexuality among children in its first reading amid scuffles outside.
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Guidelines are being issued to the Russian army to check soldiers for intimate tattoos, but a military source denies gay men are being targeted.
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Netherlands, 
UkraineUkraine signs a major shale gas deal with Royal Dutch Shell - a move seen as an attempt by Kiev to reduce its dependency on Russian gas imports.
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SyriaRussia is not beginning a mass evacuation of its citizens from Syria, the foreign minister says, hours after planes carrying 80 Russians arrived in Moscow.
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Russia's Bolshoi Theatre appoints a former prima ballerina as a temporary replacement for its artistic director who is recovering from an acid attack.
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Lebanon, SyriaScores of Russians are flown home after fleeing the violence in Syria - but Russia insists it is not the start of a mass evacuation.
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Plans to close a Russian hospital which specialises in treating children with cancer draw public outrage in President Vladimir Putin's home city, St Petersburg.
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United KingdomRennes accept a £9.6m offer from Russian club Rubin Kazan for Yann M'Vila, but the midfielder favours a move to England.
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ThailandViolinist Vanessa-Mae puts her musical career on ice for a year in a bid to ski for Thailand at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia.
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Lebanon, SyriaA suicide bomb in central Syria kills many people, reports say, as Russia prepares to airlift its nationals fleeing the conflict.
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Moscow Exchange, Russia's biggest stock market, plans to sell shares in itself on its own exchange, expected to raise over $500m.
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At least four miners have died and four more are missing following an accident at a Russian coal mine.
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The artistic director of Russia's Bolshoi Theatre is being treated in a Moscow hospital for severe burns to his face after a masked man threw acid in his face.
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France, United KingdomParts of Europe, including Russia, France, Austria and the UK have seen heavy winter snowfall.
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NetherlandsAn anti-Putin activist who fled Russia and sought political asylum has committed suicide in a Dutch detention centre, Dutch officials say.
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The artistic director of Russia's Bolshoi Theatre, Sergei Filin, is treated in a Moscow hospital for severe burns to his face after an acid attack.
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IsraelWhy Russian immigrants take a hard line in Israel's elections
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United StatesTwo US mothers who have adopted Russian orphans tell the BBC of their heartache over changes to Russian adoption law that have left them in legal limbo.
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A fireman in Russia has had a remarkable escape after a pile of snow knocked him off his ladder.
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A behind-the-scenes look at Russia's seat of power
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A man described as Russia's top gangster is shot dead leaving a restaurant in central Moscow, reportedly by a sniper.
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A Russian court refuses to defer the jail term of a member of the punk protest group Pussy Riot, Maria Alyokhina, over concerns for her young child.
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Afghanistan, 
TajikistanThe BBC's Rustam Qobil travels to a remote village in Tajikistan where Afghan drug dealers are trying to recruit couriers to help transport their contraband into lucrative markets in Russia and Europe.
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The Russian revolution and WWI France uncovered
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GermanyA married couple go on trial in Germany for spying for Russia over decades, in a case seen as one of the most intriguing cases since the Cold War.
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A blind girl has become a political sensation in Russia after criticising the Kremlin for a controversial new law that bans Americans from adopting Russian children.
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Russia's new defence minister sacks the chief medical officer of the armed forces after five soldiers die of pneumonia.
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A 'significant' cyber-attack that may have been stealing confidential documents since 2007 has been discovered by Russian researchers.
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Tens of thousands of people have marched through Moscow to protest against a new law banning Americans from adopting Russian children.
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United StatesRussian children whose adoptions have already been approved by a court will be able to join their new families in the United States, the Kremlin says.
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AustraliaThe alleged financial manager of Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout is caught in Australia after applying for a job with the government, officials say.
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The Russian navy gets a new nuclear missile submarine said to be safer than the ill-fated Kursk design.
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Russia launches an investigation after a man is killed during a ride down a ski slope inside a giant inflatable ball, known as a zorb.
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FranceThe actor Gerard Depardieu stays away from a court in Paris where he faces a drink-driving charge, days after taking Russian citizenship in protest at increased taxes.
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An influx of wolves preying on reindeer herds triggers a state of emergency in the Sakha Republic, in northeastern Russia.
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FranceThe Russian region of Mordovia - famed for its prisons - invites French actor Gerard Depardieu to set up home there, hours after he received a Russian passport.
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FranceFrench actor Gerard Depardieu has met President Vladimir Putin and been handed his new Russian passport. Contains flash photography.
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Actor Gerard Depardieu is handed his new Russian passport after meeting President Vladimir Putin, and is invited to set up home in the region of Mordovia.
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ItalyTwo Italian skiers die in an avalanche in north-eastern Italy, in the same valley where six Russian tourists were killed just a day earlier.
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ItalySix Russian tourists die as their snowmobile flips over during a night-time run down an Alpine ski slope in north-eastern Italy, reports say.
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FranceFormer French film star Brigitte Bardot could become a Russian citizen in a row over two sick zoo elephants.
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FranceFilm star Brigitte Bardot threatens to follow Gerard Depardieu and apply for Russia citizenship unless France saves two elephants from death.
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UkraineKiev should try to meet the conditions of Russia's customs union with ex-Soviet states, Ukraine's President Yanukovych says without committing to membership.
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FranceActor Gerard Depardieu hails Russia's decision to grant him citizenship, following a tax row with the government in his native France.
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FranceRussian president Vladimir Putin has granted Russian citizenship to French actor Gerard Depardieu, who recently moved abroad to avoid high taxes.
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Footage of the moment a Russian plane ran off a runway and hit a motorway in Moscow has emerged.
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An investigation is under way into how a Russian passenger plane overshot a Moscow airport runway and crashed into a motorway.
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At least four people die as a Russian plane overshoots the runway at a Moscow airport, breaking up and coming to rest on a main road.
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SyriaRussia says it is ready to hold talks with Syria's opposition, but rebel spokesman Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib said they had rejected the offer.
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Russia's President Putin signs into law a controversial ban on Americans adopting Russian orphans.
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Investigators fail to get evidence from Russia's ex-defence minister Gen Serdyukov in a scandal involving suspicious equipment sales.
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A Muslim spiritual leader is shot dead in the Russian Caucasus republic of North Ossetia.
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United StatesRussia's upper house of parliament unanimously backs a bill banning Americans from adopting Russian children, amid anger over a US human rights law.
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Investigators in Russia open a third fraud inquiry into opposition leader and anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny.
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IndiaRussia and India sign new defence deals worth billions of dollars during President Vladimir Putin's day-long trip to India.
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SyriaSyria has consolidated its chemical weapons into "one or two" places to prevent rebels capturing them, Russia says.
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Russia calls for South Sudan to find and punish those responsible for shooting down a UN helicopter crewed by Russians in South Sudan.
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