SABMiller reports annual pre-tax profits of $5.6bn boosted by the sale of units in Russian and Ukraine.

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MOSCOW — Having proved himself with his response to political protests that erupted here in December, Moscow’s police chief, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, was named minister of the interior in the new Russian cabinet announced Monday. Read full article > >

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Moscow police chief promoted to Russian cabinet following protest response

A Russian court jails an employee of a defence plant in the Urals for spying, in a case said to involve submarine-based nuclear missiles.

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Man jailed for spying in Russia

In an interview with Russian TV.

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MOSCOW — Police cleared a campsite occupied by political protesters in the Russian capital early Wednesday morning, despite assurances that they would wait until noon. Within hours, another gathering had begun in a small park near the Barrikadnaya metro station, named for the barricades of Russia’s 1905 revolution. Read full article > >

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Moscow police clear occupied park

Troublesome weather conditions hampered recovery efforts Friday as teams combed a steep mountainside where a Russian jetliner crashed on a demonstration flight in Indonesian this week.

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12 bodies found in Russian jet wreckage

According to Russian foreign minister.

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The wreckage of a Russian passenger jet that went missing during a flight from Jakarta has been found 5,800 feet up an Indonesian volcano.

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Rescuers find a number of bodies at the wreckage of a Russian Sukhoi Superjet plane that crashed into mountains in Indonesia.

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MOSCOW — Striding through the Kremlin’s gold-encrusted doors and applauded by the modern nobility, Vladimir Putin returns to the Russian presidency Monday in the throne room of the czars, now a dangerously weakened autocrat. Read full article > >

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At least five people have died in Nepal and three Russian tourists are missing after a river near Mount Annapurna bursts its banks, police say.

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Tourists missing in Nepal floods

A secure communications channel set up to prevent misunderstandings that might lead to nuclear war is likely to expand to handle new kinds of conflict — in cyberspace. The Nuclear Risk Reduction Center, established in 1988 under President Ronald Reagan so that Washington and Moscow could alert each other to missile tests and space launches that could be mistaken as acts of aggression, would take a central role in an agreement nearing completion between U.S. and Russian negotiators. Read full article > >

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In U.S.-Russia deal, nuclear communication system may be used for cybersecurity

Russia’s foreign ministry lashed out on Friday over the sentencing of a Russian arms trafficker, Viktor Bout, to 25 years in prison, warning that it could harm relations with Washington.

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Russia Says Sentencing of Viktor Bout Hurts Ties With U.S.

Mitt Romney, newly emboldened as the likely Republican presidential nominee, took aim at President Obama on Wednesday by focusing on his comments to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he would be “more flexible” after he is reelected. Read full article > >

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A former head of the KGB’s foreign intelligence branch, Leonid Shebarshin, has apparently shot himself dead aged 77, Russian prosecutors say.

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Former KGB chief ‘kills himself’