DAMASCUS, Syria —Russia’s top diplomat said Tuesday that a Syrian commission has prepared a new constitution, to be voted on in a referendum, and added that President Bashar al-Assad is ready for a “dialogue” with opposition groups after months of a harsh and bloody crackdown on anti-government protesters. Read full article > >

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Russian scientists have drilled into the vast, dark and never-before-touched Lake Vostok 2.2 miles below the surface of Antarctica, according to a source quoted Monday by Ria Novosti, a state-run Russian news agency. Read full article > >

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Russians drill into previously untouched Lake Vostok below Antarctic glacier

MOSCOW – A meeting scheduled for Tuesday between top Russian officials and Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad is being portrayed by the Russian government as an attempt to bring about “the swiftest stabilization of the situation in Syria” in response to the growing conflict . Read full article > >

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Russia raps West, sends mission to Syria

Russian scientists are attempting to beat US and British rivals to be first to drill into an Antarctic sub-glacial lake.

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Antigovernment protesters managed to gather a third huge crowd in the center of the Russian capital, undeterred by arctic cold.

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Protesters Throng Frozen Moscow in Anti-Putin March

MOSCOW — Tens of thousands of Russians embraced the numbing cold and marched to a frozen river bank near the Kremlin Saturday, demonstrating their determination to keep up the pressure on Vladimir V. Putin for fair elections and honest government. Read full article > >

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They’re studs abroad, playing the field. The next wave waits in Virginia, preparing to board a ship, cross an ocean and hit a desperate mating scene. It’s an enviable mission, at least from the perspective of the Virginia Holstein bulls dispatched to help the Russian dairy industry by doing what bulls do best. Read full article > >

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Russian farmers importing Virginia Holstein bulls to help dairy industry

After drilling for two decades through more than two miles of antarctic ice, Russian scientists are on the verge of entering a vast, dark lake that hasn’t been touched by light for more than 20 million years. Read full article > >

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Scientists close to entering Vostok, Antarctica’s biggest subglacial lake

In the effort to drive out the paramount Russian leader Vladimir V. Putin, the opposition, driven by liberal and middle-class Russians, has tentatively reached out to nationalists.

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Russian Liberals Weigh Alliance With Nationalists

As thousands of protesters pushed toward Bolotnaya Square , crews from mainstream Russian television fanned out. Satellite trucks were ranged curbside, their engines running. For six days after the Duma elections last month, TV ignored the street protests that were starting to shake the nation. Now the reporters and cameramen were ready. But still, not a peep. Read full article > >

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Russian TV veers back to familiar ground

Everton winger Diniyar Bilyaletdinov is close to returning to his homeland with a move to Russian club Spartak Moscow.

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Everton winger Diniyar Bilyaletdinov is close to returning to his homeland with a move to Russian club Spartak Moscow.

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MOSCOW — Russian election officials are threatening to bar a veteran liberal politician from running for president, prompting allegations of bias and interference that echo complaints of misconduct in December’s parliamentary elections. Read full article > >

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Russia’s restless electorate bestowed a big bouquet of votes on the country’s Communists last month, putting the party of Lenin in position to either rally a new generation behind its red banners or stay reliably on the sidelines, repeating the old slogans and mourning the past. Read full article > >

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Russia’s Communist Party finds itself at a familiar crossroads

Russia’s restless electorate bestowed a big bouquet of votes on the country’s Communists last month, putting the party of Lenin in position to either rally a new generation behind its red banners or stay reliably on the sidelines, repeating the old slogans and mourning the past. Read full article > >

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Russia’s Communist Party finds itself at a familiar crossroads