Over several years, Russia has given passports to many residents of South Ossetia -- which borders Russia -- and declared them Russian citizens.
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NAZRAN, Russia -- The Russian intelligence service has blamed Chechen rebels for an explosion that killed a high-ranking official.
It said a 10% corporate tax -- half that of Russia's -- meant Russian firms had been using it as a tax haven since the early 1990s.
Though Chechnya, in late 1991, was the first North Caucasus republic to try to secede from Russia, an anti-Russian insurgency now covers the entire North Caucasus.
Two-thirds of foreign investment into Russia, and four-fifths of all Russian capital, comes to rest in Moscow.
President Medvedev and I have I think successfully established the reset of U.S.-Russia relationships -- the U.S.-Russian relationship over the last several years.
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"The World Tomorrow" appears on the Kremlin-funded, pro-Russian network Russia Today.
Are changes in the ABM Treaty "substantive, " requiring Senate approval, if Russia succeeds to the role of the Soviet Union or--as the administration proposed and the Russian government has twice approved- -if Russia, together with Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan become the Soviet Union's successor states?
But there is growing resistance in Congress to spending on anti-proliferation measures in Russia, when Russian firms profit from helping a country that is near the top of the proliferation worry-list.
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Yandex says it accounts for 64% of all search traffic in Russia and is the largest Russian-based internet company by revenue.
MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- Russian companies are split about a planned evacuation of 800 workers from Iraq after a spate of kidnappings.
Moscow, Russia (CNN) -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sent a strong signal Thursday that he has full hands-on control of his country.
Some friction with post-communist Russia was inevitable, if only because of Russian resentment of America's new geopolitical pre-eminence.
Also Saturday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russia has no plans to offer al-Assad asylum, state-run Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported.
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In the previous presidential election, Russia backed Viktor Yanukovich, the Russian-friendly prime minister at the time.
Russia's presence in the Russian-speaking city is also a symbol of wider influence across the post-Soviet space.
KOROLYOV, Russia (Reuters) -- A Russian space capsule docked with the orbiting station Mir on Monday to allow a joint Russian-French-Slovak crew to embark on what could be the last mission to the aging craft.
His parents have not asked that his body be brought to Russia -- and in any event, Russian law says the bodies of "terrorists" killed by government forces should be buried in an undisclosed location, without the family being notified of the site, he said.
The U.S.-Russia Fund is one of the largest Russian VC funds, but it's not the most successful.
In the past month, the Castro Regime has also signed a new agreement with Russia to renew cooperation to complete a Russian-designed nuclear reactor.
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He goes on to argue, in a sweep that extends to Russia's privatisation programmes and left-over Russian communities in every last corner of the ex-Soviet empire, that the failure in Chechnya was symptomatic of a wider decline in Russia.
The purchase of TNK-BP gives the Russian government control of roughly one-third of oil production in Russia.
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Ignoring indications of growing Russian hostility to US strategic interests - most clearly evidenced in Russia's opposition to the deployment of US anti-missile batteries in the Czech Republic and Poland and in Russia's strategic relations with Iran and Syria - Gates advocated building "collaborative and cooperative relations" with the Russian military.
My firm started out representing U.S. companies doing business in Russia or Korea, as well as Russian and Korean companies doing business in the U.S. Fairly soon after that, we were representing Korean-American and Russian-American businesses as well, mostly relating to their transactions with Russia and Korea.
"I think we are seeing a large amount of the top-quality Russian art going back to Russia, " said Philips, although in most cases it has been paintings.
Lately he has spent considerable time in Russia, including for the filming of the French-Russian film "Rasputin, " and has been seen in television ads for ketchup and kitchen furniture.
Artur Chilingarov, an adventurer and deputy speaker of Russia's parliament, led two Russian mini-submarines to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean beneath the North Pole, where he collected gravel and planted the Russian flag.
Mr Giorgadze fled to Russia in the mid-1990s and founded a pro-Russian Georgian political party in 2003.
In an interview with Russian press, Mr Putin said that Russia-China co-operation would produce "a more just world order".
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