Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is visiting the Kurils, defying Japan's warnings not to visit the disputed islands in the Pacific Ocean.

梅德韦杰夫正在视察千岛群岛全然不顾日本不要视察此这些在太平洋的有争议岛屿的警告。

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Russian flight controllers conduct thruster tests with the Progress to gather engineering data until it deorbited and burned up in Earth's atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean.

俄国的飞行控制员一直在执行着“进步号”的推进测试来获取引擎的数据，直到它脱离轨道并在太平洋上空的地球大气上燃烧殆尽。

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A Japanese fishing boat was hauled out of the Pacific Ocean by a Russian ship on Monday.

周一俄罗斯轮船在太平洋拖拉日本渔船。

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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.

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Russian Mars probe Phobos-Grunt fell into the ocean earlier this month, far short of its goal of reaching the Martian moon Phobos.

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