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The head of the Yekaterinburg branch of...

The head of the Yekaterinburg branch of the ruling United Russia party has resigned following the party"s unsatisfactory performance in recent local elections, a party spokesman said on Monday.


MOSCOW, August 5 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...

MOSCOW, August 5 (RIA Novosti) - Russian nationalists and immigrant workers from the ex-Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan are to meet in Moscow for a game of football aimed at defusing ethnic tensions, the Kyrgyz ambassador said on Wednesday.


At least 23 people were killed and 57 injured...

At least 23 people were killed and 57 injured, including a provincial governor, in two separate suicide bombings in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Wednesday, Al Jazeera reported.

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President Dmitry Medvedev has dismissed...

on police and officials.

The position had been vacant since August 2009, when Ruslan Meyriyev was dismissed following a terror attack in the republic"s largest city of Nazran, which left 24 dead and 20 wounded. Ingushetia"s deputy interior minister, Valery Zhernov, was then appointed acting interior minster.

Pogolov earlier served as criminal police chief in the Saratov region in Russia"s Volga area.

Medvedev announced in December extensive Interior Ministry reforms. Following a series of brutal crimes by police officers, the president has moved to introduce tougher punishment for police found guilty of crimes, submitting a bill to parliament imposing harsher sentences than for civilians convicted of similar offences.

MOSCOW, March 16 (RIA Novosti)



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