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Almost half of Russians (48 percent) agree that the body of the former Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, who died 88 years ago, should be buried, according to a survey conducted by the Russian recruiting website Superjob.ru. Forty-eight percent of the respondents said that Lenin’s body should be removed from the mausoleum on Moscow’s Red Square [...]

Chavez Launches Re-Election Bid With Display of Vivacity The Associated Press Published: June 13, 2012 (Issue # 1712) CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez sang, danced and gave a marathon speech at the launch of his re-election bid, offering a preview of a campaign in which he is likely to push his limits trying to [...]

Court Clears Parents — 32 Years After Dingo Took Baby The Associated Press Published: June 13, 2012 (Issue # 1712) CANBERRA, Australia — The dingo really did take the baby. Thirty-two years after a 9-week-old infant vanished from an Outback campsite in a case that bitterly divided Australians and inspired a Meryl Streep film, the [...]

Spanish Bailout Concerns Investors The Associated Press Published: June 13, 2012 (Issue # 1712) MADRID — Investors continue to find more questions than answers in Spain’s decision to seek help for its ailing bank sector and tap a 100-billion-euro ($125-billion) area bailout fund. The country’s borrowing costs rose sharply Tuesday for the second day in [...]

Three citizens of Uzbekistan were detained by the police after they got onto the territory of a military base in the Moscow region and stole parts to a Su-27 fighter jet, a spokesperson of local police department Yevgeny Gildeev said.   “Three Uzbek citizens were stealing small parts of the aircraft intending to sell them [...]

Drug police in the Urals have busted a local drug dealing ring that kept its merchandise hidden in the tomb of a dealer’s relative, Russian Federal Drug Control Service said on Wednesday. The stash was given away by a young woman from the gypsy community in the Tyumen region who was detained for drug dealing, [...]

A criminal case has been opened into the death of two parachute jumpers in Russia’s Perm Territory, investigating authorities said on Wednesday. Two people were killed in a tandem jump, in the town of Berezniki on Sunday, when both the main and reserve parachutes failed to open. Ildar Salakhiyev, department head at the Urals Investigations [...]

Russia dismissed on Wednesday claims by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that it was selling attack helicopters to Syria and accused the United States of arming rebels fighting against the rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. “We are completing right now the implementation of contracts that were signed and paid for a long time [...]

Russia hopes Poland will take action to prevent future clashes between football fans, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. A march by thousands of Russian fans ahead of a Euro-2012 football championship game between Poland and Russia, which ended with a 1-1 draw, came under attack by masked hooligans on Tuesday. Police detained 184 [...]

The editor-in-chief of Russian opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta accused on Wednesday the head of the country’s Investigative Committee of voicing death threats toward one of the newspaper’s staffers. Alexander Bastrykin’s bodyguards forced the paper’s news editor Sergei Sokolov earlier this month to go with them to a forest in Moscow where Bastrykin threatened the journalist, [...]

The Moscow City Bar Association decided on Wednesday against taking away the license from a lawyer who advocated Shariah law for Russian Muslims, threatening bloodshed in the capital. The judicial community decided against any action concerning Dagir Khasavov because he already faces a criminal case over his statements, his lawyer Sergei Belyak said. Stripping Khasavov [...]

MOSCOW, June 13 (RIA Novosti) – Two married police officers met an unlikely demise in Russia’s Volga federal district after suffocating from cesspool fumes, the local news website 4vsar.ru said on Wednesday. The man of the family, a 35-year-old officer whose name was withheld, was repairing the sewer system in his house in the village [...]

The Cypriot authorities have asked Russia for another 5 billion euros in loans, The Daily Telegraph reported on Wednesday, citing Cyprus-based Alithia newspaper. Last year, Russia agreed to grant 2.5 billion euros in loans to Cyprus, which amounts to about 10 percent of the republic’s GDP. Cyprus needs funds to recapitalize local banks which are [...]

Russia needs to discuss again the possibility of introducing an extra oil revenue tax to halt declining output, Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Wednesday. “We need to return to discussion of an extra revenue tax; otherwise a decline in oil output will occur in the nearest future. Of 120 billion tons of reserves in [...]