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Russia country profile
Russia emerged from a decade of post-Soviet economic and political turmoil to reassert itself as a world power.
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Yanukovich and Obama discuss energy security cooperation
The presidents of the USA and Ukraine, Barack Obama and Viktor Yanukovich, discussed on Monday issues of energy security and cooperation in that sphere.
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Russia's Medvedev calls world nuclear summit very successful
Initiative to hold a global nuclear security summit in Washington "was absolutely timely" and the summit itself was "crowned with a complete success," Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday in a speech at the Brookings Institute on the results of the summit that had brought together the leaders of 47 countries, the UN, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the European Union.
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President Dmitry Medvedev to visit Argentina Apr 14-15
On April 14-15, 2010 Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev will go to the Argentine Republic on an official visit. The main purpose of the visit is expanding of bilateral economic relations.
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Ukraine agrees to abandon nuclear weapons in first victory for Obama initiative
Ukraine has agreed to get rid of its stockpile of weapons-grade uranium in a move that gave President Obama the first significant achievement at the Nuclear Security Summit of 47 nations that opened yesterday in Washington.
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Leading Moscow judge gunned down
A leading judge has been shot dead at his apartment building in the Russian capital, Moscow court officials have said.
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Nuclear summit to face challenge of reining in loose weapon materials
A year ago in Prague, President Barack Obama pushed a three-pronged plan to move toward a world without nuclear weapons -- and announced a Global Nuclear Security Summit in 2010 to help make that happen.
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Polish President Lech Kaczynski is killed in plane crash in Russia
Polish President Lech Kaczynski has been killed in a plane crash near Smolensk airport in Russia.
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