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RIA Novosti Peter the Great ready to set sail for the Baltic

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Sculptor Zurab Tsereteli's monument to Peter the Great in the middle of the Moscow River, one of the tallest outdoor statues in the world, has been dividing public opinion in the Russian capital ever since it was erected there in 1998.
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    RIA Novosti Ukraine's majority coalition becomes parliamentary majority

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    KIEV, October 4 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine's Communist Party, the pro-presidential Party of Regions, and the Lytvyn bloc signed on Monday an agreement transforming their majority coalition in parliament into a parliamentary majority.
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    RIA Novosti Marriott to capture Russian market with 25 new hotels

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    MOSCOW, October 4 (RIA Novosti) - Marriott International plans to open 25 new hotels across Russia within the next two-three years, the company's Vice President and Area General Manager, Michael Stengel said on Monday.
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      RIA Novosti New missile shield proposals to be presented to Russia in Nov. - NATO

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      MOSCOW, October 4 (RIA Novosti) - New proposals on a missile defense plan for Europe will be presented to Moscow at a Russia-NATO Council summit in November, the alliance's spokesman said on Monday.
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        RIA Novosti Luzhkov denies giving order to disperse Moscow opposition rallies

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        "I did not give any commands. I am not a representative of the law enforcement bodies," Luzhkov said in an interview with Russia's The New Times magazine.
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          RIA Novosti New Russian police bill 'to go to parliament by end of month'

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          MOSCOW, October 4 (RIA Novosti) - A revised police bill will be submitted to Russia's lower house of parliament within the next three weeks, the State Duma security committee chairman said on Monday.
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          RIA Novosti Canonical rock-n-roll as remedy for iPhone-junky Moscow

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          While Russia's capital sees growing iPhone 4 hysteria, the members of a young Moscow rock band say the city needs "canonical rock-n-roll" to wean it off its technological dependence.
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            RIA Novosti U.S. poultry conforms to sanitary norms - Russia's chief doctor

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            MOSCOW, October 4 (RIA Novosti) - U.S. poultry delivered to Russia after the two countries agreed on the long-disputed issue of chlorine content is in line with sanitary norms, the chief Russian sanitary doctor said.
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            RIA Novosti Luzhkov to form own political movement

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            Former Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov, axed by President Dmitry Medvedev last week, has no intention of leaving politics, he said in an interview.
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            RIA Novosti Hugo
            Chavez to start visit to Russia on October 11

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            The outspoken Venezuelan leader last visited Moscow in September 2009, when he announced that his country recognizes the independence of the former Georgian republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
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            RIA Novosti Two NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan in last twenty-four hours

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            One NATO solider was killed on Sunday in a shootout with militants in east Afghanistan while the other died of wounds received on Saturday after hitting a roadside bomb in the country's south, the alliance said.
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            RIA Novosti Russia's Medvedev congratulates German leaders on Unity Day

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            Russian President Dmitry Medvedev congratulated German President Christian Wulff and Chancellor Angela Merkel on the 20th anniversary of the country's reunification, the Kremlin press office said on Sunday.
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