Village Grannies Make it to Eurovision Finals - The Moscow Times


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Village Grannies Make it to Eurovision Finals
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Russia's hip group Buranovskiye Babushki has made it into finals of the Eurovision Song Contest in Azerbaijan, bringing the elderly folk singers from a far-off Russian village to the attention of more than 100 million viewers around the world.
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This Russian app wants to shame drivers into parking more responsibly - Ubergizmo

This Russian app wants to shame drivers into parking more responsibly
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Since we're not from Russia, we guess we can't really verify this for ourselves, but Russian news website, The Village, has decided that this was a problem big enough for them to sit up and do something about it. They have since created an app that ...
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Decapitated Churches, Vanishing Villages - The Kazan Herald


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Decapitated Churches, Vanishing Villages
The Kazan Herald
By Rais Minullin23 May 2012 More than eight thousand hamlets and villages have disappeared in a relatively small period of time from the map of the Russian Federation. Photograph courtesy of Kazansiye Vedemosti This article, translated from Russian by ...

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Almanac: New home, citizenship for Old Believers - The Redoubtreporter


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Almanac: New home, citizenship for Old Believers
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The date was June 19, 1975, and a special US District Court session in the gymnasium of Chapman School in Anchor Point had become a naturalization ceremony for this band of former Russian dissidents, the oldest of whom had embarked more than 50 years ...

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'Killer bride' seized at banquet - BBC News

'Killer bride' seized at banquet
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Police in the Russian Urals region of Udmurtia have arrested a woman at her wedding reception hours after she allegedly kicked a man to death. Yekaterina M, 22, was charged with the manslaughter of a man from her village, 45, whom she allegedly ...

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Drunk Russian bride-to-be kicks man to death - Times of India


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Drunk Russian bride-to-be kicks man to death
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The young woman identified only as Yekaterina M. and her fiance were celebrating their upcoming marriage in a small village in Udmurtiya when a 45-year-old acquaintance called on the couple, regional investigators said. "The man owed the girl some ...
Drunk bride 'kicks man to death' Herald Sun

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Confusion in the countryside, contd. - The Economist (blog)


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Confusion in the countryside, contd.
The Economist (blog)
we continue to Uryan-Uba, the second of the two Russian villages that are now, due to a twist of diplomacy and fate, now on Azerbaijani territory. Here, by contrast, we find some of the original residents. But only a handful of them, living in one ...

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Naomi Campbell Birthday: Supermodel Turns 42, Style Evolution (PHOTOS) - Huffington Post

Naomi Campbell Birthday: Supermodel Turns 42, Style Evolution (PHOTOS)
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The British bombshell has traveled to Israel to fete her big day (May 22) with a crew the size of a small village, which includes her Russian billionaire boyfriend Vladislav Doronin, 15 close friends and six bodyguards. But clearly Naomi has a lot to ...

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Annual Festival of Cultures brings the world to Skokie - Skokie Review

Annual Festival of Cultures brings the world to Skokie
Skokie Review
In addition to the Park District and the Illinois Arts Council, the festival this year was sponsored by NorthShore University HealthSystem–Skokie Hospital, RCN, Rotary Club of Skokie Valley, Kiwanis Club of Skokie Valley, the Village of Skokie, ...

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Russia jails 10 over deadly train bombing - Ninemsn


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Russia jails 10 over deadly train bombing
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The militants were arrested in a special operation by Russian security forces in the Ingush village of Ekazhevo in March 2010 in which eight other suspects were also killed. Nine of those detained and sentenced on Tuesday have the surname Kartoyev, ...
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