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3 killed in suicide attack on Russian base (AP)

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A view of the site of suicide car-bomb attack on Russian base in the city of Buinaksk in the violence-plagued republic of Dagestan, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. A spokesman for the republic's Interior Ministry, said the driver of the explosives-laden small Zhiguli automobile smashed through a gate of the base and headed for an area where soldiers are quartered in tents. But soldiers opened fire on him before he reached the center of the base. The spokesman said, the driver rammed the car into a military truck where it exploded. (AP Photo/Abdula Magomedov, News Team)AP - A suicide car-bomber killed three soldiers and wounded 32 others in an attack on a military base in Russia's violence-plagued republic of Dagestan on Sunday, officials said.




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Three killed, scores hurt in Dagestan suicide bombing (AFP)

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Russian soldiers guard a checkpoint at a military base used by the motor rifle brigade at Dalny near the city of Buynaksk, some 40 kms (30 miles) west of the local capital Makhachkala. A suicide bomber rammed a Russian military base Sunday, killing three people and wounding some thirty more in the North Caucasus region of Dagestan, law enforcement sources said.(AFP/NEWS TEAM/Abdula Magomedov)AFP - A suicide bomber rammed a Russian military base Sunday, killing three people and wounding some thirty more in the North Caucasus region of Dagestan, law enforcement sources said.




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Suicide bomber kills three in southern Russia (Reuters)

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Soldiers search debris at a blast site at the military camp outside the town of Buynaksk about 50 km (30 miles) west of the local capital Makhachkala, September 5, 2010. REUTERS/Kurban Labazanov/NewsTeamReuters - At least three people were killed and 33 wounded on Sunday when a suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a military camp in Russia's southern region of Dagestan, the Defense Ministry said.




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Relics of Russian saint, icons stolen (AP)

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AP - A Russian news agency is reporting that three ancient icons, one of which contained relics of Russia's most venerated saint, have been stolen.

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Car bomb in Caucasus wounds minister, kills driver (Reuters)

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A car of Bekmurza Bekmurzayev, a minister in charge of national, religious and foreign affairs in Dagestan's government, is seen in flames after a blast in Makhachkala, September 4, 2010. REUTERS/Zaur Aliev/NewsTeamReuters - A senior official in the province of Dagestan in Russia's Caucasus was wounded on Saturday and his driver killed by a bomb planted in their car, a police spokesman told Reuters.




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Eight dead as fires flare up again in southern Russia (AFP)

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This TV grab taken from a broadcast by Russian television channel NTV shows a house burned out by forest fire in the Volgograd region of Russia. Forest and brush fires flared up again in Russia's southern farmlands, killing eight people and burning down more than 400 homes, officials said on Friday.(AFP/NTV)AFP - Forest and brush fires flared up again in Russia's southern farmlands, killing eight people and burning down more than 400 homes, officials said on Friday.




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8 killed in latest wave of Russian forest fires (AP)

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A Russian man attempts to put out a blaze 155 km south of Moscow in Shatura on August 13. Russia said it was beating back the country's worst ever wildfires, including one close to a secret nuclear site, as parts of the parched country were hit by thunderstorms and torrential rain.(AFP/File/Viktor Drachev)AP - The latest wave of forest fires in Russia has killed eight people and injured 17, authorities said Friday.




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Eight die as wildfires consume Russian villages (Reuters)

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Firefighters are seen near a forest destroyed by wildfires outside the city of Togliatti on the Volga River in Samara region, September 3, 2010. REUTERS/Sergei SerdyukovReuters - Wildfires swept through dozens of villages in southern Russia, killing at least eight people and reducing more than 400 homes to smoldering ruins, officials said Friday.




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Zebra-painted horses walk Moscow intersections (AP)

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A policeman watches a horse painted as zebra at a crossing at a highway in downtown Moscow, Russia, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010 Moscow traffic policemen on Friday were teaching children cross the road safely with the use of horses and ponies painted as zebras. The poster reads : Attention! Children go to school.(AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)AP - A peculiar sight greeted drivers in Moscow on Friday: zebras walking back and forth across some of the city's busiest intersections.




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Gazprom to double gas imports from Azerbaijan (AP)

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AP - Russia's Gazprom on Friday clinched a deal to double supplies from Azerbaijan in a bid to expand its control over gas produced by former Soviet republics.

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