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PROVIDER BLOCKS SITES OF POLITICAL ACTIVISTS

Opposition activists say one of the leading Russian Internet providers is practicing “political censorship” by denying access to oppositional web sites for its clients.

Clients of the Internet provider Beeline, the trademark of the Moscow-based VimpelCom ...

FILM, THEATER STAR SAMOKHINA DIES AGED 47

Anna Samokhina, one of Russia’s most admired film and theater actresses, who was sometimes referred to as the Russian Marilyn Monroe, died of stomach cancer ...

HEALTH OFFICIAL FIRED OVER DISAGREEMENT

MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin dismissed Nikolai Yurgel, head of the Federal Health and Social Development Inspection Service, from his post on Saturday because of a public disagreement with the government on new legislation to regulate the pharmaceutical ...

LAVROV SAYS NATO, OSCE ARE INEFFECTIVE

MOSCOW — Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov lambasted the present state of European security on Saturday, calling it ineffective and outdated, but he failed ...