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English and Credit Cards Altering Russians' Travel Plans
Svetlana Afonina got her first taste of independent travel five years ago when she mustered the courage for a weekend trip to Finland all by herself...
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Meat-Free No Longer Bourgeois
When Ekanga Davova decided to become a vegetarian in 1993 in an effort to cleanse her body, it made her the odd one out in her social circle. Davova...
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Don't Like My Driving? Look at My Gun
Tensions on Moscow roads have flared with a prominent blogger and an opposition activist reporting separate clashes with firearm-wielding motorists...
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Bid to Ease Visa Rules Creates a New Hassle
While U.S. and Russian diplomats promised this week to ease visa rules, travelers on the ground have found that attempts to improve the process have...
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Psychologists Are Happiest Workers
Digging though other people's emotional distress happens to be the most pleasurable job for Russians, while fixing computer trouble is the worst, according...
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Rumblings of Political Activism Among Russia's Bikers
Leather. Hard rock. Disdain for traffic rules. Cruising on a highway. Wind in the face, and maybe the occasional beer belly. There are many associations...
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Doubts Grow About Putin’s Front
Doubts are growing whether the All-Russia People's Front, created two months ago by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, will help United Russia win extra...
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Chemical Castration Sought for Child Abusers
Two months after President Dmitry Medvedev called for the voluntary chemical castration of child molesters, a Just Russia deputy introduced a bill...
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Investigators Call Putin's Ski Coach Over a Murder
St. Petersburg investigators plan to question Senator Leonid Tyagachyov, former head of the Russian Olympic Committee and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's...
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Designer Eyes Plant Site in Ingushetia
Prominent fashion designer Valentin Yudashkin is looking at Ingushetia as a possible site for a large sewing factory, which could bring growth opportunities...
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Kashin Is Cleared in Defamation Lawsuit
A Moscow court cleared Kommersant reporter Oleg Kashin in a much-watched defamation lawsuit, ruling that he was free to speculate about who might have...
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13 Armenians Live Like Prisoners in Moscow Hotel
Valida Avanesyan has been a prisoner in the Hotel Yuzhny on Moscow's Leninsky Prospekt for over six months. She stays in a friend's room. When she...
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Laser Beam Blinds 2nd Pilot in Days
The pilot of a passenger jet was temporarily blinded by a laser beam upon landing in Rostov-on-Don late Tuesday, in the second such incident in the...