Russian police have arrested three homeless people suspected of eating a 25-year-old man they had butchered and selling other bits of the corpse to a local kebab house.

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When Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev's OAO National Reserve Bank seized collateral offered against a loan from a cash-strapped borrower, a health quarantine was slapped on the security: 40,450 pigs.

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Vladimir Komarov always cherished his signed photograph of Brigitte Bardot, but has had to cash it in to pay for an operation.

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IN 2003, while geneticist Svante Pääbo was visiting Novosibirsk, Russia's third-largest city, he decided to look in on a famous experiment run by the Institute of Cytology and Genetics, which is based in the city.

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A network of Russian malware writers and spammers paid hackers 43 cents for each Mac machine they infected with bogus video software, a sign that Macs have become attack targets, a security researcher said yesterday.

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A prominent Russian journalist has fled the country after challenging the government's version of events over the mysterious voyage of the cargo ship the Arctic Sea.

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Russian authorities arrested a young neo-Nazi just hours before he was to set off a series of bomb blasts in Moscow, the country's interior ministry said on Tuesday.

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Alex Griffith doesn't remember it, but he lived the first year of his life at a Siberian hospital for abandoned children where the playground consisted of a single metal swing and an unkempt sandbox.

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The hijackers of a cargo ship that disappeared off the coast of France threatened to blow it up if their ransom demands were not met, Russian news agencies said.

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Russia says it has found a missing cargo vessel near the Cape Verde islands and retrieved its Russian crew.

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Two Russian Su-27 fighter jets collided during a training flight ahead of an air show near Moscow on Sunday, Russian news agencies reported.

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A ransom has been sought for a Russian-crewed cargo vessel that vanished last month, Finnish police said, as the mystery surrounding the ship deepened despite it being spotted in the Atlantic.

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A Russian-crewed cargo ship last seen two weeks ago has been spotted 740 kilometres off one of the islands in the Cape Verde group, a coast guard source said.

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A cargo ship with a Russian crew has disappeared off the coast of Portugal in the Atlantic Ocean, the Russian maritime journal Sovfracht reports.

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The distributed denial of service attack on Thursday that targeted Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, and several Google sites may have been politically motivated.

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Russia's most powerful business lobby moved to clamp down on Skype and its peers this week, telling lawmakers that the Internet phone services are a threat to Russian businesses and to national security.

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A report by Natalya Estemirova, the Russian activist murdered in Chechnya as she investigated human rights abuses

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How much is Facebook worth? A Russian investment firm appears to put it at $US6.5 billion to $US10 billion.

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THE United States and Russia are to slash their nuclear stockpiles by up to a third as part of a move to improve relations between the former Cold War foes.

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Russia's supreme court has ordered a new trial of the suspects in the murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya after annulling February acquittals.

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An Australian mining company says it is using Russian technology to make opals easier to find.

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A woman is suspected of trying to sell her one-year-old son for 800 rubles ($35) in northern Russia, prosecutors said say.

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Police in the Russian city of St Petersburg were today searching for a rare missing leopard which was stolen yesterday when thieves ambushed a TV producer and drove off in his luxury Mercedes 4x4.

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Over the past year there has been a series of violent attacks on independent journalists here, culminating in the controversial death in late March of newspaper designer Sergei Protazanov, who had been preparing an issue of the oppositionist Grazhdanskoye Soglasiye devoted to ele …

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The police of Russia's Rostov region are investigating the death of a 7-year-old boy, who died while playing a serial killer with other children. The child died of the self-inflicted stab wound as he was chasing his friends.

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