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Messy Election Ahead for United Russia
Nikolai Petrov, Moscow Times Russia can expect plenty of political turbulence this fall.
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Bono, Russian Rocker Help Halt Controversial Highway through Moscow's Khimki Forest
Russian rock star Yury Shevchuk sings in Moscow's Pushkin Square at an Aug. 22 demonstration to protect Khimki Forest. Photo via RFE/RL .Russian authorities are not known for responding to popular protests, but when one of the country's most famous ...
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Medvedev Halts Forest Clearing
Dmitry Medvedev ordered the government to suspend the clearing of a centuries-old oak forest on the edge of Moscow for construction of a toll road, a rare nod to grassroots critics who have fought the project for years.
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Putin Takes On Bono
Julia Ioffe, Foreign Policy This week, there was a miracle in Moscow: Bono came to Russia and rescued a forest. The forest was in Khimki, just outside Moscow's northwestern edge, and, after years on the chopping block, it was in the process of being ...
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Russia: Release Human Rights Defender
(Moscow) - The Tverskoi District Court of Moscow should overturn Lev Ponomarev's sentence of administrative arrest and ensure his immediate release from custody, Human Rights Watch said today. The activist was sentenced to three days for "disobeying ...
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Putin Insists Moscow-St. Petersburg Highway Must Be Built
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said Russia must go ahead with plans to build a Moscow-St. Petersburg highway. But Putin did not specify whether he would support the highway's controversial ...
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Russia halts forest highway construction as opposition grows
President Dmitry Medvedev says further study is needed for the project outside Moscow. Activists, who have enlisted the support of the singer Bono, are cautiously optimistic. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday announced that he had ordered ...
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Kremlin Relents, for Now, to Foes of Highway
Environmentalists were handed a surprising victory when President Dmitri A. Medvedev postponed construction of a Moscow-St. Petersburg highway.
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Russia - Journalist gunned down in capital of Dagestan
Reporters Without Borders condemns the murder of Magomedvagif Sultanmagomedov, a Muslim scholar who was the head of Makhachkala TV and the Nurul Irshad (Light of Truth) publishing house, in Dagestan, in the Russian Caucasus, on 11 August. ...
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Kremlin party wants disputed road project halted
The ruling United Russia party has called on President Dmitry Medvedev to halt construction of a disputed motorway. The building of the toll road
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Party leaders urge Medvedev to save Moscow forest
The ruling United Russia party members urged Russia' s President Dmitry Medvedev to look thoroughly into the construction of a new Moscow-St. Petersburg highway across the Khimki Forest, reported Russian media on Thursday. "We have asked President ...
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Banned gig goes ahead on Flag Day in Russia
Activists in Moscow pressed ahead with plans for a banned gig, after police confiscated their stage equipment. The authorities say the concert, in
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Rock-star critic takes new swipe at Putin
Hundreds of Russian police surrounded a central Moscow square yesterday as a prominent critic of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin led a protest concert against a road-building scheme that is becoming a f...
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Moscow Bans Khimki Protest Concert
MOSCOW -- Moscow authorities have banned a protest concert planned for this weekend against the destruction of a forest outside the Russian capital. City authorities today said they had granted permis...
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Russia - Official website's inaccessibility raises questions about information transparency
The website of the Russian Centre for the Protection of Forests, also known as Roslesozashchita (www.rcfh.ru), has been inaccessible since 13 August, shortly after it contradicted the government by reporting that forest fires had reached areas that ...
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Russia - Journalists interrogated, photos seized after protesters attack official building in Khimki
Reporters Without Borders is shocked by the raids on news media and journalists that the interior ministry has carried out as part of its investigation into an attack on an administrative building in Khimki, a satellite town on Moscow's northern ...
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Moscow Police Break Up Khimki Forest Protest
MOSCOW -- Moscow police have broken up another protest against the planned logging of the Khimki forest to clear the way for a highway project, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports.Some 30 activists, incl...
