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YEREVAN (Reuters) – Thousands of opposition supporters marched through the Armenian capital on Friday and vowed to hold a month-long series of protests to demand the resignation of President Serzh Sarksyan and new elections. The opposition accuses the authorities of ballot-stuffing and intimidation in the February 19 election which official …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia urged Georgia on Friday to guarantee with a legal document that its armed forces would not use force in its breakaway regions, after clashes between soldiers and separatists killed two people in South Ossetia. Moscow demanded a peace pact after the mobilization of reservists by the …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Nine people were killed on Wednesday when a helicopter crashed in Russia’s far north, Russia’s Emergencies Ministry said. “The helicopter crashed as it was coming into land and nine people were killed,” said a spokesman.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A blast killed two people in an apartment building early on Wednesday in Sochi, the southern Russian city set to host the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, police and emergency services said.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The man suspected of killing Russian reporter Anna Politkovskaya in 2006 is hiding in Western Europe, Russia’s chief criminal investigator was quoted as saying on Tuesday.

The Estonian delegation headed by the country’s President, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, has left a forum for Finno-Ugric nations in protest at comments made by the Chairman of Russian Duma’s (Parliament’s) International Affairs Committee, Konstantin Kosachev, who said that Estonia’s ethnic policies are “unprincipled”.

For censorship considerations, Russian media have concealed from their readers the fact that Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves left not only the conference room in protest of the slander against Estonia voiced at the so-called “Fifth World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples”, but he also left Russia and returned to Tallinn …

According to earlier reports, 6 people were injured. All of the victims of the explosions in Gagry are locals, Echo of Moscow (“Ekho Moskvy”) reported.

After the Command of Armed Forces of the Caucasus Emirate released the report about the successful operation in the village of Elistanzhi, the sources of the Russian invaders came up with their own “version” of the special night operation by the Mujahideen, as usual.

Ringleader of Chechen pro-Russian accomplices (murtadin/apostates) has launched another turn of the informational campaign against his rival puppet, Sulim Yamadayev. It was reported that Kadyrov’s TV showed a film, in which ringleader of the Vostok (“East”) gang is declared a murderer, a kidnapper and a criminal.