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India becomes full member of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
UFA, RUSSIA- India was today accepted as a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a six-member regional grouping including China and Russia. India, which has had an observer… Read more
Gorbachev urges Putin, Obama to save Ukraine from civil war
MOSCOW- The former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has urged the leaders of Russia and America to step in to save Ukraine from sliding into civil war, even as protests spread… Read more
Female suicide bomber kills 14 at Russian railway station
MOSCOW, DECEMBER 29 — A female suicide bomber blew herself up at a railway station in southern Russia on Sunday, killing at least 14 people, authorities said. Dozens of others were injured in… Read more
Putin says he will pardon Khodorkovsky
Moscow — President Vladimir Putin announced on Thursday that he will pardon ex-oil tycoon and bitter Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a move that should see Russia’s most famous prisoner freed… Read more