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Kremlin fires Moscow mayor after 18 years (AP)

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov reacts during the Unesco's early childhood care conference in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, Sept. 27, 2010. Yuri Luzhkov, who has been Moscow's mayor for the last 18 years, is back from his vacation and said he wouldn't resign despite a widely reported public power struggle with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)AP – Russia’s president fired Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov on Tuesday, ending the 18-year reign of a man who gave the crumbling capital a glamorous facelift but was maligned for his bellicose posturing and staying on vacation while forest fires choked his city.


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Kremlin fires iconic Moscow mayor after 18 years (AP)

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov reacts during the Unesco's early childhood care conference in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, Sept. 27, 2010. Yuri Luzhkov, who has been Moscow's mayor for the last 18 years, is back from his vacation and said he wouldn't resign despite a widely reported public power struggle with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)AP – Russia’s president on Tuesday fired Yury Luzhkov, ending the 18-year rule of the Moscow mayor who gave the crumbling capital a glamorous facelift but was maligned for outdated values and bellicose posturing, and for continuing his vacation while smog from forest fires choked his city.


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Deported Russian secret agents land in Moscow

They’re back in the (former) U.S.S.R. The Russian sleeper spies who burrowed deep into the U.S. suburbs in a sinister plot to undermine America flew back to Mother Russia on Friday.

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One of Moscow subway bombers was 17-year-old widow (AP)

This undated picture provided Friday, April 2, 2010 by the Russian news agency NewsTeam, is claimed by the Russian Kommersant newspaper to show Dzhennet Abdurakhmanova, left, and her husband Islamist rebel Umalat Magomedov. Russian newspaper Kommersant said Friday that one of the Moscow subway suicide bombers was Abdurakhmanova, the 17-year-old widow of Magomedov, an Islamist rebel from the North Caucasus killed by Russian government forces in December, 2009. The March 29 subway bombings in Moscow killed 39 people. (AP Photo/NewsTeam)AP – The image is striking: a sultry teenager, partly veiled, in the embrace of a bearded man — both grasping handguns.


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Chechen militant claims Moscow subway blasts (AP)

Investigators stand at a site of an explosion in Kizlyar, a town in southern Russian region of Dagestan, Wednesday, March 31, 2010. Two suicide bombers including one impersonating a police officer killed several people and injured many others in the southern Russian province of Dagestan on Wednesday, officials said. (AP Photo/Rusian Alibekov, NewsTeam)AP – A Chechen militant claimed responsibility for the deadly attacks on the Moscow subway in an Internet message posted Wednesday, hours after two more suicide bombers struck southern Russia in brazen defiance of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.


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Russia mourns 39 dead in Moscow subway blast (AP)

Special operations  police, officers look at a man laying flowers near one of the entrances to the Park Kultury (Park of Culture) subway station, background, hit by an explosion, Moscow, Monday, March 29, 2010. Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up on Moscow's subway system as it was jam-packed with rush-hour passengers Monday, killing tens of  people and wounding many more, officials said and blamed the carnage on terrorists from the restive Caucasus region that includes Chechnya.(AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)AP – Russians on Tuesday nervously returned to subway stations where two suicide bombers killed 39 people, lighting candles and leaving heaps of carnations at one site as the country began a day of mourning.


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Death toll from Moscow subway blasts rises to 39 (AP)

A woman cries as Interior Ministry officers block her way in front of the exit of Lubyanka metro station in Moscow March 29, 2010. Two blasts ripped through packed Moscow metro stations on Monday during rush hour, killing at least 34 people and wounding 18, Russian officials said. REUTERS/Alexander Natruskin  (RUSSIA - Tags: DISASTER CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST TRANSPORT)AP – Health officials say a woman has died in a Moscow clinic from wounds suffered in Monday’s subway blasts, raising the toll from the double suicide bombing to 39.


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