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Kremlin fires Moscow mayor after 18 years (AP)
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)
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ending the 18-year rule of the Moscow mayor who gave the crumbling capital a glamorous facelift but was maligned for outdated values and bellicose posturing, and for continuing his vacation while smog from forest fires choked his city.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)
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)
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)
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)
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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