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Russians uniting against United Russia

By Miriam Elder | 04/19/11
MOSCOW, Russia — About three months ago, the ruling United Russia party picked up an unfortunate moniker: “the party of crooks and thieves.” The nickname stuck. Google the term, or some version thereof, and you get nearly 3 million hits, half as
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Chernobyl survivors say Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster dissimilar

By Miriam Elder | 03/16/11
MOSCOW, Russia — Pavel Vdovichenko doesn’t remember the day 25 years ago when reactor four at Chernobyl blew up.
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Booze, strippers and... Putin?

By Miriam Elder | 03/09/11
MOSCOW, Russia — What do you get when you mix a dozen strippers, a soundtrack of throbbing house music and chants of “only Putin, only sex!”?
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Right-wing hooligans terrorize Russia

By Miriam Elder | 12/15/10
MOSCOW, Russia — A surge of far-right nationalist violence is sweeping through Russia, leaving at least two dead and dozens injured in recent days as soccer hooligans led by neo-Nazi groups capitalize on a wave of discontent. On Dec.
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Violent extremists may have found a new home in Tajikstan

By Miriam Elder | 11/29/10
Editor's note: Last month GlobalPost Moscow correspondent Miriam Elder traveled in Tajikistan investigating growing instability in the former Soviet satellite. Below, she reports on growing violence involving mysterious outsiders.
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Dearth of official commemoration marks the centenary of the Leo Tolstoy's death

By Miriam Elder | 10/13/10
MOSCOW, Russia — Russians love few things better than a good anniversary — any excuse to celebrate the country’s rich cultural history gives rise to festivals and forums, concerts and commemorative films. As 2010 marked the 150th anniversary of
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Loss of 25 percent of Russian wheat crop worries international grain markets

By Miriam Elder | 08/17/10
MOSCOW, Russia — The deadly forest fires ravaging the Russian countryside have wiped out a quarter of Russia’s grain crop, prompting the country to ban all wheat exports as of Sunday and inflaming worries of a global food crisis.
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FBI arrests of 10 'Russian spies' reveal a sloppy operation

By Miriam Elder | 06/30/10
MOSCOW, Russia — From afar, it looks like the spy scandal of the decade — 11 alleged Russian agents busted by the FBI on suspicion of infiltrating American society to feed policy secrets back to their spymasters in Moscow.
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YouTube campaign smears Russian liberals

By Miriam Elder | 03/25/10
MOSCOW, Russia — Three leading Russian liberals have come under attack in a smear campaign reminiscent of Soviet-era tactics against those who went against the grain of official thought.
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Vladimir Putin's party, United Russia, loses support in regional elections

By Miriam Elder | 03/17/10
MOSCOW, Russia — Is Vladimir Putin, Russia's all-powerful prime minister, in trouble? Anti-government protests, a rare thing indeed, have begun to draw thousands of people across the country.