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Russian prosecutors are filing fraud charges against a police officer who had complained on YouTube of abuse and corruption in the law enforcement system.

ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia a " Police say eight tigers and a lioness belonging to a Russian traveling circus have died during a 20-hour truck journey across Siberia.Police in the Siberian region of Yakutia say the animals were dead when they arrived early Tuesday in the city of Yakutsk.

Sochi rescuers are pumping out fuel from the gale-wrecked Aras-1 dry cargo ship, spokesperson for the Krasnodar department of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry Tatiana Kobzarenko told Itar-Tass on Sunday.

Five people were killed in a traffic accident in south Russia's Krasnodar Territory on early Saturday, a spokesman for the local emergencies department said.

In another life I worked in Kazakhstan where, according to some estimates, more than 90,000 Meskhetian Turks live.

Tens of thousands of Meskhetians apply to come home, but Georgian officials accused of not doing enough to help them.

The Third international conference 'Grain of Russia - 2009' started to work. Russian Grain Union and APK-Inform Agency are the organizers of the conference.

The people collectively known in the West as Circassians in fact constitute four major and several minor ethnic groups .

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has declared a national day of mourning on 7 December after a fire at a nightclub killed at least 109 people.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he would not leave Russian politics any time soon, telling a questioner asking about his departure: "Do not hold your breath." Putin's future has been the subject of speculation since Dmitry Medvedev replaced him as president in May last year.

A Hummer sport utility vehicle has been stolen in eastern Moscow, a police spokesman said Sunday.

A 20-year-old Irishman, a student at Cambridge University, has been injured in an altercation with another man in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar.

Grigor Lusavorich Armenian church of Stavropol has been reconstructed. The consecration ceremony took place on November 22 under the leadership of AAC South Russian eparchy primate Movses Movsisyan.

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The State Duma's amendments to the Tax Code, doubling the base rate of the road tax, have sparked a stormy response from Russian society.

The editor of a paper in south Russia's Krasnodar Territory is to stand trial on charges of extremism after publishing an allegedly racist poem, prosecutors said on Friday.

The bank's comments came as a federal commission was announcing its plans for modernizing Russia's ailing auto industry and two days before President Dmitry Medvedev's second state-of-the-nation address, which is widely expected to focus on economic and political modernization.

Routine falsification of evidence. Pressure to arrest the innocent. Poor working conditions.

Alexei Dymovsky, a police major in the Krasnodar region city of Novorossiisk, said Sunday on Ekho Moskvy radio that he fears for his life and his family after his video addresses to the prime minister became an Internet sensation over the weekend.

African swine fever hit Russia's southern Rostov Region in late September, and then spread to the neighboring Republic of Kalmykia.