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Administrators at childcare centers and schools in Nizhny Novgorod have asked their student's parents which Russian politicians would "fight destabilization" and whether United States' espionage activity could impact Russia's integrity in questionnaires the children took home to their parents.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was mocked by his own countrymen today after urging Russians to start having more sex to put a stop to the country's declining population.

Russian Helicopters, a subsidiary of Russian industry giant Oboronprom, presented its Mi-171A2 model at HELI-EXPO 2012 in Dallas, TX.

The severe cold snap gripping most of Russia has already killed at least 215 people and injured over 5,500, the Health Ministry said on Monday.

About 20 percent of teenagers in Russia suffer from depression, compared to the Western European average of 5 percent, UNICEF global agency said in a report on Monday.

A spate of teenage suicides has shaken Russia, with officials calling for urgent measures and experts pointing to deep-rooted social problems.

A 15-year-old girl jumped from the 23rd floor of her apartment house in Moscow on Saturday. It was the sixth teenage suicide reported this week. On Tuesday, two girls aged 12 and 14, jumped from the roof of a 14-story building in Lobnya, just outside Moscow. The next day a 14-year-old boy jumped to death from the balcony of his 12th-floor flat in Moscow. Two boys hanged themselves in Yakutia and Krasnoyarsk, Siberia.

United Russia, the country's dominant political party for more than a decade, might be radically reformed or even dissolved in the coming months, media reports said Friday.

The party has long been a bulwark of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's grip on power. But support for it has been sagging for more than a year, and analysts said the speculation is a sign that the Kremlin is addressing this problem.

The respected Kommersant Vlast news magazine said in Monday's issue that the Dec.

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Moscow, Feb 13 - Russia may lose from 20 to 50 percent of its vineyard harvest this year because of bitter cold as temperatures have dipped to below minus 20 degrees Celsius, Vedomosti business daily reported Monday quoting winemakers.

Russian retired heavyweight boxer Nikolai Valuev voiced his concerns over the conflict in Syria.

Former England coach Fabio Capello arrived in Moscow on Sunday to hold talks with Russian Premier League club Anzhi Makhachkala, daily newspaper Sport Express reported.

Bulgarian anti-shale gas protesters referring to Bulgarian Minister of Economy and Energy Traicho Traikov and Minister of Environment Nona Karadzhova.

The thicket of curly hair, the unbuttoned smile, the blast-down-the-door brainwaves: two decades ago Boris Nemtsov, the self-styled "boy governor" of Nizhny Novgorod, took the once-closed region by storm and turned it, for a brief shining moment, into the model of the New Russia.

Ivica Kostelic captured his second consecutive World Cup super-combined title with a victory Sunday on the 2014 Sochi Olympics course, then hobbled off with a right knee injury that may require surgery.

Nonviolent revolutions do not always remain nonviolent, as the examples of uprisings in Egypt, Libya, and Syria in the Arab Spring have shown.

U.S. pop star Whitney Houston died on Saturday afternoon in Los Angeles at the age of 48, Western media agencies reported.

A member of the singer’s entourage found Houston unresponsive in her room in Beverly Hilton hotel and called security, the TMZ.com celebrity news web site reported citing sources.