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Soyuz spacecraft blasts toward space station

Spacecraft BlastMoscow/Baikonur- A Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft carrying a crew that includes the firs

Putin may head Russia's dominant party, lawmakers say

Vladimir PutinMoscow - Vladimir Putin may head Russia's dominant party w

Bush and Putin play out a "straight" presidential farewellMoscow - Vladimir Putin

Moscow - Vladimir Putin and George W Bush sealed their seven-year presidential relationship with a final "straight" tete-a- tete Sunday, joking and acting out their self-acclaimed camaraderie.

Bush arrives in Russian resort of Sochi for meeting with Putin

Moscow - US President George W Bush arrived in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Saturday for a planned meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, local media reported.

Russian opposition activists in bid to unite democracy movement

Moscow  - Activists from Russia's fragmented opposition met Saturday in St Petersburg in a bid to form a joint platform aimed at running in future Russian elections.

Missile defence clouds Russia's win in halting NATO enlargement

Moscow - Russia won a reprieve from NATO on further eastward expansion, but lost big in the feud with the United States over its plans to deploy a missile defence system in Eastern Europe, Russian

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