russia

Russia is the world's largest country, covering much of Eurasia and a total of more than one eighth of the planet's land area and almost double the size of the United States. Politically Russia is a federation, which was created when the USSR broke up in 1991.

Bloggers are often writing about Russia's strong position in the the gas market and often about the giant firm Gazprom, about the difficulties experienced by minority groups, and about the health and social problems that have followed the end of communism. Many also wrote about the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia.

Blogs mentioning Russia might also be talking about the nation's great literary tradition, from Tolstoy to Dostoevsky to Anna Akhmatova.

Most people searching the term will be looking for travel information.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “russia”

• Russian Cosmonaut Feoktistov Dies At 83

  
  HULIQ - Citizen News Review — Authority: 689
  Russian cosmonaut Konstantin Feoktistov, who was the recipient of two firsts as a cosmonaut, has died. He was 83. The Russian Space Agency said in a statement Sunday that Feoktistov died of unspecified causes late Saturday in Moscow.
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• Russia: Anti-fascists Mourn Murder of Activist Killed By Neo-Nazis

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 726
  Hundreds of young anti-fascist gathered in the center of Moscow. They mourned the murder of Ivan Khutorskoy, an activist of “Antifa,” Russian anti-fascist movement. A blogger chtodelat claims [ENG] its the sixth “Antifa” murder in Russia during the last few years. The photos of the gathering made by ...
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• Russian Leader Expresses Support for Nonprofits

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  Russian Human rights activist Svetlana Gannushkina gave President Dmitri A. Medvedev a portrait of slain human rights activist Natalia Estemirova during a meeting at the Kremlin on Nov. 23.
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• Hull City Res VS. Manchester United Res Watch Live Here||Watch EPL Reserve League Live On PC!!

  
  Dapx - Published news — Authority: 179
  EPL Reserve League All Reserve teams playing in it (2nd teams of each EPL club) You are highly wellcome to enjoy Hull City Res VS. Manchester United Res Live Match On Online TV Channel EPL Reserve League Date : 24-11-2009
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• Video: Russian Basketball Brawl: Dynamo vs. Lokomotiv

  
  Interbasket — Authority: 523
  Last Saturday, a basketball melee broke out at the end of the match between Russian Superleague clubs BC Lokomotiv Kuban and Dynamo Moscow that involved players, referees, coaches, and fans. With Lokomomtiv pulling out a hard-fought 94-91 double-overtime win over Dynamo, the players from Moscow confronted the head ...
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• Hackers catch scientists on global warming data manipulation

  
  The Daily Digest — Authority: 160
  Hackers have tried to prove that global warming researchers are manipulating their data, after stealing sensitive e-mails from one of the UK’s leading climate research centres. Share and Enjoy:
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• Hull City VS. Everton FC Live Watch Now On ONline TV Channel||Watch Live English Premier League On PC!!!

  
  Dapx - Published news — Authority: 179
  English Premier League The Barclays English Premier League (EPL), considered as the best in the world You are highly wellcome to enjoy Hull City VS. Everton FC Live Match On Online TV Channel :: Barclays Premier League 2009/2010 :: Week 14 / Round 14 Date : 25-11-2009 Time : from 20:45 until 2
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• Papers attack Russian Lamborghini driver

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Newspapers attack Russias golden youth after pensioner seriously hurt in crash Swiss police are investigating a crash in which a pensioner was seriously injured when his car was hit by a Lamborghini sports car being driven by a young Russian man who was allegedly racing three others along the banks of Lake Geneva. ...
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• Nadal begins with loss in London

  
  The Daily Digest — Authority: 160
  Former world number one Rafael Nadal has stumbled at his first hurdle in the ATP final event in London. Share and Enjoy:
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• The Producers Of DEAD SNOW Go Gangster With TOMME TONNER!

  
  Twitch — Authority: 670
  What do you do if youre the producers of one of the biggest genre hits in your regions history?  If youre the producers of Norwegian zombie comedy Dead Snow you bring back the whole crew that made that earlier effort so successful, pick another genre, recruit a few new faces - preferably specialists in the new ...
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• GORAs Cem Yilmaz Goes Western With YAHŞİ BATI

  
  Twitch — Authority: 670
  Regular readers of this space should be well familiar with the name of Cem Yilmaz by now.  The hugely popular comic was already a highly sought after performer when he also hit international success as a director with his scifi comedy GORA .  A film that drew immediate comparisons to Mel Brooks with its blend of ...
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• Human Trafficking, Justice, and CSI

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 658
  I’ve gotten used to popular TV shows going the after-school special route and highlighting some issue or another.  Granted, it boosts their ratings, but it also brings attention to issues that need attention.  So I was intrigued recently when the…
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• Awesome or Off-Putting: The Brosno Dragon

  
  Hecklerspray — Authority: 602
  Awesome or Off-Putting is a weekly delve into cryptozoology, ufology, aliens, medical marvels, scientific wonders, secret societies, government conspiracies, cults, ghosts, EVPs, ancient artifacts, strange facts, odd sightings or just the plain unexplainable. The world of the paranormal can sometimes seem to be ...
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• How to write a thriller: Anna Blundy and James Twining in The Browser

  
  t5m: Love Personality, Love t5m — Authority: 492
  For the past ten years I’ve been sitting at home trying to write thrillers. I try not to read them while I’m writing them so that I don’t a)get demoralised because someone’s doing it better than me or b)start stealing someone else’s devices. For five books my heroine was Faith Zanetti, a war correspondent ...
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• Red Alert: The Second Wave of The Financial Tsunami

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 544
  The Wave Is gathering force & could hit between the first & second quarter of 2010by Matthias ChangMany of my friends who have been receiving my e-mail alerts over the last two years have lamented that in recent weeks I have not commented on the state of the global economy. I appreciate [...]
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• Russia says new blast at arms depot kills 8

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 728
  Source: Reuters * Shells explode during clean-up of earlier accident * Blast destroys truck, injures two (Adds details) MOSCOW, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Eight soldiers were killed and two injured on Monday when ...
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• Lets face it: Russia is dying

  
  Telegraph.co.uk News Blog — Authority: 813
  The BBC reports that Mr Bill Browder, head of a company called Hermitage Capital and once the largest foreign investor in Russia, has now described that large and empty country as “essentially a criminal state”. One’s first reaction is that Mr Browder, who has had far better opportunities for observation than ...
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• Spy Camera Detector Guarantees Your Privates Are on the Internet [Spycam]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 542
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• Blast at arms depot in Russia kills eight

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 716
  Moscow, Nov 23 (Ria Novosti) Eight servicemen were killed and two others were injured Monday in an explosion at an arms depot in the city of Ulyanovsk in Russia’s Volga region, a defence ministry spokesman said.Alexei Kuznetsov said the explosion occurred when ammunition was being loaded into a truck.He said a ...
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• The Accelerating Decline Of Europe

  
  The New Republic - The Spine Feed — Authority: 118
  There were two high points in the career of Tony Blair. One was 2003 when Hugh Grant played the British prime minister in Love Actually.  The second was in 2006 when Michael Sheen played him in The Queen who was herself portrayed by Helen Mirren. Frankly, its been downhill ever since. Of course, he had been the ...
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