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Teen ID'd as Moscow subway bomber| Russian investigators identified one of the female suicide bombers in the metro attacks that killed dozens of people as teenager Dzhennet Abdullayeva | |
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| Apr.8 |
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  Obama, Medvedev sign arms treaty The new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, a major nuclear arms control , reduces the nuclear stockpiles of both nations
| The agreement cuts the number of nuclear weapons held by the United States and Russia by about a third
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U.S.-Russia arms treaty to face GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said that the Obama administration 'will need to meet three requirements if it expects favorable consideration'
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| Apr.9 |
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Adopted boy sent back to Russia| Tennessee grandmother: A 7-year-old boy adopted by an American family was put on a return flight because of violent and psychotic behavior | |
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| Apr.10 |
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 Polish president died in plane crash   Map of Smolensk Russia Tupolev 154, carrying Lech Kaczynski, has crashed near a Russian airport. 87 people were killed; there were no survivors
| Kaczynski, his wife Maria and several senior government figures were in Russia to mark the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre. They included the army chief of staff Gen Franciszek Gagor, central bank governor Slawomir Skrzypek and deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Kremer. There were a total of 132 people on the plane
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| Apr.12 |
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Judge shot dead Eduard Chuvashov, a judge in several high-profile cases was gunned down as he walked out of his apartment to go to work
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| Apr.21 |
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Russia, Ukraine agree on naval-for-gas| Russia's president and the newly elected president of Ukraine signed a landmark agreement on that signals an end to years of enmity | |
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