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Brutal Beating Rock Fans in the Urals

Brutal Beating

A hundred of bare-chested people attacked the audience of a rock festival in Ural town Miass on August 29th. The authorities are suspected of concealing the exact number of the injured and real reasons of the incident.

Buckwheat Fever Strikes Russia. So Does West Nile One

Buckwheat porridge in Moscow streets

The buckwheat fever has started in Russia! Recently it stroke Moscow and came into St. Petersburg now. People are buying up buckwheat fearing rumors about increase the price. News agencies report there is no buckwheat in the Moscow shops for a week.

Georgia Leaves CIS

Coat of arms of CISGeorgia has left the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), organization-successor of USSR, after the Georgian parliament's decision on 14th August 2008. The Russian-Georgian war in August 2008 became the key reason to leave the organization although Georgia had declared the intention to put end to CIS membership before.



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