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Russia says 11 killed in 'terrorist' attack at military site

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 16 10:29 AM

Russia said two gunmen from an ex-Soviet state on Saturday attacked a military training ground killing 11 people who had volunteered to fight in Ukraine and wounding 15 others. Read more »

Marcos mourns death of last Soviet leader Gorbachev

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 31 06:54 PM

President Marcos Jr. joined other world leaders in mourning the death of Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader. Read more »

Mikhail Gorbachev, last Soviet leader, dead at 91

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Aug 31 07:44 AM

Gorbachev, who was in power between 1985 and 1991 and helped bring US-Soviet relations out of a deep freeze, was the last surviving Cold War leader. Read more »

15 killed, 50 hurt in Russian strike on Ukraine rail station: Zelensky

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 25 05:40 AM

The strike comes as Ukraine marks Independence Day, commemorating its separation from the Soviet Union in 1991. Read more »

Taxi for Vladimir: Putin says he drove cab after Soviet fall

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 13 09:08 AM

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the collapse of the Soviet Union spelled the end of historical Russia, revealing he drove a taxi to make ends meet following the USSR's fall. Read more »

Russian sea pollution forms massive moving slick

Reuters
Posted at Oct 09 10:18 AM

MOSCOW - Suspected toxic waste pollution off Russia's Kamchatka peninsula that caused the mass deaths of marine animals has formed a moving slick stretching 40 kilometers (25 miles) along the Pacific coastline, researchers said Thursday. Read more »

Life on Venus? Astronomers see a signal in Its clouds

Shannon Stirone, Kenneth Chang and Dennis Overbye, New York Times
Updated as of Sep 15 11:29 AM

High in the toxic atmosphere of the planet Venus, astronomers on Earth have discovered signs of what might be life. Read more »

Finland's opera-singing policeman spreads message of love under lockdown

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 21 07:33 AM

HELSINKI, Finland - A police officer in northern Finland has hit on a novel way to help the public weather the coronavirus lockdown, using his singing talent to lift spirits and going viral in the process. Read more »

How bubonic plague has helped Russia fight the coronavirus

Andrew E. Kramer, The New York Times
Posted at Apr 16 08:07 AM

MOSCOW — In a remote alpine meadow in Kyrgyzstan a few years ago, a teenage boy killed and skinned a marmot. Five days later, his parents carried the sweating, delirious boy to a village hospital where he died of bubonic plague. Read more »