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School in Kemerovo region closed due to high radiation level
Several class rooms were closed in a local school in the Kemerovo region because of the excess of radioactive gases radon and thoron.
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Villagers of Irkutsk region complain about shortage of food
Residents of the Katanga district of the Irkutsk region complained to the head of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs about the shortage of the most necessary products.
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Moldova banned broadcasting of Russian news
On Thursday, December 7th, the Moldovan parliament passed a law banning news and analytical programs, broadcasted by Russian TV channels.
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Every fourth Russian citizen doesn’t have enough money to buy medications
Among the most vulnerable groups there are disabled people, pensioners, pregnant women and women on maternity leave.
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Family that left Germany because of sex education has returned back
The family of Eugene and Louise Martens along with ten children returned to Germany. The reasons for this sudden action remain unknown.
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Hotel in Pskov refused to accommodate European gay tourists
Two guests from Europe were refused accommodation in the town of Ostrov of the Pskov region because of their sexual orientation.
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Russia ranked last in Bloomberg’s Health-Care Efficiency Index
The index takes into account life expectancy, health-care spending per capita and relative spending as a share of gross domestic product.
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Olga Sechin went to court because of article about her yacht
The wife of the head of Rosneft Olga Sechin filed a lawsuit on protection of honor and dignity against the “Novaya Gazeta” because of the publication about her yacht.
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Human rights activists outraged by practice of female circumcision in Dagestan
The human rights organization “Legal Initiative” published a report on female circumcision in Dagestan (Russia).
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Sechin’s wife owns one of the most luxurious yachts in the world
Journalists of Novaya Gazeta, analyzing data from social networks accounts of the wife of the head of Rosneft, found that she could be the owner of one of the most luxurious yachts in the world: “Princess Olga”.
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Rammstein: We won’t come to Russia again, your propaganda went too far
Russian propagandists got into a grand international scandal: vocalist of Rammstein Till Lindemann hired leading lawyers for litigation with the authors of fake pictures where he is depicted with Putin’s portrait on a t-shirt,…
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Russia refuses to give asylum to a refugee from North Korea
He faces deportation to North Korea, and the punishment up to death penalty.
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Over 2,500 kids were killed in Russia in 2014
Over the past year more than 2,500 children were killed in Russia, almost 10,000 children are missing, said Pavel Astakhov, the Presidential Commissioner of Children’s Rights.