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			<title><![CDATA[The Russian Bear Suffers Through a Heat Wave]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[What happens when a sweltering air mass lingers over a country better known for ice and snow? A look at an unusual event with heavy consequences.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:21:00 +0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Russians Mark New Holiday]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Russians officially celebrated a new holiday marking the country's conversion to Christianity in 988.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:14:00 +0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[When Spies Become Intelligence Officers?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[How do you say "spy" in Russian? What about "espionage?" And how do you distinguish "spying" from "gathering intelligence?"]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 +0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Fur-Coats: The Divisive Must-Have For Russian Women]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A fur coat for a Russian woman is akin to a baptism: you are not a woman unless you have a mink pelt hanging in your closet.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:32:00 +0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Forest Fire Almost Destroyed "The Denezhkin Kamen" Natural Resort]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Russian Emergencies Ministry says that 104 new forest fires have occurred over the past 24 hours in the Urals.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:50:00 +0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Most Russians Want Political, Not Technical Modernization - Paper]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[To most Russians, modernization is merely an abstract concept.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:22:00 +0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Thick Smog From Heat Wave Fires Covers Ekaterinburg]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The elderly and those suffering from heart disease should try to avoid contact with the smog - experts.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:50:00 +0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Opera and Ballet House Gets A New Look]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Opera and Ballet House of Ekaterinburg is one of the oldest in Russia. It opened in 1912.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:52:00 +0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Russia Marked Navy Day]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In Ekaterinburg veterans and brothers-in-ams paid respect to their fallen comrades.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:12:00 +0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[How to Survive in Summer Ekaterinburg: Top Tips]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In big cities every summer most buildings are cut off from running hot water for several weeks.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:50:00 +0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ekaterinburg Melts Under the Sun]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The city struggles to survive health-threatening heat.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:38:00 +0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Orthodox Church to Train Own Youth to Guard Faith and Country]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The main aim is to divert young people from drugs, alcohol and sexual promiscuity - the Church's representative.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:10:00 +0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Russian Officials to be Taught Good Manners]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The revolutionary thing is supposed to be the code itself: whereas European countries have had it for ages, in Russia the initiative is brand new.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:28:00 +0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Nizhny Tagil Exhibition Is Over]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[More than 40 000 people enjoyed the exhibition and military show.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:20:00 +0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[71 Drown During Record Heat Wave]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Temperatures have broken July records in dozens of cities in western Russia.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:06:00 +0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Twitter Trending Topics Besieged by Russian Rain]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Internet users call such behavior "flash mobs."]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:49:00 +0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Russian Bear  Truth Behind Stereotype]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Western explorers discovering Russia some five centuries ago wrote of towns full of bears roaming the streets.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:19:00 +0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Household Shipping Fees Dismay Expats]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Carrying your belongings may be the only affordable way to move to Russia. A new tariff is imposing a $5 per kilogram fee for every kilo beyond a 50-kilogram limit.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:40:00 +0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Six Female Suicide Bombers Arrested]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In Moscow two female suicide bombers attacked the metro on March 29, killing 40 people.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:04:00 +0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA["You Don't Need a Wheelchair in Zero Gravity"]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[An 11-year-old wheelchair-bound Russian girl wrote a letter to the cosmonauts.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:53:00 +0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Novo-Tikhvinsky Cloister Marks Its 200th Anniversary]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:47:00 +0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Russia's Main Children Center Marks 50th Anniversary]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Over 2,600 children from all Russian regions and some 200 teenagers from G8 and CIS countries attended events to mark Orlyonok's birthday.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:35:00 +0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Kvas - Russia's Answer to Cola]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Kvas is made from fermented black or rye bread and comes in somewhere between a soft drink and a beer.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:55:00 +0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Medvedev Examines Innovative Projects at Youth Education Forum]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[President Dmitry Medvedev visited the Russian Educational Seliger-2010 forum.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:12:00 +0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Russian Queues Are Longest in Europe]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Expats grumble that queuing in Russia is a national sport, and now it seems they are right.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:33:00 +0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Nine Ton Bell Was Set Up to the Church on the Blood Bell Tower]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The bell was cast by the Ural mining and smelting company in Kamensk-Uralsky city.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:09:00 +0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ekaterinburg Welcomes Foreign Professionals]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA["We want to lure as many highly-skilled workers to our city as we can" - city officials.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:38:00 +0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Russia to Develop 9 New Sanctuaries, 13 Natural Parks by 2020]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Protected marine zones will be created with an area of over one million hectares.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:01:00 +0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Grammy-Winning Russian Pianist Faces Pedophilia Charges]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Mikhail Pletnev was facing charges of pedophilia and complicity in organizing a child prostitution ring.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:41:00 +0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Russia's Cancer Children Struggle for Much-Needed Treatment]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Due to the lack of a medical infrastructure, the disease is among the main causes of toddler deaths.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:31:00 +0500</pubDate>
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