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UNITED NATIONS - With Fidel Castro openly relishing the prospect of a second missile crisis and a renewed confrontation with America , Russia is denying a report that it will deploy nuclear bombers on the ...

A Russian Tupolev-160 bomber during a combat training flight near the Engels air force base in the Saratov region of Russia, about 700 km southeast of Moscow.

The first public office of Leader of the United Russia Party Vladimir Putin will begin work in Nizhny Novgorod on Wednesday, the information center of the party's Central Executive Committee told Tass.

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SARATOV, Russia - In 1993, Yuri Gaar brought his 74-year-old mother from Kazakhstan back to her homeland here in the meadows and woodland along the Volga River.

Igor Shopen jabbed a branch into the edge of the Volga River, a stone's throw from the Saratov Oil Refinery's rust-covered storage tanks.

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Four Russian strategic bombers are carrying out a routine patrol over remote areas of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, a Russian Air Force spokesman said on Friday.

SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine * Pro-Russians in the Ukrainian port Sevastopol defied authorities yesterday by unveiling a statue of the city's Russian founder, Tsarina Catherine the Great, fanning local ethnic tensions.

Four Russian Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bombers are conducting patrol flights over the Arctic Ocean, a spokesman for Russia's Air Force said on Wednesday.

A University of North Texas professor of music recently earned the Russian Gagarin Medal of Honor.

DENTON , Texas -- Dennis Fisher , University of North Texas professor of music in conducting ensembles, recently received the Russian "Gagarin Medal of Honor." The medal is named in honor of cosmonaut Yuri ...

Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency have begun inspecting the Balakovo nuclear power plant in southern Russia's Saratov Region, a spokesman for the plant said on Tuesday.

In December the Kazan Assn had already handed over to the Russian AF arsenal, or the 121st heavy aircraft regiment, a first serially produced bomber Tu-160. Then Fyodorov noted that in the perspective there ... via Avia.Ru

“Together with Tu-95 Bear bombers, these aircraft will help us maintain strategic parity with potential foes and will bolster Russia's national security”

KAZAN: A new Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bomber officially entered service with Russia' Air Force during a ceremony at an aircraft manufacturing plant in Kazan on the Volga, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported ... via Defence Talk

“I feel like my baby has just been born”

Russia showed off on Tuesday the first modernised Tupolev Tu-160 strategic bomber, which a senior air force official said would help Moscow match the nuclear capability of a potential enemy. via Mail & Guardian

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“It is a fully upgraded plane, adapted to new weapons systems”

A new Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bomber will enter service with Russia' Air Force by the end of this month, the Air Force chief said on Tuesday. via Naval Open Source INTelligence

“I did not let her come in. It all happened to me because of her. I don't want to see her”

The man's heart stopped beating after a heart attack, but the man did not die Nikolai Mikhalnichuk, a resident of the Russian city of Saratov, is a unique man. via Pravda

“A lot of them take out mortgages.”

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