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Part of an airliner carrying more than 130 people caught fire as it was landing in Moscow, and passengers evacuated the plane by jumping off one of its wings and shooting down an evacuation slide.

The former star of adult films, currently a musician, DJ and actress, Sasha Grey, set off on a long car journey across Russia.

Azerbaijan, Baku, May 17 / Trend, I.Izzet / The final decision on oil transportation between Azerbaijan and Russia has not yet been made, Azerbaijani Presidential Administration Political Analysis and Information Provision Department Head Elnur Aslanov told journalists on Friday.

Russian sailors are seen aboard the Admiral Panteleyev Russian war ship moored at the Cypriot port of Limassol on Friday, May 17, 2013.

Two teenage girls, who beat and abused young boys in a boarding school in Russia's Amur region, were sent to a detention center.

Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan received on May 17 Natalya Antipina, Head of the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography of the Russian Federation.

A journalist of EcoSever website visited a village in the Saratov region, where people exorcise demons with the help of many days of fasting and swimming in ice-cold water.

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni on Friday criticized Russia for sending arms to the Syrian regime, stating that "the transfer of arms to Syria is clearly not positive and does not contribute to the stability of the region," according to AFP.

Meet Margarette Keesee and William Heatley, winners of the 2013 Albany-Russian Olympiad Contest, a student competition on the history of Russia.

The New York Times quotes unnamed US officials as saying the missiles could be used to counter any potential future foreign military intervention in Syria.

Police in a small town in Russia's Urals have detained a woman suspected of killing her newborn sons by freezing them to death.

EU countries are accused of leaving asylum seekers from the Russian Federation vulnerable to the repressive reach of the Russian state.

Senior Russian officials on Wednesday downplayed the capture and release of an alleged U.S. spy, suggesting that while the incident won't help already battered relations, it also won't derail cooperation on international issues, including a newly launched effort to end Syria's civil war.

This week, the eight member states of the Arctic Council -decided at their meeting in Kiruna, Sweden, to admit six non-Arctic nations as observers, most notably China.

Moscow City Court has upheld the acquittal of former deputy head of the Butyrka detention center Dmitry Kratov, who had been accused of negligence that led to the death of Sergey Magnitsky, a lawyer for Hermitage Capital.

President Vladimir Putin will soon fly to work by helicopter rather than being driven there in his usual Mercedes limousine to try to appease anger over traffic jams created by his motorcade.

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