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  Moscow Company To Use RC Helicopters To Deliver Parcels
  A Moscow company is to offer a delivery service where for a fee, a remote control helicopter will deliver a parcel to anywhere in Moscow guided by a dispatcher.
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  Kazakh Woman Calls Her Newborn Son Fir Tree
  A Kazakh woman has called her son Fir Tree. He was born on the night of December 31st – January 1st, and is named after the trees used to celebrate the New Year.
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  Despite New Year’s Law, Beer Still For Sale At Kiosks
  Netizens despair as kiosk owners defy a law forbidding the sale of beer from anything other than a shop, that came into effect on the first of January 2013.
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  Snowballs Banned By St. Petersburg Police
  Police in St. Petersburg have stopped a snowball fight due to take place in a park in the city. Two people were arrested, and risk fines of thousands of roubles.
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  Brigitte Bardot Could Apply For Russian Citizenship Too
  French actress Brigitte Bardot has threatened to apply for Russian citizenship over an incident in which two elephants are to be put down at a circus in Lyon.
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  Putin Puts Off Opening Of Labour Camps Until 2014
  Due to a lack of staffing, forced labour, due to become a possible sentence for minor offences this year, is to be postponed, according to the Kremlin website.
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  Moscow Metro Ceiling Collapse Five Days After Opening
  Part of the ceiling of a brand new Moscow metro station has collapsed only five days after its opening. Netizens point the finger at corruption and embezzlement.
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  Minimum Salary Increases – But Not As Much As Cost Of Living
  To welcome in 2013, Russian lawmakers have increased the minimum salary to 5,200 roubles, but netizens decry that this is still lower than the cost of living.
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  Beer Finally Becomes an Alcoholic Drink in Russia
  The New Year marks a significant change in the laws regarding alcohol in Russia - beer will, for the first time, be on restricted sale as an alcoholic drink.
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  Man Unleashes Dog on Police in Moscow Metro
  A man has unleashed his dog on police in the metro in Moscow. There are no reports of injuries to the policemen, and the condition of the dog is as yet unknown.
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  Moscow Thieves Make off with Herb Delivery
  Thieves in Moscow have stolen half a million roubles of herbs at gunpoint from a truck driver who was carrying dill, parsley and coriander in a refrigerated lorry.
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  Putin to Star in Skiing Instruction Video
  To continue with his adventurous exploits, and put paid to rumours of ill health, Putin is to become the star of an instructional video, showing people how to ski.
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  Man Shoots at Ambulance for Not Giving Way
  A man driving a Mazda has opened fire on an ambulance that did not give way to him. The incident occurred in Moscow, and the gunman was using a less-than-lethal gun
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  Drunken Thief Falls Asleep Mid-Burglary in Tula
  A man has been found sleeping in a phone shop that he was attempting to rob. The drunken man was on his way from a company party when he broke through the window.
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  Young Disabled Person Left Out in the Cold for 12 Hours
  A disabled person has been left outside in the cold for 12 hours after being kicked off a bus at the terminus, and risks amputation of his frostbitten fingers.
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  Gerard Depardieu Considers Russian Citizenship
  In response to a threatened increase in taxes, the famous actor has renounced his French citizenship, and is debating citizenship of Russia, Belgium, or Montenegro.
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  Half-Naked Make-up Lover Gets Stuck In Garbage Chute
  A 20-year-old woman from the Urals has been rescued after getting stuck in a garbage chute. She climbed in to recover make-up that she had accidentally thrown away.
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