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Moscow's municipal transport agency plans to regulate the popular form of transport, characterised by minibuses and foreign drivers, over the next two-three years.
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A poor mother of two has made the news after explaining how she lives on 43 roubles a day, and netizens have rushed to her assistance, offering food and money.
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Russia's national airline, Aeroflot, have opened a competition to celebrate their 90th birthday allowing netizens to create a design to be painted onto a plane.
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Over the course of the coming year, a new service will allow Muscovites to book a place in a graveyard online. The service will not be available for the living.
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Netizens discuss vegetarianism in response to the news that members of a British social network are gathering signatures to stop the hunting of wolves in Yakutia.
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An unusual appeal to the Constitutional Court sees a lawyer asking whether a sentence imposed by a sleeping judge is legal, after posting a video to YouTube.
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A new bill is being drafted to set a time scale for the introduction of a new electronic smart card to replace the old style domestic passport issued to Russians.
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A Russian-bred draught horse is a source of immense nostalgic pride for netizens when it pulls a Polish car out of a snowy ditch with ease from a standing start.