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Russian netizen reactions to Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov saying Russians will eat less, make sacrifices & unite behind Putin against foreign pressure.
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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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Krasnoyarsk bailiffs tracked down a man that they wanted to inform was being investigated for non-payment of child support by ordering a pizza from his restaurant.
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Netizens laugh as the Russian search engine Yandex reveals 'Why am I a fool?', 'What is thrush?' and 'What are hipsters?' among its most-searched items for 2012.
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Cat lover Dmitry Medvedev has promised to send a pedigree kitten to the former Finnish PM to replace her own cat, which has died recently. Puerile reactions abound.
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A 13-year-old has hanged herself in front of her twin sister, unable to stop her, after getting a note in her planner from her teacher about chatting in lesson.
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DNA testing has confirmed that hair found in a cave in South West Siberia belongs to an as yet unidentified humanoid, which scientists are speculating may be a yeti
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A man in the Kuznetsk Coal Basin region refuses to pay his traffic fine because he says the end of the world makes paying any sort of fine completely pointless.
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Lyapis Trubetskoy, a famous Belarussian punk band have been forced to cancel two shows in Russia after overdoing it a bit with the booze on the first few dates.
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A processing plant in Odessa is no longer able to process donations, meaning approximately a hundred men are out of pocket after their donations were accepted.
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Five older students have been reprimanded by their university in the Crimea for organising an initiation ceremony in which first year students simulated sex acts.
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The Russian traffic police seem to have been caught using mobile smartphones to accept bribes on credit card. Netizens question the authenticity of the video.
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A Moscow trolleybus travelling late at night is the latest vehicle to be attacked as a wave of public transport vehicle shootings spreads across the capital.
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Russian radio stations are to broadcast a warning message before any song determined by an expert group to contain lyrics or content inappropriate for children.