| January 2012 |
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A gunpowder plant will produce a military version of a roly-poly doll to spare Russian children from playing with foreign model military vehicles, Izvestia reported on Friday.
Primates in a Kazakhstan zoo are enjoying a very human remedy against cold weather, with fortified wine added to their daily ration this week, local media reported.
A baby-giant, weighing almost 7 kg (15.4 pounds), was born in Kokshetau in northern Kazakhstan, the chief doctor of the regional maternity hospital said on Friday.
Police in Russia’s Sverdlovsk Region in the Urals have detained a young man who had stolen 23 kg (50.7 pounds) of marijuana from a drug dealer, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday.
Police in the southern Chilean city of Cochrane arrested a man who attempted to steal over five tons of ice from the Jorge Montt Glacier, 1,700 kilometers south of the capital Santiago, El Mercurio daily reported on Wednesday.
A pack of wolves terrorized locals in the streets of a Karelian town, not returning to the woods until police opened fire, killing two.
Kiev's city government spoke against installing a Russian-made monument to a tsarist statesman in the Ukrainian capital.
Unidentified thieves stole a truckload of latex gloves owned by the Federal Security Service from a street in St. Petersburg.
St. Petersburg officials have denied re-registration to the city’s branch of the world-renowned Dante Alighieri Society, insisting its members must agree its name with the great poet himself, Fontanka.ru news website reported on Monday.
A hurricane caused death of two women in separate incidents in the city of Novorossiysk in southern Russia on Friday.
An 18-month Israeli boy bit off the head of a snake that crawled into his bedroom in Haifa, the Ynet News portal said on Thursday.
The abduction of a weightlifting instructor went awry this week in the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan when the victim broke free and killed one of his kidnappers.
A man was jailed in Voronezh for beating to death an exhibitionist who was showing his genitals to a three-year-old boy.
A sailor in western Siberia was sentenced to almost six years in a maximum security prison for joyriding on a boat for divers when drunk.
In a throwback to medieval times, a regional official in Kazakhstan was included in a fresco of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem that adorns a local Orthodox Christian church.
A nationalist rally for a healthy lifestyle in the Kaliningrad Region was cut short by police who mistook it for a gay pride parade, local media reported on Monday.
The death mask of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin goes on sale in Britain on Tuesday.
An official of the Investigative Committee of the Ulyanovsk region was sacked on Monday for jumping out of the office window while drunk.
A crew member of a UTair Boeing 757 flying from Bangkok to Novosibirsk in western Siberia died as the plane was flying over China, transportation prosecutors said Friday.



