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			<Headline><![CDATA[Russia summons UK envoy over row]]></Headline>
			<Description><![CDATA[The foreign ministry has summoned the UK ambassador amid an escalating row over the reopening of 2 British Council offices]]></Description>
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			<Date>2008-01-14 00:00:00</Date>
			<TimePeriod>Morning</TimePeriod>
			<Topic><![CDATA[Embassy]]></Topic>
			<URL><![CDATA[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7186718.stm]]></URL>
			<importance>6.0</importance>
			<Location>Moscow</Location>
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			<Headline><![CDATA[Putin opponent to be investigated]]></Headline>
			<Description><![CDATA[Prosecutors have opened a criminal case against ex-PM Mikhail Kasyanov - an opposition candidate in the March 2 presidential election]]></Description>
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			<Date>2008-01-22 00:00:00</Date>
			<TimePeriod>Morning</TimePeriod>
			<Topic><![CDATA[]]></Topic>
			<URL><![CDATA[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7201806.stm]]></URL>
			<importance>7.0</importance>
			<Location>Moscow</Location>
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			<Headline><![CDATA[Kasyanov barred from poll]]></Headline>
			<Description><![CDATA[Election officials have barred former Prime Minister from running as an opposition candidate in the March presidential election]]></Description>
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			<Date>2008-01-26 00:00:00</Date>
			<TimePeriod>Evening</TimePeriod>
			<Topic><![CDATA[Election, Vote]]></Topic>
			<URL><![CDATA[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7211622.stm]]></URL>
			<importance>7.0</importance>
			<Location>Moscow</Location>
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			<Headline><![CDATA[Putin vows 'arms race' response]]></Headline>
			<Description><![CDATA[Russia&apos;s President says the world is engaged in a new arms race and NATO is failing to accommodate Russia&apos;s concerns]]></Description>
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			<Date>2008-02-08 00:00:00</Date>
			<TimePeriod>Morning</TimePeriod>
			<Topic><![CDATA[Warning]]></Topic>
			<URL><![CDATA[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7234817.stm]]></URL>
			<importance>5.0</importance>
			<Location>Moscow</Location>
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			<Headline><![CDATA[Putin: Russia to counter US military moves]]></Headline>
			<Description><![CDATA[Russian President complained about &apos;one-way&apos; Western military demands and promised that Russia will respond to NATO military expansion]]></Description>
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			<Date>2008-02-08 00:00:00</Date>
			<TimePeriod>Afternoon</TimePeriod>
			<Topic><![CDATA[Politics]]></Topic>
			<URL><![CDATA[http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/02/08/putin.russia]]></URL>
			<importance>6.0</importance>
			<Location>Moscow</Location>
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			<Headline><![CDATA[Russia and Ukraine reach gas deal]]></Headline>
			<Description><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin : Ukraine and Russia have reached an agreement over Kiev&apos;s huge unpaid gas bill]]></Description>
			<Text><![CDATA[]]></Text>
			<Date>2008-02-12 00:00:00</Date>
			<TimePeriod>Morning</TimePeriod>
			<Topic><![CDATA[Agreement]]></Topic>
			<URL><![CDATA[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7240191.stm]]></URL>
			<importance>6.0</importance>
			<Location>Moscow</Location>
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			<Headline><![CDATA[Putin scorns move to back Kosovo]]></Headline>
			<Description><![CDATA[Russian President has warned that recognition of Kosovo independence, expected within days, would be immoral and illegal]]></Description>
			<Text><![CDATA[]]></Text>
			<Date>2008-02-14 00:00:00</Date>
			<TimePeriod>Morning</TimePeriod>
			<Topic><![CDATA[Warning]]></Topic>
			<URL><![CDATA[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7244333.stm]]></URL>
			<importance>6.0</importance>
			<Location>Moscow</Location>
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			<Headline><![CDATA[Official admits media bias]]></Headline>
			<Description><![CDATA[With presidential election campaign entering its last day, the head of the electoral commission has admitted media coverage was unequal]]></Description>
			<Text><![CDATA[]]></Text>
			<Date>2008-02-28 00:00:00</Date>
			<TimePeriod>Evening</TimePeriod>
			<Topic><![CDATA[]]></Topic>
			<URL><![CDATA[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7270323.stm]]></URL>
			<importance>6.0</importance>
			<Location>Moscow</Location>
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			<image><![CDATA[images/flags/3/russia.gif]]></image>
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			<Headline><![CDATA[Medvedev 'heading for clear win']]></Headline>
			<Description><![CDATA[The outcome is not expected to be a surprise: A hand-picked successor is expected to win in a landslide, after hardly even bothering to campaig]]></Description>
			<Text><![CDATA[The state-owned pollster VTsIOM showed Medvedev with 69.6% of the vote. Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov gets nearly 20%]]></Text>
			<Date>2008-03-02 00:00:00</Date>
			<TimePeriod>Morning</TimePeriod>
			<Topic><![CDATA[Election, Vote]]></Topic>
			<URL><![CDATA[http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/03/02/russia.election]]></URL>
			<importance>2.0</importance>
			<Location>Moscow</Location>
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