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A state commission Wednesday issued a draft outline for a line of unified history textbooks to be published in Russia on the Kremlin’s order.

Ahead of the Sochi Olympics in February, Russia is taking saliva samples from religiously conservative Muslim women, according to locals in the North Caucasus, gathering DNA so authorities can identify the body parts if any become suicide bombers.

A double explosion rocked two adjacent stores in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus republic of Dagestan on Wednesday, killing at least one person and injuring several others, police officials said.

Russian investigators have brought new charges against the opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

The Russian Air Force has resumed its use of a polar airfield after a long period of idling, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday.

A Russian rights organization that promoted public initiatives said Tuesday that it was suspending operations because it is unable to pay a $9,000 fine imposed for failing to register as a “foreign agent.”

A Moscow court postponed hearings Tuesday in the Anna Politkovskaya murder trial for the sixth time in a row as a medical quarantine regime at a detention facility housing one of the defendants remains in force.

Two citizens of Russia as well as one from Ukraine and one from Turkey have been charged with hooliganism in an attempt to scale the Prirazlomnaya oil rig in the Pechora Sea, Greenpeace Murmansk staff press secretary Yulia Pronina said.

Moscow City Hall gave the green light Monday to the Russian March, an annual gathering of radical nationalists that takes place on the city’s outskirts on Russia’s Unity Day public holiday on November 4.

The lucrative Russian market will not be closed to Ukraine after it signs a free trade agreement with the EU, but Kiev will lose trade preferences, Russia’s foreign minister said Monday.