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Tuesday, March 30 will be a Day of Mourning in the Russian capital over the victims of the two blasts that ripped through Lubyanka and Park Kultury subway stations, a Moscow city spokesman said on Monday.


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MOSCOW, May 29 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s Nikolai Davydenko and Dinara Safina both won their third round matches at the French Open on Friday. Tenth seed Davydenko, who is the only Russian male player left in the tournament, dispatched Stanislas Wawrinka (17) from Switzerland in four sets 6:3, 4:6, 6:3, 6:2 to set up a fourth round head-to-head with eighth seed Fernando Verdasco from Spain. On form world no 1 Dinara Safina overawed fellow Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, seeded 27, to win in straight sets 6:2, 6:0 and will now face Aravane Rezai from France. Also due to play later are former world no one Maria Sharapova, who recently returned to tennis after 10 months out with a shoulder injury, fourth seed Elena Dementieva and Svetlana Kuznetsova (7). Sharapova will take on another unseeded player, Yaroslava Shvedova from Kazakhstan, while Dementieva faces Australian Samantha Stosur (30) and Kuznetsova has a showdown lined up with Hungary"s Melinda Czin.


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The Moscow subway line hit by two separate terrorist attacks on Monday morning will resume traffic within 3-3.5 hours, Moscow First Vice-Mayor Pyotr Biryukov said.

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MOSCOW. (Dmitry Kosyrev, RIA Novosti political...

Boon-Lock Yeo and Liu Yun, posted a statement in the company"s blog that the office was not closing down and that everyone was in and working. As for Beijing"s official policy, the Google case should by no means be interpreted as part of U.S.-China relations, China"s deputy Foreign Minister He Yafei said on Thursday. If anyone has a problem, it should be resolved in accordance with law.

Yafei"s statement correlated well with the policies of the U.S. Department of State: Kurt M. Campbell, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, declined to comment earlier this week on whether the U.S. government would send an official protest to Beijing. He only repeated that the United States had asked China for an explanation.

U.S. media certainly edited their diplomat"s language, automatically changing "asking" for "demanding" - a habit that dates back to older times. The United States is not "demanding" anything. It is China that sounds resolved but

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