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Moscow - Russia showcased its military might and new president to the world Friday in a Victory Day parade for the first time since the Soviet era. More than 100 combat vehicles, including intercontinental ballistic missile launchers, rolled across the cobblestone Red Square and strategic bombers and fighter jets soared overhead in the first such display in 18 years.

In a nationally broadcast speech two days after his inauguration, President Dmitry Medvedev avoided the bellicose rhetoric of his mentor and predecessor, Vladimir Putin.

However, in his speech marking victory over Adolf Hitler’s Germany, the 42-year-old Medvedev said World War II - a conflict that saw over 26 million Russian soldiers killed - demonstrated that military conflicts are rooted Read the full story

Moscow - The Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament, has confirmed Vladimir Putin as prime minister a day after his protege Dmitry Medvedev replaced him as president of the country.

Members of parliament voted 392-56 for Putin’s appointment, with the communists the only party voting against.

In a fervent speech to the Russian Parliament, Mr Putin said that he would cut oil taxes to stimulate growth and predicted that Russia would overtake Britain to become the world’s sixth-largest economy this year.

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Euro 2008 football action was in full swing again on Wednesday as the picture of which 14 teams will join hosts Austria and Switzerland in the tournament finals is becoming more clear.
The Czech Republic trounced the Read the full story

Russian prosecutors launched a terror investigation Tuesday into Monday’s train bombing and subsequent derailment. 60 people were injured, six seriously, when a Russian express train traveling between Moscow and St. Petersburg was derailed after a bomb Read the full story

Russia has resumed its long-forgotten Cold War-style of flying bombers on long-haul missions to areas patrolled by NATO and the United States, top Russian generals said Thursday.
A Russian bomber flew over a U.S. naval base on the Pacific island of Read the full story

Two major deals involving the United States were worked out today at the G8 summit in Germany. The first, a deal to cut greenhouse emissions in half by the year 2050 was an important step on the road to Read the full story