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LOS ANGELES, August 20 (Itar-Tass) -- The Russian sailing ship The
Pallada, belonging to the Far Eastern State Technical Fisheries University

CARACAS, August 20 (Itar-Tass) -- The death toll from cholera in the
Dominican Republic has reached 109, the Health Ministry of this insular

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, August 19 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia's Kamchatka
completes commercial fishing of salmon. By the end of the season the

DUSHANBE, August 19 (Itar-Tass) - The lower house of the Tajikistani
parliament on Friday will consider the bill "On Amnesty," initiated by

MAIKOP, August 19 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
demanded that the government and the Ministry of Education make legal and

MOSCOW, August 19 (Itar-Tass) - Nine members of the United Russia
Party in Smolensk joined the Opposition Just Russia Party. Deputy chairman

MOSCOW, August 19 (Itar-Tass) - Criminal proceedings were opened over
hazing at a military unit in Kronshtadt, after a video showing two

ST PETERSBURG, August 19 (Itar-Tass) - St.Petersburg governor
Valentina Matviyenko said she had no ambitions to run for president.

MOSCOW, August 19 (Itar-Tass) - The Moscow administration should
expect further job cuts, city mayor Sergei Sobyanin told reporters.