MOSCOW, August 3 (Itar-Tass) - More than a million Russians are
celebrat ing their professional holiday on Sunday - the Day of Railway
Workers.

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, August 3 (Itar-Tass) - One hundred ninety five
people, including 112 children, has been evacuated from a waterlogged
village in Yakutia.

MOSCOW, August 3 (Itar-Tass) - The Russian Defence Ministry has bought horses in Mongolia for two mountain brigades located in Botlikha, Dagestan, and the Cossack village of Zelenchukskaya, the Kar

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CHERKASSY, Ukraine, August 3 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Agriculture
Minister Aleksey Gordeyev has visited one of Ukraine's leading poultry

VLADIKAVKAZ, North Ossetia, August 3 (Itar-Tass) - The government of the North Caucasian Republic of North Ossetia has announced a state of emergency over an African swine fever epidemic.

MOSCOW, August 3 (Itar-Tass) - About 9,000 veterans of the Russian
airborne troops celebrated their holiday in Moscow on Saturday, August 2.

ST. PETERSBURG, August 3 (Itar-Tass) - A new passenger port opened on Vasilyevsky Island in St. Petersburg on Saturday. It will receive cruise liners and ferry ships of any class and tonnage.

NAZRAN, Republic of Ingushetia, August 3 (Itar-Tass) - One serviceman died and four were wounded in a shootout in the Republic of Ingushetia, the Northern Caucasus late on Saturday.

VLADIKAVKAZ, August 2 (Itar-Tass) - The command of the joint