| 2011-12-15 17:08 Don't provoke protesters, ex-minister Kudrin tells Putin |
Russia’s ex-finance minister Alexei Kudrin criticized on Thursday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s remarks regarding the white ribbons worn by protesters at recent nationwide rallies against alleged electoral fraud.
American director Woody Allen began shooting his latest movie in Paris on Monday.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday said a European Parliament resolution calling for new State Duma elections “means nothing.” 
After Wimbledon Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova came to Belarus. 
Bird flu suspected in St Petersburg Zoo · 2006-12-19 15:59
One of the oldest zoos in Russia, St Petersburg zoo has closed down until the end of the year after the discovery of two dead geese, Reuters says.
An expert, who had knowledge of tests carried out on the dead geese, denied that the birds had died of the bird flu as “they had been vaccinated against bird flu.”
Bird flu remains essentially an animal disease but it has infected more than 250 people worldwide since late 2003, killing more than 150, according to the World Health Organisation. Experts fear the virus could mutate into a form that is easily transmissible between humans.
• New Russian beauty queen
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