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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.
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Russia celebrates cosmonautics day · 2007-04-12 17:55
April 12 is the Cosmonautics Day in Russia.
On 12 April 1961 Russian space man Yury Gagarin became the first human in space, making an orbital flight in his Vostok spacecraft.
That flight took just an hour and 48 minutes. Having orbited the Earth, Vostok successfully landed in Saratov Region of Russia.
Yuri Gagarin ejected himself from the aircraft at the altitude of several kilometers and descended near the place of Vostok's landing by using the parachute.
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