| 2008-12-30 19:14 First round of voting for the Oscars begins |
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Voting members will decide which actors will be nominated ahead of an official announcement.
Bristol Palin gave birth on Saturday to a healthy 7 lb., 7 oz., baby boy in Palmer, Alaska. 
Russia has devalued the rouble for the third time this week.
The Disney Channel is headed for Russian television.
Russia commemorates slain tsar family · 2008-07-18 10:10
The Russian Orthodox Church was holding services and processions across the country yesterday in order to commemorate the killing of the last Russian tsar and his family 90 years ago.
Tsar Nickolas II, his wife, their four daughters and son, and several servants, were shot dead by the Bolsheviks in a basement in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg in the early hours of July 17, 1918. The Romanovs were canonized in 2000, RIA Novosti.
Russia’s Investigation Committee marked the anniversary by confirming Wednesday that the bone fragments exhumed near Yekaterinburg last July belong to the emperor’s son and heir, and one of his four daughters.
“The overall data obtained during a DNA analysis … supports the theory that the remains of Crown Prince Alexei and Grand Princess Maria have been found,” the committee said referring to DNA and other tests carried out in Russia, the United States, and other countries.
The remains of Nicholas II, his wife Empress Alexandra and three daughters were found in Yekaterinburg in 1991 and reburied in 1998 in St. Petersburg, the Russian imperial capital.
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