RussiaRussia’s Putin signs anti-U.S. adoption bill President Vladimir Putin signed a controversial measure banning the adoption of Russian children by U.S. families, the Kremlin said Friday. The action could affect hundreds of American families seeking to adopt. Americans adopted close to 1,000 Russian children last year, according to U.S. State Department figures.  Kremlin plays down Putin injury
Vladimir Putin’s spokesman has admitted that Russia’s president is suffering from an injury, but denied media reports that it is affecting his work. Russian clerics forgive Pussy Riot for Putin rantRussia’s top Orthodox clerics on Saturday asked for mercy for the punk band Pussy Riot for its anti-government protest in a Moscow cathedral, but the church’s forgiveness is unlikely to change the band’s punishment in a case that caused an international furor over political dissent. Pussy Riot members sentenced to 2 years in prisonA Moscow judge sentenced three members of the provocative punk band Pussy Riot to two years in prison on hooliganism charges on Friday following a trial seen around the world as an emblem of Russia’s intolerance of dissent. ‘Killer bride’ seized at banquet in Udmurtia, RussiaYekaterina M, 22, was charged with the manslaughter of a man from her village, 45, whom she allegedly assaulted because he owed her money. Russia: billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov to run against PutinRussian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov has said he will challenge Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in next March’s presidential election. Putin to be Russian president againMeanwhile, Putin has announced that Medvedev will become the country’s next Prime Minister [watch video]. Jet with hockey team crashes in Russia: 43 victimsThe chartered Yak-42 jet was carrying the team – Lokomotiv Yaroslavl – to Minsk, the capital of Belarus, where it was to play Thursday in its opening game of the Kontinental Hockey League season. Ukraine adjourns trial of ex-PM TymoshenkoA Ukrainian judge on Wednesday adjourned until July 4 the trial of ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is accused of abuse of power, after she asked for more time to read the evidence. Death toll in Russian plane crash reaches 45Russia’s Emergencies Ministry says a 9-year-old boy has become the 45th victim of the crash of a passenger plane in the country’s northwest.
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