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Russia's growing NGO crackdown turns to environmental, cultural groups

The Kremlin has been targeting 'political' NGOs that receive foreign funding for some time. Now it is eying nonpolitical groups too, like an LGBT film festival and a group trying to save Siberian cranes.

The New Economy Dow passes 15000. Now what?

At Kerry-Putin meeting, US-Russia relations thaw – a little

Why no sign of 'sequester' cuts in perky April jobs report?

April jobs report, at 165,000 new jobs, exceeds expectations; Dow surges (+video)

Leonhard Euler: Prolific writer, pioneering mathematician, and theorist nonpareil

Jobs report for March a disappointment. What happened?

Russian teen's goal: an educational blog that doesn't bore his fellow students

With Steven Seagal in tow, Putin pushes for Soviet-era phys-ed revival

A new form of microbe in Antarctic lake?

Van Cliburn: A piano virtuoso who transcended Cold War (+video)

Chapter & Verse Russian meteorite: Not the first strange event in the skies of Siberia

Russian asteroid highlights astronomers' challenge: predicting such space objects

Meteorite - not the end of the world - strikes Russia's Siberia (+video)

IOC head Rogge to meet with head of wrestling association

Russian bill looks to hide gay identity, affirm democracy of the majority

10 best books of February (plus one), according to Amazon's editors

Eugene Patterson, newspaperman worth admiring and civil rights voice, dies at 89

Russians march in protest of American adoption ban

Global News Blog Gerard Depardieu's latest drama: a Russian passport (+video)

Gun owner map ricochet: Blogger publishes journalists' personal data

Violent dolphin deaths: $5,000 reward to find their attackers (+video)

Anna Karenina: Keira Knightley is literature's tragic heroine (+video)

The Monitor's View Good riddance, Sandy. Hello sea barriers?

Coast Guard scrutiny on the Bounty's sinking begins, investigation expected to last months