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MOSCOW - President Dmitry Medvedev fired Moscow's boisterous mayor on Tuesday, ousting the man who gave the capital a modern facelift but destroyed some of its most precious historic landmarks amid a construction boom that turned his wife into Russia's wealthiest woman.
MOSCOW - Russia's president fired Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov on Tuesday, ending the 18-year reign of a man who gave the crumbling capital a glamorous facelift but was maligned for his bellicose posturing and staying on vacation while forest fires choked his city.
MOSCOW - Russia's president on Tuesday fired Yury Luzhkov, ending the 18-year rule of the Moscow mayor who gave the crumbling capital a glamorous facelift but was maligned for outdated values and bellicose posturing, and for continuing his vacation while smog from forest fires choked his city.
MOSCOW - A prominent Russian gay rights activist who vanished from a Moscow airport this week said Saturday he is back in the capital after being held for more than two days by men he believes were state security agents.
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Conservative activists said Friday that Target Corp.
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