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Oil talks in Qatar fail, Russia's currency slumps again.

Oil prices slumped nearly 4 percent after a weekend meeting of oil-producing nations failed to result in an agreement to curb production.

 

A law enforcement agency wants to close down a Moscow library.

Moscow authorities have cancelled an order that would have seen the closure of close down a Moscow library.

 

A kidnapping in Moscow involving a Bentley turns out to be a prank.

A group of young men suspected of kidnapping a woman in the trunk of her Bentley Continental (an expensive luxury car) in the center of Moscow in broad daylight have told police the whole thing was a hoax “to test the vigilance of the capital's inhabitants.

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