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"Khimki citizens informed our headquarters that resident registration offices worked overnight and 200 new Khimki residents were registered just in one [election] district. We are going to verify this information and see how it was possible that registration offices worked through the night before election day. This election is neither fair nor clean."

Russian environmentalist and opposition activist Yevgenia Chirikova, who is running for the mayor's office in the Moscow Oblast town of Khimki, speaking today (October 14) to journalists in Khimki. 

Via RFE/RL's Russian Service, Radio Svoboda. 

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"They got used to [the aircraft]. They weren't afraid, they were overtaking the deltaplane, flying close to the wing from the left, from the right, from above. Well done. Beautiful guys. Cute."

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The classic Soviet-era children's cartoon "Nu, pogodi!" features a hapless wolf trying to catch a crafty rabbit, sort of like Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner from those old Looney Tunes shorts. 

Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev speaking Tuesday (August 28) during a meeting in front of the media in Minsk.

"You have come to a very friendly country where you are loved and respected for the great deeds which you have done -- sometimes not standard ones -- to support our country in hard times, connected with the issues of our state independence. Not only I personally know it and appreciate it very much, but the Belarusian people know it as well," said Lukashenka. 

And Aliyev responded...

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