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IVANOVKA, Azerbaijan, is home to the last Soviet collective farm and a group of dissident Christians called the Molokans, who were forced out of Russia by Catherine the Great CORRECTION: An earlier version of this video incorrectly stated that Catherine the Great reigned in the nineteenth century, rather than in the eighteenth century
THE business of legislating is at a virtual standstill in the Czech Republic. The government of Petr Nečas (pictured above) seems satisfied merely to hold on to power until elections in spring 2014. Politicking, on the other hand, is in full swing.M [ ... ] Baton-wielding police fired rubber bullets at demonstrators who had tried to surround the country's parliament buildingViolence flared on Tuesday in the centre of Madrid as baton-wielding police charged crowds and fired rubber bullets at demonstrator [ ... ]
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