One of Russia's most reform-minded governors, in Saratov on the River Volga, has discussed bringing in a regional coupon in effect, a currency.

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After Stalin died, his name was purged just as he had purged tens of millions of his victims, and the city on the Volga River was given the placid name of Volgograd.

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Interfax reported the Volganeft was carrying fuel oil from the Russian city of Samarrah on the Volga River to an oil terminal in Ukraine.

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This summer FORBES reporters traveled 700 miles east of Moscow, to the place where Boris Berezovsky made his first millions: the Volga River town of Togliatti.

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The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, or Emercom, published the full list of the 45 passengers on board a plane that exploded mid air and crashed in the Volga River on Wednesday afternoon in central Russia.

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There's no magic in the Yangtse River any more than the Volga, Rhine or Hudson.

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But in fact there was already a tiny settlement here - a small village of ethnic Germans exiled from their homes on the Volga river by Stalin.

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The jet then burst into flames, with some of the wreckage and bodies falling in the nearby River Tunoshna, a tributary of the Volga.

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Strel plans to swim across the Grand Canyon , along 1, 000 miles of the freezing Mackenzie River in Canada, and the length of the 2, 000-mile Volga .

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