MOSCOW( Reuters)-A Russian satirical filmmaker was charged with hooliganism on Wednesday and could be jailed for up to eight years over a YouTube sketch in which a fictional local official accidentally blows up a bus stop, his lawyer told Reuters. More than 1.78 million people have watched the Sept.... 20 video" Vitaly Nalivkin prevented a terrorist act", in which the blundering official tries to destroy a suspicious bag at the bus stop by firing at it with a shoulder-launched grenade.... The

More than a century later, Russia stands on the brink of another default but this time there was no warning.... It took until the mid-1980s for Moscow to recognise some of that debt. 1991: USSR TO RUSSIA Following the break-up of the USSR in 1991, Russia stopped servicing part of the overseas debt it inherited from former Soviet states.... But it found it harder and harder to roll these over and was soon spending ever-increasing amounts to defend the rouble....

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Europe’s largest active volcano lies around 175 kilometres( 109 miles) south of Naples.... Marsili, named after Luigi Ferdinando Marsili, the Italian geologist who discovered it nearly one hundred years ago, lies 450 metres beneath the water’s surface.... He added: “ While the indications that have been collected are precise, it is impossible to make predictions....