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Demonstrator confronts Putin and Merkel in Hanover Telegraph: A bare-breasted protester with an obscene anti-Putin slogan daubed on her back has confronted the Russian president and German chancellor Angela Merkel at a trade fair in Hanover. The women appeared to be members of the feminist group Femen, which has staged topless protests against the sex industry and religious institutions. The group has criticized Mr Putin over the arrest and conviction of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot, for performing an anti-Putin song in a Moscow cathedral last year. Photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are confronted by a topless demonstrator during a tour of the Hanover Fair, Hanover (EPA/JOCHEN LUEBKE) View high resolution

Demonstrator confronts Putin and Merkel in Hanover

Telegraph: A bare-breasted protester with an obscene anti-Putin slogan daubed on her back has confronted the Russian president and German chancellor Angela Merkel at a trade fair in Hanover.

The women appeared to be members of the feminist group Femen, which has staged topless protests against the sex industry and religious institutions.

The group has criticized Mr Putin over the arrest and conviction of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot, for performing an anti-Putin song in a Moscow cathedral last year.

Photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are confronted by a topless demonstrator during a tour of the Hanover Fair, Hanover (EPA/JOCHEN LUEBKE)

Russia delays dead man trial

Reuters: A Russian court postponed until March 22 the start of the posthumous trial of a whistleblowing lawyer which human rights groups says is politically motivated and absurd.

Judge Igor Alisov announced the delay after no legal team showed up to defend Sergei Magnitsky at Moscow’s Tverskoy Court, more than three years after he died in custody.

Russian lawmaker’s body found in cement barrel

AFP: The body of a kidnapped Russian lawmaker has been found in a cement-filled barrel in a cellar outside Moscow, investigators said Monday.

‘The body of Mikhail Pakhomov, a lawmaker from Lipetsk city council, has been found in one of the cellars of a private garage in a metal barrel filled with cement,’ the Investigative Committee said in a statement.

More than 900 people injured by falling meteor in Russia More than 900 people have sought medical attention after a huge meteorite streaking through the skies of Russia’s Chelyabinsk region triggered a powerful shock wave.Calling the injury toll “unprecedented,” British expert Robert Massey said this is the biggest known human toll caused by an object from space, Agence France-Presse reports.Read more and see additional photos and videos on BreakingNews.com.Photo: Yekaterina Pustynnikova / Chelyabinsk.ru via AP

More than 900 people injured by falling meteor in Russia

More than 900 people have sought medical attention after a huge meteorite streaking through the skies of Russia’s Chelyabinsk region triggered a powerful shock wave.

Calling the injury toll “unprecedented,” British expert Robert Massey said this is the biggest known human toll caused by an object from space, Agence France-Presse reports.

Read more and see additional photos and videos on BreakingNews.com.

Photo: Yekaterina Pustynnikova / Chelyabinsk.ru via AP

Reports: Powerful blast caused by at least 1 meteor

AP: Fragments of at least one meteorite fell in the Chelyabinsk region some 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) east of Moscow, causing flashes in the morning sky and sharp explosions, Russian officials said Friday.

Follow this story on breakingnews.com

Video: Amateur video of explosions over Russia thought to have been caused by one or more meteors (via Russia Today’s YouTube channel)

Putin says he will sign anti-US adoptions bill

AP: Russian President Vladimir Putin says he ‘doesn’t see any reasons’ against a bill banning Americans from adopting Russian children and that he ‘intends to sign it’ into law.

The Russian parliament voted for the bill, which is part of a larger measure retaliating against a US law calling for sanctions against Russians deemed guilty of human rights violations.

Russia’s Putin takes flight to lead endangered birds Russian President Vladimir Putin took his love of wildlife to new heights Wednesday by flying with endangered cranes to help lead them on a migration route. Putin donned a baggy white costume and was seen in media reports flying with a copilot in a motorized deltaplane light aircraft, according to NBC News and Reuters. Photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin, foreground, flies in a motorized hangglider alongside two Siberian white cranes on the Yamal Peninsula in Russia. (AP) View high resolution

Russia’s Putin takes flight to lead endangered birds

Russian President Vladimir Putin took his love of wildlife to new heights Wednesday by flying with endangered cranes to help lead them on a migration route. Putin donned a baggy white costume and was seen in media reports flying with a copilot in a motorized deltaplane light aircraft, according to NBC News and Reuters.

Photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin, foreground, flies in a motorized hangglider alongside two Siberian white cranes on the Yamal Peninsula in Russia. (AP)

Rebel female punk band says 2 members flee Russia Two members of Russia’s anti-Kremlin punk band Pussy Riot have fled the country to avoid prosecution for staging a protest against President Vladimir Putin at a church altar, the band says. Read more from Reuters. Photo: Members of the female punk band Pussy Riot, from right, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Maria Alyokhina sit in a glass-walled cage after a court hearing in Moscow on August 17, 2012. (Maxim Shemetov / Reuters)

Rebel female punk band says 2 members flee Russia

Two members of Russia’s anti-Kremlin punk band Pussy Riot have fled the country to avoid prosecution for staging a protest against President Vladimir Putin at a church altar, the band says. Read more from Reuters.

Photo: Members of the female punk band Pussy Riot, from right, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Maria Alyokhina sit in a glass-walled cage after a court hearing in Moscow on August 17, 2012. (Maxim Shemetov / Reuters)

248 human fetuses found in Russian forest

AP: Villagers in Russia have stumbled across 4 barrels containing 248 human fetuses left in a forest. Police say the fetuses, preserved in formaldehyde, were kept in tags containing last names and numbers. Police suspect 1 of 4 hospitals is responsible for dumping the barrels.