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A former opposition candidate for the de facto presidency of the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia is in "serious but stable" condition after being taken to a hospital on February 9.
The Russian Supreme Court upheld a Central Election Commission decision to bar liberal opposition politician Grigory Yavlinsky from next month's presidential election.
Officials say 39 Russian soldiers in one unit have been hospitalized and one has died from pneumonia in the Krasnoyarsk Krai region in Siberia.
