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  Russia Sacks Theatre Chief in 'Blasphemous' Opera Scandal

  Russia's culture ministry said Monday it fired a theatre director for offending Orthodox believers with a radical staging of a Wagner opera, whose posters showed a crucifixion scene between a naked woman's legs.

• Drunk Russian teen drives into Easter procession, kills two

  A drunk Russian teenager drove a stolen car into an Easter procession of Orthodox worshippers in Siberia today, killing two police officers on duty, police said.

• Nine die in Russian plane crash: official

  A Russian cargo plane crashed into a military warehouse complex in Siberia on Thursday, killing all nine people on board, the emergencies ministry said.

• Russian pilot dies of heart attack mid-flight

  A pilot of a UTair Boeing 757 flying from Bangkok to Novosibirsk in Russia's Siberia region died as the plane was flying over China, officials said.