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1. The Dog Days of Summer and the Crazy Things They Bring: This week gives us a plethora of emotions: shame in Samara, excitement in Tomsk, and a bit of both in Moscow.; Tags: samara, tomsk, moscow; By Irina Bukharin

2. Lost Game, but Newfound Pride: What’s out of this world? Russia’s performance in the World Cup, a Russian cargo ship, and showers in Samara!; Tags: space, soccer, World Cup, samara; By Irina Bukharin

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On This Day

Notable events on this day in Russian history

1762: Catherine II was crowned at the Assumption Cathedral in Moscow

1917: Bolsheviks won control of the Petrograd Soviet

1935: Service Categories, introduced in 1924 after officer ranks were eliminated, were eliminated in the Red Army. Ranks were introduced that were a mixture of the service categories and more typical rank names.

1957: Peter Aleshkovsky, writer, born.

1998: US and Russia signed agreements to privatize Russia's nuclear progam and to stop plutonium stockpiles and nuclear scientists from leaving the country.