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REPORT: What would Russian intervention in Syria look like?

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

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Assange takes chat-show job with state-funded Russian TV

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By Shaun Walker - Jan. 26 (News Report) - A TV channel funded by Kremlin will air a chat show hosted by the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, in an unlikely collaboration announced yesterday. Russia Today, which broadcasts from Moscow in English, said that the programme will be written and hoste

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Russian Journalists Axed After Tough Election Coverage - New York Times

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Michael Schwirtz - Dec. 13 (News Report) - MOSCOW—A high-ranking editor and a top executive from one of Russia's most respected news publications were dismissed on Tuesday after an apparent conflict over coverage that appeared to highlight widespread anger with the results

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Russian billionaire to run against Putin

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Alla Eshchenko - Dec. 12 (News Report) - Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov -- the owner of the New Jersey Nets basketball team and one of the world's richest men -- said Monday that he will run for president of Russia next year.

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Jailing Opposition Leaders, Russia Moves to Quell Election Protests

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Ellen Barry, David M. Herszenhorn, Michael Schwirtz - Dec. 06 (News Report) - A day after thousands of Russians denounced election fraud by the governing party, two prominent opposition figures faced criminal charges on Tuesday.

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Op-Ed Contributor: Russia, 20 Years Along

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By By ARIEL COHEN - Dec. 02 (Opinion) - Two decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, the “bright future” has not come.

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Russia and China veto proposed UN resolution on Syria

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

OpenGlobe - By C628, OpenGlobe contributors - Oct. 05 (News Report) - Russia and China vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning the Syrian government's crackdown on protestors late on Tuesday, leading Western supporters of the bill to voice their anger at the decision. The proposed resolution would have condemned the Syrian government over its crackdown on protesters, as well as referring to the possibility of "targeted measures" against Syria. The text had been rewritted three times by drafters France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Portugal in response to Russian and Chinese objections over teh use of the word "sanctions" in earlier versions, leading to the introduction of the "targeted measures" language.

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10 myths about Afghanistan

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Jonathan Steele - Sep. 28 (Special Report) - In 1988, the Soviet army left Afghanistan after a concerted campaign by the western-backed mujahideen. But since then, many enduring myths have grown up about the war-torn country. In his new book, Jonathan Steele sorts the fact from the fiction 1. Afghans have always beaten foreign armies, from Alexander the Great to modern times Afghan history is certainly littered with occasions when foreign invaders were humiliated. But there have also been many cases when foreign armies penetrated the country and inflicted major defeats. In 330BC, Alexander the Great marched through the area of central Asia that is now Afghanistan, meeting little opposition. More than a millennium later, the Mongol leader Genghis Khan also brushed resistance aside. Since Afghanistan emerged as a modern state, there have been three wars with Britain. The British invasion of 1839 produced initial victory for the intruders followed by stunning defeat followed by a second victory. In 1878, the British invaded again. ...

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NASA: Space Station May Be Evacuated

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Radio Free Europe - Aug. 30 (News) - Russia and the United States gave conflicting signals about the way forward with the International Space Station now that the only remaining transport there -- the Soyuz -- has been temporarily grounded after an accident. Russia said it was determined to keep the ISS manned despite the recent failure of the only booster rocket capable of bringing replacement astronauts aloft. "We will do everything possible not to leave the station without a crew," Aleksei Krasnov, head of Russia's piloted space vehicle program, told Interfax. "We are going to have a manned mission [to the ISS] by the end of December." But the U.S. space program said that if the problems are not identified and solved by mid-November, all of the six ISS astronauts would be brought back to Earth. NASA's space station program manager, Mike Suffredini, said several options are being studied, but that crew safety comes first. He said controllers on the ground could keep a deserted space station functioning, but explained that without a crew any problem could not be fixed. His comments come just weeks after NASA's final space shuttle flight.

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‘Crisis Status’ in South Korea After North Shells Island

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 09:18:01 -0700

New York Times - By Mark McDonald - Aug. 08 (News Report) - The South Korean military went to “crisis status” on Tuesday and threatened military strikes after the North fired dozens of shells at a South Korean island, killing two of the South’s soldiers and setting off an exchange of fire in one of the most serious clashes between the two sides in decades.

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Rush for Arctic's resources provokes territorial tussles

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Terry Macalister - Jul. 06 (News Analysis) - US, Canada, Russia, Denmark and Norway are becoming embroiled in disputes over boundaries on land and at sea Two nations on opposite sides of the Nato military alliance divide – Russia and Norway – have signed a deal over who owns what in the Barents Sea. But there are plenty of other territorial tussles going on – some between good friends. The United States and Canada still disagree on the setting of the boundaries in the Beaufort Sea – an area of intense interest to oil drillers . Similarly, Canada has yet to resolve a dispute with Denmark over the ownership of Hans Island and where the control line should be drawn in the strait between Greenland (whose sovereignty remains with Denmark) and Ellesmere Island. But of even greater significance in a world of melting ice floes is control of the North West Passage . Canada insists that it has sovereignty over the sea route and therefore must be asked about usage. The US sees it as a potential area of open water which gives it automatic ...

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Cyber Combat: Act of War

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Siobhan Gorman, Julian E. Barnes - May. 31 (News Report) - The Pentagon has concluded that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war, a finding that for the first time opens the door for the U.S. to respond using traditional military force.

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Anna Politkovskaya's Suspected Killer, Rustam Makhmudov, Has Been Arrested: Russian Officials

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By By JIM HEINTZ - May. 31 (News Report) - The suspect, Rustam Makhmudov, was arrested in Chechnya and is to be transferred to Moscow soon, said Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for Russia's Investigative Committee, the country's top criminal investigation body.

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Cops arrest alleged cannibal after finding human stew

Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

MSNBC - By Staff writers - May. 17 (News) - Russian authorities arrested a man Tuesday in connection with dismembered body parts that were scattered around Moscow, police said according to reports.

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Chernobyl nightmare haunts world 25 years on

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Agence France-Presse - Apr. 17 (News Report) - The world next week remembers 25 years since the worst nuclear accident in history at Chernobyl, haunted by fears that the Japan earthquake has shown again the risk of atomic power sparking apocalypse.

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The Realist Prism: Libya Could Shift NATO Focus Southward

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

World Politics Review - By Nikolas Gvosdev - Apr. 02 (Opinion) - Russia's 2010 military doctrine identified the continued expansion of NATO as a prime security threat to the country. But an Atlantic alliance that looks south instead of east would be a NATO that Russia could learn to live -- and even partner -- with. The effort to oust Moammar Gadhafi might have the unexpected consequence of allowing NATO to write a new chapter of its history not only with the Arab world, but also with Russia.

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Russia: Ship’s Hijackers Are Convicted of Piracy

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ - Mar. 25 (News Report) - A Russian court sentenced six men involved in a rare case of European piracy to 7 to 12 years in prison on Thursday for their roles in the hijacking of a cargo ship off the coast of Sweden in July 2009.

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US-Russia nuclear treaty ratified

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Feb. 05 (News Report) - The exchange of documents took place at the Munich Conference on Security Policy The US and Russia have ratified the New Start nuclear arms treaty limiting the number of atomic warheads the two countries are allow

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Ukraine's Assault on a Free Press

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By David Marks - Jan. 24 (News Report) - In Ukraine, where media diversity is often defined by which powerful oligarch controls which TV station, one network, TVi -- known for its independent investigative style -- is under intense legal pressure, with its owner not part of Ukraine's power circles.

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Suicide bomber kills 35 at Russia's biggest airport

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Reuters - By Alexei Anishchuk - Jan. 24 (News) - A suicide bomber killed at least 35 people at Russia's busiest airport on Monday, state TV said, in an attack on the capital that bore the hallmarks of militants fighting for an Islamist state in the North Caucasus region.

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Pro-democracy activists arrested after 'reset'

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Times - By Eli Lake - Jan. 04 (News) - Over the weekend, members of Russia's FSB internal security service disrupted demonstrations in St. Petersburg and Moscow, arresting nearly 130 pro-democracy activists and reversing a policy of tolerating political protests once every 60 days by a coalition of democratic opposition figures in the country. Among those arrested was Boris Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister and the leader of the United Democratic Movement, a political party that favors Western political reforms.

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Top US Official Murdered After Arkansas Weapons Test Causes Mass Death

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

eutimes.net - Jan. 04 (Opinion) - A shocking report prepared for Prime Minister Putin by the Foreign Military Intelligence Directorate (GRU) states that one of the United States top experts in biological and chemical weapons was brutally murdered after he threatened to expose a US Military test of poison gas that killed hundreds of thousands of animals in Arkansas this past week.

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Khodorkovsy verdict lays bare Russian injustice

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

GlobalPost - By Miriam Elder - Dec. 28 (News Analysis) - Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the jailed oil tycoon turned liberal martyr, was found guilty today of a second set of charges in a trial held up as a symbol of Russia’s compromised justice system. The guilty verdict was widely expected but nonetheless provoked harsh condemnation from Russia’s marginalized opposition, international observers and Khodorkovsky’s family.

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Mikhail Khodorkovsky: The latest victim of Vladimir Putin's vendetta politics

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Simon Tisdall - Dec. 27 (Opinion) - Vladimir Putin's unforgiving brand of vendetta politics today claimed another prominent victim with the guilty verdict against Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former oil magnate who dared oppose the Kremlin strongman. There was never going to be any other result. In modern-day Russia, challenging Putin is like standing in front of a tank. Either get out of the way or expect – sooner or later – to be flattened.

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Senate Passes Arms Control Treaty With Russia, 71-26

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Peter Baker - Dec. 22 (News Report) - The Senate gave final approval on Wednesday to a new arms control treaty with Russia, scaling back leftover cold war nuclear arsenals and capping a surprisingly successful lame-duck session for President Obama just weeks after his party’s electoral debacle. The 71 to 26 vote sends the treaty, known as New Start, to the president for his signature, and cements what is probably the most tangible foreign policy achievement of Mr. Obama’s two years in office. Thirteen Republicans joined a unanimous Democratic caucus to vote in favor, exceeding the two-thirds majority required by the Constitution. The ratification vote was the third bipartisan victory for the president in the waning days of the session, while Democrats still control both houses of Congress. The treaty had assumed such symbolic importance for Mr. Obama’s presidency that Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. took the rare step of presiding personally over the vote, in his role as president of the Senate. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, a former Senator, was on the floor as well.

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