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Crowd Led by Priests Attacks Gay Rights Marchers in Georgia

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Andrew Roth - May. 18 (News Report) - Gay Rights Rally Is Attacked in Georgia

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All Politics Is Economic

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Masha Gessen - Apr. 15 (Opinion) - Latitude: How Politics Controls Russia's Media Business

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China and Russia urge North Korea to step back from missile launch

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Malcolm Moore - Apr. 11 (News Report) - North Korea's two closest allies, China and Russia, have put pressure on Pyongyang to step back from launching a missile, the South Korean Foreign minister has said.

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Endless summer: Russian court rules against resuming Daylight Savings Time

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

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Meteor shower hits central Russia

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

aljazeera.com - Feb. 15 (News) - Meteor shower causes sharp aerial explosions, with broken glass injuring about 100 people, officials say.

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Op-Ed Columnist: Break All the Rules

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN - Jan. 23 (Opinion) - At a time when we measure our secretaries of state more by miles traveled than milestones achieved, what’s the next secretary to do? Here’s a plan.

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Wolf Killings: The Raid on Natural Resources

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

readersupportednews.org - By George Monbiot - Jan. 19 (Special Report) - In Alberta, the province systematically corrupted and brutalised by the oil curse, and whose polluted politics are now corrupting public life throughout Canada, the government plans to carry out a mass killing of wolves by shooting them from helicopters and poisoning them with strychnine. The reason, ostensibly, is to protect the woodland caribou, a subspecies of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus caribou), whose numbers have been diminishing rapidly. This, according to the Alberta Caribou Committee, is because wolves have been killing them. So what is this Alberta Caribou Committee? As you might expect, it represents all the usual environmental organisations, such as, er, PetroCanada, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips, Koch Petroleum, TransCanada Pipelines, Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries and the pulp company Daishowa Marubeni.

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Syria government 'losing control' - Russian official

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Dec. 13 (News Report) - A Russian official has said for the first time that the Syrian government may be defeated by opposition forces.

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Mystery dog deaths anger Russians

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - By Adam Robinson - Nov. 25 (Special Report) - A mysterious spate of dog killings has caused alarm among pet owners in Moscow and other cities across Russia, as well as a wave of speculation in the media.

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Not Safe For Work Corporation | Putin On The Mitts

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

nsfwcorp.co - By Mark Ames - Oct. 20 (Opinion) - The Kochs and other employers can do this thanks to Citizens United, which has done more to speed up the Putin-ization of America than Putin himself could have dreamed of in his darkest fantasies. From the time of the New Deal labor laws until the Citizens United decision in 2010, employers were barred from pressuring their employees on how to vote in elections, for the obvious simple reason that employers have an enormous amount of leverage over employees.

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Russian Agent and 10 Other Members of Procurement Network for Russian Military and Intelligence Operating in the U.S. and Russia Indicted in New York

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Federal Bureau of Investigation - By U.S. Attorney's Office - Oct. 03 (Press Release) - Members of a Russian military procurement network operating in the United States and Russia, as well as a Texas-based export company were charged with illegally exporting high-tech microelectronics from the United States to Russian military and intelligence agencies.

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Russia Bans Use and Import of Monsanto’s GMO Corn Following Study

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

nationofchange.org - By Anthony Gucciardi - Sep. 27 (News Report) - Following the groundbreaking French study that graphically linked the lifetime consumption of Monsanto’s GMO corn in rats to massive tumors and direct organ failure, Russia’s premiere consumers rights organization has suspended both the importation and use of Monsanto’s GMO corn within the nation’s borders.

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How Syria Divided the World by Michael Ignatieff | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The New York Review of Books - By Michael Ignatieff - Jul. 17 (Opinion) - The Syrian conflict has triggered something more fundamental than a difference of opinion over intervention, something more than an argument about whether the Security Council should authorize the use of force. Syria is the moment in which the West should see that the world has truly broken into two. A loose alliance of struggling capitalist democracies now finds itself face to face with two authoritarian despotisms—Russia and China—something new in the annals of political science: kleptocracies that mix the market economy and the police state. These regimes will support tyrannies like Syria wherever it is in their interest to do so.

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The distraction of missile defense

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

thebulletin.org - By Pavel Podvig - Jun. 01 (News Analysis) - Judging by the intensity of Russia's constant opposition to US missile defenses in Europe, one might think that the very survival of the nation is in danger. In reality, though, the opposite is true: The battle over missile defense is so fierce because the stakes are so low.

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Outrage grows over Syria massacre

Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - By Jim Muir - May. 27 (News Report) - Western nations are pressing for a response to the massacre in the Syrian town of Houla, with the US calling for an end to President Bashar al-Assad's "rule by murder". UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council this week. The UN has confirmed the deaths of at least 90 people in Houla, including 32 children under the age of 10. Syria's foreign ministry denied army involvement, blaming "terrorists". Spokesman Jihad Makdissi said there was a clash in the area on Friday afternoon between security forces and armed terrorists.

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Technical concerns: Why Russia worries about NATO's missile defense

Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - By Ivanka Barzashka - May. 14 (Special Report) - The Russians’ main technical concerns included fast interceptor missiles that might be fielded in northern Europe near Russia’s borders, making them possible threats to Moscow’s strategic deterrent.

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Punk band arrest at heart of Russia church feud

Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

San Jose Mercury News - By Mansur Mirovalev - May. 13 (Special Report) - t's the latest flare-up in a growing feud pitting supporters of the influential church, which sees itself as the nation's spiritual guide, against opponents who say the church has sold out to Vladimir Putin—becoming an arm of his regime more interested in gold than souls.

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The message from Strasbourg | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

thebulletin.org - By Alexander Kelle - Feb. 23 (Special Report) - On December 20, 2011, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, ruled that the "use of gas against terrorists during the Moscow theatre siege was justified." It did not, that is, violate the right to life -- enshrined in Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights -- of the 700-plus hostages in a Moscow theater almost a decade ago.

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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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