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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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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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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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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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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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Chechnya Burns, Putin Kills, but Obama Talks Treaty

Sat, 04 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Pajamas Media - By Kim Zigfeld - Dec. 04 (News Analysis) - Then came the revelations: in recent weeks, two different Russian military figures have come forward with confessions about brutality in the Kremlin’s earlier military campaigns in Chechnya that can only be called barbarism. Major Alexei Potyomkin has admitted that a group of Red Cross volunteers slaughtered south of Grozny in 2006 were butchered not by rebels, but by Russian forces — hearkening back to World War II when Russian forces exterminated thousands of Polish officers in the forest of Katyn and blamed it on the Nazis. Even more chilling, the Times of London has published the diary of an anonymous Russian combatant who reveals a seemingly endless litany of horrific crimes committed during the 1999 crackdown.

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Could This Be A Crime?

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

climatestorytellers.org - By Subhankar Banerjee - Aug. 26 (Special Report) - Last month the U.S. Senate finally put an end to the climate bill. Since then several opinion pieces have been published, including articles in Yale Environment 360, Grist, TomDispatch, The Nation, and The Hill. Some of these point out why the U.S. climate movement failed, while others call for a new movement. Global warming is a crisis: for all lands, for all oceans, for all rivers, for all forests, for all humans, for all birds, for all mammals, for all little creatures that we don’t see... for all life. We need stories and actions from every part of our earth. So far, global warming communications have primarily focused on scientific information. I strongly believe that to engage the public, we need all fields of the humanities. It is to this end that I founded ClimateStoryTellers. And there is much action: globally, 350.org and Climate Justice Movement; nationally, organizations such as Center for Biological Diversity; and state-based initiatives such as New Energy Economy in New Mexico. These groups give us hope that a bold – not weak – climate movement will continue to move forward with renewed energy. Our task is to make the collective global voice louder and louder until ignoring such loud cacophony will not be an option by our governments. Global warming is not something we can solve with good behavior and healthy lifestyles. It will require major government action to control pollution–and–polluters and to start a low–carbon–society.

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PM Sings With 10 Expelled Agents

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

St Petersburg Times - By Alexandra Odynova - Jul. 29 (News Report) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he has sung Soviet-era patriotic songs with the 10 spies deported from the United States and knows the identities of those who betrayed them.

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At Least 117 People Killed in Kyrgyzstan; An Estimated 80,000 Uzbeks Have Fled

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Scott Horton, Amy Goodman - Jun. 14 (News Report) - The interim government has accused former president Kurmanbek Bakiyev of provoking the violence in order to destabilize the country ahead of a planned constitutional referendum later this month. Bakiyev was ousted from power in an uprising this April. On Sunday, he issued a statement from exile in Belarus saying he had played no role in the violence. For more, we're joined in New York by Scott Horton. He's a contributing editor to Harper's Magazine and a founding trustee of the American University in Central Asia in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek. He has just returned from a visit to Kyrgyzstan, where he met with several members of the interim government.

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Russian Nuclear Reactor May Supply Unlimited Electricity

Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

MIT Technology Review - By Phil McKenna - May. 25 (News) - If the Italian-Russian project is successful it could prove to be a roadmap for self-sustaining hydrogen fusion reactors to provide unlimited power. Skeptics say it's more of the same "pie-in-the-sky" as in space solar power that beams down electricity from satellites via lethal microwaves, as described in Sunstroke by David Kagan.

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Soviet-Era Registration System Fosters Discontent in Kyrgyzstan

Tue, 11 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

EurasiaNet - By David Trilling - May. 11 (News Report) - Azim Pasanov’s home on the outer limits of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan’s capital, has no water and no electricity. Eighteen years after he moved there, his life remains unsettled. Doctors won’t see his bedridden wife, Sanabubu, and he can’t send all his grandchildren to school because he and his relatives still lack proper registration documents

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Petroleum leak in the Gulf of Mexico can be eliminated nuclear explosion

Thu, 06 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Komsomoloskaya Pravda - By Vladimir Lagowski - May. 06 (News Report) - It is possible that unsuccessful attempts to stop the leakage of oil from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico through the underwater robots compel professionals to take extreme measures. А именно - взорвать рядом с поврежденной скважиной ядерный заряд. Namely - to blow up next to the damaged wells nuclear warhead.

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Chernobyl still urgent threat on anniversary: Ukraine

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

ptinews.com - Apr. 26 (News Report) - (AFP) President Viktor Yanukovych today warned that Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear plant remains an urgent threat due to lagging safety measures, on the 24th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear disaster.

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Iran Plans to Build 10 Enrichment Factories

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

sptimes.ru - Dec. 01 (News Report) - Iran announced plans Sunday to build 10 new uranium enrichment plants in a major expansion of its nuclear program, a clear show of defiance after the UN nuclear watchdog rebuked Tehran over such secret work,.

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Gorbachev, Bush, Kohl Remember Cold War

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

sptimes.ru - By Agence France Presse - Nov. 03 (News Report) - Helmut Kohl, George Bush, and Mikhail Gorbachev hailed their excellent relations at a Berlin cabaret on Saturday, 20 years after the Cold War leaders watched over the Wall’s fall.

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UN Panel Criticizes Russia on Human Rights

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

sptimes.ru - Nov. 03 (News Report) - Russia fails to protect journalists, activists, prison inmates and others at odds with authorities from a wide range of abuses, including torture and murder, the UN Human Rights Committee said Friday.

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US Confronts the Russia-Iran Alliance

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Pepe Escobar - Aug. 05 (News Analysis) - While the Bush and now Obama administrations have sought to pressure Iran on its nuclear program, Tehran has been building up a stronger relationship with its historic adversary, Russia, and with other countries outside the U.S. orbit, like Venezuela.

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In Russia, Obama's not a rock star

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Shaun Walker - Jul. 08 (News Analysis) - MOSCOW — Barack Obama came to the Russian capital this week with a very different message from the ones George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice gave the Russians over the last few years. So, how was this historic visit of the world’s most famous person greeted in Russia? Wall to wall media coverage? Russians lining the route of the Obama cortege? A buzz of excitement in the Moscow air?

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Obama-Medvedev Nuclear Stockpile Deal "Disappointing," Says Leading Disarmament Advocate

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Jonathan Schell, Amy Goodman - Jul. 07 (News Report) - President Obama met with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow on Monday and agreed to cut American and Russian nuclear stockpiles by at least one quarter and as much as one third.

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Thick as a BRIC

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Michael Moran - Jul. 07 (News Analysis) - he global economic crisis has put the United States on the defensive, both economically and politically, and looming behind everything Washington does on the world stage these days is a historic question: Is this the beginning of the end of the American juggernaut? In Moscow, many hope the answer is “yes.”

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Russia Prepared to Invest $10Bln in IMF Bonds

Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

sptimes.ru - By Ira Iosebashvili - May. 28 (News Report) - Russia is prepared to invest up to $10 billion from its reserves into the International Monetary Fund’s first-ever bond issue, a move that some say could signal a bid to gain greater influence in IMF decisions.

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North Korean blast smaller than thought

Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

news.asiaone.com - May. 26 (News Report) - The yield is about four kilotonnes equivalent of TNT, with an uncertainty range from three to eight kilotonnes," Martin Kalinowski, a professor at the Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker Centre for Science and Peace Research (ZNF), at the University of Hamburg, told AFP.

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NATO Upsets Russia Over Georgia

Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By William F. Engdahl - May. 14 (News Report) - Economist and author William F. Engdahl says the military maneuvers inside Georgia underscore continued tensions between Russia and the NATO, which has expanded eastward to Russia’s borders since the end of the Cold War.

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Russia and the West have a very bad day

Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Miriam Elder - May. 01 (News Report) - MOSCOW — It was meant to be a day of fresh starts, as officials from Russia and NATO sat down for their first formal talks since breaking off relations last summer in the midst of the Georgia war. Instead, NATO expelled two top Russian diplomats after accusing them of spying and Russia signed a treaty strengthening its ties with the separatist regions at the center of the controversial war. Are Russia’s relations with the West doomed to fail?

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Noam Chomsky on US Expansion of Afghan Occupation, the Uses of NATO, and What Obama Should Do in Israel-Palestine

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman - Apr. 03 (News Analysis) - We’re now approaching the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, unification of Germany, first steps in the collapse of the Soviet Union. Now, the alleged reason for NATO’s existence was to protect the West against a Russian assault. You can believe what you like about the reason, but that was the reason. By 1989, that reason was gone. So, why is there NATO?

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