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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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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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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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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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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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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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New START Treaty Gaining Momentum in Senate

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Peter Baker - Dec. 21 (News Report) - The Senate moved closer on Monday to approving a new arms control treaty with Russia over the opposition of Republican leaders as lawmakers worked on a side deal to assure skeptics that the arms pact would not inhibit American plans to build missile defense systems.

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Senate nears key vote on START accord

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By CNN Staff - Dec. 21 (News Report) - Senators prepared to cast a key procedural vote Tuesday on the new arms control treaty with Russia as backers and opponents of the accord made their final arguments. Proponents of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, known as New START, received a potentially critical boost as a member of the Senate GOP leadership -- Tennessee's Lamar Alexander -- announced his intention to vote for the measure.

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Fears over crime fuelled by smartphone craze

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Yahoo! News - Dec. 20 (News Report) - The fashionable folk tapping on Blackberrys or using apps on iPhones in New York, Paris or Barcelona have more in common than a taste for expensive hand-held devices. They are also likely to be targeted by thieves in a smartphone crime wave fuelled by the enormous appetite for the machines that serve as status symbols, essential worktools and mobile entertainment centres. The Paris police chief sounded the alarm last week when he said smartphones were the hottest item for thieves on the city's metro and that robbers were increasingly turning to violence to get their hands on them.

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Obama faces fight over missile defense as he presses New START ratification

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Mary Beth Sheridan - Dec. 13 (News Report) - With only days left in the lame-duck Congress, President Obama is pushing hard to accomplish something never before done by a Democratic president: successfully get a nuclear arms-reduction treaty through the ratification process.

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Putin Slams West for Wikileaks' Assange Arrest

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

ABC News - By Alexander Marquardt - Dec. 10 (News Report) - The arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for sexual misconduct illustrates the hypocrisy of the West about democracy, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says. In the strongest comments to come out of Russia in the latest WikiLeaks saga, Putin also took aim at the U.S. for the cables, some of which had derided Russia a "mafia state." Assange's arrest in London earlier this week indicated that the West isn't as democratic as it thinks it is, Putin suggested.

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U.S. and allies urge China to rein in North Korea

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Reuters - By Arshad Mohammed, Michael Martina - Dec. 06 (News Report) - President Barack Obama sent his top military officer, Admiral Mike Mullen, to Seoul in a show of support for South Korea after the North's shelling of one of its islands killed four people on November 23, precipitating the latest crisis. In Washington, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held talks with her Japanese and South Korean counterparts, saying all three shared grave concerns over "provocative attacks from North Korea" and putting the onus on China to take action.

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China Clones, Sells Russian Fighter Jets

Sun, 05 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Jeremy Page - Dec. 05 (News Analysis) - A year after the collapse of the Soviet Union, a cash-strapped Kremlin began selling China a chunk of its vast military arsenal, including the pride of the Russian air force, the Sukhoi-27 fighter jet.Today, Russia's military bonanza is over, and China's is just beginning.

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START over with the Russians to ratify treaty

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Times - By Kim R. Holmes - Dec. 01 (News Analysis) - But there's a better way to fix the treaty: Start over. A 10-year treaty governing the most dangerous weapons on Earth should be negotiated to the highest standards. This one was not. It has loopholes, vague language and inequities that negotiators more attentive to U.S. interests would never have countenanced. An arms control treaty should never be sloughed off as merely tolerable or treated like some high school project graded on a curve. Nor should the issue of nuclear weapons be used merely as a diplomatic tool to improve relations with Russia. Rather, the treaty should jealously guard U.S. security and interests - something New START just doesn't do.

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‘Crisis Status’ in South Korea After North Shells Island

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By MARK McDONALD - Nov. 23 (Special 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. President Lee Myung-bak met with security-related ministers and senior aides in the underground situation room at the Blue House, the presidential office and residence, and ordered strikes on North Korea’s missile base if the North made any “indication of further provocation,” The Korea Herald quoted a presidential spokesman, Hong Sang-pyo, as saying.

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