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Russia Is Planning To Spend $12 Billion On Drones Before 2020
Vladimir Putin has announced a massive increase in spending on unmanned drones, Interfax reports, with 400 billion rubles ($12 billion) in funding planned before 2020. Putin wants the entire structure...
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The Simplest Explanation For Russia's Sukhoi SuperJet Crash May Be The Scariest
A lot of conspiracy theories are floating around the internet these days concerning the Russian Sukhoi SuperJet 100 crash. The SuperJet, the first civilian aircraft to be built in Russia since the...
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There's A Rumor That Vladimir Putin Literally Made It Rain On An Opposition...
Russian opposition leader and Duma deputy, Ilya Ponomaryov, has written a post on his blog that speculates Vladimir Putin and the Russian government created artificial rain to dampen the spirits (and...
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Russian Farmers Are Buying Up American Cattle
The first waves of a new American migration has arrived in Russia, breaking on such shores as the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk and trickling into intimate local communities. They come in swelling...
View ArticleHere's The Goal That Eliminated Russia And Sent Upset-Minded Greece On To The...
Entering the final matches of group play at Euro 2012, Russia only needed a tie against underdog Greece in order to advance to the quarterfinals. But a goal in the closing seconds of the first half...
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Three Assassins Shot At A Controversial Russian Businessman Last Week
An attempt on the former CEO of one of the Basic Element’s subsidiaries, owned by the billionaire and aluminum king Oleg Deripaska took place in the Moscow region. The senior manager’s career was...
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A Black Hole For Evraz And A Black Eye For Roman Abramovich
MOSCOW—Evraz, the Russian steelmaker listed on the London Stock Exchange main board, is being sued in the UK High Court for $35.8 million by a group of Swiss investors over a failed project to build a...
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Check Out Life As A Banker In Moscow, Where Firms Are Hiring Like Crazy
Against all odds (and by odds we really mean communist roots) Russia's become something of a hiring mecca for investment bankers in recent months. Financial News reported last week that both domestic...
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Alrosa Boldly Offers To Trade Its Gas Fields For LUKoil's Diamonds
MOSCOW—Alrosa has announced new strategic targets until the end of 2021, following this week’s meeting of the Supervisory Board, as Alrosa’s board of directors is known. How much of the projected...
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The Russians Just Tweeted An Epic Diatribe Bashing The State Department
The Russian government's use of Twitter is legendarily melodramatic and far more enthralling than most of what the U.S. government puts out. So the Russians did not disappoint when earlier today they...
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European Authorities Have Arrested A Spy From The Same Russian Ring As Anne...
A Dutch diplomat known only as "Raymond P" has been arrested in the Hague for passing on 450 confidential files to the Russian spy ring that once contained Anna Chapman, Focus reports. Raymond was...
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In A Bid To Win Over The People Of This Key Central Asian State, The US Is...
The American relationship with the Eurasian state of Kyrgyzstan is vital for its operations with Afghanistan. US troops entering or leaving Afghanistan (of which there are still 900,000 a year) head...
View ArticleRussian Anti-Putin Punk Band Pussy Riot Could Be In Prison For Six Months...
More than one hundred writers, film stars, and rock musicians have signed a letter requesting the release of an all female Russian punk rock band arrested in February for chanting an anti-Putin song...
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Attack Helicopters From Moscow Are On Their Way Back To Syria Aboard A...
If Russia’s stance towards the Assad regime is at all softening, it certainly has a peculiar way of demonstrating this, as RIA-Novosti reported Thursday that three Mi-25 gunships are en route to the...
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General Motors Says Its Future Is In Russia
With the eurozone in crisis, the future of General Motors lies in Russia, according to Chief Executive Dan Akerson. "Russia today has about 100 cars per 1,000 people. The U.S. is about 812 and Germany...
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This Crazy Mosquito Sculpture Sits On A Gazprom-Owned Oil Field In Western...
You can go to MoMA or The Louvre, but sometimes you'll find great art where you wouldn't expect to find much of anything. Such is the case in Western Siberia, where scientists hoping to create an...
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Oleg Deripaska Suffered A Major Defeat In Nigeria
MOSCOW—An 8-year long case charging Oleg Deripaska and his Russian Aluminium (Rusal) group with fraud and corruption in acquiring aluminium assets, gas and electricity supply and port outlet in a...
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Russians Are Looking For Someone To Blame After Floods Kill Hundreds
At least 171 people have died and 29,000 have lost power in severe flooding in southern Russia after unprecedented torrential rains hit the region late Saturday night, the Associated Press reports....
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The Russian Government Has Opened A Government Agency Devoted To...
Vladimir Putin's government has just funded a multi-billion dollar Russian equivalent to DARPA, the United States' Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. For years, Russian innovation has been...
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Oleg Deripaska's Secret Account Books Revealed
Fifteen years ago, the American Journal of Psychiatry reported research that not all obsessive-compulsive disorders are alike. Two individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder, the scientific...
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