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Medvedev: Sanctions On Russia Hurt Western Economies
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday that Western sanctions over Ukraine were harmful for the Russian economy, but that Western economies were also affected."(Sanctions)...
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The Orthodox Church Has Stopped A Giant 'Eye Of Sauron' Being Built Over Moscow
The Russian Orthodox Church has succeeded in shutting down a giant "Eye of Sauron" installation on top of a Moscow tower intended to promote the Hobbit movie trilogy.The exhibit would have featured a...
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Russia's Central Bank Is Meeting On Thursday — And It Only Has Terrible...
Russia's central bank is set to meet on Thursday, and it only has bad options.Here's a quick overview of the problem facing Russian central bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina. In a note ahead of the...
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Medvedev To Russians: Please Don't 'Panic' Over The Ruble
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has called on Russians "not to panic" and to keep their savings in rubles despite the Russian currency's sharp decline.In an annual interview televised live on December...
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Lithuania's Military Is On Alert After Russian Activities In A Baltic Sea...
Russian military activity in an exclave wedged between two NATO member states has the Lithuanian military on high alert, according to The Lithuania Tribune.Kaliningrad is located between Poland and...
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A Dutch Fighter Pilot Shot Video Of Russian Planes Being Intercepted Over The...
On Dec. 8, two Royal Netherlands Air Force F-16s based at Malbork in Poland to provide NATO Baltic Air Policing duties intercepted and escorted two Russian Air Force Su-34 Fullback bombers flying in...
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The Soviet Union Decided To Invade Afghanistan 35 Years Ago Today
The US is ending its 13-year-old combat operation in Afghanistan later this month. But thirty-five years ago today, key players within the Soviet Union decided to commit the empire to military...
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Just About Every Russian Company Is Hurting From The Country's Weakening Economy
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's oligarchs are no strangers to misfortune, asset grabs, forced investments and financial crises.Many of them may publicly shrug off a 40 percent plunge in the rouble and the...
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Putin Handed Over $8 Billion In Contracts To His Russian Oligarch Friends
Companies linked to Russian billionaire Arkady Rotenberg and Gennady Timchenko, both close allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin, were given contracts worth 309 billion roubles (£3.6 billion, $8.1...
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Russian Central Bank Hikes Rates; Rouble Falls To Record Low
The Russian central bank has raised rates to 10.5% from 9.5% in its latest attempt to halt the collapse of the rouble. The currency has been hit by a combination of collapsing oil prices, which the...
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The Property Tycoon Who Died After Being Impaled On A Fence Lived In Fear Of...
Scot Young, the property developer who died on Monday after falling out of his house onto the spiked metal railings outside owed millions of pounds to the Russian and Turkish mafia, according to The...
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India's Modi: 'Russia Is India's Closest Friend'
Russian President Vladimir Putin isn't exactly the West's favorite person right now, but it looks like he's finally found a friend."Russia is India's closest friend, and the preferred strategic...
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Scot Young's Wife Hired A Private Detective Just Weeks Before He Was Impaled...
The ex-wife of Scot Young, the London property magnate who died impaled on railings after falling down his balcony, had hired a private detective to pursue him for her share of his wealth just weeks...
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Food Prices Surge As Panicked Russians Empty Their Bank Machines Of Cash
Inflation is rampant in Russia, and the collapsing value of the ruble has triggered panic-buying and food-hoarding among ordinary Russians.Food prices in Russia will have shot up by 25% over 2014 as...
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The Pentagon Is Considering Redeploying Nuclear Missiles In Europe To Counter...
The Pentagon is considering the re-deployment of nuclear cruise missiles in Europe in response to a new Russian cruise missile that the United States has charged violates a 1987 nuclear treaty, a...
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Russia's International Reserves Have Dropped
Editor's Note: Earlier it was reported that $4.3 billion gold reserves were sold, quoting Vesti Finance. However, in actuality, it is international reserves assets that have decreased — not gold....
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Finnish Air Force Jets Captured Photos Of Russian Bombers Skirting Their...
The surge in Russian Air Force flights in northern Europe is providing an opportunity for local air forces to take some interesting pictures of Moscow warplanes.Russia has launched several missions...
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The Russian Currency Crisis Just Got Even Worse
The Russian rouble has fallen over 3% against the dollar in early trading, shrugging off the central bank's attempt to halt the slide by raising interest rates.The country's central bank increased...
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Google Pulls Out Of Russia (GOOG)
Google is going to close its engineering office in Russia, the Financial Times says.Russian authorities have been cracking down on internet activity throughout 2014.In Russia, a new law forces tech...
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Russia's Foreign Minister Wants Another Round Of Peace Talks On Ukraine
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reiterated on Friday Moscow's calls to convene as soon as possible another round of peace talks on the conflict in east Ukraine's Donbass...
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