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Putin Just Made A "Goodwill Gesture" To Ukraine
MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) - Russia has agreed on a new deal to supply coal and electricity to Ukraine, which is struggling with a lack of raw fuel for power plants due to a separatist conflict in the...
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Russia Is In Crisis And Putin Is Fighting To Survive It
The risk of a financial crisis in Russia has risen because of a precipitous fall in the rouble in mid-December. Recession, falling living standards and rising economic uncertainty look set to be key...
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The Secret Dead Of Russia's Undeclared War
Anton Tumanov gave up his life for his country - but his country won’t say where, and it won’t say how.His mother knows. She knows that Mr Tumanov, a 20 year-old junior sergeant in the Russian army,...
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Russia Is In Crisis And Putin Is Trying To Survive It
The risk of a financial crisis in Russia has risen because of a precipitous fall in the rouble in mid-December. Recession, falling living standards and rising economic uncertainty look set to be key...
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Russian Airlines Are Taking A Major Hit From The Ruble Collapse
Moscow (AFP) - Their international competitors may be cheering tumbling oil prices, but the collapse in the ruble has meant major financial turbulence for Russian airlines who have expenses in foreign...
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Speaking Truth To Power
On the day in 1974 when Soviet secret police arrested him for treason, Alexander Solzhenitsyn published an essay (via the underground samizdat press) entitled "Live Not by Lies". It ended with a...
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Ukraine Needs Energy Reform To Fix Its Economy And Weaken Russia’s Grip
Gas is flowing again from Russia to Ukraine, but blackouts have hit factories and homes. Ukraine’s prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, says Ukraine’s independence is compromised by its energy dependence...
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Russia Is Building A New Air Force And Navy To Dominate The Growing Arctic Ocean
With the Arctic ice cap in full-meltdown mode, Russian President Vladimir Putin last year announced an ambitious plan to dominate a wider Arctic Ocean.Calling the Arctic a "top defense priority," Putin...
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The Russian Economy Has Contracted For The First Time Since 2009
Russia's economy shrank sharply in November and the rouble resumed its slide on Monday as Western sanctions and a slump in oil prices combined to inflict the first contraction in GDP since the global...
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OBAMA: Putin's No Genius
US President Barack Obama is not impressed with his Russian counterpart in the aftermath of recent events.In a new NPR interview published Monday morning, Obama dismissed those who hailed Vladimir...
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The Russian economy took a serious beating following the western sanctions and the oil crash. The ruble plunged and inflation is way above target in the double digits. On Monday, the Economy Ministry...
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BP Is Reportedly Trying To Buy A Russian-Owned Siberian Oilfield
British-based BP is negotiating with Russia’s Rosneft to buy a stake in an oil field in eastern Siberia, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the talks who spoke with several news...
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The Assad Regime Is Running Low On Soldiers
Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria is increasing pressure on draft dodgers in recent months, with arrests and regulations to prevent military-aged males from leaving the country, the Washington Post...
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Russia Is Deploying A Drone Fleet To The Arctic
Russia plans on deploying a series of drones to the Arctic before the end of the year as the country dedicates increasing resources towards militarization of the frozen north, Russian news agency Tass...
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12 Geopolitical Predictions About 2015
If 2014 proved anything, it's that guessing at the state of the world a year down the line is a vain or even slightly embarrassing endeavor.Indeed, who could have expected a year ago that Russia would...
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Russia Is Creating A 'Noah's Ark' With The DNA Of Every Creature That Ever...
Moscow State University just received Russia's largest-ever scientific grant in a bid to create a veritable "Noah's Ark" containing the DNA of every living and extinct creature on the planet.The...
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The Sentencing Of Russia's Opposition Leader Shows The Kremlin Is Weak And...
A three-and-a-half year suspended sentence for Alexei Navalny on questionable fraud charges and a similar sentence in a labour colony for his brother Oleg represents rather less than the prosecution...
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Russia Just Jailed The Brother Of Its Biggest Critic To Make A Point
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court gave Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny a suspended sentence on Tuesday for embezzling money but jailed his brother for three and a half years in a case seen as part of a...
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Russia Arrests Putin's Biggest Critic After He Leads Protest To 'Destroy' The...
Alexei Navalny, an activist who led mass protests against Russian government corruption three years ago, has battled a series of fraud charges that critics say are meant to silence him, and he has...
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Amazing Pictures From The Coldest Inhabited Town On Earth
Humans are resilient, hard-working creatures.And there's perhaps nowhere where that's more evident than in the tiny village of Oymyakon, Russia, regarded by most at the coldest permanently inhabited...
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