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Russia is trying to kill web anonymizers like Tor
The Russian authorities apparently have a new enemy in their crosshairs: web tools that give users online anonymity.On February 5, lawmaker Leonid Levin proposed blocking so-called web anonymizers...
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US Army commander for Europe: US Army will start training Ukrainians in March
SZCZECIN, Poland (Reuters) - U.S. Army Europe commander Ben Hodges said on Wednesday the U.S. army will provide training to Ukrainian troops battling Russian-backed separatists in the country's...
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Things got awkward at Ukraine peace talks in Belarus
The atmosphere in Minsk is super uncomfortable. It’s the big day in the Belarusian capital, where key players are discussing a potential solution to the war in Ukraine. But relations between the...
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Here's Putin rubbing his hands together after addressing Ukraine's president...
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and his Russian counterpart reluctantly shook hands before sitting together with Germany's Merkel and France's Hollande to broker a deal on Ukraine in Minsk,...
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Belarus diplomat worries topless, mayo-throwing women could disrupt UN
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A Belarusian delegate at a United Nations disarmament forum warned fellow diplomats about an unusual type of weapon: jars of mayonnaise being thrown by topless women during...
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World leaders might be close to an agreement in Ukraine peace talks
MINSK (Reuters) - The leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France may be close to agreement following all-night talks on resolving the Ukraine conflict, diplomatic sources said on Thursday.Details...
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World leaders have reached an agreement on a Ukraine peace plan
The leaders of Germany, France, Russia, and Ukraine have agreed on a deal to end fighting in eastern Ukraine, participants at the summit talks said Thursday.The deal reached after all-night...
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Ukraine: 50 Russian tanks and 40 missile systems rolled into the country...
About 50 tanks, 40 missile systems, and 40 armored vehicles crossed overnight into eastern Ukraine from Russia via the Izvaryne border crossing into the separatist Luhansk region, a Kiev military...
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Image of Russian gay couple wins World Press Photo
An image of a gay couple locked in a tender embrace on Thursday won the prestigious World Press Photo award, highlighting the plight of sexual minorities in Russia, judges said.Danish photographer Mads...
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Why Putin's challenge to the West is unique — and what can be done about it
President Vladimir Putin’s Russia presents a unique challenge to the Western-backed world order. Putin believes that Russia’s power, position, and history mean that it cannot be treated as just another...
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France thinks it has finally found a way to deliver those Mistral warships to...
The apparent success in negotiations over a cease-fire agreement for Ukraine could lead France to grant permission for the delivery of two Mistral-class warships to Russia "as early as next week,"...
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The new Economist cover says it all
As Vladimir Putin engaged in marathon peace negotiations with Germany, France, and Ukraine in the capital of Belarus, Russian tanks were allegedly rolling into Ukraine.So as an inherently flawed peace...
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The Ukraine peace deal ignores a crucial problem that must be solved
The new agreement in Minsk fails to resolve one of the central issues at stake, namely the presence of thousands of Russian troops on Ukrainian territory.A Russian force of about 9,000 soldiers,...
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Experts: Putin's actions in Ukraine could inspire NATO's adversaries around...
In a new report, a top defense think tank warns that Russia's destabilizing actions in Ukraine, including "sophisticated combinations of conventional and unconventional means of warfare," could inspire...
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These are the elite Russian troops that are allegedly fighting some of the...
Peace talks aimed at ending the crisis in Ukraine are underway in Belarus.But Russian soldiers are still believed to be operating along the front lines of the conflict. US Army Europe commander Ben...
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This map shows why the Russia-NATO confrontation will continue even with a...
The war in eastern Ukraine is in a state of cease-fire after a deal reached in Minsk on February 12. But if the last ceasefire is any indication, this halt in hostilities won't spell the end of the...
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Russia has launched what officials are calling its largest-ever...
Russia has launched what it calls the largest-ever exercises of its strategic-missile forces in 12 regions across the country.Defense Ministry spokesman Colonel Igor Yegorov said "both road-mobile and...
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A US senator just revealed evidence that the Russian military is operating in...
New photographs exclusively obtained by the Washington Free Beacon reveal that Russian military forces have been more involved in the arming and training of Ukrainian separatist forces than previously...
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This is the simplest explanation of why Putin is so opposed to NATO
Putin's suspicion of NATO can be boiled down to one simple explanation: geography. At the height of the Cold War and the Soviet Union's power, the USSR and its allied Warsaw Pact countries encompassed...
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Russians are starting to show some bitterness over the annexation of Crimea
Alexandra Kartokhina always dreamed of studying in a big city. She even went to a Russian school in her native Crimea to help her achieve her ambition of studying in St. Petersburg.But now that dream...
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