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Ukrainian girlfriend of murdered Putin critic says she's gotten death threats
The Ukrainian girlfriend of murdered Russian opposition activist Boris Nemtsov, who was with him when he was shot dead outside the Kremlin, has told police she has received death threats, Ukrainian...
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A prominent Kremlin critic was just released from a Moscow prison
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Prominent Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny walked out of a Moscow detention center on Friday, a week after fellow opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was shot dead in what his allies say...
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Top US diplomat comes out against sending arms to Ukraine
BERLIN (Reuters) - The second-highest ranking U.S. diplomat promised on Friday to maintain pressure on Russia via economic sanctions to get it to change tack on Ukraine but appeared to rule out arming...
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EU says it's ready for more Russia sanctions if necessary
The European Union is ready to step up sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine conflict, but the priority is to bolster a fragile ceasefire agreed in Minsk, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said...
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Russian priest feels closer to God in serenity of Antarctica
Sophrony Kirilov pulls hard on the strings of the heavy Russian bells from inside the world's southernmost Eastern Orthodox church, calling to Mass anybody wanting to pray on this remote Antarctic...
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In Nigeria, officials have warned livestock owners that their animals could become a Boko Haram weapon to disrupt voters in the nation’s coming elections. As bizarre as that may sound, the use of...
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Russia is turning Crimea into a forward operating base against NATO
Russia is heavily militarizing Crimea as a way to project power deep in to the Black Sea, USNI News reports citing supreme commander of NATO Gen. Philip Breedlove. “What we have seen is that Crimea has...
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UK foreign minister: Putin isn't budging on Ukraine
LONDON (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Sunday he had detected no change in Russian President Vladimir Putin's strategic intentions towards Ukraine, despite a reduction in...
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Russians are looking to chocolate to improve their gloomy moods
Moscow (AFP) - When days are dark, friends are few and the state of your bank account makes you want to weep, there is only one thing you can do in bleak, crisis-hit Russia.Keep calm and eat some very...
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Moscow's half-empty $12 billion financial district looks worse than you imagined
Moscow's financial district, with its $12 billion worth of skyscrapers, was meant to be a gleaming beacon for Russia's post-Soviet market economy.But now with Russia's economy in free-fall, the Moscow...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that he will be taking a 10 percent pay cut, along with the rest of his senior staff. The austerity measure could help show Russians that the leadership...
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Why 'House of Cards' is a victory for Vladimir Putin
I just spent a weekend binge-watching the third season of the lethally addictive Netflix show "House of Cards"– which dramatises the fraught relations the US has with its restive and violent global...
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A staggering number of Russians hold negative views of the US
Anti-American sentiment in Russia is now stronger than it was in the late 1980s, when the Soviet Union was still intact, The Washington Post reports.An overwhelming majority of Russians — more than 80%...
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Putin reveals the moment he gave the order to take Crimea from Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin has described a secret meeting with officials last year when Russia decided it would take Crimea, the Black Sea region that Moscow annexed from Ukraine last March.In a...
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Friend of murdered Putin critic says reported Islamic motive is a sham
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Suggestions that Russian politician Boris Nemtsov was killed by Chechen Islamists are nonsense designed to deflect suspicion from President Vladimir Putin, a colleague of the slain...
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What Ukraine can do to beat Russia back
As we are now in a lull in Russia’s war against Ukraine that Vladimir Putin and his Kremlin began one year ago, it’s time to assess how Kyiv can do better at war-fighting.Not for want of courage,...
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The US is sending 3,000 soldiers to the Baltic for NATO exercises amid Russia...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says that about 3,000 U.S. soldiers from the Georgia-based 3rd Infantry Division will deploy to Eastern Europe beginning next week, to conduct training exercises with...
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Putin just awarded a medal of honor to the chief suspect in one of Russia's...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has just awarded the chief suspect in one of the past decade's most notorious political assassinations a medal of honor, AFP reports. The Kremlin honored Andrei...
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A spherical bunker in Russia was the most secure place in the entire Cold War
The Dead Hand system was the Soviet Union's last line of deterrence in the event of a crippling nuclear strike, a way to inflict millions of casualties on its enemies even if the Soviet chain of...
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We're still a long way off from a solution to the crisis in Ukraine
SOFIA (Reuters) - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Tuesday that a solution to the crisis in Ukraine was still a long way off, and that Ukraine will need significant support given...
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