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8 reasons the Ukraine crisis is still hugely dangerous
I am about to post a long piece on the Ukraine crisis derived from a talk I gave last week at Berkeley. I have indulged myself, however, and allowed it to grow too long for the average reader.So what...
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Here are all the NATO military ships operating on Russia's doorstep
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is making its presence felt in Russia's backyard as it conducts manoeuvre in the Black Sea.Russia has stepped up its military exercises since the onset of the...
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This map shows the massive scale of Russia's planned fortification of the Arctic
The Arctic ice is slowly melting, and Russia is positioning itself in order to take advantage of new shipping routes along with natural resources available beneath the Arctic seabed. In order to...
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SWEDEN: Russian spies and what they're preparing are our biggest threat
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's security services said on Wednesday they feared possible Russian military operations against their country following a big increase in espionage activity since the...
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Russia is putting state-of-the-art missiles in its westernmost Baltic exclave
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia plans to station state-of-the art missiles in its westernmost Baltic exclave and deploy nuclear-capable bombers to Crimea as part of massive war games to showcase its resurgent...
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The Russian auto market is imploding (GM)
Western automakers are giving up on Russia.Half a decade ago, Russia was seen as a vast growth opportunity. The US market had been weakened by the financial crisis, and Europe looked limited.All the...
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Putin just got one step closer to taking over part of Georgia
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a pact with a Moscow-backed breakaway region of Georgia, despite condemnation by Tbilisi and the West.Putin and the de facto leader of South Ossetia, Leonid...
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Russia is modernizing its increasingly aggressive air force
Russia's air force has problems. Although Moscow has the world's second-largest air force, which includes strategic bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons thousands of miles around the world, its...
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Putin just cemented a new land grab
President Vladimir Putin signed a treaty with Georgia's rebel South Ossetia region on Wednesday that almost completely integrates it with Russia, alarming Georgia and the West a year after Moscow took...
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Putin just made a huge decision that may explain his strange disappearance
Has Ramzan Kadyrov successfully blackmailed the Kremlin?In all the hoopla over Vladimir Putin resurfacing, a pretty important news item managed to slip below the radar.On March 16, the same day the...
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Senator John McCain is mad the Air Force is 'doing very little' to end its...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator John McCain on Wednesday criticized the U.S. Air Force's "troubling lack of urgency" in ending dependence on Russian rocket engines for space launches, saying there was...
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On the 50th anniversary of the first spacewalk, astronaut remembers how the...
Before the movie "Gravity," before Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, even before Edward Higgins White became the first American to take a walk in orbit — there was Alexei Leonov.Nearly 50 years ago,...
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A Russia-Ukraine peace plan just hit another snag
KIEV (Reuters) - A peace plan to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine came under renewed strain on Wednesday, with Ukraine and Russia clashing publicly over the next steps and further Ukrainian military...
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More mysterious flashes appear in the Russian night sky
There’s been more strange sightings in the Russian night sky. This time it’s a series of huge white and blue flashes caught on dashcam that caused electrical disturbances in the city of...
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This footage brings you inside the cockpit of a Russian Su-34 Fullback bomber...
The following series of videos is pretty impressive: with English subtitles, the footage brings you inside the cockpit of a Russian Su-34 Fullback bomber during a training sortie.Filmed with cameras...
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Russia's massive military exercises are a clear warning to NATO
Russian military exercises, the latest in a series across the country, have taken on a threatening posture.While the most recent installment is not the largest exercise Russia has conducted, the areas...
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Putin to Russian business leaders: Bring your money back or else you may not...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged a gathering of Russia's billionaires and business leaders to return their capital to Russia and suggested that funds kept abroad could be...
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The US mission to NATO just called out Putin's Crimea narrative
After a year of denying Russian encroachment on the Crimean peninsula, Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted in a television interview that all along he did have a plan to take the region from...
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Russia wants everyone to think it's building this absurd and massive...
Russia's proposed new military transport will be a behemoth of an aircraft — assuming such a plane can even fly, and if Russia is even vaguely serious about actually building it.According to Kremlin...
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2 big nuclear concessions to Iran are coming into focus
The terms of a possible nuclear deal with Iran are now out, as the AP has gotten its hands on a draft version of a framework agreement.Tehran and the US-led group of countries (the five permanent...
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