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Georgia just accused Russia of slowly eating away at its borders
TBILISI (Reuters) — Georgia accused Russia on Monday of violating its sovereignty by placing border markers on the edge of the South Ossetia region, leaving part of an international oil pipeline in...
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Putin knows his military muscle isn't much without economic muscle
While Ukraine is the central point of conflict between Russia and NATO, economics may be the next battlefront.According to Robert Dannenberg, a Goldman Sachs security analyst and CIA veteran, Russia's...
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Iran will be 'competing in Europe head-on with Russia'
An Iran nuclear deal could mean bad news for the Russian oil business.The most obvious source of pain is that the introduction of Iranian oil on the market after sanctions are lifted could push oil...
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Russia's Black Sea submarine fleet is getting a serious upgrade
Russia is making moves to revive and increase the size and scope of its Black Sea submarine fleet, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated. Russian Navy Admiral Viktor Chirkov stated during a meeting...
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The Russian Air Force may be being pushed to its limits
On Jul. 14, at 09.50 Moscow Time, a Tu-95 bomber crashed in an uninhabited area 80 km from Khabarovsk.According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the aircraft was conducting a training mission and it...
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Russia's military aircraft are now crashing from overuse
Russia's Air Force has suffered from a string of crashes over the past month that highlight the country's maintenance and modernization woes. Since June 4, there have been five major Air Force crashes,...
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Russia's economic downturn is destroying health care in rural villages
Sheshurino (Russia) (AFP) - More than 70 years after Gennady Vinogradov was born in the small village of Sheshurino, northwest of Moscow, he just asks for one thing: to be able to die there in...
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'China would be the bank and Russia would be the big gun' in Central Asia
We are seeing the emergence of a dual power structure in Central Asia, with China as the dominant economic power and Russia as the big security player.Or, as Alexander Gabuev, senior associate and the...
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What Russia's historically expensive 2018 World Cup stadiums look like today
After spending an estimated $51 billion to host the 2014 Olympics, Russia has budgeted nearly $12 billion more for the 2018 World Cup. As a result, it's expected to be the most expensive World Cup in...
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Suddenly, Wall Street is obsessed with something that used to be an afterthought
While the world was seemingly at peace — before the financial crisis, war in Eastern Europe, and chaos in the Middle East — Wall Street's masters of the universe could keep geopolitics in the recesses...
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Russian poverty has reached 'critical' levels
Under the weight of Western sanctions and with the price of oil dropping, poverty in Russia has reached "critical" levels, according to a government official, reported the Moscow Times. Data from the...
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The top 20 countries as ranked by reputation
Iraq, Iran, and Russia find themselves in the headlines daily because of their ongoing military conflicts, human-rights violations, and oppressive regimes.Unsurprisingly, a report issued Thursday by...
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Obama echoes Reagan on Iran
When President Ronald Reagan met Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva in November 1985, he whispered to the Soviet leader: "I bet the hard-liners in both our countries are bleeding when we shake hands."Reagan...
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Locals describe what it was like when MH17 was shot out of the sky in eastern...
The field outside Hrabove, littered one year ago with bodies and smelling of burnt flesh and plastic, now smells of wild flowers.But the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 still haunts...
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Russia is going to send fuel to Syria from Crimea
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia plans to supply Syria with 200,000 tonnes of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) per year via the Crimean port of Kerch, two trading sources told Reuters.The plans are a further...
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Putin's Chechen strongman: 'There won't even be a whiff of ISIS In Chechnya'
The head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, has vowed that the Islamic State (IS) group will not gain a foothold in Chechnya."We hear from 'Iblis State' that they have opened some kind of...
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This map shows what different countries view as the greatest threat to the world
Where people live affects their worldviews, and fear makes that fact particularly apparent.In May, the Pew Research Center conducted a global survey in which it asked 45,435 people in 40 different...
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Obama’s Iran news conference was a case for American weakness
President Obama was well into his feisty and freewheeling news conference on the Iran nuclear deal when Major Garrett of CBS News got under the presidential skin."As you well know, there are four...
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We already know who's snapping up all of Greece's gorgeous villas
Russian buyers are scrambling to buy bargain properties in Greece as the financial meltdown has eroded luxury real-estate prices, Damien Sharkov reported for Newsweek.Just to give you an idea of the...
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A look inside the insanely successful life of Russian mathematician and...
Eugene Kaspersky is the Russian entrepreneur behind the antivirus company Kaspersky Lab. His company is known as a leader in the industry, frequently discovering important cybersecurity weaknesses.But...
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