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Russia Cancels A Bond Auction After Only A Single Bidder Showed Up
Bloomberg's Mark Sweetman reports Russia canceled a bond auction after only one bidder took part in the sale.The government was offering $379 million-worth of 10-year notes at 7.70%-7.75%.It's the...
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British Airways Passengers Are Stuck In A Russian Hotel After An Emergency...
A British Airways Boeing 747 flying from London to Beijing on Wednesday made a successful emergency landing at Irkutsk airport in Siberia due to technical problems, Russian officials said.The 270...
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The Three Reasons Russia Backs Assad So Staunchly
Over the course of the 29-month Syrian conflict, Russia has provided the regime of Bashar al-Assad with supplies including guns, grenades, tank parts, fighter jets, advanced anti-ship cruise missiles,...
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Pentagon Opens Criminal Probe Over Russian Mi-17 Helicopters America Bought...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon has opened a criminal investigation of an Army aviation unit that awarded tens of millions of dollars worth of contracts to Russian and U.S. firms for maintenance...
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Another Reason Putin Supports Syria: The Average Russian Doesn't Really Care
There are a lot of reasons that Vladimir Putin's Russian government is happy to keep supporting Bashar al-Assad's Syrian government in the face of growing Western pressure. Ultimately, supporting Assad...
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Why Obama Is Still Committed To Attacking Syria Despite Waning Support
All signs indicate that President Barack Obama is prepared for a limited strike on Syria despite a lack of broad support from allies and Congress.Yesterday, the U.K.'s House of Commons rejected Prime...
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MAP: Key Targets America Would Bomb In The Syrian Capital
President Barack Obama seems committed to a limited strike on the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in response to a chemical weapons attack in the suburbs of the capital on August 21.The...
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Three Ways That The West Could Make Life More Difficult For A Hostile Russia
FOR a time after Vladimir Putin first became Russia’s president almost 14 years ago, there were hopes that, though no liberal, he was moving in a pro-Western direction. But as he prepares to welcome...
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If You Thought Chinese Economic Data Was Fishy, Check Out This Chart From Russia
People love to snark on Chinese economic data as being hopelessly manipulated and unreliable, though for the most part those concerns are overblown. Chinese numbers tend to be directionally correct,...
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Eurochem's Big Plans For Potash Look Absurdly Shortsighted Now
On December 7, 2012, Andrei Melnichenko told prospective buyers of $750 million in loan participation notes that he was gung-ho on the future of the potash business of his Eurochem group. For Eurochem...
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Patriots Owner Robert Kraft Wants Vladimir Putin To Present Him With A Ring
One of the strangest stories in modern international affairs is Vladimir Putin's alleged theft of Robert Kraft's Super Bowl ring.In a nutshell, Patriots owner Kraft said earlier this year that that...
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Did WikiLeaks Sell Out Snowden To The Russians?
Is it just a coincidence that former NSA analyst Edward Snowden, a valuable intelligence asset, ended up in the hands of Russia's security services?Or did WikiLeaks, the "anti-secrecy" organization...
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35 Gorgeous Color Photos Of Russia 100 Years Ago
Last Friday, early color photographer Sergei Mikhailovish Prokudin-Gorskii would have celebrated his 150th birthday. The Russian master died in 1944 at the age of 81.But he left behind over 2,600...
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Fighter Jets And Helicopters Perform At Russia's International Air Show...
Russia's biennial International Aviation and Space Airshow, also known as MAKS, kicked off last week, and it's an impressive show.The first few days of the show, held near Moscow, were reserved for...
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Russia Warns Citizens About Traveling To America Or Allied Countries
The Russian government has issued an odd travel warning to its citizens — beware of the United States. Travel warnings typically warn citizens of war, disease, other unrest. This announcement from the...
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Vladimir Putin: Russian Officials Were In Contact With Snowden Before Flight...
Russian officials were in touch with Edward Snowden before the US intelligence leaker flew to Moscow from Hong Kong, President Vladimir Putin has revealed.In the first official confirmation of what...
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PUTIN: Snowden Is A 'Strange Guy' Who Is In For A Tough Life
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, who received asylum in Russia, is a "strange guy" who condemned himself to a difficult fate."You know, I sometimes...
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Obama Meeting Putin At The G20 Summit Will Likely Be A Tense, International...
World leaders will gather in St Petersburg on Thursday for what has transformed into an international showdown with Vladimir Putin threatening to send a missile shield to Syria if the US launches an...
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Russia Intensifies Control Over Northern Sea Route Shipping, But Suez May...
As larger cargo volumes and more international vessels move through Arctic waters, or the Northern Sea Route as the passage is generally called in Russian (SMP is the cyrillic acronym, NSR in English),...
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Former NSA Officer: WikiLeaks Serves As An Extension Of Russian Intelligence
Ever since the remarkable case of Edward Snowden broke into the limelight at the beginning of the summer that’s now winding down, I’ve had a great deal to say about it here, on Twitter, and on radio...
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