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Vintage Travel Posters Show A Softer Side Of The Soviet Union
In the 1920s and '30s, the Soviet Union wanted to attract wealthy European and American tourists to raise funds for its planned industrialization.So it commissioned emerging artists to make a series of...
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Mobile In Brazil, India And China — The 5 Keys To The Massive Growth Wave In...
Smartphone growth is showing signs of exhaustion in heavily penetrated markets like the U.S. and Europe. But not in emerging markets. Many of these are already mobile-first economies where mobile...
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Russia Sends Warship With 'Special Cargo' To Syria
A Russian warship carrying "special cargo" will be dispatched toward Syria, a navy source said on Friday, as the Kremlin beefs up its presence in the region ahead of possible US strikes against the...
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PUTIN: Russia Will Continue To Help Syria If The US Attacks
Russian President Vladimir Putin says the Kremlin will continue to back Syria in the case of foreign military intervention.Putin responded to a question about Syria at the G20 summit by saying, "Will...
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43 Photos That Show Vladimir Putin Doesn't Mess Around
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been waging a proxy war of sorts with Obama and the West in Syria, and he isn't backing down.In fact, his rhetoric has become even more fiery, today saying he would...
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Moscow's Stunning Metro System Feels Like A Trip Back In Time [PHOTOS]
In 1935, the first part of Moscow's metro, or Moskovsky metropoliten, opened to the public. For nearly 80 years, the system has been ferrying visitors and locals around the Russian capital.What's more...
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How Vladimir Putin Became The Chuck Norris Of International Politics
Russian President Vladimir Putin earned a new distinction last month, when conservative U.S. blogger Matt Drudge branded him the "leader of the free world."Drudge's support of Putin may seem odd (just...
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GOP SENATORS: New Syria 'Breakthrough' Means Congress Should Pass Airstrike...
Monday's new developments on Syria should make Congress pass a resolution authorizing President Barack Obama to use military force in Syria, Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and John McCain...
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Syria Agrees To Russian 'Plan' To Transfer Control Of Chemical Weapons And...
Syria has "agreed to the Russian initiative" to place the country's chemical weapons under international control for subsequent dismantling, Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said on Tuesday.He added...
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The Bizarre New Tech Of The Russian Military Includes An Inflatable Missile...
Of course the Americans have the highest-tech military gizmos around, their “just over the horizon, honest” toys looking like what you’d get if Tom Clancy ever scripted an episode of Thunderbirds (if...
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How Vladimir Putin Hijacked The White House's Response To Syria
In little over a day, Russia has successfully obstructed any White House plan to strike Syria and trumped it with one that is nearly impossible to carry out.Meanwhile the events of August 21 have faded...
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As Putin Edges Out Obama In Syria Crisis, US Moves To Seize $230 Million From...
The Russia-U.S. relationship is the focus of a lot of attention this week, with President Vladimir Putin widely perceived to have out-maneuvered President Barack Obama and winning respect from unlikely...
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Russia To Renew Offer To Supply Iran With Missile Systems And Nuclear Reactor
Russian President Vladimir Putin will offer to supply Iran S-300 air defence missile systems as well as build a second reactor at the Bushehr nuclear plant, the Kommersant business daily reported...
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In 1999, Vladimir Putin Wrote A NYT Op-Ed With A Very Different Take On...
The big talk of today is Russian President Vladimir Putin's surprising (and to some people, sickening) New York Times op-ed that stands against U.S. military intervention in Syria.But this isn't...
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Putin and Assad Have Presented The West With An Impossible Ultimatum
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told Russian news agency RIA Novosti that Syria will not fulfill a chemical weapons initiative unless the U.S. stops threatening to strike Syria and "ceases arms...
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Vladimir Putin's 21 Most Provocative Quotes
Never mind Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s diabolical dictator: Consider this combustible quote on Wednesday from Syria’s staunchest ally, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin, writing in The New York Times,...
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This Quote Shows How Hypocritical Putin Was In Criticizing American...
Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent and much talked about New York Times op-ed contained a closing critique of American Exceptionalism:And I would rather disagree with a case [Obama] made on...
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What Putin Understands That Most Americans Don't
Here is a reaction to the Putin op-ed on Syria, and resulting flap, from a reader who was born in the Ukraine, came to the U.S. as a child, and is now an American citizen living in California. I think...
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Russia Punishes A Dental Clinic For Joking About Infidelity
Russia's Federal Anti monopoly Service fined the dental clinic VelaDent for offending family values in an advertisement depicting an act of infidelity. Here's the ad, which encourages customers to...
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37 Die In This Year's Second Major Fire At A Russian Psychiatric Hospital
A fire killed 37 people in a Russian psychiatric hospital on Friday, the second deadly blaze at such a facility this year, heightening concerns about Russia's treatment of the mentally ill and other...
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