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Russia's Silicon Valley Risks Turning Into A $5.4 Billion Boondoggle
The view from the roof of the seven-story, mesh- and LED-covered Hypercube building is one of modern-day Russia, where just 110 billionaires control 35 percent of the household wealth.Immediately to...
View ArticleMeet The Scary Man In Charge Of Vladimir Putin's New State News Agency
The announcement that Vladimir Putin would be dissolving the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti (and radio station Voice of Russia) took many by surprise. The agency, which had a robust...
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Russian TV Says Ukraine Protesters Are Depraved, Christmas-Hating Hooligans...
Russia's state-run television channels are not known for their impartiality. Their coverage of the massive pro-European protests that have engulfed Ukraine is no exception, analysts say.Russian state...
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Currency Geeks Rejoice, Russia Has A New Symbol For The Rouble
Huge numismatic news today out of Russia today. The country has chosen its new currency symbol.Weeks after Russia announced it would crowdsource five symbol options to its citizenry, the Bank of Russia...
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Russian Official Says Nukes Are A Good Response To US Conventional Strike
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian Cabinet member says Moscow has reserved the right to use nuclear weapons in response to a conventional strike.Wednesday's comments by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin...
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How A Mig-31 Repelled The World's Fastest Spy Plane From Soviet Skies
Even if no SR-71 was lost due to hostile actions during the entire Blackbird career, the Mach 3+ capable spyplane faced an adversary that could effectively intercept it: the MiG-31 Foxhound.The SR-71's...
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Arctic Tensions Are Soaring After Moves By Canada And Russia
The race to control the Arctic is intensifying as Canada moved this week to assert polar territorial claims and Russia promised of a rapid military buildup in the polar region.The back-and-forth...
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PUTIN: The Reasons For Russia's Economic Problems Are Internal Not External
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's economic slowdown is mainly being driven by domestic causes, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, singling out low labor productivity as a problem."We have to be...
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Putin Woos Ukraine As EU and US Increase Pressure
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin made a new attempt to woo Ukraine on Thursday after the European Union and United States stepped up efforts to pull Kiev out of its former Soviet...
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Russia Deploys Radar Able To Track Military Jets Across All Of Eastern Europe
A radar that is able to track targets at ranges of over 3,000 km has been activated within the Russian air defense system on Dec. 2, 2013.The Kolkino radar station, using the first modernized 29B6...
View ArticleREPORT: Ukraine Agrees To Sign EU Trade Deal
Following weeks of sometimes violent protests, reports suggest that Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych will reverse his U-turn on a trade deal with the European Union.CNBC just now reported that...
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Pussy Riot Members Could Be Freed From Russian Jail This Week
Russian lawmakers on Wednesday approved a Kremlin-backed amnesty bill that is set to free the two jailed members of the punk band Pussy Riot while also ending the prosecution of 30 Greenpeace crew...
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Journalist Gives Vladimir Putin A Gift Of A Ridiculous Stuffed Animal In The...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is holding one of his big press conferences in Moscow today, and one of more than the 1,300 journalists in attendance just gave Putin an odd-looking gift.Shaun Walker,...
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Putin: Pussy Riot Members To Be Freed Under Amnesty
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday two jailed members of the punk band Pussy Riot would be freed under an amnesty but described their protest against him in a church...
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Putin To Pardon Russia's Former Richest Man Khodorkovsky After 10 Years In Jail
Vladimir Putin will sign a pardon for jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky “in the nearest future,” the Russian president announced following a huge meeting with the press.The ex-Yukos CEO has spent...
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The Russian Stock Market Just Surged After Putin Unexpectedly Pardons Oil Tycoon
Big news out of Russia.Vladimir Putin will pardon Russian oil tycoon Victor Khodorkovsky, who has spent the last 1o years in jail.ZeroHedge points out that on the news Russia's stock market is...
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Why Putin's Release Of His Biggest Rival From Prison Is More Machiavellian...
Today, at an annual four-hour Q&A session with national and foreign press, Vladimir Putin announced something no one was expecting.The jailed oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Putin said, had recently...
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Putin Critic And Former Richest Russian Khodorkovsky Has Left Prison After 10...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin pardoned former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Friday.Putin surprised Russians and cheered the business community by announcing on Thursday that...
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Here's The First Photo Of Oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky After Being Freed...
This photograph of Mikhail Khodorkovsky arriving at Berlin's Schönefeld Airport is the first of him as a free man in more than 10 years.It all happened so quickly. Just yesterday, Russian President...
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What Putin Gains From Khodorkovsky's Release
A few days ago, if you'd said Mikhail Khodorkovsky would be wandering around Berlin today, nobody would have believed you. The jailed Russian oligarch was not expected to be part of Putin's pre-Sochi...
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