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America Is Losing The Competition For The Arctic
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is racing to keep pace with stepped-up activity in the once sleepy Arctic frontier, but it is far from being in the lead.Nations across the world are hurrying to stake claims...
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31 Miles Of Road And Rail Links For The Sochi Winter Olympics Cost More Than...
Russia's Winter Olympic Games, starting in a few weeks in Sochi, are very expensive. With a revised budget of $51 billion, they are the most expensive Olympics on record, an insane fact when you...
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Russia Launches Massive Security Clampdown in Sochi Before The Olympics
Russia launches the largest security operation in Olympic history on Tuesday with one month to go before Vladimir Putin kicks off the Winter Games in Sochi amid renewed fears of suicide bombings.Army...
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Russia Again Blocks UN Security Council From Condemning Syria's Air Strikes...
Russia blocked a British-drafted UN Security Council statement condemning the Syrian government attacks on the city of Aleppo, diplomats said.It was the second time in a month that Russia objected to a...
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Russian Police Find Five Bodies Booby-Trapped With Explosives Near Sochi
Russia on Thursday launched a counter-terror operation after five bodies riddled with bullets were found in a southern region bordering the Winter Olympics host Sochi, less than a month before the...
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An Ominous Warning From 1991 About The Huge Risk Involving People Like Edward...
A NSA document from 1991 provides some insight on why Russian President Vladimir Putin called Edward Snowden a Christmas present after he landed in Moscow on June 23."In their quest to benefit from the...
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Security Concerns For Sochi After Russian Police Find Bullet-Ridden Bodies In...
Bizarre killings, for which no motive has yet been determined, heighten security concerns over Sochi Winter OlympicsRussian authorities said on Thursday that security forces had been put on combat...
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Iran And Russia Are Close To Making A Huge Oil-For-Goods Deal
LONDON/ANKARA (Reuters) - Iran and Russia are negotiating an oil-for-goods swap that would let Iran lift oil exports substantially, in defiance of the Western sanctions that helped force Tehran in...
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AK-47 Inventor In Letter To Church: 'My Spiritual Pain Is Unbearable'
It's increasingly clear that Mikhail Kalashnikov, who died last month aged 94, felt haunted by his life's most prominent creation: the AK-47 assault rifle.In a 2012 letter he sent to the Russian...
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Here's Photos Of John Kerry Awkwardly Handing Potatoes To Russia's Sergei Lavrov
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov today in Paris and took some time to hand him a couple Idaho potatoes.The meeting between the two men is bookended by...
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Why Western Outrage Could Make Things Worse For Russia's Gays
One of the most troubling events in 2013 was the deteriorating situation for Russia's LGBT community. In a few short months, the government passed laws banning "gay propaganda" and gay pride marches in...
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Russia Expels First US Journalist Since Cold War
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's President Kevin Klose says the Russian government has denied a visa request to David Satter -- a distinguished U.S. journalist and adviser to RFE/RL.Klose said in a...
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US Journalist Critical Of Putin Kicked Out Of Russia
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A U.S. journalist and author critical of President Vladimir Putin says he has been barred from Russia, a move that has echoes of the Cold War and could strain relations with the...
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Riotous Assembly
Women had a rotten time in the Soviet Union. Communist notions of sexual equality forced them into hard manual labour. Homemaking was both disregarded and hugely burdensome, with primitive appliances...
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Russian Security Forces Battle Militants Before Olympics
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Three Russian servicemen and four gunmen were killed in a shootout in southern Russia on Wednesday during a sweep for militants before the Sochi Winter Olympics.Russia's National...
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Russia Accuses Europe Of 'Aggressive Propaganda Of Homosexual Love'
A Russian report on the state of human rights in Europe in 2014 has accused the EU of trying to force an "aggressive propaganda of homosexual love" on other countries. The English-language version of...
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Some Of Putin's Pilots May Not Even Be Qualified To Fly Planes
Eight pilots of the special Rossiya Aviation Unit, responsible for the VIP transport in the Russian Federation, may have not legally obtained the required flying licenses according to Life News.The...
View ArticleChilling New Footage Shows Volgograd Bomber Trying To Get Through Metal...
Sixteen people died in a suicide bombing at a train station in Volgograd, Russia, Dec. 29, and now recently released video shows just how easy it is to engage in this type of terrorism.In the video,...
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Russia's Olympic Push Is Destroying Sochi's Environment
SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - The first warning of the problems that eventually swept away Irina Vorochkova's house near Russia's Olympic city of Sochi came when the garden began shifting, then the ground...
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