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Russia Is Stepping Up Its Military Lifeline To Syria's Assad As Peace Talks...
LONDON (Reuters) - In recent weeks Russia has stepped up supplies of military gear to Syria, including armored vehicles, drones and guided bombs, boosting President Bashar al-Assad just as rebel...
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Last Surviving Member Of Siberian Family Who Isolated Themselves From Society...
In 1936, fearing persecution from Joseph Stalin's Soviet Russia, the Lykov family cut themselves off from Russian society. They were Old Believers, and thus part of a fundamentalist Russian Orthodox...
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Why Sochi Is By Far The Most Expensive Olympics Ever
The Winter Olympic Games that begin next month in Sochi, Russia, are very expensive. At a projected cost of around $50 billion, it's not just, by any measure, insanely expensive, it's also the most...
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Russia's Persistent Weaknesses Of Human Capital
Russia has a generally well-educated and well-disciplined workforce, not to mention a large number of world-class physicists and mathematicians. However, Russian exports remains firmly raw-material...
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Putin Denies Reports That $51 Billion Olympic Price Tag Was Caused By Corruption
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin denied that any large-scale corruption surrounded the Sochi Winter Olympics and challenged those with allegations of misconduct to come forward with...
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INTELLIGENCE CHAIR: ‘I Don't Think That's A Coincidence’ That Snowden Ended...
Russia may have helped the former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden to reveal details of surveillance programmes and escape US authorities last year, the chairman of the House...
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Snowden May Have Had Russian Help With NSA Leak, House Intelligence Chair Claims
Russia may have helped the former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden to reveal details of surveillance programmes and escape US authorities last year, the chairman of the House...
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Putin Says Russia Doesn't Discriminate Against Gays, Cites Elton John Fans
President Vladimir Putin said Sunday that Russia does not discriminate against gays and that millions of Russians love pop icon Elton John "despite his orientation", as he sought to defuse calls from...
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A Crumbling Sochi Hides Behind Olympic Facades
Behind Olympic facades is a crumbling Sochi whose residents live worse now than everSOCHI, Russia (AP) — A shining new $635 million highway on the outskirts of Sochi stands next to a crumbling...
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17-Year-Old Russian Hacker Behind Target, Neiman Marcus Credit Card Hacks
According to a report released Friday by the cyber intelligence group IntelCrawler, a 17-year-old Russian man, username "ree4," appears to have been the author of the point-of-sale malware used for the...
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This Russian Speed Skater Flipping Off The Competition Will Get You Psyched...
Between the NHL's line brawls and hallway fights and the NFL's Richard Sherman non-troversy, sports pundits had enough to talk about Monday morning. But the photo of a speed skater giving a victorious...
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US Offers Russia Military Support For Sochi Games As Terror Concerns Rise
The United States said Monday it was ready to deploy air and naval assets -- including two ships -- to help secure the upcoming Winter Olympics in Russia after terror threats.The offer came following...
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This Ridiculous Photo Of Two Toilets Is Becoming A Symbol Of Waste At The...
A photo of two toilets in one bathroom stall at the Olympic Biathlon Center in Sochi, Russia has prompted fresh criticisms about waste and corruption at the games.The photo:Seeing double in the...
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Here's The Real Reason Why Russia Could Permanently Move Clocks Back One Hour
While much of the world's attention on Russia remains focused on Sochi, host of the bizarrely expensive 2014 Winter Olympics, there's something else is being discussed in the halls of Russian power: a...
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The People Of Russia's 'Forgotten Genocide' Return Home To Sochi Ahead Of The...
When the 2014 Winter Olympics kick off in Sochi, Russia next month, there will likely be an opening ceremony celebrating Russian history. One horrific event probably won’t make it into the program.In...
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A Reality Check About Sochi's Most Wanted 'Black Widow'
Apparently, the police inside the Sochi security zone are hunting one Ruzanna “Salima” Ibragimova, widow of a member of a North Caucasus insurgent.Indeed, according to some accounts she is only one of...
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Russia Hacked Hundreds Of Western, Asian Companies For Economic Espionage:...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. cybersecurity firm says it has gathered evidence that the Russian government spied on hundreds of American, European and Asian companies, the first time Moscow has been...
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Russian Police Kill Islamist Militant Leader Before Olympics
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Police have killed a senior Islamist militant in Russia's North Caucasus ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, where security forces searched on Tuesday for a woman they fear is...
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Russian Hackers 'Are Copying The Chinese Play Book' — That's Bad News For The US
The cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has published a report detailing a program dubbed "Energetic Bear" that is linked to Russia's government and conducts intelligence collection operations around the...
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Security Researchers Found Russian Spy Nodes Studying Facebook Users
A new report published by security researchers Phillip Winter and Stefan Lindskog related to the Tor anonymity network revealed that someone in Russia is operating a series of spy nodes that collect...
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