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13 Security Measures That Will Put A ‘Ring Of Steel’ Around The Sochi Olympics
With terrorists vowing to strike Sochi, security is the word on everyone's lips.Russia is trying its best to reassure the world. The chief organizer of the Sochi Olympics has recently bragged that the...
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Before-And-After Pictures Show How Sochi Has Changed In The Year Leading Up...
The Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, have cost the nation nearly $50 billion, making them the most expensive Games in history.Much of the work to transform the resort town into a professional outpost...
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Putin's Russia: Sochi Or Bust
The conspicuous dazzle of the games masks a country, and a president, in deepening troubleFEBRUARY 7th sees the opening of the winter Olympics in Sochi on the Black Sea. The message of the games is...
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Another Twin Toilet Stall Discovered At Sochi
SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Twin Toilets, No. 2.Side-by-side toilets in a men's bathroom caused a social media sensation last month when they were discovered at the biathlon venue for the Sochi Olympics,...
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Sochi Has Been Poisoning Stray Dogs Before The Olympics
The Russian government has hired a company to kill stray dogs before the Olympics, ABC News reports.Sochi has a sizeable stray dog population. Alexei Sorokin, the owner of the company hired to cull the...
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Russia Is Looking Bad
A quick note on Russia.We've been saying that it's time to pay more attention again to the country's economic troubles. The Ruble has been getting smoked lately, and the country is suffering from many...
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Goldman Invests In Chain Of Upscale Russian Fitness Clubs
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Investment bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc <GS.N> is increasing its investment in an upscale chain of fitness clubs founded by a Russian former fencer, betting lifestyle spending...
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Russian School Shooter Arrested After Killing Teacher, Taking Classroom Hostage
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Moscow high-school student shot a teacher and a police officer dead and held more than 20 other students hostage in a classroom on Monday before he was disarmed and detained,...
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Ukraine's Growing Number Of 'Disappeared' May Be A Symptom Of 'State Capture'
Last week could have been the moment when Ukraine turned the corner, ending the protests.Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych announced sweeping concessions - including the sacking of the entirety of...
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Popular Gay Dating App Has Been Mysteriously Hacked And Blocked In Sochi
The founder and CEO of Hunters, a popular Russian gay hookup and dating app that's similar to Grindr, told Web publication Towleroad that it has been hacked. Dmitry T. (his last name is being withheld...
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A Warmer Earth May Destroy Putin's Plans For A Grand Sochi Legacy
Why would anyone in their right mind want to host the monstrously expensive, logistical nightmare better known as the Olympics? What is the benefit?It's a question that has troubled a lot of people in...
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Russians Are Shocked That An 'American-Style' School Shooting Happened In...
A teacher and a policeman are dead after a Moscow high school student wielding a hunting rifle went on what some Russians are calling the first-ever "American-style" shooting spree in Russia, and held...
View ArticleThis May Be The Best High-Speed Parking Job We've Ever Seen [DASH CAM]
This dash cam video shows one of two things: It could be an amazing driver pulling off one of the most impressive parking jobs of all time. More likely, it's a terrible driver swerving through four...
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Russia Just Canceled Another Bond Auction Because The Markets Stink
Russia's Ministry of Finance (MoF) has cancelled a government bond auction scheduled for February 5, Bloomberg reported.The "decision to cancel the auction was taken with a view to the current market...
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WELCOME TO 'LITTLE ODESSA': Inside The Brooklyn Neighborhood That's A...
With the Sochi Winter Olympic Games less than a week away, all eyes are on Russia.Russophiles in New York can get a taste of the Motherland in Little Odessa, an insular neighborhood just blocks from...
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Why The US Ambassador To Russia Announced His Resignation On LiveJournal
On Tuesday the United States ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, announced he would be leaving his post in Moscow after the Sochi Olympics. He intends to return to his family in California.In a...
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8 Russia-Inspired Snacks To Serve At Your Olympics Opening Ceremony Party
The long-awaited 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi officially kick off Thursday. After all that talk about expense, security and if people will actually go, it's time to see how the Games will shake...
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Russia Won't Allow Chobani Yogurt At The Sochi Olympics
NY senator calls on Russian government to allow yogurt delivery to Olympic athletes in SochiALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer of New York is calling on the Russian government to allow...
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The Bizarre, Heartwarming Spectacle Of Pussy Riot On 'The Colbert Report'
Two members of the anti-Putin performance group "Pussy Riot" are in the U.S. right now, embarking on a mini-media tour and generally becoming darlings of the American press.With top billing at an...
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Let's Face It, The Olympics Are Always Ridiculous And Usually Financially...
As journalists arrive in Sochi, the Russian city hosting the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, they are noticing some strange things: there were the two toilets in a single stall, taps are spewing some kind...
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