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Russian Businessman Fakes Death Before Proposing To Girlfriend

Before a wealthy Russian businessman popped the question to his girlfriend, he decided he wanted to test her love, and make a point in the process. So 30-year-old Alexey Bykov hired a stuntman,...

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If You Expect Western Europe To Come Back, Then Consider Investing In Eastern...

If history had turned out differently, the USSR would’ve taken home the most Olympic medals this year, as the total awarded to athletes from the area was 163, according to a blog on Foreign Policy’s...

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Vladimir Putin Will Lead A Pack Of Endangered Cranes In A Hang-Glider

He has shot a grey whale with a sample-collecting dart in the Pacific, released leopards in the Caucasus and "saved journalists from wild tigers", now Vladimir Putin's latest episode of animal antics...

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WATCH: Vladimir Putin Helps Guide Migrating Birds By Taking To Sky In...

Just hours after news came out about Russian President Vladimir Putin's plan to take to the skies and help rare Siberian white cranes migrate south for winter, the Russian strongman has completed his...

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Vladimir Putin Reveals His Thoughts On Mitt Romney

In his first interview since becoming President (again) earlier this year, Vladimir Putin has revealed his thoughts on the US election. The interview is due to be broadcast today, though (strangely)...

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A Closer Look At The City Where Russia Is Making A $20 Billion Bet On Asia

This week Russia is hosting the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Economic Leaders' Meeting, hosting 21 Pacific-Rim in its far-eastern port city, Vladivostok. It's the first time Russia has...

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Vladimir Putin Plays With An Octopus

Yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin added guiding Siberian white cranes to his long list of macho man stunts. Now, he can add playing with octopuses to the list too. In a tour of a new...

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Why Russia Keeps Sending Money To Bankrupt Cyprus

The Republic of Cyprus, with its 840,000 people, has been in the Eurozone for less than five years. It and its banks burned through mountains of euros faster than anyone could count. Now they need a...

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Watch A Russian Helicopter Fly Alongside Cars On The Highway To Moscow

The road to Moscow is populated by more than cars, it turns out. A Russian driver's dashboard camera captured this wild video of an Mi-8 helicopter flying along the road at what looks like a...

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Gazprom's Management Leaves The Company Open To Serious Corruption

After the European Commission announced an antitrust investigation into OAO Gazprom, a Russian government minister denounced pressure on the gas giant as driven by “political factors,” the Wall Street...

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The 18 Largest Ransoms Ever Paid

You hear in movies how authorities "don't negotiate with kidnappers," but the truth is that ransoms often get paid. We've ranked the biggest ransoms of the modern era (adjusted for inflation). Wealthy...

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Vladimir Putin Gives Frightening Response To The Critics Of His...

Last week Vladimir Putin took to the skies in a motorized hang-glider to help guide a number of Siberian white cranes south for the Winter. If you think that sounds ridiculous, you're not alone. Could...

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These Fabulous Aircraft Are Part Of Vladimir Putin's Rumored $1 Billion Fleet

Vladimir Putin has claimed that his life is comparable to that of a galley slave. But according to Boris Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister and opposition politician, the Russian president is...

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Russian Election Boss Calls US Elections Worst In World

The Chairman of Russia’s Central Elections Commission, Vladimir Churov, has told an audience at a Russian university that the US election system is the worst in the world, Russia Today reports. "No...

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Somehow, Romney And Obama Got Away With Not Mentioning Foreign Policy At All...

Foreign policy issues have predictably been neglected in this presidential election year, which leaves voters with very limited information to use in judging the candidates' worldviews. Of course,...

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Russian Prime Minister Calls For Release Of Pussy Riot

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has called for the release of jailed Russian art group Pussy Riot, the AP reports. Medvedev, the former Russian President, said that anymore time in jail for the...

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Watch A Mercedes Drift Through Traffic In Russia

Based on all the dash cam videos coming out of Russia, roads there are a lot wilder than they are in the United States. Last week, we saw an Mi-8 helicopter come pretty close to turning cars on a...

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DEUTSCHE BANK: BRICs Are An Investment Disaster

Brazil, Russia, India and China – together termed BRICs have been an investment disaster and were a marketing-led concept, according to John-Paul Smith, emerging markets equity strategist at Deutsche...

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Russia Reveals It Is Sitting On 'Trillions Of Carats' Of Diamonds

MOSCOW — Russia has just declassified news that will shake world gem markets to their core: the discovery of a vast new diamond field containing "trillions of carats," enough to supply global markets...

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Russia Forgives $11 Billion In North Korean Debt

Russia has signed a compact with North Korea that will write off 90 percent of the debt the DPRK has accrued since the Cold War, and will reinvest the remaining 10 percent back in the reclusive Asian...

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