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A NYT Op-Ed On How Terrible London Is Has Prompted A Major Backlash
Last Friday, Ben Judah wrote a scathing indictment of London as a town now thriving on "Russian oligarchs and Qatari princes," and that Britain's youth are now "oligarchs' valets."The idea of "dirty"...
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'Red Army’ Trailer Tells The Incredible Story Of The Russian Hockey Team...
The new trailer for documentary "Red Army" tells the incredible story of the most dominant and politically influential sports team in history: the Soviet Union’s Red Army ice hockey team.The doc acts...
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NATO Planes Will Monitor Ukraine's Border Ahead Of Crimea's Referendum To...
NATO has announced that it will deploy E-3 AWACS Airborne Early Warning planes to Poland and Romania to monitor Ukraine’s airspace.In what is a significant escalation of the crisis, NATO has decided to...
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Obama And Biden On Vacation During Crimea Crisis
While the Ukrainians continue the fight to hold their nation together against Russian aggression in the Crimean region, President Obama and Vice President Biden are on vacation.No, I don’t mean that as...
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Citi Massively Cuts Its Growth Forecast For Russia Thanks To The Ukraine Crisis
More evidence that Putin's ventures into Ukraine are going to cost him a lot.Citi is predicting a massive GDP slowdown due to it: from 2.6% to 1.0%.We downgrade GDP growth on heightened uncertainty....
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New Putin-Backed Prime Minister In Crimea Used To Be A Gangster Named 'Goblin'
Sergiy Aksyonov, Crimea's new prime minister, is a shadowy businessman who prospered in the chaos of the post-Soviet era and now looks set to lead his region back into Russia's orbit.Nicknamed "The...
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Ukraine Is Building A National Guard 'From Scratch' In Face Of Russian...
KIEV/SEVASTOPOL (Reuters) - Ukraine will raise a new national guard force among military veterans in response to Russian attempts to annex Crimea, the acting president told parliament on...
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EXPERT: Ukraine Could Become Russia's Afghanistan
While Western officials have condemned Vladimir Putin for his invasion of Ukraine, they have cautioned the new government in Kiev not to fall into the trap that Georgian President Mikhail Sakashvilli...
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Putin’s War Machine Relies On A Critical Ukrainian Port Outside Crimea
One key reasons why the Kremlin has forcefully refused to let Ukraine cut ties with Russia is the importance of preserving access to Ukraine's Black Sea ports.Case in point, Russia's massive arms...
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Russia Says Planned US Financial Aid To Ukraine Is Illegal
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia warned the United States on Tuesday about the consequences of planned financial support to what it called Ukraine's illegitimate regime, saying the aid would be illegal.The...
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Russia Was Prepared To Take Crimea For Years
The Crimea region of Ukraine is headed toward a referendum this Sunday, with the peninsula, home to a majority Russian-speaking population and a major Russian naval base, already out of Ukraine's...
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Russia Is Like The Schoolyard Bully
There is a common perception that Russia move on Crimea shows its strength. A closer examination suggests it is more complicated that it may seem. Like the bully at the school yard, the...
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Here's The Framework And Wording For EU Sanctions Against Russia
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU member states have agreed the wording of sanctions on Russia, including travel restrictions and asset freezes against those responsible for violating the sovereignty of Ukraine,...
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MAP: Why Europe Is Dismayed By Russia's Invasion Of Crimea
The PBS Newshour had top-notch coverage of the Ukraine crisis last night.Gwen Ifill noted that Vladimir Putin said Russia reserves the right to intervene where ethnic Russians are under threat of...
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G7 Tells Russia To Stop Annexation Of Crimea Or Face Joint International Action
Leaders of the G7 group of advanced economies told Russia on March 12 it risked facing international action unless it stops its moves toward the "annexation" of Crimea, as U.S. President Barack Obama...
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Crimea Referendum Doesn't Offer 'No' Option For Seceding To Russia
KIEV (Reuters) - Sunday's vote in Ukraine's Crimea is being officially billed as a chance for the peninsula's peoples to decide fairly and freely their future - but in fact there is no room on the...
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'I'll Shoot To Kill!': Vice Reporter Near Crimea Threatened By Pro-Russian...
In the latest in a series of dispatches from Ukraine and Crimea, Vice News reporter Simon Ostrovsky traveled to the Kherson region of the Ukrainian mainland to investigate Russian and Ukrainian...
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Russia’s Attempted Crimea Annexation Would Include Huge Offshore Gas Reserves
One day before the President of Ukraine and the constitutional order of the country were toppled, Georhii Rudko, the chairman of the Ukrainian State Commission for Natural Resources, gave a notable...
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Troops And Tensions Build As Russia And Ukraine Eye Imminent Crimea Annexation
Tensions are rising in Ukraine and Russia as Crimea is set to hold a fixed referendum on Sunday about whether or not the region will break away and join Russia.In a showing of strength, and excessive...
View Article11 Incredible Facts Show How Different Russia Is From The Rest Of The World
Please enable Javascript to watch this video Russia has been all over the news lately – from the Sochi Winter Olympics to the tension in Crimea, but how well do you really know this country? Impress...
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