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MERKEL TO PUTIN: You're Making A Huge Mistake
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Angela Merkel warned Moscow on Thursday that it risked "massive" political and economic damage if it refused to change course on Ukraine, saying Western leaders were united...
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Obama Still Needs Putin For His Most Ambitious Second-Term Goals
It is not uncommon for second-term presidents to turn more of their attention and focus to foreign policy. Domestic politics and policy become increasingly frustrating, as the president’s partisans in...
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Putin Will Go Down As One Of The Greatest Russians Ever If He Annexes Crimea
SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine (Reuters) - When President Vladimir Putin flew into the Ukrainian port of Sevastopol in Crimea last year, he made a pilgrimage to several sites associated with Russia's tumultuous...
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Would Sanctions Against Russia Even Work?
Tensions remain escalated on the Russia-Ukraine border. On Sunday, Crimean voters will be asked whether they want to join Russia.Meanwhile, western leaders are considering policy actions like sanctions...
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There's A Nervous Calm In The Currency Markets
The US dollar spent the Asian and European morning, largely consolidating yesterday's recovery. Narrow ranges have prevailed, and we suspect the North American operators may try to push the greenback...
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State Department: 'Crimeans Seem Bound And Determined To Go Forward With This
Top US diplomat John Kerry arrived in London on Friday on an 11th-hour mission to head off a possible Russian annexation of Crimea on the heels of a breakaway vote by the Ukrainian region.With the...
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REPORT: The CEOs Of Russia's Two Largest Companies Targeted In EU Sanctions
BRUSSELS/BERLIN (Reuters) - The EU has drawn up a list of 120-130 names of Russians who could be hit with travel bans and asset freezes, European officials said on Friday, and a German newspaper said...
View ArticleThe Massive Drop In The Fed's Custody Holdings Of Treasuries This Week...
Talk that Russia could be behind the bulk of the more than $100 billion drop in the Federal Reserve's custody holdings for foreign central banks in the week ending Wednesday has many observers...
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The Kremlin And Russia's Central Bank Hit By Powerful Cyber Attacks
The Kremlin says unknown hackers have launched a powerful attack on the website of the Russian presidency. The Kremlin's press service said the March 14 DDoS attack knocked out the president's website...
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Russia's Stock Market Falls
All eyes continue to be on Russia, Ukraine, and Crimea.The world awaits Sunday's referendum in Crimea where voters will be asked whether they want to join with Russia.Meanwhile, Russia's MICEX index...
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Russia Warns It Is Ready To Place Eastern Ukraine 'Under Its Protection'
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday it reserved the right to protect compatriots in eastern Ukraine after clashes in the city of Donetsk in which one person was killed.The Foreign Ministry said...
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Russia, Ukraine, and Crimea: Asymmetric Wars
The best way to get Crimea back is for Ukraine to become a prosperous democracy--with the West's help.It's not the voting that matters, Joseph Stalin once observed, but the counting. At the...
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We Can't Rule Out The Worst-Case Scenario For Russian Stocks
Value investors are drooling over Russia where the stock market is down around 20% since the beginning of the year. It's the worst performing emerging market so far this year.There's no shortage of...
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Russia Says It Intercepted A US Drone Over Crimea
A United States surveillance drone has been intercepted above the Ukranian region of Crimea, a Russian state arms and technology group said Friday."The drone was flying at about 4,000 metres (12,000...
View Article6 Russian Combat Planes Armed With Live Missiles Deployed To Belarus
Russia has deployed six Su-27 warplanes to Belarus to “counter the massing of forces on the border."The six Russian Sukhoi-27 Flankers accompanied three support transport planes to Bobruisk airfield in...
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Crimea Referendum Would Break International Law, NATO Says
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Friday a planned referendum in Ukraine's Crimea region would violate international law and lack legitimacy.Moscow shipped more...
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Pentagon Denies Russian Reports Of US Drone Intercepted Over Crimea
U.S. defense officials say reports from Russia that an American MQ-5B drone was intercepted over Crimea and made an emergency landing there are false. Voice of Russia reported on Friday that “an...
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Crimea Is Preparing For A Vote That Has Triggered The Worst East-West Crisis...
SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (Reuters) - Pro-Russian leaders in Crimea made final preparations on Saturday for a referendum widely expected to transfer control of the Black Sea peninsula from Ukraine to Moscow,...
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Russia Vetoes UN Resolution On Crimea
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia vetoed a U.N. resolution declaring Sunday's referendum on the future of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula illegal, and close ally China abstained in a show of Moscow's...
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Russian Troops 'Invade' Gas Facility On Ukraine Mainland
By Damien McElroy, Donetsk, Yekaterina Kravtsova in Moscow and Roland Oliphant in SimferopolUkraine's military mobilised to thwart an apparent Russian advance for the first time on Saturday night as...
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