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RUSSIA TO US: We Promise Not To Push Deeper Into Ukraine
The Pentagon says it has received assurances that Russian forces will not push further into Ukraine, despite Moscow massing thousands of troops on the border in what it describes as a military...
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RUSSIAN STOCKS TANK
When President Obama first launched sanctions against a handful of Putin "cronies," the markets laughed at how weak they were.Nobody's laughing at Obama's sanctions now.The Russian stock market is...
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Russian Oil And Gas Billionaire Dumps All His Shares In Company He Co-Founded...
Russian billionaire Gennady Timchenko sold his stake in Gunvor a day before being named in sanctions announced by the United States over the Ukraine crisis, the Swiss-based commodity trading company...
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EU Sanctions On Russia Would Be 'Catastrophe' For More Than 6,000 German Firms
BERLIN (Reuters) - If an escalation of Europe's stand-off with Moscow over Ukraine results in economic sanctions, more than 6,000 German companies who do business with Russia would suffer catastrophic...
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Three Things That Will Happen If This Financial Market Warfare Keeps Heating Up
Russian stocks are tumbling today after President Obama announced a new round of stricter sanctions on Russian officials and banks.So what happens if more countries keep imposing sanctions on one...
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AFTER CRIMEA: Top Intelligence Analysts Forecast The 5 Things That Putin...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has invaded and annexed Crimea, continuing a Kremlin practice of employing military intervention abroad under the pretext of protecting ethnic Russians and Russian...
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How Europe Slowly Made Itself Immune To Russia's Threats
The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies is out with a note on the Ukraine crisis' potential impact on Europe gas imports (spotted by Mike Levi).The conclusion: most of the continent would not be...
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Why Putin Is Able To Screw With The US At Every Turn
Russian President Vladimir Putin never had any intentions of diplomacy with regard to Crimea, despite a last-ditch full-court press by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in London last week.That's how...
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10 Classic Paintings Brilliantly Reimagined As 'Simpsons' Scenes
Students of the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow presented a project in which they reinterpreted famous Russian paintings and replaced the people in them with characters from the...
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GOP Senator Is Actively Mocking Putin's Sanctions On Him
Most of the nine U.S. officials on Russia's list of sanctioned officials have reacted with pride and glee over being targeted by Russian President Vladimir Putin.But one — Indiana Republican Sen. Dan...
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THE TRUTH ABOUT RUSSIA: 5 Charts That Show What A Disaster The Economy Is...
Economists have reacted to the turmoil in Russia and Ukraine in recent weeks by slashing their forecasts for economic growth in Russia.As chart 1 shows, consensus expectations for consumer price...
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These Countries With Large Russian Populations Should Fear What Putin Might...
Citing the right to intervene wherever Russians are deemed to be in trouble, Vladimir Putin has set a possible precedent for future Russian intervention across Eastern Europe and Central Asia.This map,...
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Diplomacy And Security After Crimea: The New World Order
The post-Soviet world order was far from perfect, but Vladimir Putin's idea for replacing it is much worse."In people's hearts and minds," Vladimir Putin told Russia's parliament this week, "Crimea has...
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Besieged Ukraine Sailors Are Being Told To Leave Crimea Or Join The Russian...
The tugboats came in the evening, carrying three dozen Russian sailors and pro-Russian militiamen who climbed aboard the Ternopil and told the crew to leave.The captain of the Ternopil in the port of...
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Former Ukraine PM: 'We Must Be Ready For Putin To Cross The Red Line'
Russian president Vladimir Putin has "lost Ukraine for good" with his move to annex Crimea, former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko said Friday in her first live television appearance since returning to...
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How Astronauts Survive Diplomatic Tensions In Space
While the United States and Russia traded sanctions this week in a burgeoning crisis over Crimea, astronauts from both nations rose above the discord in their sanctuary hundreds of miles from...
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Obama May Have To Impose 'Real Costs' On Putin If He Wants Him To Back Down
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. penalties against a Russian bank and the Kremlin's inner circle have pinched Moscow, but their effectiveness is in doubt if the goal is to get President Vladimir Putin to roll...
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Ukrainian Soldiers Forced Out Of Air Force Base In Crimea By Angry Crowd
About 200 pro-Russian protesters on Saturday stormed a Ukrainian air force base in western Crimea, forcing the soldiers to leave as the Ukrainian flag was taken down.The unarmed crowd yelling "Russia!...
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Why The Rest Of Ukraine Will Resist Moscow's Gravitational Pull
Sergei Nakonechniy was sitting in a cafe in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk when a middle-aged woman rose from a nearby table and stormed toward him. She pointed to his camouflage jacket, which...
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One Photo Shows The Incredibly Close Ties Between Russia And Crimea
This one photo shows how remarkably intertwined Russia and Crimea actually is.In the center is a Ukrainian soldier, standing between the coffins of fallen soldier Sergey Kokurin, 35, right, and Russian...
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