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This Giant Soviet Factory Epitomizes Russia's Economic Dilemma
YEKATERINBURG Russia (Reuters) - Viktor Livshits will never forget May 9, 1945, the day he first laid eyes on Uralmash, a giant factory making tanks and other heavy machinery that has for decades...
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One Ukrainian Oligarch Is Loving The IMF’s Emergency Liquidity Assistance
The Ukrainian revolution has been very bad for business in the country. But for Igor Kolomoisky’s Privatbank there has been compensation of almost a billion dollars in state funds: publicly, rival...
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Norway Wants NATO To Prepare For An Arctic Showdown
Even Norway, ensconced in the most developed corner of the world, is worried about conflict with the Russians.Today, Stephen Saideman, a professor at Carleton University in Ottawa and a leading expert...
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Despite A Ceasefire, Paramilitary Volunteers Continue To Head To War-Torn...
On June 23, Kyiv sent over 500 men off to the battlefields of eastern Ukraine. Outside the city, well over 400 soldiers swore solemn oaths to the Donbas Battalion, a paramilitary unit led by Donbas...
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India And Russia Are Trying To Build A Next-Generation Fighter Jet Together,...
India's co-development of a fifth-generation fighter with Russia has not progressed quite as smoothly as the top brass in the Indian Air Force (IAF) had hoped.The Sukhoi/HAL Fifth Generation Fighter...
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There's A Book Coming Out Soon Alleging Vladimir Putin Is Tied To Organized...
U.S. publisher Simon & Schuster says it will release a book examining Russian President Vladimir Putin’s alleged ties to organized crime that was rejected by a British publisher due to fears of...
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Finally There's An iPhone With Vladimir Putin's Face On It — And It's Only...
iPhone are so ubiquitous these days. What you really want is something to set your phone apart from the crowds. A gold-plated iPhone, perhaps. With Vladimir Putin's face emblazoned on the back.Such a...
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Ukraine's New President Signed The Historic EU Trade Agreement That Sparked...
BRUSSELS (AP) — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Friday signed up to a trade and economic pact with the European Union, saying it may be the "most important day" for his country since it became...
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Russia Postpones Launch Of Angara Space Rocket Minutes Before Launch
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia postponed the planned debut launch of the Angara rocket, its first new design of space vehicle since the Soviet era, just minutes before it was due to blast off on Friday.The...
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Two Billionaires Allegedly Ordered The Takeover Of A Russian Oil Company With...
New York's top state court on Thursday reinstated Canadian oil company Norex Petroleum Ltd's $1 billion lawsuit claiming that two billionaires used armed soldiers and corrupted Russian court...
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Elon Musk Is Opening A New Front In His Lawsuit Against The Air Force
Elon Musk's SpaceX is deploying a new argument in his challenge of an Air Force contract the government awarded to a aerospace firm.This week, SpaceX filed an amended complaint alleging that United...
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Ukraine's President Declares Ceasefire Over — 'WE WILL ATTACK AND WE WILL...
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko declared the end of a ceasefire between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels in southeastern Ukraine, ignoring pressure from Russia."We will attack and we will...
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Here's What A Bombing Run Looks Like From The Underbelly Of A Fighter Jet...
The following video shows a practice bombing mission flown by a Russian Air Force Su-24 Fencer jet, using cameras mounted on the belly of the aircraft. As expected, this provides an unusual and...
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These Are The Men Behind The Havoc In East Ukraine
An alleged Russian spy, a former Santa-for-hire, and a foul-mouthed former manager of a soap factory, to name just a few — the leaders of the “Donetsk People's Republic” are a motley bunch.Now that...
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Russia Refused To Let 'House Of Cards' Film In The UN Security Council Chamber
Vladimir Putin's Russian government has been busy with international affairs lately. I don't mean large-scale issues like the sudden invasion of Crimea or pulling natural gas pipelines into China....
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The US Is Flying Right Into The Iran-Russia-Syria Plan In Iraq
The skies of Iraq are getting crowded. U.S. Apache attack helicopters and unarmed drones are being deployed along with the 500 American troops already ordered to the country. They're just the latest...
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Russia's Internet Is Becoming More And More Like China's
Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 30 signed legislation that could punish Internet users with prison terms for reposting or retweeting material deemed “extremist” by the government. Critics call...
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A New Russian Internet Law Has Some People Worried About Possible State...
Russia's relationship with the Internet has long been dicey, with claims of censorship and surveillance being the norm. Now a new law might up the ante. The law, passed by Parliament yesterday, will...
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Don’t Believe The Propaganda About Heroic 'International Brigades' Fighting...
For months, the most prominent meme pushed by Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin as it wages Special War against Ukraine has been that the country is a nest of fascist vipers, and that Jew-hating Neo-Nazis are...
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The Former Georgian President Who Just Died Epitomized The Fall Of The Soviet...
Today, former Soviet foreign minister and Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze died at 86.His career, which covered a quarter-century of turbulence in the post-Soviet space, reveals the seeds of the...
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