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The US Says It Has New Evidence That Russia Fired Artillery At Ukrainian Troops
The United States on Thursday said it had evidence Russian forces were firing artillery from inside Russia on Ukrainian troops, in what officials called a "clear escalation" of the conflict.Moscow is...
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Russian Business Leaders Are Afraid That MH17 Could Result In Damaging Sanctions
MOSCOW (AP) — Having for months dismissed Western sanctions on Russia as toothless, business leaders here are now afraid that the crash of the Malaysian jetliner will bring about an international...
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European Union Is Pushing Forward With Hard-Hitting Sanctions On Russia
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union ambassadors reached a preliminary agreement on Friday to push ahead with hard-hitting economic sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine crisis but details remained...
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Russia Is Providing Rebels In Ukraine With A Rocket System On Steroids
US intelligence sources are claiming that Russia has actually stepped up its material support for the rebels in eastern Ukraine, including heavier rocket systems.I suspect these may the BM-27 Uragan...
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Putin Is Getting A Free Pass
Following the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, many Europeans are eager for their governments to do something — anything — to punish Vladimir Putin for fomenting instability in the Ukraine.But...
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The Current Situation In Ukraine Is Eerily Similar To The Crisis That Started...
This summer is the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War, the “great seminal catastrophe” of the last century, in the memorable phrase of the diplomatist-scholar George Kennan.As a...
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Here's How Russians See What's Happening In Ukraine And Other World Conflicts
After pro-Russian separatists shot down a passenger plane in Ukraine, the West has demanded that the Russians disown their out-of-control compatriots in Ukraine. Our narrative is that the Russians are...
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Putin's Elite Counter-Terror Troops Have An Insane Training Regimen
A recent video from retired Special Operations veteran Larry Vickers highlights three of the most strenuous counter-terrorism drills that Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) operators have to go...
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US Isolationism Is Feeding A Global Free-For-All
To get a better sense of the mood in the United States on how the country should behave overseas, it is worth looking at a recently-published Politico poll.The poll illustrates an intense distaste...
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Haunting Photos From The Site Of The Malaysian Airlines Crash 8 Days Later
After the literal and figurative dust from the downed Malaysian flight MH17 has settled, officials and crews are left to make sense of it all. In a field outside the town of Hrabove, in eastern...
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It's Time To Assign Blame For Everything Happening In Ukraine
The body of evidence that Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 is overwhelming. To start, separatist leaders bragged about shooting down an aircraft, then...
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The Stock Market Has Been Predicting Russian Crises Since 1857
Winston Churchill once said that Russia "is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."But not everyone is so baffled by the world's biggest country.The Socionomics Institute released a two-part...
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Russia To US: This Is Your Fault Too
Russia reacted angrily on Saturday to additional sanctions imposed by the European Union over Moscow's role in the Ukraine crisis, saying they would hamper cooperation on security issues and undermine...
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As Scary As The World Is Right Now, Here's Why It's Different From The...
With the world caught in a series of potential proxy wars from Ukraine to the Middle East and tensions ratcheting in East Asia and elsewhere, many have compared the present to 1914, when a trigger...
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Scientists Finally Got A Close-Up View Of That Mysterious Siberian Crater —...
When a helicopter discovered a mysterious giant crater on the Yamal Peninsula of Siberia, a place referred to as "the end of the world," speculation was rampant. People suggested it could have been...
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The Whole Ukrainian Crisis Revolves Around This Pipeline
Now that all eyes are on Ukraine and the potential of a bigger war looms, there’s never been a more important time to understand what is at stake.As WhoWhatWhy readers know, the real reasons...
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MH17 Black Box Data Shows Evidence Of Missile Strike
As Russia continues to deny culpability for the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine, European officials say that black box data shows the doomed airplane was hit by a missile...
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Russia Ordered To Pay $50 Billion To Shareholders Of Putin Foe's Defunct Oil...
MOSCOW/LONDON/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Hague's arbitration court ruled on Monday that Russia must pay a group of shareholders in oil giant Yukos $51.6 billion for expropriating its assets, a big hit...
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The Battle For Ukraine Is Becoming A Battle For Russia
Last week, the Russian security chiefs were put on the European Union's sanctions list. The foreign ministry in Moscow reacted angrily. Anti-terrorist cooperation between Russia and the West is now a...
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