Russia Has Poached Gerard Depardieu
What a weird time we live in.Gerard Depardieu, who is leaving France over high taxes, is now... Russian.And the government just announced it in a tweet.Vladimir Putin signs order giving Gérard...
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Google Plays Catch-Up And Other Top App Economy Trends For 2013
The just-ended year saw tightening competition between the two leading app marketplaces: Google Play and Apple's App Store. According to Distimo, worldwide app revenues in Google Play grew 43 percent...
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A Russian Tax Fraud Worth $230 Million May Just Be The Tip Of The Iceberg
MOSCOW, Russia — Sergei Magnitsky’s brutal death in a Moscow prison in 2009 has come to symbolize the confluence of corruption, repression and human rights abuse that’s flowered under President...
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Gérard Dépardieu Refuses To Leave France Amid Tax Scandal
Don't bust out the champagne and baguettes in celebration just yet, France. Despite reports to the contrary, actor Gérard Dépardieu doesn't plan to abandon his native country for Russia. The "Green...
View ArticleRussian 'Black Money' Threatens To Boot Cyprus Out Of The Eurozone
German Bailout Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is trying to avoid any tumult ahead of the elections later this year, has a new headache. Cyprus might default and exit the Eurozone.Using taxpayer money or...
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Blind Russian Teenager's Sarcastic Open Letter To Putin Goes Viral
Last month Russian lawmakers voted in a new law that bans the adoption of Russian children by American parents.Many Russian have legitimate concerns about the safety of their children — for one thing,...
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REPORT: Assad Has Left Syria For A Warship In The Mediterranean
After nearly two years of conflict and 117,000 displaced Syrians the UPI reports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his family may have left the country to live aboard a warship manned by Russian...
View ArticleReports Of Russia's Gigantic Navy Upgrades Are Totally Overblown
The commissioning of the Yuri Dolgoruky Borei-class SSBN this week, which follows closely on the heels of the launching of the Vladimir Monomakh SSBN at the end of December, has made a number of...
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Nuclear Missile Officer Describes Life In The Underground Bunker
A Reddit user named Vmikey popped up an AMA today claiming to be a nuclear missile tech who worked in a giant underground silo.Naturally we were intrigued. Reddit moderators independently verified him,...
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After 23 Years Of Work Scientists Have Finally Obtained Liquid Water From An...
Break out the vodka. The first confirmed sample of water from the subsurface Lake Vostok in Antarctica has been retrieved.Almost a year ago, in February 2012 Russian scientists and engineers drilled to...
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HOUSE OF THE DAY: A Russian Royal Is Selling Her Lincoln Center Condo For $8...
Kristina Kovalenko may not have political power as the princess of a tiny Russian republic, but she certainly knows how to turn a profit on NYC real estate.The royal purchased her Liberty Lofts condo...
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Sniper Takes Out Russian Mafia Boss In Suspected Contract Killing
A man believed to be one of Russia's biggest mafia bosses was shot dead in the centre of Moscow on Wednesday as he was leaving a restaurant after lunch, the interior ministry said.Aslan Usoyan, known...
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The Russian Gangster Assassinated By A Sniper Was A Very Big Deal
Aslan Usoyan, one of Moscow's most notorious gangsters, was shot dead by a sniper as he left an exclusive restaurant after lunch on Wednesday.Given the manner of his execution, it's clear Usoyan, also...
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The Pentagon's China Containment Plan Is Delusional
At your peril, the one thing you must never say to a ranking Israeli intelligence officer, even one in mufti or retirement, is that he is suffering from a superiority complex. For the clinical symptoms...
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Mafia War Brewing As Second Russian Mob Boss Falls In Drive-By Shooting
A 31-year-old mob boss died today under a "hail of bullets," quite possibly in retaliation for the assassination of Aslan "Grandpa Khasan" Usoyan Jan. 16.Astamur Guliya, a recently "made" mafioso, was...
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Russians Fleeing Syria Describe A Bleak Situation In Damascus
Russians fleeing the civil war in Syria described miserable conditions on the ground, Thomas Grove of Reuters reports."The Free Syrian Army is getting closer. We've been left without money, without...
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Suddenly Russian Oil Looks Like A Great Option
Most American geopolitical risk analysts live in a row of northeastern towns far from the tornado belt, so they don’t understand what sowing the wind, reaping the whirlwind means. The Anglo-American...
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Putin Says Shame On The Western World
On Wednesday Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Western countries created the current turmoil in Africa by arming Libyan rebels to topple the Qaddafi regime.On Thursday Russian President...
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Thirty Years Ago, Everyone Thought A Nuclear Satellite Was Going To Fall From...
Thirty years ago, the world was held hostage by a nuclear-powered Soviet spy satellite tumbling out of control in an orbit close to Earth. The spiraling spacecraft, named Cosmos 1402, was launched...
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The Son Of Putin's Worst Enemy Explains What's Going Wrong With Russia
Relations between Russia and the U.S. have recently hit a rough patch.In December, Congress passed the Magnitsky Act, which will create a black list of Russian officials suspected of human rights...
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