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Obama in the Tank

William Bradley | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Al Qaeda, Ray Odierno, Pakistan, David Petraeus, Joe Biden, Iraq, Soviet Union, General Jim Jones, Iran, Central Command, Barack Obama, Central Asia, Russia, Taliban, Afghanistan, The Tank, Gen. David Petraeus, Dmitri Medvedev, Bob Gates, Chechnya, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Marine Corps, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Manchurian Candidate, Politics News
William Bradley

While most eyes were on the then impending vote on Obama's economic revival program, the new president ventured out to the Pentagon for his first meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff yesterday.

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Slain Russian Pair Buried In Moscow

Euronews | Posted 02.23.2009 | World

Read More: Murder, Russia, Chechnya, Stanislav Markelov, Human Rights Lawyer, World News

Mourners have paid tribute to a young Russian journalist, killed during the murder of a prominent human rights' lawyer. Anastasia Baburova was shot as...

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Two New Victims of Political Murders in Russia

Oleg Kozlovsky | Posted 02.20.2009 | World

Read More: Murder, Lawyers, Chechnya, Russia, Political Murder, Moscow, Markelov, Baburova, World News
Oleg Kozlovsky

Journalists who dare to investigate political crimes often became their next victims but this is the first time that a lawyer is killed for political purposes.

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Stanislav Markelov: Russian Lawyer In Prominent Chechnya Cases Shot Dead

AP | MANSUR MIROVALEV | Posted 02.19.2009 | World

Read More: Chechen, Russia, Russia Lawyer Killed, Human Rights, Col. Yuri Budanov, Chechnya, Russia Human Rights Lawyer Killed, Stanislav Markelov, Russia Human Rights, Anna Politkovskaya, World News

MOSCOW — A Russian human rights lawyer renowned for his work on abuses in Chechnya was shot to death Monday by a masked gunman who followed him ...

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The God Series: Because Religion Is the Battleground of the 21st Century

Larry Beinhart | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Abortion, Politics, Religion, Chechnya, Sex, Tony Blair, War, God, Mumbai, Spirituality, War on Terror, Crusade, The God Series, Politics News
Larry Beinhart

What is it about faith that made it suddenly re-emerge as the driving force in American politics and in the politics of the Islamic countries?

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Georgia on My Mind

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 09.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, The United States, Turkey, John McCain, United Nations, Baltic Republics, South Ossetia, Condoleeza Rice, European Union, Iraq, Black Sea, Barak Obama, Nato, Chechnya, Security Council, Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, Abkhazia, Tblisi, Politics News
Amb. Marc Ginsberg

In the annals of U.S.-Russian relations, Secretary of State Rice has proven once again to be not up to the task at effectively managing the one area of foreign policy that is her principal area of expertise -- U.S.-Russian relations.

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