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Chechen Rebels Claim Responsibility For Russian Train Bombing

AP | DAVID NOWAK | Posted 12.02.2009 | World

Read More: Russia Train Bombing, Russia, Chechen Rebels, Kavkazcenter.com, North Caucasus, Chechnya, Moscow, St. Petersburg, World News

MOSCOW — Chechen rebels claimed responsibility Wednesday for blowing up a high-speed Russian train last week, an attack that killed 26 people, i...

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Even the Taliban Supports Local Radio

Alexia Parks | Posted 11.16.2009 | Impact

Read More: Internews, Afghanistan, Climate Change, Moscow, Diplomacy, Un, Ukraine, Public Diplomacy, Copenhagen, Soviet Union, Impact News

Today, most of the world lives in information poverty. But with the rapid rise of cell phone technology and information equity, the world will transform.

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20 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Will Another Superpower Meet Its End in Afghanistan?

Loretta Napoleoni | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

Read More: Mujahedeen, Berlin Wall, Al-Qaeda, United States in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Superpower, Ussr, Cold War, Moscow, Taliban, War on Terror, Soviet Union, World News

Remarkably, Afghanistan seems once again to be shaping our future. It is paradoxical that the graveyard of one superpower should become a battlefield for the other.

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Chechen human rights activist abducted in Moscow

AP | Posted 11.05.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Moscow-Russia, Chechnya, Chechnya Human Rights, Arbi Khachukayev, Moscow, Russia Human Rights, Chechen Human Rights, World News

MOSCOW — A Russian rights group said Chechen authorities on Thursday abducted a human rights advocate in Moscow who has been critical of Chechny...

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Human Rights Protesters Arrested in Moscow for Demanding Freedom of Assembly

Oleg Kozlovsky | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Vladimir Putin, Moscow, Dissent, Arrest, Protest, World News

As democracy and civil rights in Russia diminish every year, the country is becoming more of a police state. The voice of dissent is silenced by cynical and cruel country leadership.

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Shabattai Kalmanovich Dead: Former KGB Spy Killed In Moscow

AP | Posted 11.02.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Kgb, Shabattai Kalmanovich Killed, Shabattai Kalmanovich Dead, Kalmanovich, Moscow, Shabattai Kalmanovich, Kgb Spy, Kalmanovich Killed, Russian Businessman Killed, Kalmanovich Murder, Kalmanovich Dead, Former Kgb Spy Killed in Moscow, Kalmanovich Spy, Kalmanovich Moscow, Kalmanovich Video, kalmanovich.ru Foto, Who Was Kalmanovich, Kalmanivich, Shabattai Means, Kalmanovich Was Killed, Kolmanovich, Russian Spied Israel Killed Moscow, World News

MOSCOW — A Russian businessman who had been convicted in Israel of being a KGB spy was shot dead in Moscow on Monday, police said. Shabattai Ka...

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No Boys Allowed: Pink Taxi Cabs Exclusively For Women

Huffington Post | Tam Vo | Posted 10.22.2009 | Impact

Read More: Cab Drivers, Moscow, Pink Taxi, Females, Mexico, Lebanon, Female-Only Cabs, Pink Taxi Cab, Harassment, Transportation, Impact News

Women in Puebla, Mexico who are tired of being gawked and leered at by cab drivers have a new option - female-only taxis. Pink Taxi is a government-...

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Semion Mogilevich: Powerful Mobster Was Added To FBI's Most Wanted List

CNN | Jeanne Meserve | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, Russian Mobster, Crime, Organized Crime, Tax Fraud, Arms Trafficking, Mobster, Investors, Prostitution, Semion Mogilevich, Stock, The Brainy Don, Moscow, Securities and Exchange Commission, Fbi, Ybm, World News

NEWTOWN, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Semion Mogilevich may be the most powerful man you've never heard of. Mogilevich's alleged brutality, financial savvy ...

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Obama in the Thicket of "Afghaniranistan"

William Bradley | Posted 10.21.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Britain, Cia, France, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Mi-6, Nobel Peace Prize, Iaea, Mossad, Moscow, Tehran, Israel, Iraq, Vienna, Special Forces, Taliban, Sayeret, Al Qaeda, Revolutionary Guard, Iranian Nuclear Program, Abdullah Abdullah, Hamid Karzai, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Soviet Union, Jihadism, Post-Soviet Space, Somalia, Cairo Address, John Kerry, World News

Obama is in a multi-faceted complex of geopolitical crises. He is actively using military force in two of the countries, and has threatened, at the least, tough sanctions in the third.

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Moscow To Ban Snow

The Moscow Times | Posted 10.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Russia, Moscow Bans Snow, Snow Removal, Weather Control, Snow, Moscow Weather Control, Luzhkov, Moscow, Moscow Snow Removal, Moscow Snow, Green News

Moscow will blast clouds from the sky this winter to save money on snow removal, a city official said Wednesday, but the plan threatens to anger the s...

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Stalin Libel Suit: Josef Stalin's Grandson Loses Case Against Newspaper

AP | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

Read More: Stalin's Family, Communism, Novaya Gazeta, Moscow, Russia, Libel, Kremlin, Josef Stalin, Soviet Union, Putin, Nazi-Soviet Pact, Stalin's Grandson, Stalinism, Stalin on Trial, Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, World News

MOSCOW (AP)- A Russian court ruled against Josef Stalin's grandson Tuesday in a libel suit over a newspaper article that said the Soviet dictator sent...

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Halo Cloud Seen Hovering In Moscow Sky (VIDEO)

Posted 10.13.2009 | World

Read More: Halo Cloud Moscow, Halo Moscow, Moscow, Halo in the Sky Moscow Video, Halo Moscow Video, Halo Cloud, Moscow Cloud, Cloud Over Moscow, Moscow Halo, Halo Cloud Over Moscow, Halo Clouds, Moscow Halo Cloud, Moscow Sky, Cloud in Moscow, World News

A mysterious halo-shaped cloud was seen hovering in the sky over the city of Moscow a few days ago. Lest you believe that this confirms your various ...

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On the Road: Why Do We Want To Travel?

Robert Fuller | Posted 10.10.2009 | Living

Read More: African-American, Chesterton, Robert Fuller, Self, Beijing, Berlin, Rockies, Racist, Ussr, Holocaust, Urals, Travel, Self-Renewal, Cold War, Keats, Trans-Siberian Railroad, On the Road, Munich, Oktoberfest, Thomas Fuller, Moscow, Russia, Thomas Wolfe, Train, Of Time and the River, Brotherhood of Sleepign Car Porters, Kerouac, Karakorams, Dachau, Theroux, Living News

Fear is part of what makes travel so enlivening and revelatory. You're perpetually off-balance and on guard. After a while one yearns for the mindlessness of familiar routines.

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Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, Stalin's Grandson, Sues Newspaper Over Defamation

BBC NEWS | Posted 10.08.2009 | World

Read More: Communist-Russia, Russia, Moscow, Novaya Gazeta, Joseph Stalin, Communist Russia, Stalin, Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, World News

Joseph Stalin's grandson has launched a court action claiming a liberal Russian newspaper has defamed the former Soviet dictator....

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The Ghosts of Vietnam Haunt Washington

Eric Margolis | Posted 11.23.2009 | World

Read More: Stlaney McChrystal, Military, War in Vietnam, Moscow, Osama Bin Laden, Vietnam War, Mullah Omar, Taliban, Congress, Mike Mullen, Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Tet Offensive, World News

The American general Stanley McChrystal's news that America risks losing Afghanistan is a bombshell. Washington has spent some $250 billion there since 2001.

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Clan Politics Unite Caracas, Moscow, and Tehran

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

Read More: Energy, Russia, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, Clans, Igor Sechin, Robert Amsterdam, Kremlin, Iran, Business, Dmitry Medvedev, Foreign Policy, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Oil, Vladimir Putin, Natural Gas, Moscow, Pdvsa, Rosneft, World News

Nearly all analyses of important international relationships, whether internal or external, see the countries' systems through a prism that hides the power of clans and cabals.

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U.S. To Shelve Bush's Nuclear-Missile Shield

AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 11.16.2009 | World

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama abruptly canceled a long-planned missile shield for Eastern Europe on Thursday, replacing a Bush-era project...

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60 Percent Of Africans Attacked In Moscow

BBC NEWS | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Africans in Russia, Black People Living in Russia, Racial Attacks in Russia, Russia African People, Moscow-Russia, Racial Attacks in Moscow, Moscow, Racial Attacks, Moscow Russia, Racial Discrimination, World News

Nearly 60% of black and African people living in Russia's capital Moscow have been physically assaulted in racially motivated attacks, says a new stud...

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Remembering Ted Kennedy

Murray Fromson | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Moscow, Bangkok, Lyndon Johnson, CBS News, Ted Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Russia, Lbj, Chicago, Cold War, Politics News

None of my colleagues covering Ted Kennedy's early emergence on the national horizon in the 1960s bet on him as a promising young star.

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Poverty Rate Rises In Russia By A Third

The Times of India | AFP 28 August 2009, 07:41pm IST | Posted 09.28.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Russian Economy, Russia Poverty, Russia Poor, Crumbling-Russian-Economy, Moscow, Crumbling Infrastructure Russia, Russian Poor, Poverty Rate, Drop in Income, Russia Economy, Rachel Maddow, World News

MOSCOW: The number of people living below the poverty line in Russia rose by a third from 18.5 million in the last quarter of 2008 to 24.5 million in ...

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General Motors: Cold War Part II

Diane Francis | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Russia, Vauxhall, Dmitri Medvedev, General Motors, Moscow, Angela Merkel, Oleg Deripaska, Cars, Britain, Putin, Detroit, Magna International, General Motors Bailout, Business News

General Motors' prospects are improving and there is widespread sentiment that its European operations should not be sold now nor should they be allowed to be taken over in order to protect technology.

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Venezuela's Moscow Maneuvers

Diane Francis | Posted 09.18.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Lloyds of London, Nationalization, Venezuela, Moscow, President Chavez, Confiscation Without Compensation, Kleptocracy, Vladimir Putin, Gold, China, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, World News

All enlightened governments, including Canada's, which just signed an investment agreement, should deem Venezuela a "no-go" zone.

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Russia Huffs and Puffs as the House Comes Down

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 09.12.2009 | World

By creating manageable confrontations with Europe, the U.S, and former Soviet states, the Kremlin is attempting to govern outwardly, diminishing pressures for greater domestic accountability.

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Russian Building Boom Disregards Architectural Treasures: Report

GlobalPost | Posted 08.28.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Architectural Preservation, Russian Architecture, Foreign Affairs, Architecture, Moscow, Moscow Architecture Preservation Society, Russian Architectural Preservation, Advocacy, St. Petersburg, World News

Just steps from Lubyanka, the feared headquarters of the KGB and its post-Soviet successor, stands a building that was once home to toys and laughter....

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Are Russia's Arms Deals to Venezuela Destablizing Central America?

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 08.28.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, Joseph Biden, Robert Amsterdam, Igor Sechin, Kremlin, Arms, Business, Dmitry Medvedev, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, United States, Washington, Oil, Vladimir Putin, Hillary Clinton, Moscow, Caracas, Security, World News

The grotesque level of corruption in both Russia and Venezuela should stimulate the discussion as to whether their predatory natures constitute not only an international crime, but also a breach of fundamental human rights.

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