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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 04.20.2009 | World
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Al-Qaeda,
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Choudhry,
France,
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Sadc,
Hamas,
Zardari,
Choudry,
S-300,
Detains,
Pyongyang,
Cheney,
Nato,
Madagascar,
Aids,
South Korea,
Israel,
Water Forum,
Gilad Shalit,
Ravalomanana,
Yemen,
Bush,
Pakistan,
North Korea,
Shanghai Cooperation Organization,
Rearmament,
Us,
Khatami,
Pope Benedict,
Gilani,
Rice,
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The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Quagmire of the year: Hamas-Israel There is an endless amount of news this week dealing with Israelis and P...
Anna Politkovskaya Trial: Accused Found Not Guilty
Guardian.co.uk | Luke Harding in Moscow | Posted 03.22.2009 | World
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Four men accused of helping to organise the murder of the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya were today acquitted by a court in Moscow, amid claims...
Afghanistan: Russia to the Rescue
William Bradley | Posted 03.16.2009 | World
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America,
Afghanistan,
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Russia can certainly help the US greatly in Afghanistan. And the price -- ending the NATO encroachment strategy -- may be an inevitable one anyway, and thus perhaps easily paid.
Russian Recession: Designer Labels Close Shop In Moscow As Russians Curb Spending
Moscowtimes.ru | By Anna Malpas | Posted 03.13.2009 | World
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Russian shoppers seemed to have an insatiable appetite for designer brands and luxury goods, despite paying a huge markup on imports. But the honeymoo...
Russia's Economic Crisis Leads To Mounting Protests
The Independent | By Shaun Walker in Moscow | Posted 03.05.2009 | World
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The Kremlin's rule is beginning to look much shakier than at any time since Vladimir Putin came to power, after a series of protests in cities across ...
Russia Abandons Plans For Nuclear-Capable Missiles In Move To Improve Relations With US
The Guardian | Luke Harding | Posted 02.28.2009 | World
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Russia today announced it was abandoning plans to deploy nuclear-capable Iskander missiles in its European Kaliningrad outpost - a sign that Moscow wa...
System of a Down and Eurovision: False Turkish Claim Exposed
Harut Sassounian | Posted 02.23.2009 | Entertainment
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The Turkish media regularly reports false stories and makes exaggerated claims. The latest example of misinformation involves System of a Down's supposed appearance on Eurovision.
Human Rights in Moscow
Jeff Danziger | Posted 02.22.2009 | World
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President Obama: Set Cuba Free
Eric Margolis | Posted 02.21.2009 | World
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Releasing Cuba from 50 years of prison could be one of President Barack Obama's most sensible, easiest, and most applauded early acts.
Two New Victims of Political Murders in Russia
Oleg Kozlovsky | Posted 02.20.2009 | World
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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.
HuffPost Video Premiere: Playing For Change Presents "Don't Worry"
Mike Ragogna | Posted 02.19.2009 | Entertainment
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Featuring over twenty musicians from four continents who have never met, "Don't Worry" makes its auspicious debut today, on Martin Luther King Day, and is featured here.
European Gas Crisis Spurs International Summit In Moscow
Themoscowtimes.com | By Nadia Popova | Posted 02.16.2009 | World
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President Dmitry Medvedev will host an international summit to discuss the stability of gas supplies to Europe in Moscow on Saturday and the Foreign M...
Gazprom Crisis: Russia Says Ukraine Has Blocked Gas To Europe
BBC NEWS | Posted 02.13.2009 | World
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Russian gas giant Gazprom says Ukraine has blocked gas deliveries to Europe, dashing hopes of ending a row which has hit several countries' supplies. ...
Flight School: Star City Personal Logistics
Esther Dyson | Posted 01.29.2009 | Living
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You wouldn't believe it based on the traffic, but most Muscovites don't have cars. The challenge is the kilometer-plus from the Prophy (where I live) to the gate of Star City.
Moscow Riot Police Flown In To Smash Protests Against Car Tariffs In Vladivostok
Times Online | Times Online | Posted 01.21.2009 | World
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Riot police flown in from Moscow clubbed, kicked and arrested dozens of people in Russia's Far East today as hundreds across the country demonstrated ...
Russian Police Crack Down On Protesters, Including Me
Oleg Kozlovsky | Posted 01.19.2009 | World
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Russia banned opposition marches last week, including one that I planned. We had official approval, but the government didn't give a damn. They've got the police, so why worry about the laws?
Russian Police Thwart Anti-Kremlin Rally, Arrest 25
AP | PAUL SONNE | Posted 01.14.2009 | World
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MOSCOW — Police thwarted a banned anti-Kremlin protest in central Moscow on Sunday, seizing dozens of demonstrators and shoving them into trucks...
Migrant Worker Decapitated In Russia; Head Found In Dumpster
Moscowtimes.ru | Posted 01.12.2009 | World
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The severed head of a Tajik man murdered last week in an apparent hate crime was discovered in a dumpster in western Moscow, investigators said Thursd...
The Hidden Cost of the Gulf War
Eric Margolis | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics
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While US casualties in Iraq appear relatively low -- 4,100 dead and 35,000 wounded -- the real health costs of Iraq will, as in the case of the First Gulf War, not be known for years.
Humor: Our First Female President
Dave Winer | Posted 10.01.2008 | Home
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Worth reading, Maureen Dowd's op-ed in today's Times. Summary -- the McC choice of Palin is the plot of a low budget chick flick. Now, picking up the...
Rumors Of The Next Cold War
Judah Freed | Posted 09.18.2008 | Home
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No matter how subtly the conquest happens, Russian control of Georgia would amount to an historic shift in the balance of power -- especially as long as the world economy is fueled by oil.
Mixed Signals
Murray Fromson | Posted 09.14.2008 | Politics
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While Washington always seems to know how to deal with Moscow in blunt, threatening language, it best beware that the times are a-changing. Nationalism and pride are on the march in Russia.
Musings From Moscow
Murray Fromson | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics
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Olympics,
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Moscow,
South Ossetia,
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China,
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While the conflict has aroused the predictable hostility and posturing of the U.S. government, policy wonks and the media, cooler heads will have to prevail before the situation disintegrates altogether.
Silencing Journalism
Sandra Fu | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media
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Anna Politskovaya,
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Why are most of our journalists less like Edward R. Murrow and more like show ponies? What they really need to do is consider the journalists in other parts of the world where more than a salary is at stake -- they pay with their lives.
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AP | VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV | Posted 05.01.2009 | World