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Visitors in Russia

Pablo Ganguli | Posted 07.21.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Saint Petersburg, Thomas Ades, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Stephen Frears, Orlando Figes, Russia, Royal Academy, Valery Gergiev, The Queen, Mariinsky, Entertainment News

This year, we have chosen Moscow for our annual festival of art, film and media. Saint Petersburg was our magical playground in 2007, and I still cherish that very first Russian experience.

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President Obama and a 3 AM Phone Call about Russia

Daniel Silva | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Vladimir Putin, Russian Politics, Politics News

It is my hope that a President Obama uses his first meeting with Russia's leader to deliver a clear and sobering message: If Russia wants to be a member of the civilized world -- then it must act like it.

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Obama's Europe Blindspot: Why Did He Skip Europe's Institutional Heart?

Steve Clemons | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

(Obama Does Brown but Not Brussels) I'm strongly supportive of Barack Obama's announced plans to spend some quality plane time with Senators Chuck H...

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Beware of Growling Bears

Lincoln Chafee | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Missile Shield, Medvedev, Russia, Cold War, Dmitry Medvedev, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Politics News

And after years of hard work at thawing Cold War tensions with Russia, the proposed placement of a missile shield behind the former Iron Curtain is a backward step.

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Laser-Blindness: Ravers Blinded During Laser Light Show

Reuters | Chris Baldwin | Posted 07.14.2008 | Life

Read More: Russia Laser Light Show, Russia, Laser Blindness, Ravers Go Blind, Rave, Ravers Lose Sight, Ravers Russia, Ravers Lose Vision, Life News

Dozens of partygoers at an outdoor rave near Moscow last week have lost partial vision after a laser light show burned their retinas, Russian health o...

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Fault Lines Emanating From Zimbabwe

Joe Lauria | Posted 07.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Darfur, Zalmay Khalilzad, Sudan, Zimbabwe Violence, Zimbabwe, United Nations, Russia, Zimbabwe Elections, China, Robert Mugabe, Sanctions, Africa, Diplomacy, Politics News

The vetoed sanctions resolution against Zimbabwe at the Security Council has exposed international tensions that divide the West from Africa, Russia from the West and the US from South Africa.

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New Russian President: U.S. In No Position To Dish Out Advice

New York Times | Clifford J. Levy | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Russia Medvedev, Dmitri Medvedev, Politics News

Russia's new president, Dmitri A. Medvedev, less swaggering than his predecessor but as touchy about criticism from abroad, said in an interview that...

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My Conversation with Daniel Yergin

Charlie Rose | Posted 07.02.2008 | Business

Read More: Energy, Gas, Charlie Rose, Geopolitics, Russia, Oil, Climate Change, Daniel Yergin, China, Enviornment, Business News

Oil and all the ramifications of rising prices continue to be a source of international urgency. Daniel Yergin, one of the leading oil experts in t...

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A Triangle of Human Suffering

Mia Farrow | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Russia, Car Genocide, Darfur Genocide, Chad, United Nations, Central African Republic, Darfur, Third World Countries, Lord's Resistance Army, Car, Genocide, Africa, Lra, China, Politics News

As long as we are more concerned about protecting the interests of governments and businesses than protecting people from needless suffering and death, tragedies like those in Darfur and Chad will continue.

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Russia's 'Cosmic Impact' A Mystery 100 Years On

AFP | Richard Ingham | Posted 06.29.2008 | Home

Read More: Russia, Environment, Russia Asteroid, Cosmic Impact, Russia Comet, Russia Cosmic Impact, Home News

A hundred years ago this week, a gigantic explosion ripped open the dawn sky above the swampy taiga forest of western Siberia, leaving a scientific ri...

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Politicians Play General, Generals Play Politics (Part 5)

Russ Wellen | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iran, Negotiations, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Energy, Military, Bush Administration, Russia, Diplomacy, Cold War, Iaea, Foreign Policy, Politics News

In the conclusion of our series on Jeff Huber, columnist at Military.com and author of a new novel, Bathtub Admirals, we asked him more questions on f...

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NATO and the New Cold War

Conn Hallinan | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Cold War, Sco, China, Nato, Richard Nixon, Alliances, War, Eastern Bloc, Geopolitics, Politics News

Military alliances are always sold as things that produce security. In practice they tend to do the opposite -- NATO is an alliance in trouble.

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Euro 2008: Spain's Dominant Victory over Russian Confirms Them As Team To Beat

AP | PAUL LOGOTHETIS | Posted 06.10.2008 | Home

Read More: Sports, Spain, Russia, Villa, Spain Beats Russia, 2008 European Championships, Home News

INNSBRUCK, Austria — David Villa scored three times Tuesday in Spain's resounding 4-1 victory over Russia, a win that confirmed the Spaniards as...

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A Humble American Meets The Superrich, In-Your-Face "New Russia"

Dana Kennedy | Posted 06.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Rolex, Victoria Lepyrova, HD Net's World Report, Minigarch, Prada, Russia, HD Net, Rublevka, Kremlin, Max Tikhonov, Victor Shkulev, Timati, Gucci, Business News

During a week spent with multi-millionaires, club kids, publishing tycoons, beauty queens, reformed gangsters and Russia's biggest rap star - I often felt the object of pity and scorn.

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Is Vietnam the New Russia?

Liz Hamburg | Posted 06.09.2008 | Business

Read More: Russia, Hoi An, Entrepreneur, Vietnam, Business News

I just returned from my friends' wedding in Vietnam. It was a multi-cultural extravaganza. The bride is Bulgarian, the groom American and they both li...

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Russian Newspaper Editor: Medvedev Is Trying To Shut Us Down

Radar | Mark Ames | Posted 06.09.2008 | Media

Read More: The Exile, Russia, Russian Media, Vladimir Putin, The Exile Russian Newspaper, Dmitry Medvedev, Media News

With the recent inauguration of new president Dmitry Medvedev, how have things changed in Russia? Is the authoritarian freeze of the Vladimir Putin ye...

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The United States of Cluster Bombs

Steven Crandell | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Southern Lebanon, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Pakistan, Treaty, Banning, United States, International Committe of the Red Cross, China, Cluster Bombs, Cluster Munitions, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, Israel, India, Dublin, Prime Minster Gordon Brown, Politics News

The treaty banning cluster munitions would not be seen as undermining "military utility" but instead as a prudent step to stop avoidable civilian deaths and injuries.

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McCain's Nonproliferation Policy -- It's a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

Jon Wolfsthal | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Mccain, Nuclear Weapons, Non-Proliferation, Iran Nuclear Weapons, North Korea, Non-Proliferation Treaty, Mccain Foreign Policy, National Security, CTBT, Mccain National Security, Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, Foreign Policy, McCain Nonproliferation, Politics News

John McCain's speech on nuclear weapons today seems to adopt the narrowest of lenses in dealing with nuclear weapons, and suggests he doesn't really get the complexity of these issues.

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Oil Shock: Mexico and China Not Exxon Stupid

Diane Francis | Posted 05.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil Shock, British Gasoline Prices, Hillary, Canadian Gasoline Prices, Supply and Demand, Mexico, Commodity Boom, Russia, Oil, Gasoline Taxes, Mccain, India, Ethanol, China, Opec, Business News

The biggest reason prices have been soaring is that astute investors are now understanding the future supply and demand reality.

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Call a League a League

Deborah Derrick | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: League of Democracies, League of Nations, McCain League of Nations, United Nations, Russia, John McCain, Washington Post, China, Politics News

Excluding the Russians, the Chinese, and others from international institutions does not change the fact that we need a global consensus; it just makes it harder to obtain.

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Will a Secretary of State Under Obama Attempt to Abolish Nukes?

Russ Wellen | Posted 05.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nato, Secretary of State, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, Obama, Nonproliferation Treaty, Republicans, Democrats, Foreign Policy, Hiroshima, Politics News

Sam Nunn as secretary of defense might be an inspired choice. Or perhaps a new position should be created, and Nunn could be secretary of nuclear de-proliferation.

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The Transfer of Power in Russia

Graham Allison | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Russian Elections, Putin Election, Dmitry Medvedev, Russia Votes, Medvedev, Russia Presidential Election, Politics News

Though the outcome of the presidential election in Russia was a foregone conclusion, many questions remain about when and how which powers will be transferred from whom to whom.

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Putin, Medvedev Pledge Unified Path

AP | VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV | Posted 03.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Dmitri Medvedev, Vladimir Putin, Russian Presidential Election, Russian President Medvedev, Politics News

MOSCOW — Dmitry Medvedev, the man Vladimir Putin hand-picked to be his successor, scored a crushing victory in Russia's presidential election Su...

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Russia Votes for Putin's Successor

AP | JIM HEINTZ | Posted 03.01.2008 | Home

Read More: Russian Election, Russia Presidential Election, Russia Votes, Russia, Putin Election, Home News

MOSCOW — After eight years of rule that saw Russia's influence and wealth grow while its democratic freedoms shrank, voters in the Far East were...

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Friday Talking Points [21] -- Bash Bush Edition

Chris Weigant | Posted 02.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: White House, Barbara Boxer, Clean Air, Natural Born, Cheney, Mercenary, Emissions, China, Meirs, Bush, Mukasey, Bush-Bashing, Bolton, Blackwater, Midotw, Ohio, Nancy Pelosi, Russia, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Press Conference, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Environmental Protection Agency, John McCain, Gasoline, Bush Bash, Gas Price, Greenhouse Gas, Attorney General, Landslide, Dick Durban, Leap Day, Contempt, Justice Department, 2000, Recession, Barack Obama, Military Contractors, Mortgage Crisis, Foreign Policy, Olympics, Four Dollars a Gallon, Anti-War, Contempt of Congress, Epa, Archive, Mortgage, Mddotw, Leap Year, Wiretap, $4 a Gallon, Hillary Clinton, Bush Library, Cuba, Emails, Claire McCaskill, Bush-Bash, Senate, Warrantless, Politics News

Happy Leap Day! Because we are given an extra day this year, I would like to spend it in a good old fashioned Bush-bash. Maybe it's because everyone'...

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