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Russian Judge Rules Sexual Harassment Is Okay As It Ensures Survival Of Human Race

Huffington Post | Posted 08.05.2008 | Living

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A woman seeking to become only the third woman ever to successfully bring a sexual harassment case in Russia was dealt a shocking rebuke when the judg...

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Seven Russian Olympians Suspended In Doping Scandal

AP | RAF CASERT | Posted 07.31.2008 | Home

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BRUSSELS, Belgium — With only one week to go before the Beijing Olympics, Russia suddenly has its own version of a BALCO doping scandal involvin...

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Libya Stops Oil Shipments to Switzerland While Russia's Medvedev and Venezuela's Chavez Plot Against the United States

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 07.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, Switzerland, Oil, Russia, Libya, Hannibal Ghadafi, President Medvedev, Opec, Ghadafi, Politics News
Raymond J. Learsy

The level of arrogance being facilitated by our pathetic dependency on oil and our ineffectual policies poses an increasing and ominous threat to our national security, worsening with every passing day.

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Withdrawing From ABM Was Destabilizing: Here's Proof

Sean-Paul Kelley | Posted 07.27.2008 | Politics

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Sean-Paul Kelley

Think about consequences. Is it really a good trade-off to station a missile shield in Europe, one that has not even been proven to work, for having Russian bombers 90 miles south of Florida?

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Visitors in Russia

Pablo Ganguli | Posted 07.21.2008 | Entertainment

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Pablo Ganguli

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

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Daniel Silva

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

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Steve Clemons

(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
Lincoln Chafee

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 | Living

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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

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Joe Lauria

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

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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

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Charlie Rose

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
Mia Farrow

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

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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

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Russ Wellen

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

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Conn Hallinan

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

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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

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Dana Kennedy

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

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Liz Hamburg

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

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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

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Steven Crandell

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

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Jon Wolfsthal

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

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Diane Francis

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

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Deborah Derrick

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

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Russ Wellen

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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