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Fidel Castro has called on Latin American countries to support an end to Cuba\’s isolation when they meet the US president at a regional summit.
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Days before a historic visit of the US President to Russia gambling was narrowed just to four geographical areas of a country, far away from capitals and significant...
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Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev will be looking to trumpet their commitment to reducing nuclear arms when they meet in Moscow next week. Resetting U.S.-...
made popular Jul 2 2009
At the Metelitsa casino, the oldest private gambling house in Moscow, which opened in 1993 after the fall of the Soviet Union, they are packing up the card shoes and...
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Filed under: Sports, News, Weird Passengers on a new cruise along the coast of Somalia are paying to catch more than just salmonella. A Russian luxury yacht company is...
made popular Jul 1 2009
NATO and Russia are likely to resume formal military ties Saturday at their first high-level meeting since last year’s war between Russia and Georgia.
Relations...
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Once it would have been Cold War rhetoric and “fraternal greetings” to Marxist guerrillas. Yesterday Russia returned to Africa in a scramble to restore its...
made popular Jun 24 2009
The leader, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, president of Ingushetia, was being driven to work in a motorcade when it was hit by an enormous bomb. One or more of his bodyguards may...
made popular Jun 22 2009
In a strange demonstration of what we would call supernatural celebrity power, Brad Pitt, or rather his cardboard cutouts seem to be helping ease traffic problems in...
made popular Jun 20 2009
Tired of trying your hands with the computer in a game of chess? Now, here is a robot from Russia, designed to play chess and frequently beat you at it. The robot’s...
made popular Jun 18 2009
Anatoly Boiko stands in front of a pile of neatly sawn planks. The wood, he says, is one of the oddest government handouts he’s ever received.
To help the...
made popular Jun 18 2009
The “age of empires has ended” and the “international capitalist order is retreating,” declared a beaming Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday,...
made popular Jun 17 2009
Russian crime gangs on the Costa del Sol are injecting kidnap victims with what they claim is an experimental KGB virus to terrify them into paying ransoms.
In the...
made popular Jun 16 2009
High level Kremlin officials close to Prime Minister Putin have expressed deep concerns with regard to the delays to law enforcement actions being sanctioned by...
made popular Jun 15 2009
Russia will rebuild its Soviet-era network of polar stations and use its icebreaker fleet to help support its claim to the vast resources of the Arctic, the man who led...
made popular Jun 10 2009
President Dmitri A. Medvedev, who rarely misses a chance to accuse the United States of causing the global financial crisis, told an economic forum on Friday that...
made popular Jun 6 2009
Filed under: News, Weird, Nature Motorcycle riding offers a unique sense of freedom and excitement, but these advantages are weighed against significant safety issues....
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The Russian nesting doll, the pride of a nation, is in trouble. For more than 200 years, the matryoshka has come to symbolise Russian handicraft at its finest, the...
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Feral children are long known to display animal behavior but here is a case of a five-year-old Russian girl who has been raised in a city but who barks and behaves like...
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Months of infighting between Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev over Russia’s budget ended on Monday - with Medvedev on top. At a...
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As a young officer fresh out of a Soviet military academy, Alexander Primak was assigned to serve in this frontier city in the Russian Far East, eight time zones away...
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On Thursday, February 5 a service was held to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the last death that resulted from an attempt to cross the Berlin Wall.
Karin...
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Fall of Russian communism may have sent a good signal to the world and the feel of triumph for the western countries because of their belief that this...
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In his September 4 commentary titled Who Wants Cold War II? [1], Shlomo Ben-Ami, a former Israeli foreign minister, proposes a new world order in which the United...
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Are we baking to the cold war ? This question is completely justified. After the American interfering in the worlds affairs and invading independent countries , most...
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During the past couple of years the U.S. appears to be operating in a more preemptive style of foreign policy. In constrast to the gung-ho, bomb you if you disagree...
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There’s an irony in the fact that when Belgium laid out the month’s
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It’s being said that oil resources are the route cause of the conflict. For the Russian government, petroleum is a tool that can be used to launch the country as...
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Russia should be stripped of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics for sending its troops into neighbouring Georgia, Representatives Allyson Schwartz and Bill Shuster, both of...
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Britain’s security services have identified Russia as the third most serious threat facing the country, it has emerged before Gordon Brown’s first meeting with...
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The melting ice cap could open the North Pole region to easy navigation for five months a year, according to the latest Arctic Climate Impact Assessment,...
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It is a popular thing to wish for America’s demise as a superpower and to see the weakening of Western civilization and capitalism. The grass is always greener...
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Let us leave history to the historians. Well if only we could. You can do that if you are discussing German reunification, or the 100 Years War. But when it is the...
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When Nikita Khrushchev met Richard Nixon by a fitted kitchen at the end of the 1950s the stage was set for the most surprising domestic row in diplomatic history.
The...
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As if the world didn’t already have enough proof that Russia’s proud KGB spy ruler, Vladimir Putin, intends to return his nation to the days of cold war and...
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A battalion of elite French paratroopers may help stiffen Canada’s commitment to fighting in Afghanistan, but the war against Taliban insurgents is far from...
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Strength dictates terms after all, and stability gets recognition from every side. This is the case exactly happening with India and Pakistan. Pakistan, just one day...
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With US-Russian changing expressions and grins replacing smiles, it seems pretty odd that both will enjoy the tangible profits of mutual understating. And when Russia...
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Well, we can see the days coming back’ the days of cold war; we can see Russia is back and that too with a bang.
If US tested the ‘mother of all...
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The worsening East-West relations and altercations are evident, as Russia is flexing muscles with its long-range bomber planes maneuvering near western and NATO...
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