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President Hugo Chávez’s government says Julio Cesar Rivas is a violent militant intent on fomenting civil war.
Rivas’s supporters say the 22-year-old university student is just one of many Venezuelans jailed for challenging a populist government...
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Russian human rights activists are voicing cautious optimism that an investigation ordered by President Dmitry Medvedev might dig up some truth about the mysterious...
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34 year-old Russian Orthodox priest Father Daniil Sysoyev, had received many death threats for his criticism of Islam and for converting Muslims to Christianity. Some...
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Eight Russian bomb disposal experts were killed Monday as they cleaned up after a massive fire at a navy arsenal 10 days earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
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Russia has now turned into a “criminal state”, according to the man who was once its leading foreign investor.
Bill Browder of Hermitage Capital was...
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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Saturday vowed to continue Russia’s anti-crisis program as the economy moves out of one of the deepest recessions in post-Soviet...
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The violence stems from deep animus between two aggressive camps with starkly different visions of Russia’s future — neo-Nazi skinheads who rank in the tens of...
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A Russian icebreaker carrying over 100 tourists, scientists and journalists on a cruise around Antarctica was struggling to free itself from sea ice but was not in any...
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rubbed shoulders with rappers and was hailed with “respect” in a television show Friday that could help boost his...
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The race between the two EU’s eastern gas pipelines is going on while next winter can again show some supply problems via Ukraine. South Stream got latest boost...
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President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday held out the remote republic of Tuva to illustrate Russia’s need for political reform and promised to make electoral changes...
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The world seems to have lost its moral compass. People are committing heinous acts for ridiculous reasons, and not suffering much from the consequences. I am a firm...
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Two of Russia’s most prominent human rights organizations say their work has been thrown into jeopardy by municipal efforts to evict them from their offices.
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Also human life is short, kaleidoscope of history-in-making is so speedy changing that last seventy years accomplished events lasting centuries previously: changing...
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Along with the perennial calls for “land for farmers” and “factories for workers,” Communists who marched in Moscow on the Saturday anniversary of the 1917...
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A RUSSIAN military plane crashed into the sea during a training exercise in Russia’s Far East region, leaving all eleven crew members missing and presumed dead,...
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“They’re happy, they’re full,” she said as the young leeches, squirming and swollen from their meal, settled into the containers that would be...
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The year 1989 was a turning point for Europe and for the world, a time when history went into high gear. This acceleration was symbolized by the fall of the Berlin Wall...
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It was late on a Monday afternoon at the drunk tank in this Moscow suburb, but it could have been any day, at any hour, at any similar facility across this land. People...
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What I am the most wondering at is the short-seeing of an Islamist danger infiltrating a traditionally Catholic region Brazil is.
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A longtime opposition figure in the republic of Ingushetia was killed Sunday morning when his car was strafed with gunfire as he drove along a federal highway, adding...
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More than 150 Venezuelan university students ended a hunger strike Wednesday after the Organization of American States agreed to hear their concerns over alleged...
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58 days ago four courageous Tunisian student committed themselves to a hunger strike whose symbolism extended beyond that of the university, but was and is a statement...
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At the current dollar-ruble exchange rate of 23.5:1, 7,000 rubles amounts to $297.87.
That’s the average monthly wage of a petrochemical worker in Russia’s...
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Leftist politicians in Mexico who last week stormed both houses of Congress have vowed to remain in protest at planned reform of the state oil giant.
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After Narmada, it is Teesta’s turn to flock protesters objecting to the building of a hydroelectric dam on the river. Without listening to their grievances, the...
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