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Freedom House has released it’s 2008 report on worldwide press freedom. The United States ranks #21 on the list (classified as “free”) , while Russia ranks an appalling #170, tied with Kazakhstan, Sudan and Yemen and more repressive than Venezuela...
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The nine remaining members of a Russian doomsday cult holed up underground for months awaiting the end of the world abandoned it Friday after authorities removed two...
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The world is quickly moving to a bi-polar world led by two super powers: the U.S. and China. The way things are shaping up, on the one pole we will have the U.S., the...
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AP, Tbilisi
Tensions between Georgia and Russia got a jolt Thursday when a news agency quoted the head of the Russian air force as saying he favored putting military bases in a...
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AP, Moscow
President Dmitry Medvedev made his debut as the commander in chief of Russia’s armed forces Thursday, touring a missile base and promising to provide the funding...
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An unmanned Russian cargo ship blasted off Thursday with supplies, equipment and gifts for the international space station, an official said.
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It’s necessary now to put both the word “former” and the word “president” in quotation marks when referring to Vladimir Putin. He stands...
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With every day that passes, it becomes more and more difficult to understand why Russians hold their “former president” Vladimir Putin [see note below for...
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The appointments proved that Mr Putin, the prime minister, rather than his protégé, will be the dominant figure in the bizarre duumvirate that now rules...
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AP, St. Petersburg
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin unveiled an exhibit from the art collection of a renowned Russian cellist Monday, a ceremony that reflected his continuing political...
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AP, Moscow
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin wasted no time in naming his new Cabinet on Monday, bringing in loyalists from the Kremlin in what was seen as an effort to shift the...
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Allegations by credible sources have claimed that Sonia Gandhi received KGB money. These allegations were reproduced in a section of the Indian mainstream media. Sonia...
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AP, Washington
President Bush has placed separate calls to newly inaugurated Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and former President and now Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
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AP, Moscow
Three years after gunning down unarmed protesters in the city of Andijan, Uzbek authorities are still persecuting people they believe are linked to the unrest, an...
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In the lead-up to Russia’s comical-yet-obscene parade of obsolete, creaking Soviet-made military hardware through Red Square last week, the dictator Vladimir...
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In a project that looks like it is straight out of a Sci-Fi flick, Russian scientists at the Southern Federal University are all set to use mind power to control...
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AP, Quebec City
Maxim Afinogenov scored two goals, Alex Ovechkin added another and Alexei Morozov had the winner in the shootout to give Russia a 4-3 victory over Belarus in a...
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After a brief but pomp-filled ceremony in the gilded Grand Kremlin Palace, Medvedev immediately nominated his highly popular predecessor to be the next prime minister....
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The United States and Russia have expelled five diplomats and military attaches from each other’s countries in moves reminiscent of the tit-for-tat exchanges of...
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The United States is intolerant of other nations acting autonomously and can longer be trusted, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said Wednesday.
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The scientists of Southern Federal University won 750,000 dollars award for the development of the systems of the mental computer control. For the next 18 months Rostov...
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EVEN in his soft-spoken manner, Zambia’s sports minister Gabriel Namulambe drops some bombshells.
But this time around, I think he has dropped a blunder-shell, if at...
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AP, Washington
Deb Riechmann of The Associated Press and Ed Henry of CNN have won the Merriman Smith Award for presidential coverage under deadline pressure.
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AP, Los Angeles
The University of Southern California says Pulitzer-winning journalist Geneva Overholser will become the next director of the School of Journalism at the Annenberg...
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That’s Russian journalist Yelena Tregubova, holding a copy of her 2003 book Tales of a Kremlin Digger. In June 2007, The Independent newspaper published...
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Some of the blogging community are worried that blogging for a living could be bad for your health.
The constant need to publish new and exciting facts is putting...
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The 2008 Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism:
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Is the modern media really a difference maker or is it just another profession, which is claiming a moral high ground that does not exist? I have seen in the last month...
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“Citizen Journalist” is a role which very much fell upon me unexpectedly more than being something I was more than even remotely aware of when I was invited...
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Everyday I see more and more journalists moving from mainstream media jobs to alternate new age careers. This evokes a mixed feeling within me. It saddens me to see the...
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As a newspaperman I have often felt what I do is an exercise in futility. A clerical job at best, as far removed from people’s issues as a Mandal is from Malabar...
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The rise of internet and multimedia Journalism is impacting on the nature and content of news reporting. The diversity of different viewpoints may be diminishing as...
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AP, New York
The Internet has profoundly changed journalism, but not necessarily in ways that were predicted even a few years ago, a study on the industry released Sunday found.
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AP, New York
The Internet has profoundly changed journalism, but not necessarily in ways that were predicted even a few years ago, a study on the industry released Sunday found.
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Political parties and lawyers gathered outside Geo TV offices in Islamabad on March 16 2007
A year ago, on this very day, members of the Punjab police attacked the Geo...
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AP, Chicago
The dean of Northwestern University’s prestigious Medill School of Journalism was cleared Friday by the provost of making up quotes from unidentified students for...
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AP, Evanston
Northwestern University said it is reviewing the use of unnamed sources and “the veracity of quotations” in writings by the dean of its prestigious Medill...
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A new report has expressed concern over the safety of journalists worldwide, accusing public officials of “impotence, cowardice and duplicity” in defending...
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# Some journalists and even some news organizations have acknowledged that their coverage during the prewar months was far too deferential and uncritical.
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AP, Sulaimaniyah
Lawmakers in Iraq’s self-ruled Kurdish region approved a measure that would allow courts to accuse journalists of “vague offenses” relating to...
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In this 2007 file, Deb Riechmann of The Associated Press is seen in Washington. Riechmann, and Ed Henry of CNN have won the Merriman Smith Award for presidential coverage under deadline pressure.
