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Dear readers, amidst all the mayhem, I just couldn`t pick up my pen to write these words until the dust settled a little. The infamous Crisis is by now becoming somewhat of an irritation to all those in power, who are now having to give-up their...
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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...
made popular Nov 12 2009
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.
For...
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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.
Filling a gap of info covering an...
made popular Nov 2 2009
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...
made popular Oct 26 2009
Russia has agreed to proposals by the U.N. nuclear watchdog to help reduce Iran’s stockpile of low-enriched uranium, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said...
made popular Oct 23 2009
Moscow will blast clouds from the sky this winter to save money on snow removal, a city official said Wednesday, but the plan threatens to anger the surrounding region,...
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The way ahead with the dispute between Iran’s nuclear programme and the possible response of western powers is foggy. News from last weeks give some base for...
made popular Oct 19 2009
The Russia’s scientists and theologians are surprised with the spontaneous emergence of inscriptions on the body of a toddler of Dagestan.
According to European...
made popular Oct 18 2009
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In a country like India where there is rampant unemployment and underemployment amongst the adults, what is it that encourages child labour? It...
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Two months ago, Human Rights Watch published a 75-page white paper reviewing the effect of a 2006 Russian enactment known as the “Law on Extremism.” Just...
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“Alarmed by the recent Israeli incursion into Gaza and the continuing socio-economic deterioration of the occupied territories, several NGOs have launched crisis...
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Samarpana is a voluntary organization that serves spastics and mentally challenged persons. Samarpana, the home for spastics and the mentally challenged is celebrating...
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Ever imagined a BPL status for officers of high rank, retired Army personnel and government servants? If not, then have a peep into this article and you will find how...
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The land degradation is continuously going on and if the process will go without any hurdle, Orissa will be changed in a desert in next 150 years. An NGO’s wing,...
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After the Supreme Court settled the whole grime whipped up over raising the height of the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP), a group of NGOs has embarked on a new mission...
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