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Say what you will, the Middle East is a mysterious place. The person who says he knows what will happen there is either foolish of naive. And yet, there are signs afoot which may point in a new direction, one that is more hopeful, and which...
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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.-...
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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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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The “age of empires has ended” and the “international capitalist order is retreating,” declared a beaming Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday,...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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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Russia’s state-controlled gas monopoly has called off planned gas cuts to its former Soviet neighbor Belarus after Minsk paid a substantial part of a $456 million...
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What could be better termed as a pacifying move and a tentatively balancing act, Iraq’s cabinet has given approval to a new legislation to structure sharing of...
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State-owned gas monopoly Gazprom of Russia has reported that its export revenue surged 43 percent last year to a record mark $37.2 billion. Gazprom supplies almost a...
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Iran might have taken a sigh of relief at least for the time being as the Bush administration agreed to strike out the immediate threat of military force, from the...
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