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The coming Color Revolution chaos and ‘Media Crimea’ in Kyrgyzstan
The first part of the article discussed Richard Miles' Color Revolution credentials and why the arrival of the 'Male Nuland' in Bishkek likely portends an oncoming destabilization there. It also looked a…
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The Middle East Oil/Nuclear Puzzle
US Secretary of State John Kerry may be starting to enjoy the brinkmanship, as he says it's "unclear" whether the US and Iran would reach a political framework nuclear deal before the end…
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Ukraine Rebels: Kiev's Autonomy Law Nullification of Minsk Agreement, Ceasefire…
Ukrainian rebel leaders have issued a statement today warning that the ongoing Minsk ceasefire could be in jeopardy after yesterday's parliamentary vote on autonomy added several amendme…
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Two Kinds of Russian Vaccine Against Ebola Virus Prove Very Effective
MOSCOW, March 17 (TASS) Two out of four kinds of vaccine created in Russia to prevent the spread of Ebola fever have proved very effective, Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova told journalists on…
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Russian Ruble: Soon To Be Backed By Gold?
Russia is struggling with a number of liabilities these days. The price for oil, Russia's most important export good, has reached historical lows. During the previous weeks the Ruble could o…
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Central Asia Wants to Stay on the Sidelines of Ukraine Crisis
This article originally appeared in The Diplomat A little over a year ago, little green men began popping up at strategic locations throughout the Crimean peninsula. While they kept mum as to t…
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Moscow Mayor to Fire 30% of City Officials by July
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has decreed that nearly one-third of the city's officials will be laid off by July 1 as the country grapples with a severe economic downturn, according to a statement…
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Germany Defense Spending Rises as NATO 'Commitments' Grow
( Bloomberg) -- Germany will boost defense spending from next year as NATO members respond to Russia's involvement in the Ukrainian crisis and increased military exercises ordered by the Krem…
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Ukraine Peace Plan Hangs by a Thread
This is horrible reporting from Reuters (surprise!), but it does illustrate the extremely fragile "peace" in Ukraine right now. For whatever reason, Reuters doesn't feel the need to report on the ongoing…
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Russia Frees Chinese Lenders from Taxes on Interest Income
The Russian government has approved the amendments drafts to the Russian-Chinese intergovernmental agreement on avoidance the double taxation. The corresponding decree was…
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Putin to Meet Top Aide to Chinese President in Moscow
( Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin will meet a close aide to Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, the Kremlin said, underlining Russia's increased effort to establish closer ties with Beiji…
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Polish President Calls for "Greater Unity of the Western World” against Russia
Via Radio Poland: Speaking after a meeting of the National Security Council (RPN) on the new Russian military doctrine, Komorowski called for greater unity of the "Western world" and buttre…
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Russia in the Balkans: Perceptions and Realities
As Russia and the West clash over the fate of Ukraine, will the next battleground be in the Balkans? The hero's welcome that President Vladimir Putin received in Belgrade in mid-October raised eye…
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46% of West Ukrainians Say Maidan Failed to Uproot Corruption, 20% Prepared to Partici…
An interesting morsel from Time
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Kiev Wants to Exchange Civilians for Captured Soldiers (Again)
KIEV, March 18. / TASS/. The Ukrainian side is ready to hold a prisoner exchange at an early date, head of the center to assist the release of prisoners and hostages affiliated to the Ukrainian Defen…
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Russia to Boycott UN Security Council Informal Meeting on Crimea
UNITED NATIONS, March 19. / TASS/. The UN Security Council members are due to hold an informal meeting on Crimea on Thursday at the initiative of Lithuania, while Russian diplomats said they p…
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Putin Signs Treaty Integrating South Ossetia into Russia
MOSCOW ( AP) - Russia tightened its control Wednesday over a second breakaway region of Georgia, with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the leader of South Ossetia signing a new trea…
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Ukraine to Boost Armed Forces to 250,000 within a Month
KIEV, March 18. /TASS/. The Ukrainian Defense Ministry is to increase the size of the armed forces from 232,000 to 250,000 troops within a month's time, Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak told rep…
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Russia voices solidarity with Venezuela against US interference
Caracas, 12 Mar ( AVN) - The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement Thursday in which it voices its solidarity with the Venezuelan people against the "Washington's aggressive build-up of politic…
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Ukraine crisis takes its toll on country’s oligarchs
Ukraine's billionaires are losing their cash, especially those with significant assets in the Donbas, an area that has become a battlefield between pro-Russian rebels and units loyal to Kiev. According…
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Funding Gap of $652 Million to Finish Enclosure for Ukraine's Chernobyl Plant
The completion of a new enclosure for the radioactive remains of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is in sight despite continued turmoil in Ukraine's east, as international institutions ready ne…
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Top U.S. General in Europe: Arming Ukraine 'Isn't a Strategy'
The top U.S. Army commander in Europe questioned whether Washington should provide weaponry to Ukraine to help in its fight against Russian-backed separatists, a proposal gaining in…
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Sochi - On the Sunny Side of Reality
Many years ago I started to really like Russia, but being a resident of Moscow I suffered much from the climate, too long, gloomy falls, and greyish winters. I like visiting and exploring wintry places,…
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Friends, but not partners
Great Britain has been the main ally of the US for as long as can be remembered, and the relationship has often been referred to as special. However, in recent years this status has lost an…
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Washington’s War on Russia
"In order to survive and preserve its leading role on the international stage, the US desperately needs to plunge Eurasia into chaos, (and) to cut economic ties between Europe and Asia-Pacific R…
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UN Refugee Agency Slams Kiev's Blockade of Donbass
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson William Spindler - to whom quoted text may be attributed - at the press briefing, on 10 March 2015, at the Palais des Nations in Gene…
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Part of Russian 'Capital Flight' Is Just Citizens Buying Dollars
I have written before about the nature of capital outflows from Russia. One aspect of capital outflows is how the aggregate reflects deposits shifts into forex, known as 'dollarisation' of depos…
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Russia's Oil Giant Rosneft Could Be the Best Stock on the Market
There's an intense propaganda war raging now over Ukraine. The old saying applies: "Truth is the first casualty of war." Neither side has clean hands--the Russians claim that the US/EU subverted…
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Ukrainian Education Ministry Rewrites History in New Schoolbooks
KIEV, March 16 ( TASS) - The Ukrainian education ministry has amended a schoolbook on history for senior grade school students to include the developments in Maidan and a version of the "Russo-…
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The Real Reason Why Russia Finally Left the CFE Treaty
On March 10, the head of the Russian delegation at negotiations discussing military security and arms control, Anton Mazur, announced that as of March 11, Moscow will cease its participation in…
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Leading American Scholar John Mearsheimer: The West blew it big time and endangered E…
Round Table on "Defining a new security architecture for Europe that brings Russia in from the cold" was held in Brussels on March 2. The organizer of the event was the American committee fo…
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Fighting Rages Near Donetsk Despite Cease-Fire
( Reuters) SPARTAK, Ukraine - Heavy machine-gun and light artillery fire pounded a district of Donetsk, the biggest city of eastern Ukraine, on Monday and pro-Russian rebels said there has be…
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Unclear Where the Gas for Caspian-EU Pipeline Will Come From
Turkey has formally broken ground on the construction of the 31bn cubic metres a year (cm/y) Trans Anatolian Gas Pipeline (TANAP), which when operational by the end of 2018 will carry Azerb…
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Nearly 1 Million Ukrainian Refugees Living in Russia
MOSCOW, March 18. /TASS/. Almost a million people have fled the war zone since a military conflict began in the east of Ukraine, Chief of the Federal Migration Service (FMS) Konstatin Romodanovs…
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The disgusting western media blackout of the Konstantinovka murder of an 8 year old Polina
For western main stream media, Ukraine can do no wrong... Nazi ideology infesting the Ukraine government and military...these guys are a marginal, controllable faction. Forgo dialogue and ne…
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Kerry's Lies and US Sponsored Regime Change Mania
Even a seasoned cynic sometimes gasps in disbelief. " President Putin misinterprets much of what the U.S. is doing or trying to do," U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told a press conference in Gen…
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Latvia Says Russian Naval Ship and Subs Lurking in Its Waters
This article originally appeared at The Moscow Times Latvia's military said on its official Twitter page on Tuesday that a Russian naval ship was on the edge of the country's territorial waters. The…
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Why the US Should Not Arm Kiev
This article originally appeared in The Plain Dealer President Barack Obama's director of national intelligence, James Clapper, has become the most recent member of the administration supporti…
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Ukraine's Parliament Violates Minsk II with New Law
( Reuters) KIEV - Ukraine's parliament has voted to offer limited self-rule to pro-Russian rebels in the east to try to preserve Western support for peace efforts, despite some deputies saying it would g…
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US Plans to Begin Training of Ukraine’s National Guardsmen in April
WASHINGTON, March 17 ( TASS) - The United States plans to begin training of Ukraine's national guardsmen in April, Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, Commanding General US Army Europe, said…
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Bulgarians Oppose Russia Sanctions 2 to 1
Although there are no considerable negative tendencies in the public opinion, the positive inertia from the previous months is exhausted. The likely causes for this decrease in confidence are the a…
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Russian Businessman to Buy The Moscow Times
The Moscow Times and a minority stake in its sister publication Vedomosti are being sold to Demyan Kudryavtsev, former chief executive of major Russian publishing house Kommersant, ne…
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Merkel's Planned Absence from the Victory Parade a Heads-Up to the Neo-Nazi Regime…
The German Chancellor demonstrated sheer hypocrisy when she scolded Japan's leadership for not "[facing] up to their wartime past" last week, underscored Finian Cunningham, an author and pr…
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Kazakh President Ends Speculation by Announcing Will Stand for Re-Election
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has ruled the Central Asian nation with an iron fist for more than a quarter of a century, has agreed to his Nur Otan party's nomination to stand for anot…
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Why Putin did not send the army into the Donbass
Opinion by a Russian blogger which we believe provides a correct albeit only a partial answer to the question asked. This article originally appeared at Russkiy Malchik. It was translated by J.Hawk a…
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US sends 800 new tanks to Germany
The United States has decided to deploy 800 new battle tanks in Europe. Some of them will probably be stationed in the Bavarian town of Grafenwoehr. This was reported in the Friday editi…
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Russia Launches Massive Arctic Military Drills
Moscow, ( AP) - The Russian military on Monday launched sweeping military maneuvers in the Arctic and other areas, a show of force ordered by President Vladimir Putin amid spiraling tension…
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Gazprom's European Partners 'Play Unfair Game' to Turn Profit
Moscow, March 17, ( Sputnik) - The European partners of Russian energy giant Gazprom use unfair methods to make a profit from the company, the Deputy General Director of Gas Projects at Russi…
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Greek PM Brings Forward Russia Putin Trip
He came to power vowing to end austerity, but talks with creditors on Greek financial reforms are in trouble. Relations with one of Greece's biggest creditors, Germany, are at a low ebb. German Fina…
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Neo-Con Think Tank Will Probably Kill Itself if Russia Hosts World Cup
Don't torture yourself with reading the whole thing, but here's the gist of the Heritage Foundation's argument for FIFA sanctions against Russia:
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Partnership with China Helps Gazprom Navigate Stormy Energy Market
Gazprom, the giant natural gas company that traditionally provides around a fifth of Russia's budget revenue, is facing a challenging year. The state-owned company is confronting slumping r…
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BBC Begrudgingly Admits Peace and Quiet Reigns in Crimea
John Simpson is the BBC's Diplomatic Affairs Editor and was for many years its top international news reporter. You cannot get a more authoritative voice in the BBC than him. The point is even h…
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"Putin's Tombstone" Unveiled in Kiev: Complete with Swastika, Hitler 'Stache, Etc.
Touching.
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“Crimea. A Way Home”
To mark the first anniversary of the referendum in Crimea that paved the way to reunification with Russia (or annexation by Russia, depending on your point of view) on 15 March, Russia's state Ch…
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Ukrainian NGO Report on Kiev ATO Casualties: 6,305 Killed, 2,520 MIA
This article originally appeared at Fort Russ
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Russia to Deploy Missiles to Kaliningrad, Bombers to Crimea as Part of Massive Milita…
MOSCOW ( AP) - Russia plans to station state-of-the art missiles in its westernmost Baltic exclave and deploy nuclear-capable bombers to Crimea as part of massive war games to showcase its res…
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Debaltsevo Counts Its Dead – and Blames Ukraine
This report is rather dismissive of Debaltsevo locals who oppose Kiev, chalking it up to conspiracy and irrational hysteria. Nonetheless, it's an interesting take on the current mood in Debaltsevo. T…
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Inside the Mariupol Base of the Controversial Azov Battalion
The first thing you notice as you walk through the corridors of the Azov battalion's base in Mariupol are the swastikas. There are many - painted on doors, adorning the walls and chalked onto the bl…
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Power Play Behind Regime Change in Russia
With "friends" like European Council President Donald Tusk and top NATO commander Gen. Philip Breedlove, the EU certainly doesn't need enemies. Gen. Breedhate has been spewing out his best…
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Another Opponent To The US Strategy: Spain Calls For End To Confrontation With Russia
Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo spoke out against anti-Russian sanctions during his state visit to Moscow. These sanctions, he said, are harmful for both sides. Prior to this,…
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IMF MAKES UKRAINE WAR-FIGHTING LOAN — ALLOWS the US to FUND MILITARY OPERATI…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has agreed on a scheme of war financing for Ukraine. For the first time, according to Fund sources, the IMF is not only violating its loan repayment conditions,…
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Poland’s pro-Russia Zmiana party urges embrace of Putin
Poland has been one of Europe's most hawkish countries in opposing Russia's aggression toward neighbouring Ukraine, consistently calling for a tough response even as other EU members waver…
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China and the AIIB: Towards a new rules-based order?
It remains uncertain whether the Chinese-led AIIB initiative will complement or compete with the World Bank and Asian Development Bank (ADB) to meet Asia's capital investment needs. What is…
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Alternative To The US: Merkel Wants To Work More Closely With China
At the start of CeBIT German Chancellor Angela Merkel promoted a close collaboration with the emerging IT industry in China - but at the same time also called for fair rules. 'It really provides co…
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