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World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Officer Jailed in Coup Plot
New York City :: NY :: USA | 3 months ago
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Officer Jailed in Coup Plot Published: February 8, 2013 A Moscow court sentenced a former Soviet intelligence officer on Friday to 13 years in a prison colony for plotting an armed coup against the Russian government. The officer, Vladimir Kvachkov,
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Russia seeks 'book battle' recourse over Hasidim with US Library of Congress
New York City :: NY :: USA | 3 months ago
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The Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, taking its cue from US lawmakers, is preparing to make a list of Americans who have violated the rights of Russian children adopted into US families. The American Museum of Russian Icons has finally
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Georgia: The Tbilisi Circus Comes with Conflict Resolution, Plus Clowns
Tbilisi :: Georgia | 3 months ago
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Video Hundreds of spectators drop their jaws and look up to watch a man suspended from the ceiling by his arms. His wife, suspended above him, steps on his head, then his back, and twirls him like a pinwheel as they slowly float down to the center of
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Document declaring Soviet Union's breakup ‘missing' from archives
Minsk :: Belarus | 3 months ago
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A former Belarusian leader believes the document was kept by some official to make a fortun , it also established the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), thus marking a new era for the formerly Soviet republics. The document says it was made in
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Valery Abramkin: Nuclear scientist and Soviet dissident
London :: United Kingdom | 3 months ago
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Valery Abramkin, who died on 25 January aged 66 following a long illness, was a former Soviet dissident, nuclear scientist and rights activist who was held for years in the gulags and later campaigned for prison reform. Abramkin was head of the
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Democrats Defend Right-Wingers in Their Ranks: 'It's Not the Soviet Union'
Jackson :: MS :: USA | 3 months ago
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Specifically this time, they objected to Sen. Jim Tracy's bill requiring women to undergo ultrasounds before abortions and to Senate speaker Ron Ramsey's guns-in-parking lots bill. Nashville Rep. Mike Turner predicted Republicans will amend Tracy's
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How Russia has changed since its last Olympic Games
Moscow :: Russia | 3 months ago
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As Russia gears up for the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games one year from now, many former Soviets hold bittersweet memories of the last time their country hosted the Olympics. Road to the Olympics CBC is the official Canadian broadcaster for the
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Hoping for a Gorbachev in Today's China
Xinhua :: China | 4 months ago
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February 6, 2013 At a recent meeting of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping stressed that anti-corruption efforts need to target both "flies" and tigers, referring to lower and senior level
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Vodka, cognac and dancing... but why DID Russia throw a party to celebrate 75th anniversary of gulag
Solikamsk :: Russia | 4 months ago
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6 February 2013 Staff watched children's performances, enjoyed a buffet and listened to speeches as they toasted to the 75th anniversary of one of Russia's most notorious Gulag camps. The bizarre party to celebrate the founding of a forced labour
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Leonid Sokov's Cocktails and 500 Cocks
Moscow :: Russia | 4 months ago
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We are surrounded by guests hoisting shots of horseradish-infused vodka at a noisy reception for the impish dissident artist, who is explaining that his numerous depictions of the Soviet dictator are less about politics than the collision of cultures.
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