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Russian elections watchdog accused under 'foreign agent' law
The Russian Justice Ministry accused an election watchdog of failing to register as a “foreign agent” on Tuesday, alleging the group still receives funding from abroad. Golos, a nongovernmental organization that monitors Russian elections,...
Tags: Civil Rights, Russia, Politics, Judges, Punishment
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Boston's terror and the children of the fault lines
The world, in all its tangled webs, will be read into the Boston bombing suspects. For some, the Tsarnaev brothers are Chechen avengers, young men seared by the long war in Russia's "southern backyard." For Vladimir Putin and his regime, this deed of...Tags: Faisal Shahzad, Religious Conflicts, Islam, Religion and Belief, Pakistan
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Obama talks to Putin about Boston manhunt
WASHINGTON -- President Obama spoke on the phone Friday with President Vladimir Putin of Russia as U.S. officials scrambled to track the movements of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers. In the evening conversation, Obama praised the "close...
Tags: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Sports, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), White House, Barack Obama
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A history of terrorism out of Chechnya
A massive Russian crackdown on Chechnya's bid for independence in the 1990s and the installation of loyal leaders there pushed the Caucasus Muslim enclave from the headlines years ago. But resentment has festered and at times bled into the global holy war...
Tags: Terrorism, Religious Conflicts, Islam, Pakistan, Al-Qaeda
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Local professor shares knowledge about Chechnya
WSBT-TVThe suspects from the Boston marathon bombings is putting Chechnya on the radar of many. The two suspects are said to have lived near Chechnya at one point in their lives, but before this week it's a place most people have never heard of. Chechnya is...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, Sports
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Boston blasts unlikely to worsen U.S.-Russia ties, analysts say
MOSCOW -- Although the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings came from the Russian region of Chechnya, that isn't expected to worsen already strained U.S.-Russia relations, Moscow political analysts said Friday. “The relations between...Tags: Terrorism, Islam, Civil Rights, Politics, Religion and Belief
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Russia's Putin calls Boston attack 'disgusting'
MOSCOW -- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday began a U.S.-Russian youth hockey game opening the world championship competition by declaring a minute of silence for the casualties of the Boston bombings and the West, Texas, explosion. “In...
Tags: Russia, Pakistan, Moscow (Russia), Human Rights, Politics
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Cardin to meet with family of Russian lawyer
Sen. Ben Cardin is scheduled to meet Thursday with the family of a Russian lawyer whose death sparked an international outcry over human rights in that country, renewing focus on a controversy that has complicated U.S.-Russian relations at a sensitive...
Tags: Russia, Corporate Crime, Science and Technology, Moscow (Russia), Politics
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Cyprus lawmakers delay emergency vote on bank-deposit tax
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.ATHENS -- Lawmakers in Cyprus are scheduled to hold an emergency vote Monday on whether savers on the Mediterranean island will pay a levy of up to nearly 10% on bank deposits as part of a controversial international bailout plan that has enraged...Tags: European Debt Crisis, Market and Exchange, Economy, Business and Finance, Elections, Cyprus
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Cyprus shuts banks through Thursday amid fears of widening crisis
ATHENS — Amid renewed fears of a widening economic crisis in Europe, Cyprus on Monday ordered its banks shut through Thursday, postponing for a second time in two days a crucial parliamentary debate on whether bank depositors on the Mediterranean...
Tags: European Debt Crisis, International Monetary Fund, Parliament, Pakistan, Cyprus
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Sequester reveals military excess
If there is anything positive to come out of sequestration, maybe it will motivate us to take a good long look at what we spend on our military. Sixty percent of the 2013 discretionary budget proposed by President Barack Obama goes to the military...Tags: U.S. Navy, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Russia, Military Equipment, Weaponry
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A Russian 'frenemy'
The White House is trying to revive the "reset" with Vladimir Putin's Russia. It is likely to be a wasted effort. The reset is dead not because of someone's ill will or mistakes. It is because Washington and Moscow have reached the limit of...
Tags: Diplomacy, Camp David, Russia, Civil Rights, Interior Policy
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