Russia Watch: Russia loses Cyprus
Russia suffered a major defeat last week. And no one noticed. But the setback was so striking that President Vladimir
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Author: James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief
Cyprus crisis burns Russian investors
For years, construction companies in Cyprus lured Russians to invest in the Mediterranean island. Over the last decade, 40,000 Russians
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Russia Watch: Azeri wolves in Iranian sheep’s clothing?
Iran faces political population bomb: a young, growing and urbanized population that wants food – cheap and traditional. Iran’s population
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Democracy making strides in former Soviet Armenia
Twenty-one years after gaining independence from the Soviet Union, Armenia may be coming of age. It is developing a more
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Russian adoption: American mom Vs. Russian politicians
Russian politicians have made political hay this week out of the recent unexplained death in Texas of Max Shatto, a
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Armenians re-elect their president, debate level of fraud
As Armenians debated their presidential election, European observers gave cautious endorsements to the Monday vote that re-elected President Serzh Sargsyan.
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After a short, rocky campaign, Armenians vote on February 18 for president
Armenians are voting for president on February 18 2013. In a rarity for the former Soviet Union, Armenia will have
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Russia Watch: Obama II downgrades relations with Russia’s Kremlin?
Scenes from three weeks of watching US-Russia relations in New York, Washington and Moscow: Kate, an old high school
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Russia Watch: The march of Moscow’s silent majority?
During my two-week vacation in the United States, American friends again and again looked at me intently, and then asked:
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