Russia Watch: Russia’s Political Summer Olympics – Putin x Pussy Riot
In Moscow’s Political Summer Olympics, President Putin is on track this week to win the gold in a demanding event:
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Author: James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief
Russia Watch: Linguistic future — Ukrainians who do not speak Russian?
It’s a sunny summer evening here in Lviv, the café and cobblestones capital of Western Ukraine. But a steady stream
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Russia Watch: Why does the Kremlin defend the suspects in the Magnitsky case?
Many countries have mafias. I’ve reported on gangsters in Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil. I’ve spent time mulling the human landscapes
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Russia Watch: Moscow’s Friday the Thirteenth – Just a mid-summer horror movie?
While many Russians were relaxing at the dacha or lolling on beaches overseas, back home in Moscow the air conditioning
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Summer travellers: Your cell phone could be a financial hand grenade!
If you travel overseas this summer, you may board the plane carrying a financial hand grenade in your pocket –
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Russia sends warships to Mediterranean
For the last year, the Russian government has tried to project an image of neutrality in the increasingly bloody conflict
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Russia Watch: Moscow – Turning Europe’s largest city into Eurasia’s world class city
Moscow is easily at its best in the summer – lots of green, less traffic, stylish clothes, plenty of energy,
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Russia Watch: Putin the Permissive and Russian football hooligans
The world may indeed be flat. Several thousand Russians recently traveled to the western edge of their country – and
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The Putin Pendulum: Anti-White House – Pro American investment
On Monday in Mexico, Vladimir Putin and Barrack Obama appeared together before the press. The Russian President leaned diagonally away
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