With Russia, fight fire with fire
Vladimir Putin is right. The West has interfered massively in Ukraine. Let me explain. Last year, about 15 per cent
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Author: James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief
Russia Watch: Russia’s occupation of Crimea – blueprint for Eastern Ukraine?
One week after the Sochi Winter Olympics, Vladimir Putin has won a gold in the Occupation Olympics. They are being
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What’s next for Sochi’s $50 billion in facilities?
This is Russia’s semi-tropical southern corner, where you can ski in the morning and swim in the afternoon – in
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Will Putin try to split Ukraine?
Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych has fled the presidential palace and the nation’s capital, taking refuge in his hometown of Donetsk.
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Potemkin Olympics or Palm Tree Olympics?
In Sochi today, the most carefully watched page is not the Olympic medals count. It is the weather forecast. Down
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The Olympics of Control — 2014 or 1984?
Sochi may be sunny and the skies bright blue, but I feel as if the Olympics are in 1984. I
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Sochi Olympics: Putin’s legacy or liability?
When the Sochi Olympics open on Friday, they will be the most expensive Olympics games in history. The $50 billion cost
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Don’t underestimate Ukraine!
In the late 1940s, the mortality rate for Soviet troops fighting Ukrainian insurgents in Western Ukraine was higher than the mortality
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Ukraine’s leader agrees to repeal some anti-protest laws
Ukraine’s embattled President Victor Yanukovich has agreed to repeal some of the harsh anti-protest laws that have helped fuel increasingly
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