Russia Watch: Dagestan – Russia’s wild but beguiling southern frontier
Journalists love superlatives, and Russia’s southernmost republic, Dagestan, obliges. Of Russia’s 83 regions, Dagestan last year recorded the highest level
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Author: James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief
Russia Watch: Russia promotes safe Olympics, downplays Caucasus link
Why was British Prime Minister David Cameron helicoptering around the Caucasus Mountains recently with Russian President Vladimir Putin? Ostensibly Putin,
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Russia Watch: Behind Putin’s smile for Kerry
When Vladimir Putin smiles, take notice. A Russian friend once commented to me that one thing she likes about her
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Russia prepares law to ban ‘gay propaganda’
When a gay group held a film festival in Moscow in April, there were the usual anti-gay protesters. But this
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Russia Watch: After Boston’s bombs, Russia’s world class sports events face big security challenges
Back in the sunny days before the Boston Marathon bombings, Vladimir Putin, an avid sportsman, decided that the best way
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After Boston bombings, Putin calls for US-Russia intelligence sharing
Russian President Vladimir Putin has often complained that he battles alone against terrorism by Islamic extremists. Russian President Vladimir Putin
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Boston’s bombs will echo around the world
Many Russians watch with quiet satisfaction as the American saga unfolds about the two Chechen brothers turned Boston Marathon bombers.
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Russia Watch: Russia searches for ‘foreign agents’ at home, disguises its information war abroad
Russia’s government is busy rooting out “foreign agents.” So far police agents have “inspected” 700 non-governmental organizations, or NGOs, looking
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Russia’s Winter Olympics to break spending records
It is the largest construction site in Europe: 100,000 men and 500 companies are working around the clock. They are
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