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Russia’s destruction of banned Western food sparks outrage

August 11, 2015 VOANews Russia, Ukraine

The Russian government is moving ahead with the mass destruction of Western food imports banned under sanctions imposed by the

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Europe 

Russian opposition activists end hunger strike

August 9, 2015August 9, 2015 VOANews Russia

Six Russian opposition activists ended their 12-day hunger strike Saturday after one of them was hospitalized. The activists in Novosibirsk,

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Europe 

France scuttles Mistral warship deal with Russia

August 6, 2015August 7, 2015 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

The French government has decided not to deliver to Russia two high-tech warships built under a billion-euro contract with Moscow,

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Europe 

Russia concerns driving neighbours to NATO

August 6, 2015 Daniel Schearf of VOANews Nato, Russia

As Poland’s President Andrzej Duda is sworn in to office Thursday, a growing chorus of voices in eastern Europe is

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Europe 

Poland awards top rights prize to daughter of Boris Nemtsov

August 5, 2015 VOANews Poland, Russia

Poland has awarded the journalist daughter of slain Russian democracy advocate and opposition leader Boris Nemtsov a $1.1 million human

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Trotsky house for sale in Istanbul

August 2, 2015 VOANews Russia, Turkey

The former Istanbul house of Marxist revolutionary, theorist, Soviet politician, Red Army founder and hero of the 1917 October Revolution,

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wine glasses containing red wine amid moody wisps of smoke
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Russia’s economic woes cause 60 per cent slump in Bulgarian wine sales

July 30, 2015August 3, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Russia

Bulgarian wine sales have fallen by 60 per cent because of the political and economic situation in Russia, a leading

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Europe 

Russia vetoes UN resolution on MH17 crash

July 30, 2015 VOANews Russia, Ukraine

Russia vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have set up an international criminal court to prosecute those responsible

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Perspectives 

Russia’s propaganda machine revs up ahead of UN’s MH17 vote

July 29, 2015 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

Russia’s state media machine appears to have gone into conspiracy theory overdrive. A well-coordinated campaign appeared to be underway ahead

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