Pussy Riot member put in isolation after threat of hunger strike
Russian authorities say they have moved a jailed member of the anti-Kremlin all-female punk band Pussy Riot to an isolation
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Russia Watch: Russia’s future in Central Asia – mall cop in a Chinese shopping center?
Looking back 10 years from now, the most important news of Sept. 2013 may not be Moscow and Washington jousting
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Russia Watch: With Syria, can Russia’s president move from Vlad the Impaler to Putin the Peacemaker?
Vladimir Putin seems to enjoy being demonized by the West. In recent months, he has earned his share: bullying gay
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Russia’s reaction against gay rights starts in St Petersburg
Russia has become the worldwide target of gay activists for its new law banning “gay propaganda.” St. Petersburg is the
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Russia’s anti-gay law tests Olympic tenets
The Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, are less than six month months away. But a controversy over a Russian
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Social media erupts over Putin article
Social media erupted with criticism after Russian President Vladimir Putin appealed in a New York Timesarticle to the American people for support
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EU slams Russia over pressure on former Soviet states
European enlargement commissioner Štefan Füle has criticised Russia for the pressure Moscow has put recently on former Soviet satellites due
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Russia hands US its plan for Syrian diplomacy
Russian news agencies report that Moscow has given the United States its plan for securing Syria’s chemical weapons ahead of
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Russia Watch: Kremlin denies fathering Syria’s chemical Frankenstein
Lost in the verbal smokescreen that Russian officials throw up around the use of poison gas in Syria is one
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