Tag: russia
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Threats Did Not Sway Putin, Now US Tries Pain
from @afp: US President Barack Obama’s threats of “costs” did not sway Vladimir Putin’s calculations on Crimea. Now he must see if the pain he plans to escalate on Russia will be sufficiently acute to do any better. The White House’s initial strategy of seeking to defuse the crisis, offering Russia an “off-ramp” and warning…
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Crimea Set to Leave Ukraine and Join Russia After Referendum
from euronews.com: As many as 95.5 percent of the electorate in Crimea have voted to join Russia. That comes after 50 percent of votes had been counted. According to the head of the electoral commission the turnout was as high as 83 percent. Pro-Russians in the Crimean capital Simferopol gathered in Lenin Square soon after…
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Russia Approves EU Assets Freeze If Sanctions Hit Moscow
from presstv.ir: Moscow says it will respond to any EU sanctions with its own punitive measures. This may include a freeze of foreign companies’ accounts in Russian banks and also confiscation of foreign companies’ properties in Russia. The Upper House of Parliament, the Federation Council, is preparing a new law which would allow the president…
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Police Stop Witch-Burning in Siberia
from en.ria.ru: In an unexpected incident worthy of the Spanish inquisition, a couple in eastern Siberia decided their acquaintance was a witch and attempted to burn her alive, though police stopped the impromptu auto-da-fe. The rescue came not a moment too soon, as the couple were at that moment forcing the alleged witch headfirst into…
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New World Next Week: Episode184 – Osama Sources, Russian Resignation, IBM Food Truck
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode184 – Osama Sources, Russian Resignation, IBM Food Truck Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Osama bin Laden’s Son-in-Law Trial Begins in New York City FBI Had…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode183 – New Crimean War, Mt. Gox Crumbles, Twitter Predictor
#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode183 – New Crimean War, Mt. Gox Crumbles, Twitter Predictor
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Interview w/ Michael Vail of StratRisks on Sochi, TPP, Ukraine
For our first installment of ‘Geopolitiks’ – a new series examining the real “news of the world” – we’re joined by Michael Vail of the indispensable StratRisks.com to help us look at the five-ring Sochi circus, the looming Trans-Pacific Partnership and the shaky situations in the Ukraine, South Sudan and more. “Read all about it!”…
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New World Next Week: Episode181 – Bankster Suicides, Sochi Circus, Academic Torrents
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode181 – Bankster Suicides, #Sochi Circus, Academic Torrents Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Harvard Economist Is Pulling All His Money From Bank Of America Harvard Economist…
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Sochi 2014 Security Updates
The Sochi Olympic Games and the Threat of a Terrorist Attack. Who is Behind the Caucasus Terrorists? Putin says Boston marathon bombing by Chechen brothers justifies intense Sochi security Putin’s ‘ring of steel’ becomes obvious at Olympics Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/02/04/216915/putins-ring-of-steel-becomes-obvious.html#storylink=cpy Snow cannons to surveillance boxes, here’s the tech at play in Sochi Journalists to…
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Avoiding Sochi Snoopers: Using Tor, Common Sense and Nail Polish to Prevent Russian Authorities Spying on Journalists
from ibtimes.co.uk: The Russian authorities are planning to monitor the online activity of every athlete, organiser and journalist during the Winter Olympics in Sochi, which begin later this week. Last year Russian prime minister Dimitry Medvedev signed into law a decree which, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, authorises the government to “collect telephone…
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Sochi Flashback: “Satanic Dancing on the Bones of Our Ancestors”
July 3, 2013: Islamist Rebel Vows ‘Maximum Force’ to Stop Sochi Olympics* from reuters.com: Russian Islamist rebel leaders urged their fighters on Wednesday to use “maximum force” to prevent President Vladimir Putin staging the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi. In an online video recorded in a forest, Doku Umarov said an order not to…
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Sochi Officials Order Stray Dogs Killed Ahead of Olympics
from foxnews.com: Thousands of stray dogs have been living amid the mud and rubble of Olympic construction sites, roaming the streets and snowy mountainsides, and begging for scraps of food. But as the games drew near, authorities have turned to a company to catch and kill the animals so they don’t bother Sochi’s new visitors…
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Sochi Security Force to Be 40,000 Strong
from cbsnews.com: Officials in Russia are dealing with perhaps the only sporting event with even bigger security concerns than the Super Bowl – the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Security has tightened with the start of the games days away.
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Vodka Blamed for High Death Rates in Russia
from bbc.co.uk: The high number of early deaths in Russia is mainly due to people drinking too much alcohol, particularly vodka, research shows. The study, in The Lancet, says 25% of Russian men die before they are 55, and most of the deaths are down to alcohol. The comparable UK figure is 7%. Causes of…
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Geneva II: Day 1 of Syria Peace Talks Ends on Fragile Ground
from cbsnews.com: Peace talks to carve a path out of Syria’s civil war got off to a rocky start Wednesday as a bitter clash over President Bashar Assad’s future threatened to collapse the negotiations even before they had begun. The dispute over Assad cast a pall over an international conference that aims to map out…