Thursday, September 22, 2016

Commentary: Inside Putin's unburstable bubble - Reuters

Commentary: Inside Putin's unburstable bubble - Reuters

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Commentary: Inside Putin's unburstable bubble
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In the parliamentary election it was designed to influence, President Vladimir Putin's ruling United Russia substantially increased the number of seats it commands in the Duma. Three other parties that usually vote with United Russia also returned to ...
The Trump-Putin Nexus Is The Murkiest -- And Most Dangerous -- Campaign IssueForbes
Putin Has Finally Reincarnated the KGBForeign Policy (blog)
Turkey's Erdogan Congratulates Putin After Election TriumphNewsweek
The Hindu -The Boston Globe -CNBC -ABC News
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Russia Denies Any Role in Deadly Convoy Attack in Syria

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Some in Russia accuse the Syrian government, while others blame America. The Obama administration says it holds Russia responsible.

John Kerry Proposes Grounding Aircraft in Syria to Help Restore Cease-Fire

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The United States secretary of state told the United Nations Security Council that restoring the agreed cease-fire was the only way forward in Syria.

Boris Johnson: 'strong' evidence Russia carried out strike on UN convoy in Syria 

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Kerry likens Russian accounts of convoy attack to ‘parallel universe’ as he calls for grounding of Syrian planes over zones where humanitarian aid is delivered
Boris Johnson has said there is “strong” evidence that Russian warplanes carried out the airstrike on Monday that destroyed a UN aid convoy in Syria.
The UK foreign secretary made the allegation on Wednesday outside a contentious UN security council meeting on Syria in the wake of the attack on the convoy west of Aleppo city. The US and Russia sparred over responsibility for the bombing, which killed at least 20 people, and blame for the breakdown of a week-long ceasefire.
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Far right linked to east German tourism fall

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Xenophobia attributed to drift by young people to western cities, not migration

Commentary: Evidence Of Blatant Violations Calls Into Question Validity Of Elections In North Caucasus

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While the overall outcome of Russia's State Duma elections came as no surprise, variations in the conduct of the election campaign, voter turnout, and results in the North Caucasus underscored the very real differences between its various republics in terms of political culture and the potential for an opposition candidate to win election. (The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect the views of RFE/RL.)

В провинции Дамаск сбит сирийский военный самолет - РИА Новости

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В провинции Дамаск сбит сирийский военный самолет
РИА Новости 
ДАМАСК, 21 сен — РИА Новости. Сирийский военный самолет был сбит в провинции Дамаск, пилот остался жив, подтвердил агентству Sputnik источник в вооруженных силах. Самолет наносил удары по позициям боевиков "Исламское государство" (ИГ, запрещена в РФ) в районе ...
СМИ: боевики сбили самолет сирийских ВВСМосковский Комсомолец

Сирийский военный самолет разбился к северу от ДамаскаРадиостанция ЭХО МОСКВЫ 
Боевики ИГ сбили военный самолет в СирииLenta.ru
НТВ.ru-ИА REGNUM
 -Федеральное агентство новостей No.1Газета.Ru 

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Дочь Ислама Каримова поместили в психбольницу — СМИ - Ислам News

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Дочь Ислама Каримова поместили в психбольницу — СМИ
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Старшая дочь покойного президента Каримова — Гульнара, не присутствовала на похоронах отца. По утверждениям ряда СМИ, она помещена в психиатрическую клинику. Об этом, ссылаясь на свои источники, сообщил администратор созданной в поддержку узбекского лидера группы ...
Ташкент не даст «обет верности» никомуРосбалт.RU
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Гульнару Каримову, старшую дочь покойного президента посадили в психушку?Ozodagon
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Russian PM Warns About Budget 'Populism'

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Russia's prime minister warned against 'populism' in budget planning, and the allure of printing more rubles to cover the country's persistent economic problems.  In an article published September 22 in the government newspaper Rossiskaya Gazeta, Dmitry Medvedev promised to keep a tight budget without ignoring social demands, or security needs. The article was published just four days after the country held national parliamentary elections that gave the ruling...

Three Killed In Russian Helicopter Crash

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Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry says one of its helicopters has crashed near Moscow, killing three pilots aboard.

Afghanistan Signs Peace Deal With Militant Group

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The Afghan government has signed a peace accord with the Hezb-e Islami militant group led by notorious warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.

The Daily Vertical: Whom Does Putin Trust? (Transcript)

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The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect the views of RFE/RL.

U.S. House Approves Lethal Weaponry For Ukraine

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The U.S. House of Representatives has backed legislation that calls for supplying Ukraine with lethal weaponry in its fight against Russia and separatists in the eastern Donbas region.

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Tsar Putin? Zhirinovsky Raises Eyebrows With Remarks At Kremlin Ceremony

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Was Vladimir Zhirinovsky calling for the restoration of the Russian monarchy, commenting on President Vladimir Putin’s enormous power and authoritarian rule, or just pulling another prank?

The Ministry Of Putin Preservation

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The era of Vladimir Putin appears to be entering a new and more sinister phase. (The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect the views of RFE/RL.)

Iranian President Blames World Powers For Spread Of Terrorism

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Iranian President Hassan Rohani has blamed world powers for the spread of terrorism over the past 15 years and what he called a less secure world.

Putin Names Duma Speaker As New Spy Boss

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to appoint former parliament speaker Sergei Naryshkin as the chief of the country's foreign intelligence agency (SVR).

Former Georgian PM Sentenced Again

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Former Georgian Prime Minister Vano Merabishvili has been found guilty of yet another crime and sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison.

В Москве состоялось заседание Коллегии Министерства обороны России

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Обсуждались вопросы, связанные с подготовкой авианесущего крейсера «Адмирал Кузнецов» к выходу на боевую службу, оснащением ракетных соединений ВВО новыми образцами вооружения, завозом материальных средств для воинских частей на Севере и Дальнем Востоке.

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Министр обороны подвел итоги мероприятий боевой подготовки Вооруженных Сил, которые прошли на Юге России

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Генерал армии Сергей Шойгу подчеркнул, что «в целом намеченные цели достигнуты», и поставил задачу «использовать полученный опыт при подготовке войск к ведению боевых действий в локальных войнах и вооружённых конфликтах».

Вице-адмирал Александр Носатов назначен на должность командующего Балтийским флотом

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За время службы в Военно-Морском Флоте офицер прошел путь от командира зенитной ракетной батареи эскадренного миноносца «Стойкий» до начальника Военного учебно-научного центра ВМФ.

Donald Trump's 'Hidden' Support Could Turn Election - Or Not

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Is there support for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump that is not showing up in the polls? His campaign believes so. “We think there’s a big hidden Trump vote in this country,” said Kellyanne Conway, campaign manager for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, on NBC's the Today Show last month. Trump is gaining in polls against Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, and his campaigners think there are other fans out there. "They're just very quiet about it," Pennsylvania Trump volunteer Sondra Dull told VOA. "It's, like, the silent majority. They're just not going to talk about it." Staying out of the basket Many Trump supporters do not trust polls or pollsters. But there could be another reason why they don't identify themselves: To some, Trump voters have a bad reputation. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton put some of his supporters in what she called a "basket of deplorables." "They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it," she said. Many people don't want to be put in that basket. So if someone asks who they are voting for, they may keep quiet about it. "They'll go ahead and vote for that candidate in the privacy of a [voting] booth," says Dartmouth College political science professor Joe Bafumi. "But they won't admit to voting for that candidate to somebody who's calling them for a poll." Something similar happened in the 1980s to Tom Bradley, the first African American to run for governor of California. He had a big lead in the polls, but lost the election. "Many people argue it was because there were a lot of white Democrats who said that they were going to vote Democratic," Bafumi says. "But when it came time to go to the polls, they didn't vote for Bradley because he was black. They voted for the white candidate instead." What became known as the "Bradley effect" seemed to have disappeared from American politics by Barack Obama's presidential candidacy in 2008. 'Reverse Bradley' But some analysts see a "reverse Bradley effect" for Trump early in the race. During the primaries, Trump did better in online polls than in telephone polls. According to one interpretation, respondents may have been uncomfortable telling a caller that they planned to vote for him. Checking a box in an online poll, when no one is looking, did not present the same discomfort. But most pollsters say the difference between online and live polls has largely disappeared. If people weren't telling pollsters about their true intentions during the primaries, "there really is not strong support to suggest that that's going on in the general election," says Courtney Kennedy, head of survey research at the Pew Research Center. Also, if the effect were significant, it should have been evident when voters actually went to cast their ballots during the primaries. It wasn't. "He was basically evenly split in terms of overperforming and underperforming where his polls were," says political analyst Geoffrey Skelley at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. The big, hidden undecided What's really unusual in the polls is the number of voters who are undecided at this stage of the election: 20 percent of those surveyed,  according to pollster Chris Jackson at Ipsos. "That's twice what it was in 2012. It's a huge number of potential voters," he says. According to Princeton University Election Consortium founder Sam Wang, "It looks like many of those undecideds are people who can't quite bring themselves to vote for Donald Trump who normally vote Republican." "Really, the thing that probably is going to decide this election is which campaign is better able to get those people to actually show up on election day," Jackson says.

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Battered by War, Syria's Wheat Crop Halved This Year to New Low 

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Syria's wheat harvest nearly halved to 1.3 million tons this year, the lowest in 27 years, as fighting and poor rainfall further degraded the farming sector and the nation's ability to feed itself. The government of President Bashar al-Assad was forced to tender this summer for an unprecedented 1.35 million tons of imported wheat from political ally Russia to ensure supply of the flat loaves that are a staple for the Syrian people. Before the five-year-old civil war, Syria was a wheat exporter producing four million tons in a good year and able to export 1.5 million tons. Now wheat and bread have become an integral part of the war, with wheat farms, seed distribution, milling and bakeries all affected. The Damascus government subsidizes bread for the areas it controls and aid agencies offer supported prices in some areas, but Syrians in other parts of the country suffer bread shortages and high prices. "You know why most people carry weapons? Because of bread," said Mahmoud al Sheikh, a health worker from a besieged part of Damascus. "Hunger makes people sell themselves to the armed groups so they can eat and bring food to their families." Al Sheikh, speaking to Reuters by telephone from the capital's Eastern Ghouta suburb, said earlier in the year his besieged area scarcely saw bread. "Sometimes there's no bread at all. People start to make bread from barley ... It goes on like this for months. People eat cabbage instead - it's enough to test your faith. Really, people's situations become miserable," he said. The Syrian war has killed more than 250,000 people, created the world's worst refugee crisis, allowed for the rise of the Islamic State group and drawn in regional and major powers. The Most Vulnerable Perilous transport routes have meant the Syrian state has struggled to buy from traditional "bread-basket" areas which lie outside government control. As of August, 9.4 million Syrians were "food insecure," said Adam Vinaman Yao, deputy Syria representative of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). This is over half of about 17 million people thought to still live in Syria. "The prices of basic agriculture products drastically increased thus reducing access by most consumers and especially the most vulnerable strata of the population," Yao said. The 1.3-million-ton wheat output estimate given by the FAO compares to 1.7 million tons cited by a government source, but is higher than one million given by the opposition. The opposition interim government, allied with the main opposition political body the Turkey-based Syria National Coalition, carries out technical and administrative functions of government from within opposition-held Syria. Two dry spells, one in December and the other between mid-February and mid-March helped to cut the 2016 crop down from the 2.44 million tons in 2015, when most areas had ample rainfall. In areas were there was rain, like the northeast province of Hasaka which accounts for almost half the country's wheat production, only 472,000 hectares were planted out of a planned 706,000 hectares due to the security situation, Yao said. There has been heavy fighting in Hasaka as an alliance of Syrian Arab and Kurdish fighters backed by U.S.-led airstrikes pushed Islamic State militants out of some territory this year. "We Need Fertilizer" With Islamic State to its south and west, and closed borders with Turkey and Iraq to the north and east, the Hasaka area, in a semi-autonomous region of northeastern Syria controlled by the Kurdish YPG militia, has suffered shortages of fuel and farming goods, Ekrem Hisso, a former local government head told Reuters. "We need fertilizer but there isn't any. And even when we can find it, one tonne this year has reached the price of five tons of wheat," Faisal Hassan, a farmer from the Ras al-Ain countryside in Hasaka province said. "Production per hectare used to be up to 40 bags of wheat, but during the war years production has been around 20 bags per hectare," Hassan said. The outlook for wheat is not good. For the coming 2016/2017 planting season the government-run General Organization for Seeds Multiplication only managed to distribute 30,000 tons of wheat seed compared to 450,000 tons prior to the war. Of the country's total wheat production this year, only around 400,000 tons were procured by the government, a source at the General Organization for Cereal Processing and Trade (Hoboob), the state body responsible for wheat, said. The figure is far short of the one to 1.5 million tons needed to provide bread to government-held areas of Syria. Wheat From Russia Hoboob is holding an import tender for one million tons of Russian wheat with a deadline of Sept. 19 and has already purchased 350,000 tons of Russian wheat, a reflection of the country's pressing import needs. Syria's bread-basket provinces of Hasaka, Raqqa and Deir al-Zor, which account for nearly 70 percent of total wheat production, are outside government control, but farmers can sell their wheat to the state if they reach collection centers. The small procurement figure comes despite the government raising the price it pays local farmers for wheat. In areas controlled by rebel groups, excluding Islamic State and the Kurdish YPG, 500,000 tons of wheat was produced before war erupted. "But in this 2016 season it is very, very low and does not exceed 100,000 tons. This is because of many reasons, the most important being the war raging in these areas," said Hasan al-Muhammad, head of the wheat agency run by the Syrian Interim Government opposition and also called Hoboob. Al-Muhammad said in those areas, farmers were selling for $285 a ton, around $65 a ton higher than the state Hoboob's prices, but stressed quantities were limited. Bakeries are also hard hit by the crisis in wheat output. "We mostly depend on aid in the form of flour given to us by [aid] groups or by getting flour on the black market," said Abu Karam, manager of a public bakery recently hit by an airstrike in rebel-held Idlib. Abu Karam's bakery can afford to sell a one kg packet of loaves for 50 Syrian pounds (10 U.S. cents) because of free flour from aid groups.  Without this, the same batch would cost at least 200 pounds. Abu Karam stressed the importance of affordable bread. "The situation in Syria is getting worse and worse ... citizens cannot secure their daily sustenance; so they depend on bread at all times," Abu Karam said. "They eat it with nothing other than simple things like olive oil or tomatoes. All families, poor and rich, eat bread morning, noon and night." ($1 = 517.5 Syrian pounds)

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Yahoo Says Hackers Stole Info in 500 Million User Accounts

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Yahoo says the personal information in 500 million accounts was stolen in a massive security breakdown. The breach disclosed Thursday, the latest setback for the beleaguered internet company, dates back to late 2014. The stolen data includes users' names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords and security questions for verifying an account holder's identity. Yahoo is blaming the hack on a "state-sponsored actor.''   The stolen data includes users' names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords and security questions for verifying an account holder's identify.   Yahoo is recommending that users change their passwords if they haven't done so since 2014.

Top German security official follows Clinton lead, blames Russia for hacking attack on MPs, political parties - National Post

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Top German security official follows Clinton lead, blames Russia for hacking attack on MPs, political parties
National Post
BERLIN — Germany is investigating a series of computer hacking attacks on MPs and political parties amid fears Russia may be trying to influence the outcome of next year's elections. The offices of several MPs inside Germany's parliament were targeted ...

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Russia to send its aircraft carrier to eastern Mediterranean - Fox News

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Russia to send its aircraft carrier to eastern Mediterranean
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MOSCOW – The Russian navy will send its sole aircraft carrier to the eastern Mediterranean as part of Moscow's efforts to reaffirm its influence in Syria and showcase its resurgent military might. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Wednesday that the ... 
Russia to send flagship aircraft carrier to SyriaArutz Sheva

Russia's only aircraft carrier joins naval task force in MediterraneanAMN Al-Masdar News (registration)
Russia to Send Admiral Kuznetsov Cruiser to Mediterranean Sea - Defense MinisterSputnik International

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Russia to send aircraft carrier to Syria as ceasefire hangs in balance - CNN

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Russia to send aircraft carrier to Syria as ceasefire hangs in balance
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"I emphasize this to Russia -- the United States continues to believe there is a way forward," he said, saying that grounding Syrian military planes was crucial to reviving the ceasefire. "We need to get to the prohibition of flying, my friends, that ...
Russia Denies Any Role in Deadly Convoy Attack in SyriaNew York Times
Kerry on Syria: Feels Like I'm in 'Parallel Universe' to Russia's LavrovNBCNews.com
SitRep: US Blames Russia For UN Convoy Attack; China's Space RaceForeign Policy
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US intel head suggests Russia behind DNC hacks, says Moscow tried to affect elections in past - RT

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US intel head suggests Russia behind DNC hacks, says Moscow tried to affect elections in past
RT
The US director of national intelligence has suggested Russia is behind the recent hack that saw Democratic National Committee (DNC) records dumped online. The leak undermined the Democrats' reputation ahead of November's presidential election.
US Intelligence Chief Suggests Russia Was Behind Election-Linked HacksWall Street Journal
Russia has previously tried to influence US elections, says spy chiefPCWorld

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Russia to send aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov to Mediterranean - RT

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Russia to send aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov to Mediterranean
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“Currently, the Russian naval group in the eastern Mediterranean includes at least six warships and three or four support vessels from all fleets. To increase the combat capabilities of the group, [we] plan to include the cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov into ...
Russia to send its aircraft carrier to eastern MediterraneanFox News
How Russia plans to imitate US naval power with its aircraft carrier deployment to SyriaYahoo Finance
Russia's only aircraft carrier joins naval task force in MediterraneanAMN Al-Masdar News (registration)
Sputnik International
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Russia blamed for hacking attack on German MPs - Telegraph.co.uk

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Russia blamed for hacking attack on German MPs
Telegraph.co.uk
Germanyis investigating a series of sophisticated computer hacking attacks on MPs and political parties amid fears Russia may be trying to influence the outcome of next year's elections. The offices of several MPs inside Germany's parliament were ...
Germany accuses Russia over cyberattacksSky News

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Signs point to Russia in cyberattacks on Germany - Deutsche Welle

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Signs point to Russia in cyberattacks on Germany
Deutsche Welle
"We certainly think the Russians are capable of this," Notz told DW. "But it's always difficult with hacker attacks to say definitively where they originate. Part of the attack is to conceal where it's coming from." The "spear phishing" scheme comes ...

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Russia Is Pumping Oil at Its Fastest Pace Since the Soviet Era - Bloomberg

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Russia Is Pumping Oil at Its Fastest Pace Since the Soviet Era
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Russia will meet fellow oil producers in Algiers on Sept. 28 to discuss the market as the global crude surplus keeps prices below $50 a barrel. President Vladimir Putin said Sept. 1 he's confident producers can overcome differences that derailed a ... 

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12 Million Extra Votes for Putin's Party - The Atlantic

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12 Million Extra Votes for Putin's Party
The Atlantic
However, a statistical analysis of the official preliminary results of the country's September 18 State Duma elections points to a familiar story: massive fraud in favor of the ruling UnitedRussia party comparable to what independent analysts found in ...
Daily chartThe Economist (blog)
Vladimir Putin Tightens Grip on Russia's Parliament With Election RoutNew York Times
Russian election: Big victory for Putin-backed party United RussiaBBC News
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Pornhub fans flock to lend a hand in its fight against Russia - The Next Web

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Pornhub fans flock to lend a hand in its fight against Russia
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Last week, Russian media regulator Roskomnadzor pissed off thousands of local porn lovers when it blocked the entire country from accessing two of the world's biggest adult websites, Pornhub and YouPorn. Rooted in two separate court rulings, the ...

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Fight Against Islamic State Looks Like A Cover For Russia's Imperial Gamble - RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty

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Fight Against Islamic State Looks Like A Cover For Russia's Imperial Gamble
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Russian SU-25 strike fighters takes off from the Hmeymim airbase, outside Latakia in Syria. The emergence of the self-declared Islamic State extremist group in the region has allowed Moscow to intervene in the Syrian conflict under the guise of ...
Skeptical of Russia, Clinton seen going toe-to-toe with PutinReuters

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In a Wave of Web Repression, Russia Blocks Its Most Popular Gay Site - Daily Beast

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In a Wave of Web Repression, Russia Blocks Its Most Popular Gay Site
Daily Beast
Russian hardliners like to claim that homosexuality is an “evil” sent to Russia from the West to reduce the already declining population. But until recently, the Internet remained a safe space forRussian homosexuals, and online dating services grew ...

Russia Suggests US Drone May Have Hit Aid Convoy in Syria - Wall Street Journal

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Russia Suggests US Drone May Have Hit Aid Convoy in Syria
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MOSCOW—Russia's Defense Ministry said Wednesday an armed drone belonging to the U.S.-led coalition was in the vicinity of a humanitarian aid convoy that was hit by an airstrike Monday in Syria, countering an assertion by American intelligence agencies ... 
US and Russia Play Blame Game Over Syria Cease-Fire …Foreign Policy (blog)
US calls on Russia and Syria to ground all aircraft in northwest SyriaWashington Post
John Kerry launches blistering attack on Russia at UNCNN
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Egypt allows wheat fungus after row with Russia - Yahoo News

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Egypt allows wheat fungus after row with Russia
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Cairo (AFP) - Egypt's cabinet on Wednesday backed down from tough restrictions on wheat imports that threatened a crisis with Russia, saying it would allow up to 0.05 percent ergot in grain shipments. Egypt, the world's top importer of wheat, at the ...

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US calls on Russia and Syria to ground all aircraft in northwest Syria - Washington Post

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US calls on Russia and Syria to ground all aircraft in northwest Syria
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UNITED NATIONS — Secretary of State John F. Kerry called on Russia and Syria on Wednesday to “immediately ground all aircraft” flying in key areas of northwest Syria where a humanitarian convoy was destroyed Monday, and accused Moscow of inventing ... 
US, Russia Spar Over Syria at UN
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US, Russia take Syria battle to new heightsYahoo News

John Kerry launches blistering attack on Russia at UNCNN
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John Kerry launches blistering attack on Russia at UN - CNN

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John Kerry launches blistering attack on Russia at UN
CNN
"I listened to my colleague from Russia and I sort of felt like we're in a parallel universe here," Kerry said of their differing accounts of the conflict. He called for all planes in key areas of Syria to be immediately grounded and for countries to ...
Russia Suggests US Drone May Have Hit Aid Convoy in SyriaWall Street Journal
Kerry lashes out at Russia, calls for grounding of all aircraft over humanitarian routes in SyriaLos Angeles Times
US calls on Russia and Syria to ground all aircraft in northwest SyriaWashington Post
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This Is How Russia Bombed the U.N. Convoy - Daily Beast

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This Is How Russia Bombed the U.N. Convoy
Daily Beast
The Russian Ministry of Defense has gone to great lengths to deflect blame, even claiming that video of the aftermath of the attack shows no sign of damage from an air strike, and suggesting the convoy was attacked by Syrian rebel fighters on the ground.
ML-Syria-The-LatestYahoo News
Don't Try to Imitate the Russians in SyriaThe National Interest Online (blog)

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Karl Rove: Russia is using the fight against ISIS as cover for an imperial gamble - Business Insider

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Karl Rove: Russia is using the fight against ISIS as cover for an imperial gamble
Business Insider
Karl Rove is relaxed but adamant: "The threat from Russia is definitely growing," he says. "Putin is becoming more bellicose; he feels he can push the edge of the envelope further than ever before." The former senior adviser and Deputy Chief of Staff ...
Trump's praise for Putin baffles Russian-AmericansThe Boston Globe
Russia's northernmost active oil field enters commercial productionWorldOil (subscription)
Fight Against Islamic State Looks Like A Cover For Russia's Imperial GambleRadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Reuters -Deutsche Welle -Telegraph.co.uk -ABC News
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From Russia With Trump: A Political Conflict Zone - ABC News

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From Russia With Trump: A Political Conflict Zone
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Donald Trump and his children have for years promoted themselves and their real estate opportunities in Russia and other former Soviet states, and ethics experts say if he is elected President the get-tough U.S. sanctions against Russia could be in ...

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Color Commentary On Russia - Forbes

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Color Commentary On Russia
Forbes
I'm no Russia expert. I neither speak nor read Russian. But ever since 1980 I've been part of a small group of people practicing what we call “citizen diplomacy.” One of our members who worked at the U.S. State Department at the time coined the term ...

Russia Cancels Election Results After Ballot Stuffing - Newsweek

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Russia Cancels Election Results After Ballot Stuffing
Newsweek
Russia's Central Electoral Commission has nullified the results of nine polling districts for offences such as stuffing ballot boxes with more votes than voters, state news agency Itar-Tass reports. The Kremlin declared Sunday's elections would give ...

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Russia: Mossad, other foreign agents killed in Aleppo strike - The Times of Israel

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Russia: Mossad, other foreign agents killed in Aleppo strike
The Times of Israel
According to the Arabic-language version of Russia's Sputnik news agency, some “30 Israeli and Western officers” died when they were hit by three Kalibr cruise missiles fired by Russianwarships in a “foreign officers' coordination operations room” in ...

Putin reshuffles senior staff in wake of poll victory

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Naryshkin to head Russia’s spy service, Volodin to be Speaker

The devastation of Syria will be Obama’s legacy | Natalie Nougayrède 

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The US president badly misread Putin. Only a tough approach with Russia can secure any kind of peace
The ceasefire in Syria may not have been formally pronounced dead, but hopes to resurrect it are fast dwindling. After an aid convoy was destroyed near Aleppo, fighting again intensified and the US and Russia exchanged accusations in the UN. But in reality US diplomacy had collapsed before these latest events.
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Donald Trump: ‘We Need a National Anti-Crime Agenda’

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at the Shale Insight Conference, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016, in Pittsburgh.
“We need a national anti-crime agenda to make our cities safe again,” Donald Trump stressed. “Safety is the foundation of the ladder to American success.”

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