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Should Central Asia Fear Taleban Spillover?
Region: Russian FederationUpsurge in militant activity in Central Asia will be contained, although security should be stepped up in border areas. By Sanobar Shermatova in Moscow (RCA No. 595, 06-Nov-09) In the eight years the United States-led Coalition has been in action in Afghanistan, the northern provinces have remained largely calm – until recently, that is. Taleban attacks focused on southern Afghanistan, and the overland rou... more
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In Russia, Bloggers Report on Election Fraud
Region: Russian FederationReports of vote-rigging in the local elections, which took place in 75 of Russia’s 83 regions on Oct. 11, spurred protests by citizens and politicians in the Russian capital - and quite an outrage among some of the country's bloggers. In Moscow, the United Russia party, led by PM Vladimir Putin, took 32 of 35 seats in the city legislature; the only other party to make it to the Moscow Duma is the Communist Party... more
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Slain Russian Journalist Anna Politkovskaya's Memorial Rally Announced
Region: Russian Federation
Journalist Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated on Oct. 7, 2006. This coming Wednesday, a memorial rally is scheduled to take place outside Chistyye Prudy subway station in Moscow. (Past GV coverage of Anna Politkovskaya's murder: 2006 - here and here; 2007 - here; 2008 - here.) A note (RUS) announcing the memorial rally was initially posted on the site of Novaya Gazeta, the newspaper Anna Politkovskaya wrote for: ... more
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Yom Kippur, 10th Century - Why would a Unitarian always celebrate Yom Kippur?
Region: Russian Federation
Fiction excerpt is from the historical time-travel with acupuncture needles novels of Anne Hart. Read this entire story in the book: Who's Buying Which Popular Short Fiction Now, & What Are They Paying? or the novel, Adventures in my beloved Medieval Alania and Beyond. Yom Kippur, Bethlehem, July 985 AD Yom Kippur means to me a time of healing, caring, repairing, and revealing, being at one with the creat... more
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Soccer fans urged to drink whisky to ward off swine flu
Region: Russian FederationIn Russia, soccer fans who are planning a trip to Wales for next month's world cup qualifier have been told to drink whisky as a way to shield themselves away from the feared H1N1 pandemic. Alexander Shprygin, the head of the country's supporter association (VOB) was quoted saying, "We urge our fans to drink a lot of Welsh whisky as a form of disinfection," Shprygin also added that whisky cures all symptom... more
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Scientific report highlights Arctic oil and gas reserves
Region: Russian Federation
Scientific report highlights Arctic oil and gas reserves By Jo Hedesan SUNDAY MAY 31, 2009 Photographer: Central Intelligence Agency (The International) — In a report published yesterday, May 29, in the Science magazine, a group of researchers led by Donald Gautier from the U.S. Geological Survey has shown that about 30% of the undiscovered gas reserves and 13% of the world’s oil reserve... more
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Russia: North Ossetia's Superstitious Law Enforcement
Region: Russian FederationLJ user liza-valieva - North Ossetian journalist Liza Valieva - writes (RUS) about an incident that could have prompted a lighthearted reaction had it not occurred in North Ossetia, an autonomous republic in the North Caucasus region of the Russian Federation, whose people have seen much violence since the collapse of the Soviet Union, including the Sept. 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis: Terrorists have succeeded ... more
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Russia: “A Popular Blogger”
Region: Russian FederationIn the Cyrillic sector of the LiveJournal universe, the number of readers - “friends” - subscribed to a blog is one of the factors that determines its popularity (or “authority”). Bloggers who have at least a thousand “friends” are called tysyachniki (from the Russian word tysyacha, “a thousand”), and, depending on the quality of the blog's content, this is a status that ... more
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Lenin Statue Bombed in St. Petersburg
Region: Russian Federation
Posted by Veronica Khokhlova What one saw in this April 1 post (RUS) by LJ user drugoi looked like an April Fool's Day joke at first - a Photoshop prank, most likely: a photo of a statue of Vladimir Lenin in St. Petersburg, the Bolshevik leader's back to the Finland Train Station, with a huge hole torn in the lower part of his bronze overcoat. But the photo was taken by AP's Dmitry Lovetsky, and there were more availa... more
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Russian Scholar Predicts Collapse of US Next Year
Region: Russian FederationA Russian scholar, dean and former spokesman of the Russian space agency predicts that the US will collapse next year and Russia and China will emerge as the new backbone of world economic order. Igor Panarin, former spokesman of the Russian Space Agency and Dean of the foreign ministry’s school for diplomats, predicts that the US will collapse as early as next year. Among his major predictions: • P... more
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