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ABC News

02/27/12

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned against military intervention in Syria or an attack on Iran in scathing criticism of the West on Monday as he laid out his foreign policy priorities less than a week before Russia s presidential election. Putin said the West had backed the Arab Spring to advance its interests in the region, and that instead of promoting democracy the revolts had given rise to religious extremism...

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President Dmitry Medvedev has spoken out after a telephone conversation with his US counterpart, saying Obama s comments on Russia s recent parliamentary elections were 'unacceptable'.

http://rt.com/politics/medvedev-obama-elections-reset-055/


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Die Wahlfälschungen und der Ämtertausch von Medwedew und Putin haben eine Protestbewegung ausgelöst, gegen die der Kreml bisher hilflos agiert.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/36/36054/1.html



''Der Putin-Clan schöpft die ganze Sahne ab''
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/36/36340/1.html



Pussy Riot verurteilt

Das Gericht in Moskau verurteilt die Mitglieder der Band zu zwei Jahren Straflager; für viele ausländische Kommentatoren steht derweil der wahre Hauptschuldige der Angelegenheit fest: Putin, obwohl der Staatspräsident nichts mit dem Prozess zu tun hat.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/152604



Die wahren Fehler Putins

Der russische Präsident, die Vertikale der Macht und die Clans.
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/37/37450/1.html



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Dmitry Rogozin, Russia s ambassador to NATO, wanted to push his American negotiating partner into a corner. 'If space aliens were to completely disarm Iran,' he asked, 'would Washington continue with its plans to build a missile defense system in Poland?'

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,801961,00.html



U.S. Meddles in Russia

Russia historian Stephen F. Cohen says the U.S. assumption of Russia s weakness causes us to attempt to meddle in the country s political life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MWtaW2Lq7I&feature=player_embedded#!


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Russia will deploy new missiles aimed at U.S. missile defense sites in Europe if Washington goes ahead with the planned shield despite Russia concerns, President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday.

http://news.yahoo.com/medvedev-russia-may-target-missile-defense-sites-123047622.html



Minister: Russia to respond to U.S missile defense system in Europe

Once the U.S. missile defense system hits Poland, Russia will take adequate retaliatory measures, Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

http://en.trend.az/regions/world/russia/1969804.html


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In These Times
by Steve Weinberg

The title of Anna Politkovskaya s new posthumous anthology, Is Journalism Worth Dying For?: Final Dispatches (Melville House, April), poses a provocative question. The answer is probably no. But freedom of speech and freedom from corruption might be worth dying for, and sometimes only journalists can make those freedoms happen. Politkovskaya, who worked as an investigative reporter for the independent Moscow newspaper Novaya Gazeta until she was assassinated in October 2006 at the age of 48, asked herself this question in a piece never submitted for publication...

http://tinyurl.com/44mhvez


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