After visiting Moscow, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called on Belarus to increase oil cooperation. President Chavez promised counterpart Alexander Lukashenko that Venezuela "will supply Minsk with its oil...
This is a strange story.The Communist party in St. Petersburg, Russia, has approached the Orthodox Church to make Josef Stalin a saint if he wins this television poll to nominate him as the greatest Russian in...
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" Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic was working at a medical practice in Belgrade using a false identity and heavily disguised by a snow white beard before his arrest brought an end to more than a decade on the run, Serbian officials said Tuesday. An...
Opinion Colombian President Álvaro Uribe’s approval rating reached a record 91 percent Thursday, following the rescue of Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages from their FARC captors acording with Colombia Reports. Uribe is seeking a Constitutional reform that will allow...
Do these companies think of the Acronym first then try to make up words to fit to it."A US company claims it is ready to build a microwave ray gun able to beam sounds directly into people's heads. ...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public Contributor\Well as long as they stay on their side of the arctic, Canada most likely would not act. The United States may do that for us. Funny the world powers are all...
" ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey — Since the day a statue of Vladimir Ilich Lenin went up outside the trendy Red Square restaurant at the Tropicana Casino and Resort in 2005, Al Garrett has wanted it torn...
"BP has upped the stakes in its battle for control of its Russian joint venture, by accusing Vladimir Putin of damaging his country's reputation through failing to intervene in the escalating dispute.John Sutherland, the BP chairman, used a press conference in Stockholm to...
OpiinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorStojan Zupljanin, on the run for a few years from the law for atrocious war crimes unimaginable in the ethnic cleansing of Muslim and Croat men, women and children. In the...
The newly-seated Russian President rattles the saber at Ukraine over its Nato bid, and raising fuel export prices at the same time. It's difficult to see the latter as anything but a warning shot."Mr Medvedev told...
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Talking about Putin's poor decision making skills or even making jokes about it could get you banned from television in Russia and literally wiped from the screen. Expanding on an unofficial stance to censor any...
The Russian military says that the troop deployment reported below is for humanitarian purposes, and that the detachment sent is unarmed. Georgian officials claim that the move is an infrastructure-based territory...
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Roskosmos and the European SpaceAgency are firming up plans to jointly build a craftthat could orbit Earth and travel to the moon.
The Russian agency says thecraft potentially could carrya crew of six and...
It was an eerie sight, I'm sure; Nuclear missile launchers, columns of tanks and thousands of troops marched through Red Square in Russia today. The occasion was to celebrate the 63rd anniversary of the victory overy...
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Another indication of the deepening chill between Washington and Moscow is the expulsion order for two American military attachés from the US embassy in Moscow, the latest in a round of what appears to be tit for...