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Russian warships head toward Syria
MOSCOW -- A group of Russian warships was en route to the Mediterranean Sea on Tuesday with the possible mission to evacuate citizens of their nation from Syria, the Russian news agency Interfax reported Tuesday. The Baltic Fleet frigate Yaroslav...Tags: Bashar Assad
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Heth and other investors buy stake in Russian theater chain
An investment group led international theater entrepreneur Paul Heth has acquired a controlling stake in Karo Film, one of Russia's leading cinema chains. The consortium, which includes Baring Vostok Private Equity, UFG Private Equity and the...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Sumner Redstone, Ice Age: Continental Drift (movie), Russia, Viacom Inc.
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Former policeman sentenced in killing of Russian journalist
This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.MOSCOW —Six years after the death of crusading Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, a former senior police officer was found guilty in Moscow City Court on Friday for his role in the slaying and was sentenced to 11 years in prison in a trial...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Ramzan Kadyrov, Justice System, Prosecution, Murder
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Your Scene: Changing of the guard in Moscow
During their trip to Moscow in October, Paul Prewitt and his wife, Lucinda, visited Alexander Garden, adjacent to the Kremlin, where they watched the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the Eternal Flame. The memorial is dedicated...
Tags: Nikon Corp
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Russian official: We're ready to meet with Syrian opposition
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.MOSCOW -- Russia is ready to meet with leaders of the opposition group seeking to overthrow Moscow's ally, Syrian President Bashar Assad, a high Russian official confirmed Friday. "We expressed readiness to meet with [the National Coalition of Syrian...Tags: Vladimir Putin, Political Dissent, Rebellions, Russia, Wars and Interventions
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Russia says stand on Syria is unchanged
Russian officials hurried to tamp down a global flurry of speculation Friday after a top diplomat said Syrian rebels might succeed in their push to oust President Bashar Assad, insisting that Moscow's stand in support of the embattled Syrian leader was...
Tags: Russia, Bashar Assad, U.S. Department of State
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PASSINGS: Galina Vishnevskaya, Lisa della Casa, Paul Rauch
Galina Vishnevskaya Russian opera singer, wife of Rostropovich Galina Vishnevskaya, 86, a world-renowned Russian opera diva who with her husband defied the Soviet regime to give shelter to writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn and suffered exile from her...
Tags: Obituaries, Swiss Confederation, Opera (genre), Music, Russia
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In Syria, 20 reported killed in fighting; commander defects
BEIRUT — Twenty people were killed Wednesday in fighting in a small Syrian village, according to opposition activists, as the commander of Syria's military police announced he was joining the rebellion in one of the army's highest-level defections....
Tags: Al Arabiya (tv network), YouTube, Wars and Interventions, Human Rights, Bashar Assad
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Assad won't go, says Russia's foreign minister
MOSCOW -- Syrian President Bashar Assad has no intention of leaving his country and rebels for the time being should put aside the demand that he step aside as a precondition for negotiations, Russia’s top diplomat said Saturday following a...
Tags: Central African Republic, United Nations, Russia, Wars and Interventions, Bashar Assad
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PASSINGS: Fyodor Khitruk, James R. Whelan, Arthur Chaskalson
Fyodor Khitruk Animated Soviet version of 'Winnie the Pooh' Fyodor Khitruk, 95, a prominent Russian animator and director who created the Soviet Union's cartoon version of A.A. Milne's classic Winnie the Pooh stories, died Monday in Moscow,...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Crime, Law and Justice, Obituaries, A.A. Milne, Nelson Mandela
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In Syrian war's end game, Moscow maneuvers away from Assad
As concerns mount that Syrian President Bashar Assad could unleash chemical weapons against his opponents, the Kremlin appears to be recalibrating its support for a desperate ally. Russia three times has wielded its veto power in the U.N. Security...
Tags: Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Islam, Leon Panetta, NATO
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Putin further distances Russia from Syria's Assad
MOSCOW -- President Vladimir Putin on Thursday further distanced his government from Syria’s leader, saying Russia would not back Bashar Assad’s regime “at any price” and recognized the need for a change in the Middle Eastern...
Tags: Vladimir Putin, Russia, Wars and Interventions, Bashar Assad, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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