Tag Archives: Moscow

Russia responds to failure of UN resolution, angry over West’s ‘blame’ for Syria escalation

Moscow bristled at the West for its attempts to “put the blame” on Russia for escalating the Syrian civil war, hours after Moscow vetoed a Western-backed United Nations resolution aimed at pressuring President Bashar Assad‘s government to end the war. Russia was adamantly opposed to any mention of Chapter 7 of the United Nations Charter, [...]

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‘Death Match’: Why a Nazi-Era Soccer Movie Is Making Ukraine Angry

The Nazi officers stroll down Kiev‘s main boulevard through cheering crowds and accept the welcoming gift of bread and salt offered by women in Ukrainian national dress. A man in the crowd nods approvingly. “There will be order,” he says in Ukrainian. This is one of many scenes in a World War II soccer film [...]

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10 Moscow students jailed for racist bomb attacks

A Moscow court on Thursday sentenced 10 university students to up to 13 years in prison on “ terrorism” charges for staging bombing attacks against security buildings and Muslim targets. The students admitted in court to having been members of a gang called the Autonomous Military Terrorist Organisation that operated in the Russian capital in 2009 [...]

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World War II: Axis and Allied movements in Europe and North Africa, 1940-42

By the early part of 1939 the German dictator Adolf Hitler had become determined to invade and occupy Poland. Poland, for its part, had guarantees of French and British military support should it be attacked by Germany. Hitler intended to invade Poland anyway, but first he had to neutralize the possibility that the Soviet Union would resist the invasion of [...]

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Russia OKs legislation to ease party registration

 Russia’s parliament on Wednesday approved legislation intended to simplify the registration of political parties, a move influenced by massive protests after a December election widely viewed as tainted by fraud. The legislation, which outgoing President Dmitry Medvedevis expected to sign into law next week, was welcomed by those who believe it could help loosen the tight grip [...]

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Man Dressed as Nazi Soldier Stabs Migrant on Metro

A 25-year-old man dressed in a Nazi uniform was arrested after stabbing a Central Asian man in the chest on the Moscow subway, officials said. The suspect, whose name has not been released, was wearing a Wehrmacht-era German military uniform at the time of the attack and was arrested earlier this month, the Moscow Police Department said in astatementon Monday. In the man’s home in the suburb of Khimki, just north [...]

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Anti-Putin protesters: Coping with bitter cold and big questions

MOSCOW – By any standard, it was an impressive array of individuals. Seated under a large poster of a young Andrei Sakharov – the Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident, 1975 Nobel Peace Prize recipientand spiritual father of their movement – the brain trust of Moscow’s anti-Putin opposition sat at card tables debating their next move. The group [...]

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Kyrgyz and Tajik Migrants in Moscow Speak Out

On January 16, labor migrants from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and other countries joined an anti-fascist rally in Moscow to commemorate the memory of the slain human rights activists Stanislav Markelov and Anastasiya Baburova. Both fought against racial and national discrimination, and were killed three years ago by an unknown gunman (http://kloop.kg, January 20). This event is [...]

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Death threat directed at Weaverville woman who contested school Bible giveaway

WEAVERVILLE — Buncombe County investigators are looking into a threatening phone call made to a local woman who made headlines when she criticized a county school for making Bibles available to students. Ginger Strivelli, a Pagan and the mother of a North Windy Ridge Intermediate School student, complained to school officials last month after her son [...]

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Russia scolds United States for human rights abuse

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia sought to undermine the authority of the United States as a global judge of human rights on Wednesday with Moscow’s first report to detail allegations of torture, phone tapping and abuse by the U.S. government. Criticizing the United States for double standards, Russia said President Barack Obama had failed to shut [...]

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