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London Tube strike disrupts millions

London Tube strike disrupts millions

A 48-hour walk-out on London’s Underground, which carries one billion passengers a year, has led to three of the 11 Tube lines being shut, thenewdaily.com reports. February 5 2014, 16:47 1 838 просмотрs

Recalling McFaul: Four Views On Outgoing U.S. Ambassador To Russia

Recalling McFaul: Four Views On Outgoing U.S. Ambassador To Russia

U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul has announced that he is stepping down and returning to the United States following the Winter Olympics in Sochi, rferl.org reports. February 5 2014, 16:07 1 097 просмотрs

Czechs Increasingly Against Yanukovych State Visit

Czechs Increasingly Against Yanukovych State Visit

A growing number of prominent Czechs is vocally opposing President Milos Zeman’s plan to host his peer Viktor Yanukovych in April on a state to the Czech capital, calling for the event to be cancelled amid concerns of alleged human rights’ abuses in Ukraine, wsj.com reports. February 5 2014, 15:55 1 462 просмотрs

NGOs to fight law branding them “foreign agents”

NGOs to fight law branding them “foreign agents”

Nonprofits are preparing to challenge in court new legislation that threatens to damage their reputation and paralyze their work in Russia, rbth.co.uk reports. February 5 2014, 09:34 1 241 просмотрs

Moscow School Shooting Suspect in Pretrial Custody

Moscow School Shooting Suspect in Pretrial Custody

A Moscow court ruled on Tuesday to place in pretrial custody a teenager suspected of fatally shooting two people in his school the previous day, ria.ru reports. February 5 2014, 09:27 1 670 просмотрs

Primorsky Guerrillas Found Guilty of Being Criminal Group

Primorsky Guerrillas Found Guilty of Being Criminal Group

The Primorsky Guerrillas, a band of militants arrested in 2010 for allegedly killing two police officers and wounding six others, were found guilty of being an organized criminal group by a jury in a Primorye region court, azh.kz reports citing Interfax. February 4 2014, 17:02 1 797 просмотрs

Search ends at Canada seniors home where fire killed 28

Search ends at Canada seniors home where fire killed 28

Canadian authorities on Monday called off a search for remains in the rubble of a Quebec retirement home ravaged by a fire that killed at least 28 people, yahoonews.com reports. February 4 2014, 11:18 1 083 просмотрs

Stalin Statue Erected in Ukraine Amid Protests

Stalin Statue Erected in Ukraine Amid Protests

A monument to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin was unveiled in western Ukraine as anti-government demonstrations in the former Soviet nation continue, ria.ru reported, citing local media. February 4 2014, 10:49 1 342 просмотрs

Total ban on GM food production mulled in Russia

Total ban on GM food production mulled in Russia

A group of Russian MPs have prepared a bill severely restricting imports of genetically modified agricultural produce, and completely banning its domestic production, rt.com reports. February 3 2014, 16:13 1 220 просмотрs

Moscow school shooting: Policeman, teacher killed, hostages released

Moscow school shooting: Policeman, teacher killed, hostages released

Moscow police have confirmed that a policeman and a teacher were killed as a young man with a rifle took children hostages at a city school. The gunman, who is reportedly a high school student, has been detained, police said. This was reported by rt.com today. February 3 2014, 14:45 2 151 просмотрs

Chevron follows Shell, Exxon Mobil profit slide. Is Big Oil in trouble?

Chevron follows Shell, Exxon Mobil profit slide. Is Big Oil in trouble?

Oil and gas multinationals record billions in profits, but a shifting energy landscape has taken its toll. Shell and Exxon Mobil posted disappointing earnings, further evidence the US oil boom isn't boosting the usual suspects, csmonitor.com reports. February 3 2014, 11:32 8 830 просмотрs

Human Smuggling Ring Raided in Europe

Human Smuggling Ring Raided in Europe

Five Russian citizens have been detained by Polish and German police on suspicion of smuggling illegal migrants into Germany, the European Police Office said in a statement Saturday, ria. ru reporeted. February 3 2014, 10:05 1 078 просмотрs

Ukraine activist says he was abducted and tortured

Ukraine activist says he was abducted and tortured

A leading activist in Ukraine's street opposition who vanished for eight days says he was abducted and tortured before being left to die in the cold, bbc reports. January 31 2014, 18:46 1 219 просмотрs

Amanda Knox sentenced to 28 years for murder as Italian court reinstates guilty verdict

Amanda Knox sentenced to 28 years for murder as Italian court reinstates guilty verdict

More than two years after Amanda Knox returned to the U.S. apparently home free, an Italian court Thursday reinstated her murder conviction in the stabbing of her roommate and increased her sentence to 28 1/2 years in prison, raising the spectre of a long extradition fight, nationalpost.com reports. January 31 2014, 13:27 2 062 просмотрs

Meteor-encrusted medals up for grabs at Sochi 2014

Meteor-encrusted medals up for grabs at Sochi 2014

Sochi Olympic champions that happen to win their medals on February 15, 2014 - one year after the meteor crashed in the Urals - will receive special medals inlaid with tiny pieces of the celestial object, inform.kz refers to www.nydailynews.com. January 31 2014, 10:20 1 683 просмотрs

Feds to seek death penalty against accused Boston bomber Tsarnaev

Feds to seek death penalty against accused Boston bomber Tsarnaev

The Justice Department has notified a federal judge that it intends to seek the death penalty if a jury convicts Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for last April’s bomb attacks at the Boston Marathon, usnews.com reports. January 31 2014, 10:06 2 026 просмотрs

U.S. readies financial sanctions against Ukraine: congressional aides

U.S. readies financial sanctions against Ukraine: congressional aides

The Obama administration is preparing financial sanctions that could be imposed on Ukrainian officials and protest leaders if violence escalates in the political crisis gripping Ukraine, congressional aides said on Wednesday, reuters reports. January 30 2014, 18:21 1 050 просмотрs

Ukraine protesters reject amnesty offer, Yanukovych on sick leave

Ukraine protesters reject amnesty offer, Yanukovych on sick leave

Ukraine's opposition on Thursday vowed further protests after defiantly rejecting an amnesty bill to free activists and ease the ex-Soviet country's worse crisis since independence, yahoo.com reports. January 30 2014, 18:04 2 100 просмотрs

Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize

Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize

In a surprise move, National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, sitepronews.com reports. January 30 2014, 12:00 2 236 просмотрs

State of the Union: Obama calls for action, with or without Congress

State of the Union: Obama calls for action, with or without Congress

He talked a good game of acting on his own if necessary, calling for 2014 to be a "year of action, but President Barack Obama's State of the Union address showed he knows that true progress depends on cooperation with a divided and recalcitrant Congress, cnn reports. January 29 2014, 19:36 1 231 просмотрs

Karzai reportedly suspects US hand in recent Afghanistan attacks

Karzai reportedly suspects US hand in recent Afghanistan attacks

Afghan President Hamid Karzai reportedly believes that the U.S. government and military have been a hidden force behind recent insurgent attacks in Afghanistan, such as an attack earlier this month that killed 21 people, including three Americans, in Kabul, foxnews.com reports. January 29 2014, 16:00 1 517 просмотрs

Russia Wants Free-Trade Zone Linking EU, Moscow-Led Customs Union

Russia Wants Free-Trade Zone Linking EU, Moscow-Led Customs Union

Moscow wants to establish a free-trade zone between the European Union and the Russian-led economic union of former Soviet States, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday, ria.ru reports. January 29 2014, 11:01 1 511 просмотрs

Sergey Arbuzov to lead temporarily the Ukranian govt

Sergey Arbuzov to lead temporarily the Ukranian govt

Ukraine’s opposition has forced out the government and is pressing President Viktor Yanukovich to resign, despite warnings from a former head of state that the country is “one step from civil war”, baq.kz reports. January 29 2014, 10:17 1 572 просмотрs

Yanukovych accepts Azarov's resignation; other disputes remain

Yanukovych accepts Azarov's resignation; other disputes remain

President Viktor Yanukovych has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, according to the president's official website. Azarov's government will continue working until the new prime minister is appointed. Azarov, who has led Ukraine's government since Yanukovych took power in 2010, was forced out to ease tensions in Ukraine's ongoing political crisis, kyivpost.com reports. January 29 2014, 10:10 2 066 просмотрs

Ukraine unrest timeline

Ukraine unrest timeline

The Ukrainian capital has been gripped by weeks of anti-government protests which have seen violent clashes between rioters and police. Unrest is also spreading beyond Kiev as the opposition and government struggle to end the crisis, rt.com reports. January 28 2014, 17:54 2 140 просмотрs