Russian strongman Vladimir Putin struck back against Western sanctions, telling international multinational financial services companies Visa and MasterCard they must cough up a $3.8 billion USD “security deposit,” which they will forfeit…
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While Russian troops camp out on the Ukrainian border, pro-Russian insurgents inside the Eastern European nation are seizing town after town, this week claiming the eastern city of Luhansk. Obama…
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Since the Russian invasion of Crimea in February, Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama have been in regular contact with each other, seeking to smooth over tensions in Ukraine. Regular, almost…
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You always suspected it; and now the punditocracy is coming around. According to an article in The Washington Post, Russia is well on its way to returning to the politics…
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See more Living in… posts by Bruce Haring. Ray Charles never thought much about South Ossetia, Abkhazia, or other regions that comprise the country of Georgia. Located in the Caucasus region, the…
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It seems there are a lot of places Russian strongman Vladimir Putin wants to invade, now that he’s given up any pretext of running the Russian Federation like a responsible…
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The international community is reeling from comments made this week by Andrej Illarionov, president Vladimir Putin’s former chief economic adviser, that the Russian strongman has long term plans to reclaim parts of “Georgia,…
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The Group of Eight (G8) forum, a coalition of the eight leading industrialized countries, is now the Group of Eight-minus-One. Russia, the last nation to join the former G7 in…
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[UPDATE 3/14/14 10:45 am PT]: Hunted Cow announced that Apple has lifted the ban on its game, without demanding changes. So there was this thing called World War II. Maybe…
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In case you have been a little behind on your world news, you should know that all eyes are on the Ukraine political crisis unfolding for the last three months.…