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Georgian MP funded Russian opposition – investigators
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Egypt: opposition tent camp attacked by unidentified people
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A group of unknown people have attacked the tent camp that the Egyptian opposition pitched in Cairo’s central Tahrir Square more than two weeks ago to protest against the policy of President Mohamed Morsi. →

Friends of Syria’s goal is to ‘destroy the country by force and use its strategic geographical location for their own purposes’ – interview

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The Friends of Syria nations that support regime change meet in Morocco on Wednesday for the first time since the creation of a new opposition coalition seeking wider international recognition. Voice of Russia spoke to the Director of the Damascus Research Centre Bassam Abu Abdullah about this upcoming event. He called this meeting the meeting of Syria’s enemies and not friends. →

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The end of the world: salvation solutions

2012 июль коллаж конец света

Only days are left until December 21, the end of the Mayan calendar and alleged end of the world. While doomsday-mongers are predicting Armageddon some are trying to avert it. On December 8, extravagant Russian actor Nikita Dzhigurda put on a kilt and danced under PSY’s Gangnam Style techno-hit right in the middle of Red Square. The actor claims that the ritual averted the end of the world. →

Nunchucks, machetes will help survive 2012 Doomsday
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Remember that MP3? The police are en-route

кабель интернет компьютерные технологии связь

With the US ready to send Anonymous Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond to prison for life, Jullian Assange stuck in limbo in an embassy, Commander X and Anonymous members being hunted, is the world about to allow the US and its surrogates to come after all of us? Apparently it is. The total enslavement of mankind will soon be here, brought to you by the fascist United Corporate States of America. Recently the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) met in secret to decide on new ways to control the World Wide Web. →

Medvedev meets with Russian bloggers and Internet journalists
British student accused of PayPal revenge attacks over WikiLeaks funding

Putin proxies up in arms

Владимир Путин встреча с доверенными лицами путин доверенные лица конференция

During Russia’s latest presidential campaign, more than 500 people from all walks of life acted as proxies for the frontrunning candidate in the race, Vladimir Putin. Now this proxy circle is taking shape as a permanent body, set to exist until the next presidential elections. →

Forbes says Putin regains power
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The Nobel Peace Prize goes to the EU. Why?

нобелевская премия осло награждение Нобелевская премия мира 2012 евросоюз Жозе Херман ван Ромпей Мануэль Баррозу Мартин Шульц

Most European leaders, including Czech President Vaclav Klaus, Slovakian leader Robert Fico, British Prime Minister David Cameron and French PresidentFrancois Hollande are not attending the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony currently taking place in Norway’s Oslo. Why? The Voice of Russia asked Czech journalist and translator Libor Dvorak and chief editor for the Russia in Global Policy magazine Feodor Lukyanov to comment on the issue. →

Nobel Medicine Prize winners
The Nobel Prize in literature: China's double win

Elections in Romania: the losers complain about the Voice of Russia

Траян Бэсеску Голос России Траян Бэсеску 2012 август коллаж

Last Sunday's elections in Romania were quite predictable and though the final results have yet to be announced, only a miracle could prevent the Social Liberal Union from winning less than 50% of the vote. The exit polls show that the coalition opposing President Traian Basescu has secured around 54-57%, with their closest competitors scraping through with just 19% and 13%. Now the intriguing question of the day is whether the Romanian president will recognise the results and appoint his arch political enemy as prime minister. →

Bulgaria - Russia. Radio Dialogue
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Horrifying YouTube video shows Syrian rebels forcing child to behead unarmed prisoner

сирия война сирия взрыв сирия разрушения

A horrifying graphic video has been recently uploaded to YouTube showing Syrian rebels hailing vigorously at a child beheading an unarmed prisoner. →

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Venezuelan doctor says Chavez might have three months left

31.08.2012 Уго Чавес Венесуэла Уго Чавез

President Hugo Chávez, who has been lately diagnosed with malignant cancer cells requiring immediate surgery, might live only a few months, Jose Rafael Marquina, a Venezuelan doctor now residing in the United States, has told RCN, a Columbian radio station. →

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Ecuador's president arrives in Cuba to support Chavez

Ecuador ready to consider asylum for Assad

асад плакат асад сирия

Ecuadorian authorities are prepared to consider offering political asylum to Syrian President Bashar Assad and his family, if it is filed. A statement to this effect was made by the president of the South American country Rafael Correa. →

‘Assad is facing assassination no matter what happens’ – Noam Chomsky
Ecuador's president arrives in Cuba to support Chavez

Russian parliament to pass counter-Magnitsky bill by year-end

Государственная Дума госдума

Russia’s upper-house Federation Council will approve the bill countering US Senate's so-called “Magnitsky Act” by the end of 2012, after it is passed by the State Duma, Council’s First Depity Speaker Alexander Torshin told reporters Monday. →

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Russian parliament approves counter-Magnitsky bill

Eurasian integration picking pace

Михаил Маргелов

The two-year-old Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, now also known as the Common Economic Space, is already acting as a powerful catalyst of economic development in the three integrating states. Its internal trade alone is poised to post an annual growth of 5% to about $700bln. →

Germany should respect Russian agricultural export norms
Russian rouble on its way to elite club

Corruption is no excuse for Russia anymore: legal, ethical, and cultural aspects

Деньги Доллар Взятка коррупция взяточничество

Corruption, the cost for developing countries is 1.26 trillion dollars. From bribes and tax evasion to theft, and corruption, this is cash which could have been used to better a society. The corruption fight has begun and Russia is making progress. But, can Russia clean up their act or will their hugest flaw become their biggest liability? One anti-corruption organization gives the Voice of Russia their two cents. →

Major anti-corruption law again suspended in U.S.
Putin pledges total war against corruption

The Nobel Prize in literature: China's double win

нобелевский лауреат 2012 литератор Мо Янь нобелевская премия 2012

China's modern culture is becoming as famous a brand as the Chinese economy. After the famous masters such as filmmaker Zhang Yimou and the composer Tan Dun a Chinese writer Mo Yang has climbed the cultural Olympus by accepting on December 10 the Nobel Prize winner's award in literature from the hands of the king of Sweden. →

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Atheists do not feel safe anywhere in the world – report

религия мировые религии ислам мусульманство иудаизм

Freedom of conscience is being violated in many countries all over the globe, from the Christian West to the Islamic Middle East. Numerous cases of discrimination and persecution are reported in the just released 69-page study “Freedom of Thought 2012: A Global Report on Discrimination Against Humanists, Atheists and the Nonreligious”. →

Muslim world protests against anti-Islam film
Netherlands to remove blasphemy law

Why does US support Syrian opposition?

24.07.2012 Сирия повстанцы мятежник оппозиция война оружие боевик

Workers of international charity organizations and Turkish medics are creating a network of field hospitals in the town of Reyhanli near the Turkish-Syrian border. The measure comes amid an ever-increasing number of refugees who are fleeing Syria ravaged by civil war. →

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