Americans Increasingly See Russia as Threat, Top US Enemy - Gallup.com

Americans Increasingly See Russia as Threat, Top US Enemy - Gallup.com

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Americans Increasingly See Russia as Threat, Top US Enemy
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PRINCETON, N.J. -- Russia now edges out North Korea as the country Americans consider the United States' greatest enemy. Two years ago, only 2% of Americans named Russia, but that increased to 9% in 2014 as tensions between Russia and the U.S. ...

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Силы АТО пока не готовы к отводу тяжелого вооружения, - штаб - РБК Украина

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Силы АТО пока не готовы к отводу тяжелого вооружения, - штаб
РБК Украина
Силы антитеррористической операции пока не готовы к отводу тяжелого вооружения от линии разграничения. Об этом на брифинге заявил спикер АТО Андрей Лысенко, передает корреспондент РБК-Украина. "112 обстрелов - это не показатель прекращения огня, поэтому пока мы не ...
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Russia's answer to Sinatra added to new EU sanctions list

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Sanctions slapped on 19 individuals and nine organisations including popular singer Joseph Kobzon, Russian military leaders and Ukrainian separatists
The EU has sent a tough message to President Vladimir Putin that it intends to keep up the pressure over Ukraine by slapping sanctions on three senior Russian military leaders, prominent Ukrainian separatists, and a popular singer known as Russia’s answer to Frank Sinatra.
The sanctions, officially termed “restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine”, were imposed on 19 individuals and nine organisations on Monday, despite last week’s Minsk peace deal and a shaky weekend ceasefire in eastern Ukraine.
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Russia Says Almost 300,000 Ukrainians Asked For Asylum

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An official of the Russian Federal Migration Service (FMS) says almost 300,000 Ukrainian citizens have asked Russia either for temporary asylum or a refugee status.

EU gets tough with Russian military leaders – and Soviet-era 'Sinatra' - The Guardian

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EU gets tough with Russian military leaders – and Soviet-era 'Sinatra'
The Guardian
The EU has sent a tough message to President Vladimir Putin that it will keep up the pressure over Ukraine by slapping sanctions on three Russian military leaders, prominent Ukrainian separatists, and a popular singer known as Russia's Frank Sinatra. 
Russia's 'Frank Sinatra' tops new sanctions listCNBC
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The Russian-Iranian Military Agreement: Another Perspective - The Diplomat

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The Russian-Iranian Military Agreement: Another Perspective
The Diplomat
The signing of the Russian-Iranian Military Cooperation Agreement on January 20 has led to speculation, fuelled by rhetoric from Moscow and Tehran, that the two states are working to secure Iran from any future military intervention to stop its nuclear ...

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Ukraine ceasefire in tatters as fighting escalates in east

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Pro-Russia and government forces fight for control of Debaltseve, with Ukrainian military saying rebels have fired on its troops 112 times in last 24 hours
Fighting has escalated in eastern Ukraine as government and pro-Russia forces struggle for control of the besieged town of Debaltseve, leaving the new ceasefire in tatters on its second day.
The Ukrainian military said on Monday that rebels had fired on its troops 112 times in the past 24 hours. At least five Ukrainian fighters have been killed and 25 wounded since the ceasefire began on Sunday, a military spokesman, Vladislav Seleznyov, told the Guardian.
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Debaltseve clashes threaten Ukraine truce

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Ceasefire under pressure as Kiev says at least 5 troops have been killed since the start of truce

Browder: 'Putin Has Stolen Hundreds of Billions of Russia's Wealth' 

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A one-time backer of President Vladimir Putin and CEO of what was once Russia's largest investor, William Browder, told CNN that Putin was one of the world's richest men thanks to hundreds of billions of dollars of stolen wealth.

Russia's former largest foreign investor: 'Power is very simple in Russia' - Business Insider

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Russia's former largest foreign investor: 'Power is very simple in Russia'
Business Insider
Hedge fund manager William "Bill" Browder, once the largest foreign investor in Russia, sat down with Fareed Zakaria of CNN to provide a unique perspective on power and Vladimir Putin's Kremlin. “The power is very simple in Russia — whoever has the ... 
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New EU Sanctions Against Russia Target Deputy Ministers And Popular Singer - Huffington Post

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New EU Sanctions Against Russia Target Deputy Ministers And Popular Singer
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Kobzon, sometimes considered Russia's answer to Frank Sinatra, is also a long-time member of parliament and was added to the sanctions list because he had "visited the so-called Donetsk People's Republic and during his visit made statements supporting ...
EU gets tough with Russian military leaders – and Soviet-era 'Sinatra'The Guardian
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Der Spiegel: в Минске Порошенко и Путин кричали друг на друга - Диалог.UA - Всегда два мнения

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Der Spiegel: в Минске Порошенко и Путин кричали друг на друга
Диалог.UA - Всегда два мнения
Немецкому изданию стало известно, что обстановка на переговорах в Минске была более, чем напряженной - в пиковые моменты украинский и российский президенты обращались друг к другу на "ты" и даже кричали друг на друга. Об этом пишет Der Spiegel. "За это время (встречи в ...

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Russian resurgence: how the Kremlin is making its presence felt across Europe

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Moscow is influencing policy and shaping opinion all over the continent, with ties to both the far right and the hard left
Coming off the early shift at Hungary’s sole nuclear power station, on the Danube south of Budapest, Jozsef, a 30-year-old turbine engineer, is grateful to have a relatively secure job that pays considerably more than the national average.
Hungarians have never been big fans of the Russians. But Jozsef knows whom he has to thank for his job security  Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, who is making a rare visit to an EU country with a trip to Budapest on Tuesday.
Now, like in the old days, it’s an advantage for a Hungarian diplomat to have studied in Moscow
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Americans Increasingly See Russia as Threat, Top US Enemy - Gallup.com

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Americans Increasingly See Russia as Threat, Top US Enemy
Gallup.com
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Russia now edges out North Korea as the country Americans consider the United States' greatest enemy. Two years ago, only 2% of Americans named Russia, but that increased to 9% in 2014 as tensions between Russia and the U.S. ...
Americans view Russia as top US enemy: PollPress TV
Russia now U.S.'s greatest enemy, Americans sayWashington Times
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Russian Government Downsizing Weakens Both Putin and the Liberals But May Help the Left

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Paul Goble

 

            Staunton, February 16 – Downsizing of government institutions and the firing of part of their staffs “threatens both liberals and the existing powers that be,” according to the editors of “Nezavisimaya gazeta,” the first by depriving them of state support and the second by undercutting the support such people had been giving to the state.

 

            In a lead article, the editors say that reductions in the staff of government institutions at the central and regional levels may in some cases be as much as 30 percent, and they note that this is not happening for ideological reasons but rather is something the economic situation has forced the government’s hand to do (ng.ru/editorial/2015-02-13/2_red.html).

 

            When people lose their government jobs, their views are likely to be “transformed, partially or quite essentially,” shifting from a view that society must rely on the state to one that holds that society should have greater independence from it since the state as an institution has proven unreliable to them personally.

 

            Such people, “Nezavisimaya gazeta” says, are “a potential electorate for liberal political parties.” But at the same time, because the economy is in crisis, many who lose their government positions may find it difficult if not impossible to obtain analogous ones in the private sector, adopt leftist views, and demand that the state assume a larger role than it has now.

 

            But in both cases, “they will cease to be loyal to the existing authorities,” and they will contribute to a shift in the definition of what constitutes success in Russia. “The model of the successful individual in Russia during the last decade has been not that of the businessman but that of the bureaucrat or employee of a state corporation.”

 

            For most of the past 15 years, the paper says, “the political strategy of the ruling elite has been about marginalizing and weakening in every possible way the liberal parties,” and taking away from the left many of its “cards” by promoting, often in “extravagant” and extremely costly ways.

 

            The authorities largely succeeded with regard to the liberals and, as long as high oil and gas prices gave them the resources to make and fulfill promises, also worked with the left. But “the possibilities for the authorities to purchase the loyalty of citizens is not unlimited,” something that made the second part of the strategy more risky and ultimately impossible.

 

           
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Tensions Mount in Europe After Copenhagen Attacks

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Police in Denmark have jailed two people suspected of helping an assailant responsible for two shootings in Copenhagen, the motives of which are already being compared to similar Islamist-inspired attacks in France last month. The shootings have drawn condemnation across Europe as an assault on free speech and democratic values. Flags flew at half staff in Copenhagen and piles of flowers lay in front of the cultural club and the city's main synagogue where the shootings took place.  These images are strikingly similar to those in Paris last month, after three assailants killed 17 people in back-to-back shootings.   Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo traveled to Copenhagen to express her solidarity with the city and its people. She and the city's mayor, Frank Jensen, vowed to defend free speech and democracy. Danish media have identified the suspected gunman in the Copenhagen attacks as 22-year-old Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein. Police shot him dead early Sunday outside an apartment building after he opened fire on them. Like the Paris shooters, El-Hussein came from a Muslim family and he had a prison record. Danish security services say he may have been inspired by the Paris attacks. The targets for the Copenhagen attacks were similar to those in Paris, where gunmen attacked a satirical magazine and a kosher supermarket. The response has also been similar. Danish police have been out in force following the attack. In Paris, more than 10,000 soldiers continue to guard sensitive places. In a radio interview Monday, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said the threat is particularly high in Europe and that France will remain on high alert. The attacks have particularly alarmed the Jewish communities in both countries. The desecration of several hundred Jewish tombs in France's Alsace region on Sunday has added to the concern. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu invited European Jews to Israel, saying the country would welcome them with open arms. In France, Prime Minister Valls criticized Netanyahu's remarks as regrettable - and unjustified, even during the middle of an election campaign in Israel. The place for French Jews, Valls said, is France. In Copenhagen, Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt has delivered the same message to Jews in Denmark.

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Copenhagen shootings: European leaders reject Netanyahu's call for Jewish migration to Israel

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European leaders have firmly rejected Benjamin Netanyahu’s call for the continent’s Jewish community to migrate to Israel in the wake of a spate of terror attacks.

Минское соглашение: Прекращение огня. День второй

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Соглашение о прекращении огня на востоке Украины – часть минских соглашений – вступило в силу в воскресен...
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As Americans See It, Russia Is Enemy Number One

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In the eyes of Americans, Russia has surpassed North Korea as the main enemy of the United States, a new Gallup poll reveals.

Сурков предложил снять границу между Россией и Абхазией - Газета.Ru

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Сурков предложил снять границу между Россией и Абхазией
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Помощник президента России Владислав Сурков заявил, что страна продолжит оказывать финансовую помощь Абхазии, а также предложил «снять границу между двумя странами», передает «Интерфакс». «В конечном итоге эту границу надо снимать, между нами не должно быть ...
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E. Ukraine Truce on Verge of Collapse

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A new cease-fire in Ukraine is teetering on the brink of collapse as Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russia separatist rebels are accusing each other of violating the truce.

Greece bailout talks break down after Athens rejects 'irrational and unacceptable' demand from eurozone partners

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A meeting of eurozone finance ministers to discuss Greece's financial bailout has broken down amid signs that the discussions ended in discord.

Russia Angles to Snatch $20Bln Indian Fighter Jet Deal From France 

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Russia may be leveraging India's anger at French aerospace firm Dassault to kill a $20 billion aircraft deal, after allegations that the company seriously misled New Delhi on pricing its Rafale fighter jets.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn trial: Five of six plaintiffs in pimping trial drop accusations against former IMF chief

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A high-profile case against disgraced former International Monetary Fund boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn appeared to be weakened today when five of the six plaintiffs in a French prostitution trial dro

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