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Прямая трансляция заседания в рамках IV Московской конференции по международной безопасности, посвященной теме «Глобальная безопасность: вызовы и перспективы». В мероприятии принимают участие министр обороны Сергей Шойгу и глава МИД РФ Сергей Лавров.

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Сегодня начинается 4-я Московская конференция по международной безопасности. Она будет идти 16 и 17 апреля, на нее приглашены делегации военных ведомств из 79 стран.

Одним из обсуждаемых участников стал министр обороны Греции Панос Камменос. Греция стала единственной страной-членом НАТО, которая представлена на форуме на уровне главы военного ведомства. Камменос находится в Москве по приглашению главы Минобороны России Сергея Шойгу. Это вызвало новую волну обеспокоенности Запада. Визит проходит сразу после приезда в Москву премьера Греции Алексиса Ципраса. Минобороны Греции видит новые перспективы для сотрудничества с Россией. По его словам, "греческий народ во все свои сложные моменты истории находил поддержку у российского народа, новое правительство будет эту традицию укреплять».

Греция прилагает усилия для того, чтобы санкции против России были отменены. Как сказал греческий министр обороны: "Мы хоть и маленькая страна, но мы принимаем все усилия, чтобы были отменены эти ограничения на благо России, и на благо Евросоюза. Греция дорого заплатила за санкции, ударившие по самому ЕС ".

Также Сергей Шойгу провел переговоры с прибывшим на конференцию индонезийским коллегой Рьямизардом Рьяхуду. Шойгу подчеркнул, что отношения стран основаны на принципах взаимоуважения, обоюдных интересов и формирования "справедливого демократического миропорядка", двустороннее сотрудничество между странами должно развиваться.

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Russia Threatens NATO Over Missile Shield
Thursday April 16th, 2015 at 10:05 AM

MOSCOW—Russia’s top general warned European countries planning to host installations for a U.S.-led missile defense shield that Russian forces would be forced to target them.

General Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, said missile defense systems slated for installation in Poland and Romania represented a threat and Russia had to prepare to respond.

“Nonnuclear powers where missile-defense installations are being installed have become the objects of priority response,” Gen. Gerasimov said, referring to Poland and Romania.

The comments came at a Moscow defense conference where a series of high-level Russian leaders repeatedly warned of the serious threats that the U.S. and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization posed to modern Russia. Together, the speeches formed a fiery rebuke to the U.S. that comes as the conflict in Ukraine has brought the worst relations between Moscow and Washington since the days of the Cold War.

In the past, Western leaders have said NATO’s long-running project to build a missile defense shield in Europe aimed to deter an attack from Iran rather than from Russia. On Thursday, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said such assertions were a lie.

“Today it is clear that the missile threat from Tehran that the U.S. and other countries of the alliance invented was a bluff,” Mr. Shoigu said.

The Russian Defense minister also accused NATO of increasing the potential for war in Eastern Europe by holding anti-Russia exercises practicing the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons. “Nonnuclear NATO countries are involved in exercises practicing the use of American tactical nuclear weapons deployed in several European countries,” Mr. Shoigu said.

NATO denied any rehearsals of the use of tactical nuclear weapons.

“I’m not aware of any of that,” said U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Darryl Roberson, in charge of air operations in Europe. As chief of U.S. air operations in Europe, he would know, Gen. Roberson said in a telephone interivew.

Gen. Roberson was speaking from Campia Turzii, Romania, where U.S. A-10 ground-attack aircraft are exercising with Romanian MiG-21s. He said this and other exercises involving NATO allies were “no doubt” a response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine, but he said: “They are defensive in nature. They are designed to work with our allies to increase their capacity and capability.”

The deployment this year of the 12 A-10 aircraft with 300 airmen from their base in Arizona is the first of a regular rotation of U.S. air forces into Europe, and a detachment of U.S. F-15C air combat aircraft is scheduled to arrive in Europe soon, Gen. Roberson.

These rotations were planned before the crisis last year in Crimea, he said, following the drawdown of about a third of the U.S. regular forces stationed in Europe. “I don’t expect the Russians to believe that, but it’s true,” he said.

Mr. Shoigu’s reference to U.S. tactical nuclear weapons is related to the stockpiles of Cold War-era warheads in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey.

The existence of these weapons have been the source of political controversy in some of these countries, and the minister’s remarks appear to be aimed at opening up a wedge between Washington and its allies in Europe.

Both Gen. Gerasimov and Mr. Shoigu said the location of recent NATO exercises testified to the anti-Russian character of the organization’s aims. Gen. Gerasimov warned that NATO was trying to extend its influence in the Balkans, Caucasus and Central Asia, areas all with long-standing ties to Moscow.

“It is significant that the new alliance members are almost all former members of the Warsaw Pact and former Soviet republics,” Gen. Gerasimov said. “In other words, starting with the 1990s, enlargement has progressed eastward, strictly in the direction of Russia’s border.”

He warned that NATO’s exercises were increasing in number and intensity and becoming more hostile to Russia. “If in previous years the exercises were focused on crisis management and counter terrorism, today the priority has become solving issues in a military confrontation with a conventional enemy, which is easy to guess: the Russian Federation,” he said.

Officials at Poland’s Foreign and Defense ministries declined to comment.

The Russian leaders also addressed unrest in the Middle East, often blaming the U.S. for worsening the turmoil.

Mr. Shoigu said the U.S. and other world powers had to take into account the interests of regional powers in the process of diplomatic negotiations designed to quell violence in the Middle East and elsewhere.

Gen. Gerasimov also warned of Islamist extremism. He said al Qaeda had arisen from the Mujahideen that fought against Soviet forces in Afghanistan with U.S. money and support and suggested history had begun to repeat itself.

“Not so long ago participants in ISIL also were ‘good’ fighters, widely paid off by the West as ‘fighters for democracy in Syria,’” Gen. Gerasimov said. “Now they’ve gotten out of control,” he added, saying they posed a threat to their “former employers.”

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Russia's most daring theatre company
Thursday April 16th, 2015 at 10:04 AM

A fearless Russian drama company has risen from the dead after being evicted from its premises in Moscow this winter. The eviction seemed at first to be a political death sentence, but does a theatre with barely 100 seats really present a threat to the Kremlin?

Just down the street from Moscow's pale blue Yelokhovskaya Cathedral, there is a small, one-storey building behind a gate. Attached the the railings, I read a hastily written cardboard sign with an arrow pointing to the courtyard.

This is the new home of the embattled Moscow drama company Teatr Doc. Inside is a hive of activity in preparation for the re-opening - one man on a stepladder is attaching some lights to a beam as people below him stack chairs and mop the floor.

It still looks a bit like a building site, and plaster dust hangs in the air as I walk into a little side room where a young bearded man is awkwardly holding a hammer.

Aleksey Krizhevsky, whose day job is writing for a news website, is doing his best to put up coat pegs. He is one of an army of volunteers who have come to clear rubble, lay bricks, sand and paint over the past six weeks.

Actors, directors, students and members of the audience have all lent a hand, he says.

"We never went hungry because people kept bringing in sandwiches and home cooked food. It was a great atmosphere."

When the Moscow government threw Teatr Doc out of a basement in the city centre where it had worked for 12 years, the homeless company appealed to its audience for help.

Oleg Karlsson, an architect, was one of hundreds who responded to SOS messages on Facebook. He donated his time and expertise to turn a semi-derelict structure - once part of an 18th Century nobleman's estate, and later a fish shop - into Doc's new base.

"I've done what I can to turn these ruins into a useable space," he says, "but we need three or four times the funds to do it properly."

The old premises of Teatr Doc were located close to the fashionable Pushkin Square, but the doors and windows are now welded shut with sheets of metal.

The company rented the venue from the Moscow city government but had its lease revoked last autumn, supposedly for violating planning regulations by installing an extra emergency exit - work it undertook on the orders of the fire brigade.

Tax inspectors, firemen and police are often used to close down businesses and get rid of undesirable tenants. Teatr Doc was was able to remain in situ, however, while it appealed against the eviction.

Then, one evening in December, as it started screening clips from a documentary on the political turmoil and bloodshed in Ukraine, police from a special anti-extremism division burst in and marched everyone out into the courtyard.

At first they said they had received a bomb threat.

"They spent ages checking our IDs outside and we were asking if there really is a bomb why do you keep us here? All of us could die if it explodes! " says Aleksey Krizhevsky, who had been one of two dozen people in the audience.

"It was strange because an official from the Ministry of Culture and a policeman just sat in the theatre for hours watching the whole film as we stood shivering outside in -15C!"

Yelena Gremina, a renowned playwright and the director of Teatr Doc, was out of town at the time but got a call to say that three people from the theatre had been arrested and that laptops and other material were being taken out of the office.

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"The place had been ransacked," she says. "They'd kicked a door in, you could see their bootmarks all over it - they trashed the office and dressing room, scattered make up on the floor, smashed up our scenery - it was awful."

An inquiry dragged on for two weeks before a case of extremism opened against the theatre, and against her personally, was dropped.

"Of course, there was nothing extremist about any of the stuff we do - we just believe in freedom of expression," she says. "But the next day people from the Ministry of Culture called me in to warn that next time we'd be punished more severely."

Gremina, a woman with a mop of curly hair and fierce black eyes, refuses to be intimidated.

"Whoever cooked up this idiotic scenario had clearly bitten off more than he could chew," she says.

Teatr Doc has made its mark by reflecting the unvarnished reality of everyday life in Russia.

It was founded in 2002 by a group of writers who couldn't find a theatre willing to stage their documentary-style writing. Practically all its plays are verbatim, created on the basis of long interviews with actual people.

Anna Kotova, a young actress who has appeared in a number of its productions, says Teatr Doc calls itself "the theatre where nobody acts"- though preserving the exact speech of interviewees can be more challenging than reciting the dialogue of classical Russian theatre or TV comedy, she says.

At the packed-out opening show in the new building, one of the first on stage is Marina Kleshova, who has spent most of her life behind bars.

"I'm not afraid of Teatr Doc and it is not afraid of me," she says, walking on with her guitar.

She performs a Soviet-era lament about New Year's Eve in a penal colony which, much to the audience's delight, contains a number of powerful swear words. The song defiantly puts two fingers up to a recent law which bans obscene language from stage and screen. There are cheers and whistles as she sings in a throaty voice and strums her guitar.

At first, Teatr Doc's playwrights and directors focused mainly on social issues such as the plight of prisoners, migrant workers, drug addicts and people treated like outcasts after being infected with HIV.

But from 2010 onwards, the plays became more critical of the government, says John Freedman, a Moscow-based translator, writer and specialist on Russian theatre.

"Everybody started to sense that there was a clamping down, a growing conservatism, and in response they started doing more political shows," he says.

One play which may have irritated the authorities was about the whistle-blowing lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, who accused tax officials and police officers of embezzling $230m. Shortly afterwards, he was arrested and died an agonising death in custody. Based on interviews and court transcripts, the title of the play One Hour and 18 Minutes refers to the period of time that medical treatment was denied to Magnitsky in his cell.

"The play showed how incredibly callous all of the policemen were, as well as the guards, the judges and the medical staff," says Freedman. "It was the story of a man simply hounded to death because he had information about government corruption."

Russia's president is savagely lampooned in another even edgier Teatr Doc production, BerlusPutin, a farce adapted from a play by the Italian satirist Dario Fo, called the Two-headed Anomaly. In Doc's version, Silvio Berlusconi's brain is transplanted into the head of Vladimir Putin with disastrous results.

The actor playing Putin wears a rubber chest - mimicking the naked torso which the real President regularly flaunts on Russian TV. He later dons a mask of Dobby the house elf, a character from the Harry Potter movies. It seems the botox treatment to get rid of the president's wrinkles has gone badly wrong. But slapstick aside, the play contains some altogether blacker humour.

The play revolves around the relationship between Vladimir Putin and his former wife Lyudmila, who has been dumped in a monastery. When he suggests they have sex, she yells: "You can't rape me, I'm not Russia!"

How much can Teatr Doc get away with?

Russia has a constitution, which officially protects artistic freedom. But with war in Ukraine, and a plunging rouble, these are uncertain and increasingly intolerant times. Nationalism is on the rise, as is the influence of the Russian Orthodox church.

Just after the re-opening in February, I met Sergei Kapkov, the man in charge of culture in the Moscow city government, who brought wi-fi and rental bikes to Gorky Park, renovated theatres and, unusually, earned the support of the liberal opposition.

He told me the Russian capital was a "thriving metropolis filled with creative people who have many different points of view" and that he would not interfere with Teatr Doc "so long as it stays within the law".

So, I insisted, can a theatre which is critical of the government and even of the president himself survive in today's climate?

"I'm not Nostrodamus," he snapped. "I can't see into the future."

A few weeks later, Kapkov stepped down.

The reasons for this unclear, but many saw his resignation as a bad omen. He certainly seemed to have a far more liberal vision than Vladimir Medinsky - Russia's hardline Minister of Culture.

The Russian movie Leviathan won prizes at Cannes and the Golden Globes but the film - about a corrupt local mayor who forces a family off their land - was not to Medinsky's taste.

Such "negative" films, he said, would never again receive official funding.

Since then Medinsky has waded into a row over the staging of Wagner's opera, Tannhauser, in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk - sacking the manager of the opera house after Orthodox clerics objected to scantily clad Biblical characters. The production was "humiliating" to believers, the clerics said - the same argument used to jail members of Pussy Riot after their punk performance in a Moscow cathedral.

But Teatr Doc still revels in pushing the boundaries - it has just hosted a one-man show from Kiev based on the diary of a military psychologist who counsels Ukraine's frontline troops. The evening wasn't advertised for fear of another visit from the police.

Next month it will premiere a play about the Bolotnaya Square demonstration of 2011, when tens of thousands protested against Vladimir Putin's return to the presidency for a third term. The work is based on interviews with the families of demonstrators who ended up in jail.

Teatr Doc may be small, its productions are not televised and you can only watch fragments online. But it has an impressive reach both outside and inside the country.

And even a small independent theatre is important, says director Elena Gremina. People across Russia have been watching carefully over the last few months, she says, wondering whether Teatr Doc will surrender or not.

"When we were gathering money for our new building online," she says, "we received small donations of 200 or 300 roubles (less than $5) from people living in Blagoveshchensk, Nizhniy Novgorod and Novosibirsk - thousands of miles away. They might have never visited our theatre but it's important for them to know that we exist."

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Путин: Американцам нужны вассалы, а не союзники - Политика
Thursday April 16th, 2015 at 9:57 AM

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Президент РФ Владимир Путин назвал условие нормализации отношений с западными странами. "Самое главное условие восстановления нормальных отношений - это уважение к России и уважение к ее интересам", - заявил президент в ходе "Прямой линии".

На вопрос об отношениях с Вашингтоном российский лидер ответил, что США нужны вассалы, а не союзники. "Я уже говорил на одной из линий: некоторым крупным державам, супердержавам, которые претендуют на исключительность, считают себя единственным центром силы в мире, им союзники не нужны, им вассалы нужны. Я имею в виду США. Россия в такой системе отношений существовать не может",— сказал глава государства.

Президент также выразил убежденность, что попытки Вашингтона навязать свою модель миру потерпят неудачу: "После Второй мировой войны мы пытались навязать многим восточноевропейским странам свою модель развития и делали это силой. Надо это признать. И в этом ничего нет хорошего, и это нам аукается сегодня". По словам Путина, "примерно так же ведут себя сегодня американцы, пытаясь навязывать свою модель практически по всему миру".

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The Friends We Left Stranded in Iraq
Wednesday April 15th, 2015 at 6:52 PM

American troops have come home from Baghdad, Fallujah and Mosul, but many of the Iraqis who risked their lives to aid U.S. forces are still waiting for their tickets out of danger. Hundreds of American allies, who worked as interpreters or provided valuable intelligence, are caught in a bureaucratic morass at the departments of State and Homeland Security.

In 2008 Congress created the Iraqi Special Immigrant Visa V 0.23 % to help these brave men and women. Since then 6,378 applicants have received visas to resettle in the U.S. But more than 1,800 applicants have ended up stuck in limbo, told neither “yes” nor “no,” their applications endlessly pending. All the while, they face the constant threat of retaliation for having assisted the U.S. mission.

In February the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project, where I work, along with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of nine of these Iraqis whose visa applications have been pending without answer for an average of four years and three months. They include several interpreters, a doctor and an engineer, but they are identified by code names in court documents because of the danger they face. Here is the story of one of these men—told in his voice but without his name to protect him and his family.

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They say I belong to a family of traitors.

I am one of seven brothers. All of us served as interpreters for U.S. troops in the Iraq War over the past decade. We did so faithfully, willingly and proudly.

Saddam Hussein was a tyrant who brutally oppressed my country. We could not speak out against him or his Ba’ath party because we would be jailed or killed. As interpreters, our mouths finally opened. We were speaking up for the future.

I wanted Iraq to be a truly free and tolerant nation, so I knew that I had to participate in the American mission—despite the many life-endangering risks.

In 2006, I joined two of my brothers, who were already serving as interpreters for the U.S. Army, at Camp Taji. Over the next four years I went on hundreds of missions with U.S. troops to some of the most dangerous areas in the country.

I was the voice of my unit. Not only did I interpret what soldiers and civilians were saying, I also communicated tone, accent, credibility and trustworthiness. I took my duties with the utmost seriousness, because American men and women in uniform trusted me with their lives.

Even with all the precautions we took, I knew that each mission I went on could be my last. Every time I traveled, I silently prayed for the safety of my own brothers by blood, and my new American ones. I was going into cities filled with snipers and improvised-explosive devices. I did not know if I would return to the base in a casket. The smell of death lingered on my clothes after every mission.

In the summer of 2007, my younger brother, whose code name was “Eagle,” and four American soldiers, were killed while riding in a Humvee north of Baghdad. A terrorist threw an IED at their vehicle. The five died instantly. When my commanding officer told me, I felt overtaken by madness. It turned into an unrelenting sorrow.

My mother begged me and my brothers to stop working with the U.S. We did not.

Instead, the rest of my brothers signed up as interpreters—all of them wanting to honor the memory of Eagle and save Iraq from the militias.

My life is now in grave danger due to my service to the U.S. Army. I have survived two car bombs near my home. I have received phone calls and text messages from unknown numbers threatening to put a bullet through my head. One of my brothers was brutally beaten by militiamen. He survived only because the militiamen said they wanted to kill all of us brothers—“a family of traitors”—together.

I have three young children whom I cannot send to school regularly because they may be kidnapped or killed. My wife and I leave the house only to get essential items. I have no stable source of income and cannot reveal my work history to potential employers.

I was not killed on the battlefield, but I am not alive in the country that I love. I exist in a middle world between death and life.

In 2009 I applied for a Special Immigrant Visa, which would allow me to live in safety in the U.S. Over five years later, the U.S. government has still not decided on my visa application.

Each day that I wait brings me closer to a terrorist group like Islamic State finding and killing me. I pray that my visa will be granted before it is too late.

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That’s our hope here in America as well. In 2013 Congress passed a bill requiring that these visas be completed within nine months of application. But to no avail. The State Department has provided no explanation other than an automatic reply that the applications are in “administrative processing.”

If the executive branch will not act, then the judicial must. With any luck, we will be able to welcome these brave individuals and their families—aspiring Americans who have paid the price for believing in freedom and liberty—to their new home very soon.

Mr. Doss is an Equal Justice Works fellow with the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project at the Urban Justice Center.

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The CIA Needs an Iran ‘Team B’
Wednesday April 15th, 2015 at 6:42 PM

Many of CIA Director John Brennan’s gaffes over the years have raised eyebrows, but none has suggested the need for a legislative remedy—until the one he launched at Harvard last week.

His past indiscretions have included, in 2010 when he was a counterterrorism adviser at the White House, referring to Jerusalem by its Arabic name, “al Quds”; referring to the “moderate” elements in Hezbollah, the Iran surrogate in Lebanon and a group the U.S. designates a terrorist organization; and insisting that our enemies should not be called “jihadists” because jihad is “a holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam.”

There was also the time in 2010 when he derided the notion of a war on terrorism or terror because “terrorism is but a tactic” and “terror is a state of mind.” Given that evidence, one might have had a general concern about his competence to lead a U.S. intelligence organization, but not a focused concern about the damage any one statement could cause.

But then, in an interview last week at Harvard’s Institute for Politics, Mr. Brennan said that anyone who both knew the facts surrounding the Obama administration’s “framework” agreement regarding the Iranian nuclear program, and said that it “provides a pathway for Iran to a bomb,” was being “wholly disingenuous.” That was foolish, insofar as it applied to many serious-minded people in and out of government, but it was also dangerous.

Picture CIA analysts and other officers charged with weighing and interpreting Iran’s nuclear program in relation to the recently concluded negotiations in Lausanne, Switzerland; that is, CIA analysts who have families and mortgages. Their solemn charge is to report and analyze facts straight-on—the good, the bad and the ugly.

Evidence of cheating by Iran necessarily would be fragmentary—dual-use technology paid for through opaque transactions; unexplained flight patterns and port calls by aircraft and vessels of dubious registration; intercepted conversations using possibly coded terms; a smattering of human intelligence from sources with questionable access and their own mixed motivations and vulnerabilities.

But the boss has already said that purported concerns about Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon are dishonest. Human nature being what it is at Langley as elsewhere, how likely is it that an evaluation suggesting that Iran is up to something would make it beyond operational channels, through reports officers, analysts and CIA managers, up to policy makers?

Not very, unless Congress acts promptly to put in place an alternative team of analysts, much as George H.W. Bush did when he was CIA director in 1976 under President Ford. That was an election year, and détente with the Soviet Union was the overriding administration policy.

During the campaign, the question of whether our military power was falling behind Moscow’s was a charged issue. Mr. Bush commissioned a team of independent experts known as “Team B” to provide analysis of the Soviets’ capabilities and intentions that competed with the CIA’s own internal evaluation. Team B highlighted dangers posed by the U.S.S.R.’s growing strategic nuclear forces, informing President Reagan’s later determination to counteract those capabilities.

Why is a Team B needed today? Even standing alone, the taint of Mr. Brennan’s statement at Harvard would infect all future CIA evaluations of the Iranian nuclear program. But it doesn’t stand alone. It stands alongside the remainder of the Obama administration’s record in intelligence matters, including false statements about the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi; misleading the public about the military record of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl; concealment of documents seized from Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan that reportedly portray al Qaeda’s durable relationships with Iran and Pakistan; minimizing terrorist threats that were inconsistent with the 2012 presidential-campaign theme of terrorism defeated; and mistaken portrayals of the rise of Islamic State and al Qaeda affiliates in Yemen and Africa.

Mr. Brennan’s statement also stands alongside President Obama’s and Secretary of State John Kerry’s eagerness for a deal with Iran that Ben Rhodes, one of the president’s closest foreign-policy advisers, lauded as “the Obamacare of our second term.”

All this is in addition to the president’s own apparent inability to admit the motivation of Islamist terrorists. Recall his memorable description of the murder in Paris of Jews shopping for kosher food earlier this year as the “random” shooting of “a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris.”

Given these facts, House and Senate leaders of both parties should ask former senior national-security officials to study raw intelligence-reporting on Iran, and direct the administration legislatively if necessary to give them the data needed to make an informed judgment.

This “Team B” should then report its findings periodically not only to the administration, but also to congressional leaders and the presidential nominees of both parties once they are chosen. That way, Americans can be assured that all agencies of government are fully informed—and that the vital issues facing the country are being weighed in the forthright way essential to the nation’s security.

Mr. Mukasey served as U.S. attorney general (2007-09) and as a judge for the Southern District of New York (1988-2006). Mr. Carroll served as senior counsel to the House Homeland Security Committee (2011-13) and before that as a CIA case officer.

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Countering Putin’s Information Weapons of War
Wednesday April 15th, 2015 at 6:40 PM

Vladimir Putin has a secret army. It’s an army of thousands of “trolls,” TV anchors and others who work day and night spreading anti-American propaganda on the Internet, airwaves and newspapers throughout Russia and the world. Mr. Putin uses these misinformation warriors to destabilize his neighbors and control parts of Ukraine. This force may be more dangerous than any military, because no artillery can stop their lies from spreading and undermining U.S. security interests in Europe.

Neither can the U.S. international broadcasting services that performed such a valuable service during the Cold War. They have withered until they are no longer capable of meeting today’s challenges. Until this changes, Russia’s president and his propaganda will flourish.

Some members of Mr. Putin’s information army pose as journalists. Some—including conspiracy cranks, Holocaust deniers and other discredited figures in the West—appear on Russia’s RT television service posing as “experts.” RT, formerly known as Russia Today, which is available in Russian, English, German and Spanish, is carried on cable systems and hotels world-wide, and streamed globally. The goal is to obscure the truth by spreading “alternative” (as in conspiracy) theories, distract audiences and discredit Western sources.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow Photo: European Pressphoto Agency/ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO

On Wednesday the House Foreign Affairs Committee, of which I am chairman, will hear from journalist Liz Wahl, who dramatically interrupted a live broadcast on March 5, 2014, to resign from RT’s English-language television service, explaining she could not stand by its distorted coverage of Russia’s occupation of Ukraine. But Ms. Wahl is a rarity, so Mr. Putin’s propagandists march on, telling the world that the armed thugs who have invaded eastern Ukraine are “freedom fighters,” and that the CIA is responsible for everything from 9/11, to the downing of Malaysia flight MH17 over Ukraine, to the pro-democracy uprisings in Ukraine.

Mr. Putin has sold this narrative so successfully at home that he has approval ratings over 80%, despite a crumbling economy. But he also has a megaphone in Ukraine and Moldova, where hours of Russian programming are broadcast daily. In the NATO-member Baltic states, Kremlin-backed stations are inciting violence and stoking ethnic tensions by spreading false and misleading stories about discrimination against ethnic Russians.

Globally, RT claims an audience of some 600 million. The Kremlin’s latest propaganda effort—dubbed “Sputnik”—has opened at least 29 new media offices across Central and Western Europe, and is even setting up shop in Latin America. Mr. Putin’s online trolls work out of an office called the “Internet Research Center” in St. Petersburg, blogging in 12-hour shifts to keep the propaganda flowing 24/7.

Why are Mr. Putin’s efforts so alarming? The U.S. has security commitments with 27 NATO countries, several of which have been targeted by Russia with misinformation. We had better start checking this influence if we want to prevent instability that could spread armed conflict beyond Ukraine.

The U.S. can help bring a free, fair and balanced press to these countries in which Mr. Putin is undermining truth and fact. It has worked before. During the Cold War, broadcasters funded by the U.S. government—like the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)—helped Russians, Eastern Europeans and countless others shed tyranny by providing the truth about events in their own countries, and showed them a world outside the prison of Soviet propaganda.

These broadcasts to Europe were deprioritized at the end of the Cold War, and in 1998 a restructuring created the Broadcasting Board of Governors—the U.S. agency now charged with overseeing America’s public information efforts abroad. The BBG undermined the U.S. broadcasting services, hollowing out those in Europe and leaving them unable to defend against Russia’s resurgent information war.

Responding to the invasion and occupation of parts of Ukraine, the BBG launched a joint VOA and RFE/RL venture in October called “Current Time”—a 30-minute Russian-language news television program that was broadcast to Lithuania, Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine and Latvia. But after only four months, the program was taken off the air in Latvia due to a lack of viewership.

From its inception, the BBG has drawn criticism from right, left and center. A part-time board that is supposed to oversee and spend $740 million a year, it has a fundamentally flawed structure. A 2013 Inspector General report for the State Department found the BBG to be dysfunctional. The same year, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described the BBG as “practically defunct.” No wonder the agency isn’t coming close to competing with Mr. Putin.

Righting this ship must be an urgent foreign-policy priority. I will soon introduce bipartisan legislation to do just that. The bill would charge one U.S. broadcasting organization (VOA) with reporting U.S. policy and other global news, and another, including RFE/RL and similar services, to act as the free press in repressive societies like Russia. Each organization will have its own CEO and its own board, with accountability that is clear to all.

Mr. Putin is using his information army to attack the U.S. and undermine our interests around the globe. We cannot continue to pit a failed bureaucracy against this Russian strongman.

Mr. Royce, a Republican from California, is chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

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G7 Calls on Russia to Implement Minsk Accordsby webdesk@voanews.com (Al Pessin)
Wednesday April 15th, 2015 at 6:09 PM

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Foreign ministers from the world’s seven leading industrialized countries have called on Russia to rein in Ukrainian rebels and abide by two peace accords reached in Minsk designed to end the conflict. The call came in a communiqué at the end of a Group of Seven foreign ministers' meeting in Luebeck, Germany. The host of the G7 meeting, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, said they called for an end to the recent increase in violence in Ukraine, in spite of a ceasefire. He also expressed concern about Russia’s decision to sell missiles to Iran, indicating the move is poorly timed with the negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program. “We have the opportunity within the next two-and-a-half months to reach a proper agreement, to get a proper result," said Steinmeier. "So, I don’t think that we should preempt this issue and take steps that might be misunderstood by one side or another.” Myriad crises This meeting brought together the foreign ministers of Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Canada and the United States for meetings on crises including Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya and several in Africa. Most of the G7 countries also are involved in the talks on Iran’s nuclear program, in which U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has been taking a leading role. “We are confident about our ability for the president to negotiate an agreement and to do so with the ability to make the world safer,” said Kerry. Kerry said the Iran talks are “looming large” after he helped reach a framework accord two weeks ago, and with the deadline for a final agreement just two-and-a-half months away. There was a heavy police presence in Luebeck for this meeting, as protesters gathered to march against G7 policies. But the violence that erupted during similar demonstrations a month ago in Frankfurt was not repeated. These meetings involve considerable formality. Steinmeier said their importance is “underestimated,” though, as ministers have the chance to discuss crises that affect millions of people, and in which the world’s richest countries, and some of its largest militaries, have an important role to play.

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Russia, Reeling From Cheap Oil, Talks Up OPEC Tiesby webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)
Wednesday April 15th, 2015 at 6:09 PM

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Russia has been holding active, “unprecedented” consultations with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, a senior official said on Wednesday, a clear signal of Moscow's desire for higher oil prices. Russia has stepped up contacts with OPEC after oil prices plunged last year, however it has dismissed any suggestion it might cut output to prop up prices, saying it is technically impossible to idle production due to the harsh climate in Siberia, the heartland of Russian oil production. Russia, one of the world's top oil producers, expects its economy to shrink by 3 percent this year, following an almost 50 percent drop in oil prices since their $115 per barrel peak in last June. The fall in price of oil, which together with natural gas account for over a half of Russia's state budget revenue, has been compounded by a refusal by OPEC and its kingpin, Saudi Arabia, to cut output. “The Russian Energy Ministry has been in consultations with OPEC and Latin America countries, the recent consultations have been unprecedentedly active. This work should continue,” Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich told a meeting at the energy ministry. ‘We are in a dialogue’ Alexander Novak, Russia's energy minister, told reporters he had spoken to OPEC Secretary General Abdulla al-Badri several days ago. “On the whole, we are in a dialogue; it has been formalized. As you know, we meet twice a year, discuss the perspectives for oil market development. We discuss various issues, local [issues], the ones which relate to shale oil production, oil refining, tax changes in different countries,” he said. But an OPEC delegate from a Gulf oil producer poured cold water on Moscow's statements on cooperation. “The Russian comment does not mean a joint cut in production; it just means that there is concern over price, but in the end, there might be no action taken,” the official said. Another Gulf delegate dismissed the idea of a joint cut. Last month, Russia's Novak told Reuters he would meet OPEC in June to discuss the impact of shale oil on global markets, days before the group decides whether its policy of high output is sufficient to stifle the U.S. energy boom. Saudi state news agency SPA reported on Tuesday that Saudi Arabian oil minister Ali al-Naimi discussed oil markets with Russia's ambassador to Riyadh, Oleg Ozerov. OPEC's headquarters in Vienna had no comment on Wednesday. In November, Russia said after meeting with a number of OPEC ministers that it would not cut output even if prices fell below $40 per barrel. Novak said the current oil price of $60 per barrel was comfortable for Russian producers. OPEC has been annoyed by the Russian position and has said it will not cut its production unless non-OPEC producers make similar moves first.

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Two Ghanaians in Court Over 6-ton Cocaine Bustby webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)
Wednesday April 15th, 2015 at 6:09 PM

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Two Ghanaian businessmen appeared in court in Accra on Wednesday accused of conspiring to import nearly 6 tons of cocaine from Bolivia, one of the biggest recorded cocaine seizures linked to West Africa. Authorities in Bolivia seized the drugs in March but senior state attorney Rebecca Adjalo told an Accra circuit court the plan had been for the drugs to transit through Ghana's Tema port and continue to the country's northern neighbor Burkina Faso. Adjalo did not specify the cocaine's final destination. The drugs would likely have been shipped to Western Europe, where the total shipment would have had a street value of more than $400 million, according to experts. The seizure in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, dwarfs others linked to West Africa and represents nearly 5 percent of the cocaine consumed annually in West and Central Europe, according to 2009 figures from the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime. Two law enforcement officials in West Africa said the seizure was nearly 6 tons, confirming the figure cited in Ghanaian court documents. Bolivian media gave a lower figure. West Africa is a significant transit zone for Latin American cocaine bound for Europe. If they are found guilty, the men's case will show how the region still plays a significant role in the flow of narcotics despite a lull in large seizures. Accused men Alexander Kofi Baah and Shahad Iddrisu appealed through their lawyers on Wednesday for release on bail, telling a packed court the state's case is vague and lacks substantive evidence to tie them to the conspiracy. The men deny wrongdoing. An investigation into the haul involved authorities in Bolivia, Ecuador, the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Ghana, Togo and Burkina Faso, Adjalo told the court. According to court documents, authorities found 5,888 kilograms of cocaine on March 4 concealed in 840 sacks of fertilizer. They arrested an Ecuadorian citizen whom Adjalo said was the mastermind of the plot. The next day, authorities in Ghana arrested Baah, who speaks Spanish, and Iddrisu, who works as a customs officer at Tema harbor and is also managing director of Dow Commodities, a company that imports ethanol alcohol and cooking oil to Ghana. There was no immediate comment from authorities in Burkina Faso.

Tam Mutu, on Broadway at Last, in ‘Doctor Zhivago’
Wednesday April 15th, 2015 at 4:38 PM

For a few years there, Broadway must have seemed about as accessible as the icy battlefields of revolutionary Russia for Tam Mutu.

The most conspicuous near miss came in 2011 for Mr. Mutu, a native of the south coast of England who has amassed several high-profile musical credits in the West End, including “Les Misérables” and the “Phantom of the Opera” sequel, “Love Never Dies.” It was during that last show that he was cast as the male lead of the Broadway-bound “Rebecca” opposite his real-life fiancée, Sierra Boggess. But the production imploded after an investment scam and subsequent lawsuits, and the engagement ended not long after.

“I was packed at home when I got the call that it was being postponed,” he said. “I sat down, looked at all my boxes and wept.”

Now Mr. Mutu, 36, is once again headlining a plush musical based on a literary love triangle. This time he has the title role in “Doctor Zhivago,” a (somewhat) streamlined retelling of the 1957 Boris Pasternak novel and its no less sprawling film adaptation. The musical, directed by Des McAnuff, opens at the Broadway Theater on Tuesday.

Mr. Mutu wrapped up a well-received London revival of “City of Angels” on a Saturday, got on a flight the next day and joined “Zhivago” rehearsals on Monday. That pace continues in the show itself, where he typically has just enough time offstage to slip into his next bit of prosthetic facial hair, as was evident just minutes after the invited dress rehearsal — which also happened to be a few hours before the first preview.

A winded Mr. Mutu, who is of Turkish and Italian descent, talked in his dressing room about how he finally made it to New York — and about his affection for cologne. (He drew the line at divulging what Turkish name Tam is derived from: “That one doesn’t go out.”) These are edited excerpts from the conversation.

Q. How do you do justice to the size of this show while still making sure Yuri Zhivago makes sense as a human being?

A. People throw the word “epic” around a lot, but this really qualifies. You can’t do “Doctor Zhivago” by halves. It’s such an iconic role, and you have to do right by it. I’ve begun hanging Yuri’s poems from the book on the wall here, which helps.

Between Javert in “Les Misérables,” the Phantom, and even almost “Rebecca,” you’ve found a niche playing some flawed guys. Where does Zhivago fit in?

You could certainly argue that Yuri is a cheat, but the circumstances make it complicated. The writers have not apologized for him or for how people behave. They’re not afraid to show the character’s dark insides. I mean, it’s human nature.

I suppose it was human nature to covet Broadway after all these years.

Well, it’s the pinnacle, really, isn’t it? Everyone wants to be here. Plus there are so many diners in New York, and I get to watch both your football and our football. I had a couple other times in addition to “Rebecca” where I got so close, a few of which I can’t talk about.

You have talked on several occasions about the importance of smelling nice.

Yeah, whenever I go anywhere, I do put on a bit of a spritz. Anita Waxman, one of our producers, has told me she’s considering a Dr. Zhivago scent. Meanwhile, Des gave me this as a present, which must cost a fortune. [He holds up a smallish bottle of cologne. A quick joint Google search confirms that it is, in fact, worth about $300.] See? I can’t start using this. I’ll be ruined for anything else.

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In Exile, but Ready to Save Russia
Wednesday April 15th, 2015 at 4:36 PM

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Early in the morning on Monday last week, a phone call woke me. It was a friend from Washington, a political consultant who follows Russia closely: “There’s a billboard with your picture facing the Kremlin. It’s huge. Sending you the pic, in case you didn’t see it yet.”

My smartphone vibrated a second time, with the image: There, on the facade of a 10-story Stalinist-era building on Moscow’s central Tverskaya Street, were the words “National Traitor,” across a photo showing me, smiling. “I kind of like the picture, but not so sure about the message,” I told my friend, in an attempt at levity.

The next day, the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, voted to lift my legislative immunity so that I can be prosecuted on charges of misappropriation of public funds and then removed from office. The charges were trumped up, in a fashion typical for modern Russia.

My real crime: I was the lone dissenter, in March 2014, when the Duma voted, 445 to 1, to approve the annexation of Crimea. My vote made headlines across the West, where my distaste for President Vladimir V. Putin is well known. I am an entrepreneur and an outspoken advocate of the use of technology to make government more transparent. I was democratically elected to represent Novosibirsk, Russia’s third-largest city. I once worked for one of Mr. Putin’s chief rivals, Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, who was imprisoned from 2003 to 2013. I took part in mass protests against Mr. Putin’s rule in 2005 and 2012. Over the years I’ve received too many threats to keep count.

I will never forget the gloomy afternoon of March 18, 2014, when I sat still in the Kremlin while members of the Duma stood and cheered as Mr. Putin defended his seizure of Crimea. He called me and my fellow critics “national traitors,” a phrase once used by Hitler. I knew that invading Ukraine meant war, economic collapse for Russia and the reversal of everything I have sought, including the Obama administration’s attempt to “reset” United States-Russian relations, which I had advocated passionately.

Over the next few months, Russia witnessed yet more brain drain, as Mr. Putin’s government tightened its crackdown on any dissent. In mid-August, during a business trip outside Russia, I found that my credit cards were not working. A leading Russian newspaper soon reported that the authorities had prohibited me from traveling abroad and had seized my assets. I had the equivalent of $21 on me. I haven’t been back since.

I am one of roughly a million Russians — thinkers, reformers, business leaders, scientists and regular people seeking freedom — who have been exported from Russia in recent years. We are no longer in our home country, not because we don’t love it, but because the values and culture of our Motherland have changed so radically that we sought refuge in the freer countries of the West. We miss our homes and families and, most of all, we miss our countrymen, whom we knew to be curious, caring and among the brightest in the world. Sadly, those traits have been harnessed to blame people like me and other elements of political change for the economic and cultural problems of my country.

The Russia of 2015 is like the Germany of 1933. I don’t make the comparison lightly. Mr. Putin’s promises to revive Russia’s economy (despite crushing Western sanctions) and “restore” our national dignity can be sustained only by further conquest and bloodshed. The West shares in the blame: At the end of the Cold War, it repeated the mistakes of Versailles of 1919, by imposing shock capitalism instead of integrating Russia into a stable world order. But it is fruitless to debate the past: The question is what should be done.

The political opposition in Russia has been so thoroughly suppressed that I think the best hope lies with exiles. After the collapse of the Soviet bloc, progressive East European elites reoriented their countries around national renewal. In Russia and Ukraine, in contrast, the old Soviet-style bureaucracy held on. Elites cannot be changed gradually, as newcomers will be corrupted by the bad practices and approaches of the past. The future needs to be built from scratch.

Those of us who have left can help lead the start-up class of a new Russia. We possess great treasures: people who read or listen to us (despite Internet censorship), communicate with us and trust us, despite differences in distance and status. Entrepreneurs, journalists, artists, scholars and scientists — we have intangible but real power. That’s why we’re a threat to Mr. Putin.

Our vision for Russia is simple, but it goes beyond the noble (but doomed) opposition mantra of calling for fair elections. We want a smaller, more responsive central government. We want an independent and modern court system, with strong separation of powers. We want the bulk of taxes to go to self-governing regional and local communities, ending centuries of centralized control from the Kremlin. We want to unleash the forces of entrepreneurship and competition, so that Russia, while blessed with plentiful oil and gas, does not solely depend on them for economic survival.

Skeptics, including fatalistic Russians, say that our country’s only experience is of autocracy — but they are mistaken. Decades of Soviet totalitarianism, followed by kleptocracy, taught Russians to rely on themselves, and survive through their own initiative. Our creative and entrepreneurial energies can be unleashed — if there is equality before the law, and the political will to enforce it.

From London to Silicon Valley to Mr. Putin’s prisons, Russia’s people of change are waiting. They are people like Pavel Durov, who founded the leading Russian social networking service, Vkontakte, which Mr. Putin’s cronies seized, and who is now in exile in the West; Leonard Blavatnik, the wealthy businessman and philanthropist living in New York; Aleksei A. Navalny, the political activist who has been prosecuted for his battle against corruption and who remains in Russia, precariously; and Mr. Khodorkovsky, now in exile in Switzerland.

What do they have in common? They all care about Russia and they all have a global vision, ready to embrace what’s best about the West to benefit their home country. Is it better to stay and fight from a prison cell, or to change things by applying pressure from the outside? It’s a question I grapple with every day. But I know that Russia’s future demands a new start-up generation that will take our country back.

Ilya V. Ponomarev, a technology entrepreneur and a member of the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, is now living in exile.

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mikenova shared this story from World News. Forecast from economists will add to fears that globalisation is stalling

» Anger Over Reports of DEA Agents' Parties, and Bewilderment at Mild Penalties - New York Times
15/04/15 17:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Anger Over Reports of DEA Agents' Parties, and Bewilderment at Mild Penalties New York Times WASHINGTON — Lawmakers expressed outrage at a House Oversight Committee hearing on Tu...

» Guam attorney general orders territory to allow gay marriage
15/04/15 17:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 4 p.m. EDT. HAGATNA, Guam (AP) -- Guam on Wednesday became the first U.S. territory to allow gay marriage after its attorney general directed officials to immediately begin processing s...

» 'Gay conversion therapy' conference: speakers claim religious freedom is under attack
15/04/15 17:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Attendees at Emmanuel Centre, London, say ‘sexual orientation change efforts’ are necessary as Barack Obama and the NHS say practice is harmful and unethical There was somethi...

» Ukraine looks to foreign-born reformists
15/04/15 17:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News. Kiev is pinning hopes on overseas talent to fight economic slump and corruption in war-torn nation

» Tombstone of Hillary Clinton's father toppled - Politico
15/04/15 17:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Tombstone of Hillary Clinton's father toppled Politico Most Read; Videos. Feds: Judge 'misconstrued' Obama on immigration · Al Qaeda Is beating the Islamic State · ...

» Gravestone Of Hillary Clinton's Dad Toppled
15/04/15 17:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky News. Police suspect an act of vandalism as the gravestone is found toppled over two days after Clinton launched her White House bid.

» Extra virgin '100% real' olive oil goes on sale in UK
15/04/15 17:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. French Querubi oil, claiming to be produced without insecticides or fertilisers, aims to stand out in an industry plagued by fraud An extra virgin olive oil produced in France...

» Reid Denies He Got Beat Up By The Mob [VIDEO] - Daily Caller
15/04/15 17:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. NBCNews.com Reid Denies He Got Beat Up By The Mob [VIDEO] Daily Caller “In the last few days, a bunch of people are saying, 'Reid, he didn't have an exercise accident. He got bea...

» 'No end to sanctions, no agreement': Iran sticks to nuclear deal demands - RT
15/04/15 17:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. RT 'No end to sanctions, no agreement': Iran sticks to nuclear deal demands RT There'll be no deal on Tehran's nuclear program without the simultaneous lifting of all sanctions a...

» Cuba has shown us that sanctions don’t work – so why keep using them?
15/04/15 17:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. With all the subtlety of Game of Thrones, this kind of warfare has become the default mode of western diplomacy. Yet the only people they hurt are the poor The days are long g...

» Iraq fails to halt Isis advance in Anbar
15/04/15 17:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News. Attempts to reduce reliance on Shia militias results in gains by jihadists

» Obviously Terrified Harry Reid Refuses to Finger Mafia Assailants - New York Magazine
15/04/15 17:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. New York Magazine Obviously Terrified Harry Reid Refuses to Finger Mafia Assailants New York Magazine Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) maintains implausible story. Photo:...

» US Congressional Hearing Looks at Countering Russian Propaganda
15/04/15 17:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Participants in a Congressional hearing Wednesday argued that Russia is waging sophisticated propaganda campaign that threatens American allies and interests - and that U.S. government-fu...

» Greece in talks with Russia to buy missiles for S-300 systems: RIA
15/04/15 17:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. MOSCOW (Reuters) - Greece is negotiating with Russia for the purchase of missiles for its S-300 anti-missile systems and for their maintenance, Russia's RIA news agency quoted Greek De...

» Diplomat's teen son indicted for murder of brother, drug dealer - Toronto Sun
15/04/15 17:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Toronto Sun Diplomat's teen son indicted for murder of brother, drug dealer Toronto Sun The 15-year-old son of a Canadian diplomat has been indicted on a first-degree felony murd...

» Planned Motorcycle Rally by the Night Wolves, a Putin Ally, Has Poland on Edge
15/04/15 17:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Amid tensions over Ukraine, hundreds of motorcyclists plan to roar from Moscow to Berlin to mark the 70th anniversary of the victory over the Nazis.

» Attacks Against Jews Spiked in 2014, Israeli Researchers Say
15/04/15 17:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TIME. (TEL AVIV, Israel) — Jewish communities around the world faced an “explosion of hatred” last year, with the number of violent anti-Semitic attacks rising by 38 percent, according to...

» Putin Mistakenly Believes His Nuclear Threats Will Keep NATO from Defending Baltics, Piontkovsky Says
15/04/15 17:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The InterpreterThe Interpreter. Staunton, April 14 – Vladimir Putin believes that he can dominate the Baltic countries and destroy NATO not by a direct invasion which the Western alliance is prepared...

» Are Russia And Europe Parting Ways?
15/04/15 16:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . If Europe wants to diversify away from Russian natural gas, ‘go ahead and make my day’ seems to be the words to read between the lines in the state run media in Moscow. The country’s b...

» Another Sign Russia’s Matryoshka Autonomies are at Risk of Being Further Downgraded
15/04/15 16:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The InterpreterThe Interpreter. Staunton, April 14 – Vladimir Putin’s press secretary says that no one from the Nenets Autonomous District in Arkhangelsk Region or the Khanty-Mansiisk and Yamalo-Nene...

» Ukrainian Troops Killed Despite Renewed Commitment to Cease-fire Deal
15/04/15 16:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Ukraine's military says more of its soldiers have been killed in the past two days by mortar and rocket fire from Russian-backed separatists. The fighting has intensified in eastern Ukrai...

» Young North Caucasians Ever More Often Using Fire Arms to Settle Disputes, Expert Says
15/04/15 16:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The InterpreterThe Interpreter. Staunton, April 14 – While Russians have been focusing on Ukraine, the situation in the North Caucasus has deteriorated in two important ways, according to Maya Astvat...

» President tightens grip on state
15/04/15 16:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Europe News. A flood of legislation has centralised power in the run-up to elections

» US Senate Panel Approves Legislation on Nuclear Deal With Iran
15/04/15 16:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. A U.S. Senate panel has approved legislation that would give Congress a right to vote on a possible deal with Iran aimed at preventing Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon in exchange ...

» To absent friends: Moscow defiant as Europe boycotts Victory Day parade
15/04/15 16:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia | The Guardian. Putin to rub shoulders with autocrats like Kim Jong-un on 9 May, as EU leaders decide to avoid 70th anniversary spectacle because of Russia’s actions in Ukraine About 16,000 soldiers...

» Пентагон признал беззащитность США перед атаками хакеров - Российская Газета
15/04/15 16:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Российская Газета Пентагон признал беззащитность США перед атаками хакеров Российская Газета США еще не обладают возможностями для защиты от серьезных кибератак. Это признал помощн...

» Gay ambassador to Vatican causes division
15/04/15 16:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Europe News. Pope’s commitment to liberalising Church questioned after approval of diplomat is stalled

» The Daily Vertical: Keep An Eye On Karelia
15/04/15 16:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The Daily Vertical is a video primer for Russia-watchers that appears Monday through Friday. Viewers can suggest topics via Twitter@PowerVertical or on the Power Vertical...

» 6 Celebrities You Didn't Know Had Russian Roots
15/04/15 16:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Moscow Times Top Stories. Dig a little deeper under the surface and it's surprising how many well-known celebrities and politicians have their ancestral roots in Russia.

» IS Militants Launch Counteroffensive, Capture Villages Near Ramadi
15/04/15 16:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Residents in Iraq’s western province of Anbar say Islamic State (IS) militants launched a fierce counteroffensive near the city of Ramadi on April 15, capturing three vil...

» Сотрудник ЦРУ признался в казни Мэрилин Монро и убийствах "неугодных Белому дому" - Правда.Ру
15/04/15 16:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Правда.Ру Сотрудник ЦРУ признался в казни Мэрилин Монро и убийствах "неугодных Белому дому" Правда.Ру Мэрилин Монро была убита смертельной инъекцией сотрудником ЦРУ за св...

» Глава СБУ вновь высказал обвинения в адрес Владислава Суркова - ИА REGNUM
15/04/15 16:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. ИА REGNUM Глава СБУ вновь высказал обвинения в адрес Владислава Суркова ИА REGNUM Украинские следователи в настоящий момент изучают мотивы пребывания помощника российского президен...

» Russian Professor Convicted Of Treason Dies In Prison
15/04/15 16:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. A Russian engineering professor convicted of passing military secrets to China has died in prison.

» Сотрудник ЦРУ признался в убийстве Мэрилин Монро - Российская Газета
15/04/15 16:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Российская Газета Сотрудник ЦРУ признался в убийстве Мэрилин Монро Российская Газета Сенсационное признание сделал бывший сотрудник ЦРУ 78-летний Норманн Ходжес. По данным американ...

» Iran To Use Influence As 'Major Power' To Bring Peace To Yemen
15/04/15 16:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Iran says it will use its influence as a "major force" in the region to broker a peace deal to end fighting in Yemen.

» FBI Increases Reward for 2008 Times Square Bombing Information
15/04/15 16:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. U.S. federal authorities on Wednesday announced an increased reward of $115,000 for information leading to the conviction of individuals responsible for the 2008 bombing in New York's Tim...

» Congress Split on Obama Push to Take Cuba Off Terror-sponsor List
15/04/15 16:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Congressional reaction to President Barack Obama’s push to remove Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism spans from ardent support to fervent opposition, with many lawmake...

» Mikhail Khodorkovsky Speaks at Stanford University on Future of
15/04/15 16:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Interpreter. Mikhail Khodorkovsky Speaks at Stanford University on Future of Russia, Ukraine Mikhail Khodorkovsky Speaks at Stanford University on Future of Russia, Ukraine Another Sign Russia’s Matryo...

» The FBI Informant Who Mounted a Sting Operation Against the FBI
15/04/15 16:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Intercept. When you’re introduced to Saeed Torres in the new documentary (T)ERROR , you hear him bickering with the filmmaker, Lyric Cabral. The screen is black. “I told you I didn’t want my face in th...

» Russia officially joins $50bn China-led infrastructure bank - RT
15/04/15 16:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. RT Russia officially joins $50bn China-led infrastructure bank RT On Tuesday Russia officially becomes a founder of the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). It means...

» Russia tells Sweden that hunting for its submarines is 'a mindless waste of ... - Business Insider
15/04/15 16:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Business Insider Russia tells Sweden that hunting for its submarines is 'a mindless waste of ... Business Insider Over the weekend, Swedish Rear Adm. Anders Grenstad confirmed to the ...

» RAF Sends Jets As Russia Planes Near UK Airspace - Sky News
15/04/15 16:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. International Business Times The Guardian RAF Sends Jets As Russia Planes Near UK Airspace Sky News The Ministry of Defence revealed the news hours after it emerged warships from Russ...

» Are Russia And Europe Parting Ways? - Forbes
15/04/15 16:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Forbes Are Russia And Europe Parting Ways? Forbes If Europe wants to diversify away from Russian natural gas, 'go ahead and make my day' seems to be the words to read between the line...

» China, Russia military spending surges - Military Times
15/04/15 16:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Military Times China, Russia military spending surges Military Times Trailing in a distant second was China, which spent an estimated $216 billion (15.1 percent), followed by Russia ,...

» Russia's seat in G8 'hinges' on resolution of Ukraine conflict – German FM - RT
15/04/15 16:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. RT Russia's seat in G8 'hinges' on resolution of Ukraine conflict – German FM RT “I wish for Russia to return to the G8 nations but the way to get there hinges on its assistance and e...

» Western leaders' snub casts shadow over Russia's lavish Victory Day celebrations - The Guardian
15/04/15 16:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. The Guardian Western leaders' snub casts shadow over Russia's lavish Victory Day celebrations The Guardian About 16,000 soldiers, 200 armoured vehicles and 150 planes and helicopters ...

» NATO commander urges Russia to stop fuelling Ukraine conflict - Yahoo News
15/04/15 16:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Yahoo News NATO commander urges Russia to stop fuelling Ukraine conflict Yahoo News BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Nato's top commander, U.S. General Philip Breedlove, voiced concern on Wednesd...

» In Exile, but Ready to Save Russia - New York Times
15/04/15 16:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. New York Times In Exile, but Ready to Save Russia New York Times SAN JOSE, Calif. — Early in the morning on Monday last week, a phone call woke me. It was a friend from Washington, a ...

» Where Does Hillary Clinton Stand on China and Russia? - The Atlantic
15/04/15 16:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. The Atlantic Where Does Hillary Clinton Stand on China and Russia ? The Atlantic On foreign policy, she'll take a tough line on Russia ; President Vladimir Putin and the Clintons show...

» Russia in Active Consultations with OPEC - Wall Street Journal
15/04/15 16:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Wall Street Journal Reuters Russia in Active Consultations with OPEC Wall Street Journal MOSCOW— Russia is conducting “unprecedentedly active” consultations with the Organization of t...

» Russia Blocks Hollywood Thriller Day Before Its Release - ABC News
15/04/15 16:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. euronews Russia Blocks Hollywood Thriller Day Before Its Release ABC News Russia's Ministry of Culture and a distributor have agreed not to release a new Hollywood movie, just a day b...

» Russia bans film adaptation of 'Child 44' - euronews
15/04/15 16:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. euronews Russia bans film adaptation of 'Child 44' euronews The film had been due for release in Russia on April 17 but has been pulled because of what the Russian culture ministry de...

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» Chicago to pay reparations to police torture victims
14/04/15 17:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Former Chicago Police Department commander Jon Burge is seen outside the Federal Courthouse in 2008 after he was released from custody in Tampa. (Photo: Steve Nesius, AP) CHICAGO — Mayor announced Tuesd...

» Despite Confrontation, Russia Still Looks to West for Approval
14/04/15 16:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Moscow Times Top Stories. Despite the ongoing confrontation with the West over Ukraine, Russian leaders still see it as the ultimate source of prestige and approval, analysts told The Moscow Times on T...

» UN approves arms embargo against Yemen rebel leaders - Fox News
14/04/15 16:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Fox News UN approves arms embargo against Yemen rebel leaders Fox News April 13, 2015: Yemeni expatriates and Iranians chant slogans during a protest against the Saudi-led coalition st...

» Russian biker gang to ride Red Army's route through Europe
14/04/15 16:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Grey Wolves plan to rally to mark defeat of Nazi Germany, provoking protests from Poland, Slovakia and Czech Republic amid tensions over Ukraine A Russian biker gang backed by...

» Drone Attack Kills Top Cleric, al-Qaeda Branch Says
14/04/15 16:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TIME. (CAIRO) — Yemen’s al-Qaeda branch announced on Tuesday that its top cleric, a Saudi-national who has had a $5 million bounty on his head, has been killed, allegedly in a drone attack. Al-...

» US Senate Panel Advances Congress Vote on Iran Deal
14/04/15 16:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Leaders of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee reached agreement on Tuesday on revisions to a bipartisan bill that would allow Congress to vote on an international agreement to re...

» Pentagon: IS-held Territory in Iraq Shrinking
14/04/15 16:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. U.S. defense officials are touting slow, but steady gains in the effort to degrade and destroy the group known as the Islamic State. The Pentagon says IS has lost 13,000 to 17,000 square ...

» Xenophobic violence in South Africa leaves at least five dead
14/04/15 16:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Hundreds forced to flee their homes amid unrest that has killed two foreigners and three South Africans, including a 14-year-old boy At least five people have been killed and ...

» Sentences in Blackwater Killings Give Iraqis a Measure of Closure
14/04/15 16:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Some Iraqis expressed relief at the news of prison terms for four former security contractors in the killings of 17 people in 2007, while others called for harsher punishments.

» Iran to appoint first female ambassador since the Islamic revolution
14/04/15 16:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Marzieh Afkham to become the second female ambassador Iran has ever had as Rouhani says it is government’s duty to create equal opportunities for women Iran is set to appoint ...

» Netanyahu Tells Putin Israel 'Dismayed' By Missile Decision
14/04/15 16:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called Russian President Vladimir Putin to express Israel's "dismay" with the Kremlin decision to supply S-300 missiles to I...

» Israeli Leader Expresses Dismay Over Russian Sale of Missiles to Iran
14/04/15 16:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told President Vladimir V. Putin that the sale of the S-300 missile system to Iran would “encourage Iranian aggression.”

» U.S., allies conduct 18 air strikes in Syria, Iraq against Islamic State: military
14/04/15 16:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces targeted Islamic State militants in Syria with three air strikes and conducted another 15 strikes against the group in Iraq from Monday to Tuesda...

» Seattle CEO sets $70K minimum wage as US 'pay gap' widens - Christian Science Monitor
14/04/15 16:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Quartz Seattle CEO sets $70K minimum wage as US 'pay gap' widens Christian Science Monitor Dan Price, the owner of Gravity Payments, has announced he will raise his employees' mi...

» Memorials to British colonials attacked across South Africa as protesters demand statues honouring 'racist' figures from its past are removed
14/04/15 16:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. CAPTION CORRECTS INFORMATION ON DEFACED STATUES - In this photo taken Friday, April, 10, 2015, a statue of Britain's Queen Victoria, outside the Port Elizabeth city library in South Afr...

» G7 Foreign Ministers Meet on Key World Issues
14/04/15 16:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Foreign ministers of the Group of Seven industrialized countries are meeting in Luebeck, Germany, to discuss issues ranging from Ebola to arms control as they prepare for the G7 summit in...

» Mideast Christians Trapped by Extremists
14/04/15 16:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. Under attack and with few options, many are forging alliances with former foes.

» Students barricaded inside classrooms, offices after Wayne Co. shooting - WNCN
14/04/15 16:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Students barricaded inside classrooms, offices after Wayne Co. shooting WNCN Kenneth Morgan Stancil III is wanted in the fatal shooting of Ron Lane at Wayne Community College. Wa...

» Russia opens way to missile deliveries to Iran, starts oil-for-goods swap
14/04/15 16:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia paved the way on Monday for missile system deliveries to Iran and started an oil-for-goods swap, signaling that Moscow may have a head-start in the race to be...

» Wallet squeeze: Apartment rents projected to rise again
14/04/15 16:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 2 p.m. EDT. Living in an apartment? Expect your rent to go up again....

» Starting up in Cuba, but not connected
14/04/15 16:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World: World News, International News, Foreign Reporting - The Washington Post. HAVANA — Great technology companies are born in garages, of course, and that is where 31-year-old Bernardo Romero has launche...

» WorldViews: Map: These are the world’s least religious countries
14/04/15 16:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World: World News, International News, Foreign Reporting - The Washington Post. The world's most populous country is also the globe's least religious. According to a new study, 90 percent of all Chinese co...

» Map: These are the world's least religious countries - Washington Post (blog)
14/04/15 16:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from world - Google News. Today's Zaman Map: These are the world's least religious countries Washington Post (blog) The world's most populous country is also the globe's least religious. According to a new stud...

» Russian Region Mourns As Fire Deaths Reach 23
14/04/15 16:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Russia's Khakasia region has held a day of mourning on April 14 as the death toll from fires that swept the province in southern Siberia rose to 23.

» Robot reveals inside Fukushima nuclear reactor – video
14/04/15 16:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World news + Video | The Guardian. The view inside one of the wrecked nuclear reactors at Fukushima filmed by a robot. The robot collected temperature, radiation data and images before it became stuck and ...

» Fighting in Eastern Ukraine Rages On Overnight Despite Talks
14/04/15 16:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TIME. (DONETSK, Ukraine) — Fighting raged overnight and in the early hours on Tuesday on the outskirts of the rebel stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine despite an agreement reached by the Ukrain...

» Obama to discuss fight against Isis with Iraqi prime minister
14/04/15 16:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. In first US trip since becoming PM, Haider al-Abadi expected to seek billions of dollars worth of drones and other weapons, during White House visit The Iraqi prime minister, ...

» Czechs Sentence Russian Man Over Bomb Threat On Passenger Jet
14/04/15 16:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. A court the Czech capital, Prague, has handed a 30-month prison sentence to a Russian man who forced a passenger plane to make an emergency landing by claiming he was car...

» Iraqi Prime Minister, in Washington, Seeks Billions to Overcome Deficit
14/04/15 16:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi is faced with declining oil revenues and the task of restoring essential services and repairing damage from the fight with the Islamic State.

» Our Man in Tehran - Episode 4: Mr. Big Mouth
14/04/15 16:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Hamid-Reza Ahmadabadi, a strong believer in Iran’s theocracy, confronts what he acknowledges is a losing battle against modernity.

» Manhole cover explodes during TV interview - video
14/04/15 16:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World news + Video | The Guardian. A news crew in Buffalo, New York, is filming an interview when an underground explosion sends a manhole cover soaring up into the air, causing panic as the heavy object f...

» Kremlin confirms oil-for-goods swap with Iran under way
14/04/15 16:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin confirmed on Tuesday that an oil-for-goods barter deal between Russia and Iran was being implemented and said all legal barriers had been removed to Mosc...

» Navalny Associate Sentenced On Artwork Theft Conviction
14/04/15 15:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. A court in the city of Vladimir found Georgy Alburov guilty of "premeditated theft" on April 14 and sentenced him the same day.

» Internet pornography banned in Russia under 1923 convention
14/04/15 15:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. The crackdown comes after a court in Tartarstan's Apastovksy district ordered the state-controlled internet watchdog to block 136 websites hosting 'pornographic material' within the nex...

» Islamist Threat: Why Is Russia Scaring Turkmenistan?
14/04/15 15:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Anyone who is listening to Russian officials, or getting their information from Russian media lately would think that the Central Asian states are on the brink of disaste...

» Prison time for some Atlanta school educators in cheating scandal - CNN
14/04/15 15:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. CNN Prison time for some Atlanta school educators in cheating scandal CNN (CNN) There was nothing routine about a sentencing hearing Tuesday in Atlanta that wrote the final legal...

» Ukrainian President Poroshenko Dismisses Envoy To U.S.
14/04/15 15:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Ukraine's president did not explain the dismissal in his April 14 decree relieving Ambassador Oleksandr Motsyk of his post as Ukraine's envoy to the United States,

» Paul Simon and Sting review – moments of humbling magic from The Odd Couple
14/04/15 15:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Manchester Arena Simon and Sting’s contrasting voices and banter perfectly complement each other as they dip into each other’s songbooks in a curious but inspired union At fir...

» Russia Confirms Iran Missile Deal Can Go Ahead
14/04/15 15:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky News. The Kremlin confirms it will sell the S-300 system to Tehran and is already trading with it under an oil-for-goods agreement.

» Pankisi Parents Struggle To Learn How Islamic State Recruited Their Sons
14/04/15 15:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The parents of two teenagers from Georgia's Pankisi Gorge who ran away to join the Islamic State (IS) militant group are trying to find out who helped their sons travel t...

» U.S. Soldiers, Back in Iraq, Find Security Forces in Disrepair
14/04/15 15:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Returning for the first time since 2011, none of the American troops thought they would be here again, let alone return to find the Iraqi Army they had once trained in such a state. disrepair.

» German anti-Israeli Nobel writer, Günter Grass dies at 87
14/04/15 15:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The European Union Times - World News, Breaking News. Germany’s respected author and Noble Winning novelist, Günter Grass, known for his sharp criticism of Israel and those supporting the Tel Aviv regime, ...

» Six Ukrainian Soldiers Killed In Attacks
14/04/15 15:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Six soldiers have been killed and 12 injured as fighting has flared in eastern Ukraine in the past 24 hours, despite a cease-fire.

» The roots of Iran's revolutionary fighters
14/04/15 15:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Four members of the Revolutionary Guard recently killed in Syria are from a garden town in Isfahan that also played a decisive role in the Iran-Iraq war Young Isfahanis know b...

» NYPD: Man hides in bathroom stall at sports bar, rapes woman - Miami Herald
14/04/15 15:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. New York Daily News NYPD: Man hides in bathroom stall at sports bar, rapes woman Miami Herald New York City police say a man hiding inside a bathroom stall in the ladies room of ...

» Iraqi PM to Seek Billions for ISIS Fight at White House Visit
14/04/15 15:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TIME. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi will make his first official visit to the White House on Tuesday, where he is expected to request billions of dollars in financial and military aid from President...

» UK and US paratroopers undertake largest multinational exercise in decades
14/04/15 15:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Uploads by ODN. UK and US paratroopers undertake largest multinational exercise in decades Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/ODNsubs More than 2100 American and British paratroopers have jumped into Fort Bragg...

» Don't underestimate NATO, German minister says on Baltic visit
14/04/15 15:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. TALLINN (Reuters) - Germany's defense minister said on Tuesday that nobody should underestimate NATO's rapid response capacity, which has been ratcheted up in response to worries about...

» 6 U.S. Banks Have 278 TRILLION Dollars Of Exposure To Derivatives
14/04/15 15:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The European Union Times - World News, Breaking News. The very same people that caused the last economic crisis have created a 278 TRILLION dollar derivatives time bomb that could go off at any moment. Whe...

» US is Losing Its Status of World Power: German Media
14/04/15 15:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The European Union Times - World News, Breaking News. The US is losing its status of world power, as the country has lately not been able to enforce its geopolitical interests in several regions and has ha...

» Richard III kept scoliosis secret until his death, historian claims
14/04/15 15:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Historian Mary Ann Lund from the University of Leicester believes that Richard III used good tailoring and carefully made armour to disguise his scoliosis through his lifetime.

» Uzbek-German Human Rights Forum Lambasts Tashkent Over Cotton Harvesting
14/04/15 15:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The Uzbek-German Forum For Human Rights (UGF) has criticized Uzbek authorities for forcing "more than 1 million" Uzbeks to pick cotton in 2014.

» Marco Rubio wants to be identifiable without having a distinct identity
14/04/15 15:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. The newest candidate for the Republican nomination is totally different from all the old white guys in politics, except in the ways he’s exactly the same It’s impossible to se...

» UN imposes arms embargo on Yemen's rebels factions - Washington Post
14/04/15 15:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Newsweek The Express Tribune UN imposes arms embargo on Yemen's rebels factions Washington Post BEIRUT — The U.N. Security Council approved an arms embargo against Yemen's rebel factio...

» Senate Panel Deal Paves Way for Vote on Iran Nuclear Bill
14/04/15 15:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. The Foreign Relations Committee reached an accord on a bill giving Congress a vote on an international deal to reign in Iran’s nuclear program.

» Patients' medical records under threat from data breaches
14/04/15 15:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 2 p.m. EDT. CHICAGO (AP) -- Your private medical information is under threat. That's according to a study that found almost 30 million health records nationwide were involved in crimina...

» A Yazidi captive's tale: Sold by ISIS as a sex slave
14/04/15 15:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from CNN.com - World. In the canvas expanse of the Shariya refugee camp, thousands of Yazidis live within hearing distance of one of Iraqi Kurdistan's frontlines with ISIS.

» Morning Joe's Brzezinski Calls Marco Rubio a 'Little Boy' - National Review Online
14/04/15 15:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. National Review Online Morning Joe's Brzezinski Calls Marco Rubio a 'Little Boy' National Review Online Senator Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) is just a “little boy,” according to Mornin...

» AQAP leader killed in Yemen
14/04/15 15:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from CNN.com - World. A top leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was among five killed in an airstrike in Yemen, the terror group said in a statement.

» Putin Emergence As “Last Hope For World” Shocks West
14/04/15 14:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The European Union Times - World News, Breaking News. The Presidential Office ( PO ) in the Kremlin today is reporting that President Putin has “shocked” the capitols of the West, and their propaganda medi...

» Pentagon Slams Russian Intercept of US Spy Plane
14/04/15 14:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. The Pentagon is protesting the Russian intercept of one of its reconnaissance planes flying in international airspace over the Baltic Sea, calling it "unsafe" and "an example of sloppy ai...

» Pakistan Treads Lightly Between Iran, Saudi Arabia
14/04/15 14:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Pakistan’s prime minister sought to reassure Saudi Arabia and its Arab coalition in Yemen that his country “does not abandon friends and strategic partners, especially at a time when thei...

» Wildfires kill 23 in Russia's Siberia - Reuters
14/04/15 14:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Reuters Wildfires kill 23 in Russia's Siberia Reuters Wildfires in Russia often start when locals set grass on fire on rolling fields to clean them up after the winter, a widespread p...

» Russia Flexes Missile Diplomacy With Iran
14/04/15 14:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Russia’s potential delivery of antiaircraft anti-aircraft S-300 missile systems to Iran has long been shrouded in controversy and contradictions. But with Russian Preside...

» Turkish Minister Criticizes Pope Francis
14/04/15 14:34 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. Volkan Bozkir, Turkey’s minister for European affairs, criticized Pope Francis for describing the World War I-era massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide.

» США запустят проекты для информационной борьбы с Россией в соцсетях - Интерфакс
14/04/15 14:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Интерфакс США запустят проекты для информационной борьбы с Россией в соцсетях Интерфакс Москва. 14 апреля. INTERFAX.RU - Власти США создают "информационные войска", котор...

» Rival Factions in Ukraine Are Urged to Withdraw Heavy Weapons
14/04/15 14:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. In talks to try to shore up the fragile truce, Germany, France, Ukraine and Russia agreed that both sides should pull back tanks and artillery.

» Russian Ships in English Channel to Conduct Drills in Atlantic - Report
14/04/15 14:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Moscow Times Top Stories. Russian navy vessels Ships belonging to the Russian Northern Fleet entered the English Channel on Tuesday on their way to the northern Atlantic for and will hold anti-aircraft...

» Putin Tops TIME Reader's Poll of Most Influential People
14/04/15 14:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Moscow Times Top Stories. Russian President Vladimir Putin has been named the most influential person in the world - "for better or for worse" - by readers of TIME magazine.

» Vladimir Putin named most influential figure in the world for 2015 by Time 100 readers' poll
14/04/15 14:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from - Europe RSS Feed. Vladimir Putin has been named the most influential person in the world ahead of Barack Obama, the Pope and the Dalai Lama, according to Time magazine.

» Three Russian ships monitored in English Channel
14/04/15 14:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russian news, all the latest and breaking Russia news. Ministry of Defence confirms Udaloy class destroyer Severomorsk, tanker and support ship pass through waters while returning from Mediterranean

» Russian Missile Deliveries to Iran Could Begin in Late 2015
14/04/15 14:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. A senior Iranian official said Tuesday that Russia could begin delivering sophisticated S-300 air defense systems to Iran by the end of this year. The statement to Russia's Interfax news ...

» Putin’s Aggressiveness Alienating Central Asian Countries
14/04/15 14:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Window on Eurasia -- New Series. Paul Goble Staunton, April 14 – Vladimir Putin’s increasingly aggressive stance toward Russia’s ne...

» Six Ukrainian Soldiers Killed in Clashes With Rebels
14/04/15 14:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. A Ukrainian military spokesman says Ukraine's defense minister said six soldiers have been killed in clashes with Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine. Andriy Lysenko told reporters Tu...

» Her Majesty’s Jihadists
14/04/15 14:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. More British Muslims have joined Islamist militant groups than serve in the country’s armed forces. How to understand the pull of jihad.

» Fighting erupts in eastern Ukraine
14/04/15 14:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia | The Guardian. Heavy shelling heard in Donetsk as Russian-back rebels and Ukrainian forces clash in the latest threat to the Minsk ceasefire signed in February Fighting erupted overnight and in the...

» Russia's military arsenal - in 90 seconds
14/04/15 14:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russian news, all the latest and breaking Russia news. As Nato warns of an "unusual" spike in sightings of Moscow's aircraft over Europe - take a look at our 90 second guide to Russia military weapons

» Пишешь Путину? Урежем пенсию
14/04/15 14:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Uploads by Радио Свобода. Пишешь Путину? Урежем пенсию Пенсионерка из Самары Нелли Сироткина во время прямой линии с президентом хочет попросить Владимира Путин... From: Радио Свобода Views: 301 49 0 0 rat...

» Канада направит в Украину 200 военных инструкторов - Интерфакс - Украина
14/04/15 14:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. РИА Новости Канада направит в Украину 200 военных инструкторов Интерфакс - Украина Власти Канады сообщили о решении направить в Украину группу в 200 военных инструкторов, сообщает ...

» US Officials: IS Militants Losing Territory After Strikes
14/04/15 14:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. U.S. military officials say Islamic State militants have lost more than one-quarter of the territory they had gained in their campaign to create an Islamic caliphate. A U.S. defense offic...

» “An important aspect of the Eurasian worldview is an absolute denial
14/04/15 14:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Interpreter. “An important aspect of the Eurasian worldview is an absolute denial of Western civilization. In the opinion of the Eurasians, the West with its ideology of liberalism is an absolute evil....

» What conservatives care about that liberals don’t
14/04/15 14:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes. New York University psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s basic finding is simple. Throughout history, human beings have operated under five sets of moral commitments: avoidance of harm, fairnes...

» Senate committee to challenge Obama with vote on Iran bill
14/04/15 14:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes. In a direct challenge to the White House, a Senate committee pushed toward a vote on a bill that would give Congress a chance to weigh in on any final nuclear agreement that can be reach...

» Russia is now projecting serious power in the Black Sea - Business Insider
14/04/15 14:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Business Insider Russia is now projecting serious power in the Black Sea Business Insider Russia's seizure of Crimea ensured that Moscow could expand its naval capabilities throughout...

» Russia's cyberattacks grow more brazen
14/04/15 14:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Russia has ramped up cyber attacks against the United States to an unprecedented level since President Obama imposed sanctions last year on President Putin's government over its intervention in Ukraine. The e...

» Russia's cyberattacks grow more brazen - The Hill
14/04/15 14:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. The Hill Russia's cyberattacks grow more brazen The Hill Russia has ramped up cyber attacks against the United States to an unprecedented level since President Obama imposed sanctions...

» Putin Lifts Ban on Russian Missile Sales to Iran - New York Times
14/04/15 14:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. New York Times Putin Lifts Ban on Russian Missile Sales to Iran New York Times “I'm not in a position to speculate on the decision-making process that Russia is engaged in right now,”...

» Russia and Iran just showed how 'they can do whatever they like' right now - Business Insider
14/04/15 14:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Business Insider Russia and Iran just showed how 'they can do whatever they like' right now Business Insider On April 13th, the Kremlin retracted its hold on the transfer of S-300 mis...

» What Sanctions? The Russian Economy Is Growing Again
14/04/15 14:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Newsweek. World An employee works at a hot rolling workshop of the Novolipetsk (NLMK) steel mill in Lipetsk, about 500 km southeast of the capital Moscow, January 30, 2014. Not only is Putin still standing...

» What Sanctions? The Russian Economy Is Growing Again - Newsweek
14/04/15 14:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Newsweek What Sanctions? The Russian Economy Is Growing Again Newsweek An employee works at a hot rolling workshop of the Novolipetsk (NLMK) steel mill in Lipetsk, about 500 km southe...

» Examining the power Russia’s S-300 missile system will give Iran
14/04/15 14:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Russia lifted a ban on sending Iran its sophisticated S-300 surface-to-air missile system, officials said Monday. The weapons could be shipped shortly, giving Tehran a new way to defend itself against any fut...

» Examining the power Russia's S-300 missile system will give Iran - Washington Post
14/04/15 13:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Voice of America Examining the power Russia's S-300 missile system will give Iran Washington Post Russia lifted a ban on sending Iran its sophisticated S-300 surface-to-air missile sy...

» Russia shields Iran from airstrikes, puts Obama nuclear deal in political peril - Washington Times
14/04/15 13:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Washington Times Russia shields Iran from airstrikes, puts Obama nuclear deal in political peril Washington Times Russia on Monday gave the green light to a long-stalled $800 million ...

» Russian Navy Enters Channel On Way To Exercises - Sky News
14/04/15 13:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. International Business Times Russian Navy Enters Channel On Way To Exercises Sky News While it is not unusual for Russian warships to travel through the Channel, the incident comes at...

» Russia confirms Iran oil-for-goods swap, traders skeptical - Reuters
14/04/15 13:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Reuters Russia confirms Iran oil-for-goods swap, traders skeptical Reuters Russia has moved quickly to cement ties with Iran after an interim deal was reached this month on curbing th...

» RAF Sends Jets As Russia Planes Near UK Airpsace - Sky News
14/04/15 13:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. CBS BBC News RAF Sends Jets As Russia Planes Near UK Airpsace Sky News The Ministry of Defence revealed the news hours after it emerged warships from Russia's Northern Fleet entered t...

» The New Inquisition
14/04/15 13:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from rss. How long will this country remain free? Probably only as long as the American people value their freedom enough to defend it. But how many people today can stop looking at their electronic devices lon...

» Congress Considers Defining Decrees, Wars as Impeachable Crimes
14/04/15 13:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from rss. In an effort to rein in an increasingly out of control executive branch, Congressman Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) introduced a House Resolution on April 13 that specifically defines “impeachable offenses” as eve...

» Russia Lifts Ban on S-300 Missiles for Iran
14/04/15 13:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Defense News - Home. President Vladimir Putin on Monday lifted a ban on supplying Iran with sophisticated S-300 air defense missile systems after Tehran struck a landmark framework deal with the West over ...

» China, Russia, E. Europe Boost Defense Spending
14/04/15 13:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Defense News - Home. Military spending increased sharply in 2014 in China and Russia and the Ukraine conflict prompted eastern European countries to boost their defense programs, according to a study by th...

» Boehner: Congress Needed to Counter Obama's Iran 'Deal at Any Cost'
14/04/15 13:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Comments on: Boehner: Congress Needed to Counter Obama’s Iran ‘Deal at Any Cost’. by Pam Key 14 Apr 2015 30 Tuesday at the GOP leadership press conference, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said Congress &...

» Obama to Jews: Help Me Violate the Constitution for Iran!
14/04/15 13:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Comments on: Obama to Jews: Help Me Violate the Constitution for Iran!. by Joel B. Pollak 14 Apr 2015 261 According to the Treaty Clause of the U.S. Constitution (Article II, Section 2, Clause 2), treaties...

» Russia in Review - Harvard
14/04/15 13:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs - Latest Publications. Media Feature April 10, 2015 Belfer Center Programs or Projects : The US-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism Russia in ...

» Russia in Review
14/04/15 13:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs - The US-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism. April 10, 2015 Russia in Review: a digest of useful news from U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent...

» 2015-04-14#FBI
14/04/15 13:06 from Mike Nova - Google+
2015-04-14 #FBI Recent Posts Review: 4.14-11.15 14 Apr 2015 04:54 2,617,643 2,617,643 Permalink | View Entire Page 13 Apr 2015 20:40 2015-04-13 FBI News Review - Update How the FBI is whitewashing the Saudi connection to 9/11 Monday ...

» 2,552,7572,552,7572015-03-30 #Prague
14/04/15 11:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2,552,757 2,552,757 2015-03-30 #Prague #CzechRepublic Czech Crowds Welcome U.S. Military Convoy To Prague | » More than a Third of Newborns in France are Not European 30/03/15 12:32 fr...

» 2,552,7592,552,7592015-03-30#Germanwings
14/04/15 11:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2,552,759 2,552,759 2015-03-30 #Germanwings #4U9525 #PlaneCrash Germanwings Crash Investigators Sorting Through Physical and Psychological Clues - NYT Germanwings Crash Investigators S...

» 2,596,2122,596,2122015-04-10#MassGrave
14/04/15 11:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2,596,212 2,596,212 2015-04-10 #MassGrave Hundreds of bodies found in mass grave (raw) Hundreds of bodies found in mass grave (raw) Friday April 10 th , 2015 at 11:59 AM 1 Share Hund...

» 2015-04-10#Immigration
14/04/15 11:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2015-04-10 #Immigration Immigration Activists Hide Material Training Exec. Amnesty ‘Navigators’ In ‘Path To Power’ Immigration Activists Hide Material Training Exec. Amnesty ‘Navigator...

» 2,602,2582,602,2582015-04-10#Сурков
14/04/15 11:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2,602,258 2,602,258 2015-04-10 #Сурков Russians honor slain opposition figure 40 days on - Reuters | The Chechen Link to Russian Activist's Death - STRATFOR | Сурков, спецслужбы и гибе...

» 2015-04-11#Urine
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mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2015-04-11 #Urine #ProstateCancer #Dogs **The two female dogs sniffed urine samples from 900 men, 360 with prostate cancer and 540 without. Both animals were right in well over 90% of ...

» 2015-04-11#Yemen
14/04/15 11:38 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2015-04-11 #Yemen #NewYorkTimes #Aden Yemen's Despair on Full Display in 'Ruined' City - New York Times Yemen's Despair on Full Display in 'Ruined' City - New York Times Saturday April...

» 2015-04-12#NATO
14/04/15 11:38 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2015-04-12 #NATO NATO Reassures East European Allies of its Support - Voice of America - Nato News Review NATO Reassures East European Allies of its Support - Voice of America Sunday A...

» 2015-04-12#Putin
14/04/15 11:38 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2015-04-12 #Putin Vladimir Putin praises Orthodox Church for boosting patriotism Vladimir Putin praises Orthodox Church for boosting patriotism by Tom Parfitt Sunday April 12 th , 2015...

» 2015-04-12#Ransomware
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mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2015-04-12 #Ransomware #Ransom » Ransomware forces computer users to pay ransom or lose files - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Incidents, Accidents and Crime Review » Ransomware forces c...

» 2,612,2022,612,202#Yemen
14/04/15 11:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2,612,202 2,612,202 #Yemen #NewYorkTimes #Aden Yemen's Despair on Full Display in 'Ruined' City - New York Times Yemen's Despair on Full Display in 'Ruined' City - New York Times Satur...

» 2015-04-13#Florida
14/04/15 11:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2015-04-13 #Florida #September11 » Florida Ex-Senator Pursues Claims of Saudi Ties to Sept. 11 Attacks 13/04/15 16:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks Rev...

» 2015-04-13FBI News Review - Update
14/04/15 11:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2015-04-13 FBI News Review - Update How the FBI is whitewashing the Saudi connection to 9/11 Monday April 13 th , 2015 at 5:47 PM | How The FBI Is Whitewashing The Saudi Connection T...

» Santander worker who helped hackers steal £1.25m facing jail
14/04/15 11:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Tola Ore, pictured, fitted the keyboard video mouse to her computer in the Palmers Green branch in north London which allowed a criminal gang to transfer the cash from the branch into 1...

» Ambassador Tefft to Represent US at Victory Day Parade in Moscow / Sputnik International
14/04/15 11:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Russia (updated 03:40 10.04.2015) Get short URL 563 4 3 WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Russia has sent out invitations to a number of world leaders to attend the Victory Parade in ...

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» Ministers Agree To Extend Weapons Withdrawal In Ukraine
14/04/15 01:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Foreign ministers from Germany, France, Russia, and Ukraine Russia, Ukraine, Germany, and France have agreed to push ahead with the withdrawal of weapons from the frontli...

» Russian Missiles for the Ayatollah - Wall Street Journal
14/04/15 01:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Wall Street Journal Russian Missiles for the Ayatollah Wall Street Journal Vladimir Putin blew a geopolitical raspberry at the Obama Administration on Monday by authorizing the s...

» U.N. vote on Tuesday on Yemen arms embargo; Russia stance unclear
14/04/15 01:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council is due to vote on Tuesday on a resolution to blacklist the son of Yemen's former president and a Houthi leader and effectively impo...

» Israel critical of US as Putin unblocks sale of S-300 to Iran - Irish Times
14/04/15 01:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Irish Times Israel critical of US as Putin unblocks sale of S-300 to Iran Irish Times Russia yesterday unblocked sales to Iran of one of the world's most advanced air-defence systems. ...

» Convict trashes his lawyers, says execution would be better
14/04/15 01:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 11:43 p.m. EDT. NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- A man sentenced to death in the killings of a baby and her grandmother in what prosecutors called a botched kidnapping plot said Monday he's so d...

» UK forced to let Vladimir Putin inspectors watch Nato war games under European treaty
14/04/15 01:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. British officers were forced to accept the four-day inspection from the experts from Moscow under a European arms control treaty despite heightened tensions with Vladimir Putin.

» New Report on Washington Post Writer Seen as Prelude to Espionage Trial
14/04/15 01:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. The Iranian news report was laden with innuendo and unattributed assertions about Jason Rezaian, a Washington Post correspondent jailed in Tehran since last year.

» Russian FM defends Moscow's lifting of S-300 ban - Press TV
14/04/15 01:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Press TV Russian FM defends Moscow's lifting of S-300 ban Press TV Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has defended his country's decision to provide Iran with the S-300 missi...

» Pope's genocide comments spark indifference, frustration among Turks
14/04/15 01:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. ANKARA/IZMIR (Reuters) - When Pope Francis became the first pontiff to publicly call the 1915 Armenian massacre a genocide this weekend, the reaction from Ankara was swift and irate: i...

» Obama Administration Not Swaying US Lawmakers on Iran Deal
14/04/15 01:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Initial Obama administration pleas that U.S. lawmakers set aside legislation giving them a say on a final Iran nuclear accord appear to be falling on mostly deaf ears in the Republican-le...

» Senate Leaders and White House Make Their Cases on Iran Deal Legislation
14/04/15 01:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Leaders of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee negotiated to possibly shorten a review period in legislation that would give Congress influence over President Obama’s nuclear accord with...

» Former Blackwater security guards get lengthy prison sentences for Iraq shootings - Fox News
14/04/15 01:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. USA TODAY Former Blackwater security guards get lengthy prison sentences for Iraq shootings Fox News WASHINGTON – A federal judge sentenced former Blackwater security guard Nicho...

» US, Israel express concern as Russia lifts ban on missile deliveries to Iran - Fox News
14/04/15 00:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Fox News US, Israel express concern as Russia lifts ban on missile deliveries to Iran Fox News Russia's move Monday to lift its ban on delivery of sophisticated air defense missiles to...

» Russia lifts ban on delivery of S-300 missiles to Iran - Aurora Sentinel
14/04/15 00:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Aurora Sentinel Russia lifts ban on delivery of S-300 missiles to Iran Aurora Sentinel "The S-300 is exclusively a defensive weapon, which can't serve offensive purposes and...

» Was my Doctor too northern for the BBC, asks Eccleston: Actor suggests he fell out with bosses over decision to play the character with his accent
14/04/15 00:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Christopher Eccleston's turn as Doctor Who was among the shortest incarnations of the Time Lord in the programme’s 52-year-history.

» IEA Chief Economist: No Immediate Oil Market Impact After Iran Deal
14/04/15 00:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. The chief economist of the International Energy Agency said it could take three to five years for a new wave of Iranian oil to significantly increase world petroleum supplies and have ...

» World Briefing: France: Surveillance Powers Urged
14/04/15 00:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Prime Minister Manuel Valls called Monday for emergency government surveillance powers in case of an exceptional threat, a move prompted by the deadly Paris attacks in January.

» Relationship-Building Key for US-Cuba Normalization
14/04/15 00:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Uploads by VOA News. Relationship-Building Key for US-Cuba Normalization The effort by the United States and Cuba to bridge gaps caused by more than 50 years of mutual hostility will require a heavy emphas...

» US Officials: Potential Delivery of Russian Anti-Missile System to Iran ‘Unhelpful’
14/04/15 00:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Russia’s decision to lift a ban on delivery of a high-end, anti-missile system to Iran is raising concerns in Washington, where officials say their opposition to the deal has not changed....

» Iraqi PM Seeks More US Help in Islamic State Fight
14/04/15 00:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Uploads by VOA News. Iraqi PM Seeks More US Help in Islamic State Fight From more arms to greater air support, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says he will seek additional help from the United States ...

» Open Source: Stung by Pope’s Remarks on Armenian Genocide, Turkish Minister Insults Argentina
14/04/15 00:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. The minister for European affairs suggested that Argentines as whole, and not just Pope Francis, had been brainwashed by rich and powerful Armenians in their midst.

» 'Grave concern' about renewed Ukraine fighting, say European foreign ministers
14/04/15 00:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Ceasefire must be ‘more comprehensively’ respected, says Germany’s Frank-Walter Steinmeier, after meeting in Berlin with French, Russian and Ukrainian counterparts French, Ger...

» Kerry asks Congress for more time and space on Iran deal
14/04/15 00:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told skeptical Republicans and Democrats on Monday that the U.S. Congress should give him another two and a half months to sec...

» Reenactments Mark 150th Anniversary of US Civil War’s End
14/04/15 00:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. In Appomattox, Virginia, reenactments marked a surrender that many historians believe effectively ended the U.S. Civil War 150 years ago. From 1861 to 1865, the Northern states - the Unio...

» Russia, Ukraine Agree on Withdrawal of Smaller-Caliber Arms
14/04/15 00:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TIME. (BERLIN) — Russia and Ukraine agreed Monday to call for the pullback of smaller caliber weapons from the front lines in eastern Ukraine as part of a fresh push to end the region’s yearlon...

» US Marks Lincoln Assassination Anniversary
14/04/15 00:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln 150 years ago changed the course of U.S. history. Museums and historic institutions across the country are featuring special exhibits, plays...

» China to strengthen surveillance, security in anti-terror push
14/04/15 00:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. BEIJING (Reuters) - China will establish a national population database linked to ID information and credit records, state media reported late on Monday, as part of a larger push to be...

» How the FBI is whitewashing the Saudi connection to 9/11
13/04/15 18:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from | How the FBI is whitewashing the Saudi connection to 9/11New York Post. Just 15 days before the 9/11 attacks, a well-connected Saudi family suddenly abandoned their luxury home in Sarasota, Fla., leaving ...

» OIG audit finds potential for abuse in FBI forensic kiosks and FBI site hacked
13/04/15 18:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network World Ms. Smith. Imagine if after one hour of training, you had access to a FBI digital forensic kiosk that could allow you to “quickly and easily” view and then extract data stored on ...

» Ann McFeatters - Figuring out puzzling things - Crescent-News | Defiance, OH
13/04/15 18:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Crescent News Stories: Latest Headlines. April is an odd month, some say cruel, but even aside from the weather, strange things are happening. Our job as dutiful citizens is to figure them out. Some ar...

» Emails Reveal Discord Over Blackwater Charges
13/04/15 18:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . WASHINGTON — As prosecutors put the finishing touches on the 2008 indictment of Blackwater security contractors for a deadly shooting in Iraq , the F.B.I. agents leading the investigation became convinc...

» Walter Scott Is Not on Trial
13/04/15 18:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . I not only watched television pundits discuss the shooting of Walter Scott in North Charleston, S.C., last week, I participated in some of those discussions. And the most disturbing thread that emerged for me...

» Resilience: Former FBI special agent credits divine intervention for his contribution to OKC bombing case
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» Alleged 'Nazi' Android FBI Ransomware Mastermind Arrested In Russia
13/04/15 18:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has announced the arrest of a 25-year-old, believed to be the creator of a particularly harmful strain of Android money-stealing malware, known as Svpeng, that had inf...

» Bush Officials Screwed Up FBI's Case Against Blackwater, Emails Show
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mikenova shared this story from Fortress America. I feel like there are so many examples of this, let's call it "Robert Jackson syndrome", where we realize that there are indeed real american heroes out there, rooting and fighting for th...

» One Year Ago, FBI Insisted That 'Terrorist' Guy It Arrested Last Week Was No Threat At All
13/04/15 18:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Techdirt. Last week, we wrote about the FBI arresting John Booker, who was involved in yet another of the FBI's own plots . At the beginning of our post (and the criminal complaint) against Booker, we note...

» FBI Investigating Former White House Military Aide
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mikenova shared this story from ABC News: U.S.. The FBI is investigating a former top military aide to three U.S. presidents and his firm over allegations it bilked foreign investors out of millions of dollars by touting his White House ...

» FBI Director James Comey in a Q&A about terrorism
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mikenova shared this story from FBI director talks about terrorism, Lauderdale cops and lone wolves - Sun Sentinel. FBI Director James Comey recently visited Broward County to dedicate the agency's new Miramar headquarters. Special agent...

» Florida Ex-Senator Pursues Claims of Saudi Ties to Sept. 11 Attacks
13/04/15 16:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . MIAMI LAKES, Fla. — The episode could have been a chapter from the thriller written by former Senator Bob Graham of Florida about a shadowy Saudi role in the Sept. 11 attacks. A top F.B.I. official unex...

» Israel angry as Russia approves missiles for Iran
13/04/15 16:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Tom Parfitt. Israel responded sharply to the lifting of the ban. Yuval Steinitz, the intelligence and international relations minister, said it was “a direct result of the legitimacy that Iran is rec...

» Memo From Panama: Talks With Cuba Earn U.S. Raves in Latin America
13/04/15 15:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. President Obama’s talk with President Raúl Castro of Cuba drew praise from Latin American leaders and an editorial in El Universal with the headline “A New Era in the Americas.”

» Terrorism Case Renews Debate Over Drone Hits
13/04/15 15:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. An American An American citizen who was once considered a possible target to be killed in Pakistan is now in custody in the United States, bolstering an argument that it is feasible to capt...

» The Daily Vertical: Putin's Corruption Machine
13/04/15 15:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The Daily Vertical is a video primer for Russia-watchers that appears Monday through Friday. Viewers can suggest topics via Twitter @PowerVertical or on the Power Vertica...

» Philosophy Returns to the Real World - New York Times (blog)
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mikenova shared this story from world - Google News. Philosophy Returns to the Real World New York Times (blog) Rorty convincingly defended himself against the charge of relativism – I know, having spent hours in his office, trying to ma...

» The psychiatric ward taught me it can be OK to laugh about mental illness
13/04/15 15:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Surrounded by bizarre characters and nonsensical routines, humour became my shield against the stigma and isolation of life as a mental health patient Ten years ago I spent ti...

» Russia Confirms Arms Deal to Supply China With S-400 Air Defense Systems
13/04/15 15:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The European Union Times - World News, Breaking News. The chief executive of the Russian state-run arms trader Rosoboronexport has confirmed that China clinched a contract with his company for the purchase...

» Who's Recruiting Young Men From Georgia To Fight In Syria?
13/04/15 15:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The two teenage boys, 16 and 18, are Kists -- ethnic Chechens from Georgia's Pankisi Gorge were last seen in Pankisi on April 2, and their disappearance has provoked ange...

» Puerto Rico's mainland migration led by young, less educated: Fed
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