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Iraq cancels $4.2 bln Russian arms deal over suspected graft

Source: Lebanon Daily Star, Nov 10 2012, 5:59am CST

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) meets with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in his Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow October 10, 2012. REUTERS/Kirril Kudryavtsev/Pool BAGHDAD: Iraq has cancelled $4.2 billion arms deal with ...

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Pussy Riot member refused parole by Russian court

Source: Hartford Courant  |   May 23 2013, 2:50pm CDT

BEREZNIKI, Russia (Reuters) - A Russian court refused on Thursday to grant parole to a member of Pussy Riot serving a two-year prison sentence for protesting in Moscow's main cathedral with a "punk prayer" against President Vladimir Put ...

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Paul McCartney steps up campaign to free Russian punk stars

Source: OK! Magazine  |   May 23 2013, 12:18pm CDT

Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were sentenced to two years at tough labour camps last year (12) for performing a protest song against President Vladimir Putin at a church in Moscow. Both women have applied for release on paro ...

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Alyokhina denied parole

Source: United Press International  |   May 23 2013, 10:13am CDT

Paul McCartney. UPI/Bill Greenblatt License photo MOSCOW, May 23 (UPI) -- Jailed Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina was denied parole Thursday at a hearing in Berezniki, Russia. Alyokhina was sentenced to two years in jail last ...

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Opposition group raided in Moscow

Source: United Press International  |   May 23 2013, 8:49am CDT

MOSCOW, May 23 (UPI) -- Russian police said Thursday they arrested a Moscow leader of the opposition Left Front movement and raided a bodyguard for party chief Sergei Udaltsov. Human rights officials in Moscow said city police arrested and later release ...

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Obama, Putin exchange letters amid troubled US-Russia relations

Source: Russia Today  |   May 23 2013, 7:08am CDT

US President Barack Obama has received a personal response to his letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin: Moscow and Washington must work to overcome antagonism and deal with global political issues as partners, not foes. The response was delivered ...

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Russian seized in Lithuania may face months of pre-trial

Source: Voice of Russia  |   May 23 2013, 5:46am CDT

A prominent Lithuanian lawyer, Albertas Bonjius, has commented on the arrest of Russian national Dmitry Ustinov, who was seized at Vilnius airport a month ago after the US Department of Justice accused him of arms traffick ...

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Russian Police Raid Homes of Leftist Activists

Source: RIA Novosti  |   May 23 2013, 4:59am CDT

MOSCOW, May 23 (RIA Novosti) – Police carried out searches on Thursday at the homes of two members of Russia’s Left Front movement, which played a key role in last year’s mass protests against the rule of President Vladimir Putin. Police detained Vasily ...

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Iraq - Iraqi journalist threatened for reporting on corruption

Source: Humanitarian News  |   May 23 2013, 4:21am CDT

On 14 May, a group of armed men raided the home of a journalist and briefly abducted his brother. The brother said the guards took him to the house of a prominent Sunni sheikh, Majid Ali Suleiman, where they demanded he stop ...

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First deputy PM begins visit to Russia

Source: B92  |   May 23 2013, 3:54am CDT

MOSCOW -- Serbia’s First Deputy PM and Defense Minister Aleksandar Vučić met with Russian Defense Minister Segey Shoygu in Moscow on Thursday morning. The main topic of the meeting will be preparation of the agreement on military-technical co ...

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Putin urges in-depth protection of Russian bank accounts abroad

Source: Voice of Russia  |   May 23 2013, 3:44am CDT

British politician George Galloway compares London machete attack to U.K. policy in Syria. “This sickening atrocity in London is exactly what we are paying the same kind of people to do in Syria”. US President Bar ...

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