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Moscow professor who criticized Putin’s Crimean invasion has been fired, daughter says
Although not getting as much attention as Russian support for the aggressive moves in Crimea by President Vladimir Putin, there are voices of dissent in Moscow — and it apparently comes with a price.
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Putin is not crazy. Frustrating, unpredictable. Not crazy.
President Obama has called Vladimir Putin “the bored kid in the back of the classroom,” putting on an unsmiling, tough-guy “shtick.” Hillary Clinton just compared the Russian president to Hitler. The State Department says Putin’s reasoning on Ukraine amounts to “two plus two equals five.” Republican House Speaker Boehner branded him a “thug.” German Chancellor Angela Merkel reportedly said he is “in another world.”
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Kudos to Hillary for Playing the Hitler Card
Calm down, everybody. Clinton's Hitler analogy was accurate—and it's hilarious to watch Republicans trying to use it to dent her foreign policy credentials.
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Britain’s KGB Sugar Daddy
On Monday, a freelancer photographer called Steve Back snapped a photograph of a document being carried cavalierly in the open by British officials entering Downing Street. The document was a list of suggested countermoves by Westminster to play against the Kremlin for Russia’s recent invasion of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea.
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Crimea Now Completely Under Russian Control
Elizabeth Palmer confirmed on CBS’ This Morning that Crimea is under Russian Control, as predicted by former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Palmer reported “…the Russian military, in cooperation with various armed militias, has tightened it’s grip here.”
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"Believed to Be Russian Soldiers"
Less than two weeks ago, after Ukrainian protesters appeared to have ousted President Viktor Yanukovych, thousands of soldiers bearing no insignia or identifying marks began appearing in Ukraine's pro-Russian Crimean peninsula. Russian authorities deny that these men are invading Russian soldiers, instead describing them as "local self-defense forces" wearing uniforms available from army surplus centers.
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Ukraine crisis: Russians opposed to Putin
In an emotional speech in Kiev on Sunday, former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky - recently released from 10 years in jail - told the Maidan "there is another Russia", one opposed to military action in Ukraine. Russian writer and broadcaster Andrei Ostalski agrees but says it's a small and embattled community.
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4 Reasons Putin Is Already Losing in Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin's incursion into Ukraine's Crimea region is deeply unpopular at home, Kremlin-backed polling found in recent research
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We treat him like he’s mad, but Vladimir Putin’s popularity has just hit a 3-year high
As the situation in Crimea grew increasingly tense over the past few weeks, many in Western Europe and the U.S. began to wonder what exactly Russian President Vladimir Putin was thinking. German Chancellor Angela Merkel reportedly said he was "in another world," while Julia Ioffe of the New Republic wrote that he had "lost it." As Anne Applebaum of The Post tweeted, "we may have reached the weird moment when the dictator believes his own propaganda."
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How The Truth Is Made At Russia Today
"It was my first job and I feel embarrassed and ashamed." An inside look at what it's like to work at the Kremlin-funded media outlet.
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Putin on the Couch
Washington is infuriated, outwitted and just plain befuddled by him, so we asked America’s leading Putinologists to get inside the head of the Kremlin strongman.
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US drone intercepted in Crimean airspace - Russia's state corporation
An American scout-attack drone was intercepted in the Crimean sky, the Rostec state corporation reports. "Judging by side marking, the MQ-5B drone was part of the 66th US brigade of military intelligence with the main location in Bavaria," the report on the website of the corporation reads.
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Russian Troops Seize Gas Plant Beyond Crimean Border, Ukraine Says
At least 80 Russian troops landed by helicopter Saturday to seize a natural gas terminal just beyond the regional border of Crimea, the Ukrainian government said. The action was Russia’s most provocative since its forces took over Crimea two weeks ago.
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Crimeans vote in referendum to leave Ukraine for Russia
Crimeans are voting in a referendum that will decide whether the Black Sea peninsula leaves Ukraine and becomes part of Russia. The referendum is regarded as illegal by Ukraine and its Western allies, but is being backed by Moscow, which has vetoed a UN Security Council draft resolution that declared the poll invalid.
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Ukrainian government refuses to remove troops from Crimea, prepares for war
In the wake of a March 16 referendum in which Crimeans voted to join the Russian Federation, Ukrainian leaders refused to cede any part of the peninsula, calling on their troops to prepare for war. “Crimea was, is, and will be our territory,” said Defense Minister Ihor Tenyukh in a statement delivered at the Ukrainian Crisis Media Center on March 17.
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Under historical treaty with Catherine the Great, Crimea returns to turkey if/when it declares independence
The Turkish newspaper Hürriyet reports that if the Autonomous Republic of Crimea announces its independence, then it falls under Turkish rule. This is being reported by ipress.ua with reference to Espresso TV. Based on what the author of the article wrote, this is confirmed by the agreement which was signed 230 years ago by the Ottoman and Russian empires.
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Russia Now Flexing Muscles Toward Georgia
As the world focuses on the imminent Russian annexation of Ukraine’s predominantly ethnic-Russian-populated Crimean Peninsula, Moscow has flexed its military muscle with jet fighter and helicopter flights over Georgia, a country with which Russia went to war in 2008.
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Moscow 'Concerned' Over Treatment Of Russians In Estonia
Russia signaled concern on Wednesday at Estonia's treatment of its large ethnic Russian minority, comparing language policy in the Baltic state with what it said was a call in Ukraine to prevent the use of Russian.
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Ukraine 'planning Crimea withdrawal'
Ukraine is drawing up plans to withdraw its soldiers and their families from Crimea, Kiev's security chief says.
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Ukraine TV CEO Beaten, Forced to Resign by 'Free Speech' Official
Several members of Ukrainian parliament from the Svoboda (Freedom) Party, led by a top member of the nation’s Free Speech Committee, video-taped themselves violently beating Alexsandr Pantelymonov, the CEO of Ukraine’s First National TV company, and forcing him to sign a letter of resignation.
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