Tag archive for ‘Russia’
By Robert Herriman On Monday, May 20th, 2013
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Cream puffs linked to salmonella outbreak in Chelyabinsk, Russia

More than 60 pounds of cream puffs were removed from store shelves after they were linked to a salmonella outbreak in the Russian Urals city of Chelyabinsk on Monday, according to a ITAR-TASS report today. “The More...

By Brandon Jones On Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
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Two missiles fired from Syria at Russian passenger plane

Two missiles were reportedly fired at a Russian plane with at least 159 passengers on board flying over Syrian territory. Russian officials admit the jet faced danger, but are not talking of a targeted attack. Reported More...

By Brandon Jones On Sunday, April 28th, 2013
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Russian President Vladimir Putin defends record on free speech amid arrests of protesters, Pussy Riot and other reports

Russian President Vladimir Putin defended his government’s record on free speech and rejected a claim it uses “Stalinist” methods, during a week when two international rights groups issued scathing More...

By Brandon Jones On Sunday, April 28th, 2013
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Police arrested anti-Putin protesters, more rallies expected in May VIDEO

Russian police arrest dozens of protesters in Red Square, Moscow, on Saturday as they take part in an anit-Putin demonstration. The protest was to call for another election process and to bring attention to jailed More...

By Brandon Jones On Friday, April 26th, 2013
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Zubeidat Tsarnaev, mother of Boston bombers, was added to terrorist watch list 18 months ago with son Tamerlan Tsarnaev

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev may have not have fallen far from the tree as US officials revealed Friday that their mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaev, was added to the government”s terrorism database 18 More...

By Brandon Jones On Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
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Taliban captures Turks, Afghan and Russians from NATO helicopter

Taliban insurgents seized an Afghan pilot and nine foreign nationals from a transport helicopter after it was forced to make an emergency landing late Sunday night in eastern Afghanistan, authorities said Tuesday. Taliban More...

By Brandon Jones On Monday, April 22nd, 2013
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Russian report claims Israel injecting Arab prisoners with ‘dangerous viruses’

A Russian daily has published an article that is going viral on the Internet Monday, accusing Israel of injecting Arab prisoners with “dangerous viruses,” which lead to death. The online edition of Pravda reported More...

By Brandon Jones On Saturday, April 20th, 2013
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Chechen President blames America for Boston bombing, ‘they were raised inthe US’ so seek ‘roots of evil in America’

Chechnya’s Russian-backed president has hit out at America for killing one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers and blamed the US for molding them into terrorists. President Ramzan Kadyrov, a former Chechen More...

By Robert Herriman On Saturday, March 9th, 2013
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Miss Russia 2013, Elmira Abdrazakova, says the Pussy Riot sentencing ‘too harsh’

The newly crowned Miss Russia 2013 has already come out expressing her thoughts about the two-year prison sentence of punk rockers, Pussy Riot, and she thinks the punishment was to harsh, according to an NBC news More...

By Stephen Nevets On Friday, March 8th, 2013
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Missing Soviet soldier identified as man alive and well in Afghanistan

A former Soviet Army soldier who went missing in action in 1980 during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan has been found alive almost 33 years after he was rescued by Afghan tribesmen. Now living under the name More...