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    Putin-critic Khodorkovsky Unveils Free Online University To Help Peaceful Revolution
    Jan28

    Putin-critic Khodorkovsky Unveils Free Online University To Help Peaceful Revolution

    Thursday, January 28 , 2016 - 20:16 (EET) Section: Newsweek (USA)

    “Revolution in Russia is inevitable,” Mikhail Khodorkovsky, formerly Russia’s richest man and possibly the most famous living critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said in December 2015. “Our goal is to make it peaceful,” he added. Khodorkovsky and his Open Russia organization have unveiled the first step to what they hope will...

    Moldova, The New Ukraine: Pro-Russian Street Protests in Moldova Set to Escalate
    Jan28

    Moldova, The New Ukraine: Pro-Russian Street Protests in Moldova Set to Escalate

    Thursday, January 28 , 2016 - 19:31 (EET) Section: International Business Times (USA)

    MOSCOW — On the surface, huge anti-government demonstrations in Moldova, the poorest country in Europe, are mirroring recent events in Ukraine when violent standoffs in the capital, and then in the country’s south and east, were defined by allegiance to either Moscow or the European Union. But things in this former Soviet republic are more...

    Ukraine’s Central Bank Lowers Its 2016 Growth Forecast
    Jan28

    Ukraine’s Central Bank Lowers Its 2016 Growth Forecast

    Thursday, January 28 , 2016 - 19:16 (EET) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

    Ukraine’s central bank has more than halved its 2016 growth forecast as the cash-strapped country battles crises ranging from a fall in commodity prices to a new trade embargo by Russia. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Betraying Magnitsky
    Jan28

    Betraying Magnitsky

    Thursday, January 28 , 2016 - 18:16 (EET) Section: The American Interest (USA)

    Last week, an official British inquiry concluded that the 2006 murder of the exiled Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko by polonium poisoning was ordered by the head of the FSB, “probably” with the approval of President Vladimir Putin. Despite the dramatic accusation, the report, by Sir Robert Owen, added little to what was already known—that a...

    Hackers are hitting Israel’s energy sector with a ‘severe cyber attack’
    Jan28

    Hackers are hitting Israel’s energy sector with a ‘severe cyber attack’

    Thursday, January 28 , 2016 - 17:01 (EET) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    REUTERS / Samantha SaisIsrael’s Electricity Authority has been under a “sever cyberattack” since Monday, according to the country’s energy minister. Yuval Steinitz told The Times of Israel a virus had been identified in the energy department, and software that was already in place was working to neutralize it. Though the...

    ISIS Could Use Russians Who Visit Turkey As Human Shields: Tourism Agency
    Jan28

    ISIS Could Use Russians Who Visit Turkey As Human Shields: Tourism Agency

    Thursday, January 28 , 2016 - 15:01 (EET) Section: Newsweek (USA)

    Russia’s state tourism agency has issued a warning to Russian citizens against going to Turkey, saying they are likely to be targeted by the Islamist group Islamic State (ISIS). Turkey and Russia have been embroiled in a bitter diplomatic row since the Turkish military downed a Russian Su-24 fighter in November. While Turkey accused the...

    EU Court Strikes Down Sanctions On Yanukovych Allies
    Jan28

    EU Court Strikes Down Sanctions On Yanukovych Allies

    Thursday, January 28 , 2016 - 12:01 (EET) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

    An EU court has ruled that the bloc was wrong to freeze the assets of five close associates of ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Amid East Ukraine War, Kiev Reduces Gas Supplies From Russia
    Jan28

    Amid East Ukraine War, Kiev Reduces Gas Supplies From Russia

    Thursday, January 28 , 2016 - 6:46 (EET) Section: International Business Times (USA)

    Amid continued diplomatic strain with Russia, Ukraine announced plans Wednesday to significantly reduce the amount of gas it buys directly from its eastern neighbor — and double what it takes from Europe. Since November last year Kiev had refused to buy Russian gas because of the high price and instead relied on cheaper gas from Europe....

    “Cruel bastards hang together: All you need to know”: The world according to the New York Times
    Jan28

    “Cruel bastards hang together: All you need to know”: The world according to the New York Times

    Thursday, January 28 , 2016 - 2:16 (EET) Section: Salon (USA)

    The long-anticipated all-parties conference on Syria was scheduled to open in Geneva Monday, but of course it did not. Now it is set to start Friday, except that it may not. Staffan de Mistura, the perspicacious U.N. diplomat trying to make this very large event happen, is now holding proximity talks with those who may or may not attend, meaning...

    Clinton’s “Non-Intervention” Pandering
    Jan28

    Clinton’s “Non-Intervention” Pandering

    Thursday, January 28 , 2016 - 0:16 (EET) Section: The American Conservative (USA)

    Michael Crowley reports on Hillary Clinton’s attempt to obscure her hawkish foreign policy record: As she makes a closing pitch that emphasizes her foreign policy chops, Clinton tends to gloss over the more hawkish episodes from her past. Asked by an Iowa voter at Monday’s forum to place her interventionist instincts on a scale of 1...