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    Majority In Russia Believe Malaysian Jet Shot Down By Ukrainians: Poll
    Jul30

    Majority In Russia Believe Malaysian Jet Shot Down By Ukrainians: Poll

    Wednesday, July 30 , 2014 - 13:38 (EEST) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

    A public-opinion poll in Russia has found that the majority of residents in Russia’s big cities believe that the Malaysian passenger plane that crashed in eastern Ukraine killing 298 people on July 17 had been shot down by the Ukrainian army. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Euro-Zone Business Confidence Holds Up
    Jul30

    Euro-Zone Business Confidence Holds Up

    Wednesday, July 30 , 2014 - 13:38 (EEST) Section: The Wall Street Journal (USA)

    Euro-zone businesses were mostly undaunted by growing tensions between the European Union and Russia over Ukraine’s future following the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. …read more Source: The Wall Street...

    Observers turned back from Ukraine crash site
    Jul30

    Observers turned back from Ukraine crash site

    Wednesday, July 30 , 2014 - 13:38 (EEST) Section: The Bismarck Tribune

    Paul Picard, the head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) mission in Russia’s southern Rostov-on-Don region, center, meets with local administration in Rostov-on-… …read more Source: The Bismarck...

    Russian Stocks Are Laughing Off The Latest Sanctions (RSX, SPX)
    Jul30

    Russian Stocks Are Laughing Off The Latest Sanctions (RSX, SPX)

    Wednesday, July 30 , 2014 - 13:38 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    If you were expecting Russian stocks to fall Wednesday, you were wrong. Russia’s MICEX index was actually up a healthy 2.2%. On Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama announced a fresh round of economic sanctions on Russia for its ongoing involvement in destabilizing Ukraine. “Among the targets of the new measures include the Bank of...

    Russia Defiant in Face of Tougher Sanctions
    Jul30

    Russia Defiant in Face of Tougher Sanctions

    Wednesday, July 30 , 2014 - 13:38 (EEST) Section: Voice of America (USA)

    Russia’s central bank promised to support financial institutions hit by new sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union. The United States imposed sanctions on more Russian banks on Tuesday, targeting the country’s second-largest lender VTB , its subsidiary the Bank of Moscow, and the Russian Agriculture Bank. The...

    Total curbs Russia investment after MH17 downing
    Jul30

    Total curbs Russia investment after MH17 downing

    Wednesday, July 30 , 2014 - 13:38 (EEST) Section: CNBC (USA)

    Total stopped buying shares in Russia’s Novatek the day of the downing of a Malaysia Airlines flight over Ukraine. …read more Source:...

    Obama: ‘Not a new Cold War,’ but new Russia sanctions announced
    Jul30

    Obama: ‘Not a new Cold War,’ but new Russia sanctions announced

    Wednesday, July 30 , 2014 - 13:38 (EEST) Section: The Washington Times (USA)

    President Obama announced a new round of U.S. sanctions against Russian banks and a shipbuilding company Tuesday, saying Russia must pay an increasingly high price for its military aggression in Ukraine and the downing of a passenger jet. The penalties follow tougher sanctions in an agreement reached by European Union … …read more...

    Educating Their Children Abroad Is the Russian Elite’s Guilty Secret
    Jul30

    Educating Their Children Abroad Is the Russian Elite’s Guilty Secret

    Wednesday, July 30 , 2014 - 13:38 (EEST) Section: Newsweek (USA)

    Lucky Anastasia Zheleznyak. She has secured one of the BBC’s sought-after positions, working as a production assistant at London’s Ellstree Film Studios. But Zheleznyak isn’t just any Russian expat making her way up the career ladder. She’s the daughter of Duma Deputy Speaker Sergei Zheleznyak, known for his warning of an...

    EU Units of Russian Banks Exempt From Sanctions
    Jul30

    EU Units of Russian Banks Exempt From Sanctions

    Wednesday, July 30 , 2014 - 13:38 (EEST) Section: The Wall Street Journal (USA)

    European Union-based subsidiaries of Russian state-owned banks are exempt from EU sanctions, two European officials said. …read more Source: The Wall Street...

    The Right-Wing Delusion That Obama Is an Israel-Hating Dove
    Jul30

    The Right-Wing Delusion That Obama Is an Israel-Hating Dove

    Wednesday, July 30 , 2014 - 13:38 (EEST) Section: The Atlantic (USA)

    Among some right-leaning hawks, there is a persistent delusion that President Obama is a non-interventionist dove who rejects American exceptionalism and hegemony, all the while harboring a unique, possibly anti-Semitic distaste for Israel. The populist manifestation of this delusion has asked us to believe that Obama “pals around with...