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Russian Tycoon Makes Bid for NJ Nets

NBA team could be
first to go under
foreign ownership

Sep 22, 09 5:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Russian tycoon has made a bid for a controlling stake in the New Jersey Nets, in what could become the first instance of foreign ownership of an NBA club, Reuters reports. Mikhail Prokhorov, Russia’s richest man, said on his blog that his Onexmi group had offered to loan... More »

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Russia • NBA • basketball • New Jersey Nets • tycoon • commodity prices

 Russians Kasparov, Karpov 
 Rekindle Chess Rivalry 

Russian grand masters meet in Spain for series of matches

Sep 21, 09 7:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - More than 25 years after their rivalry gave chess, and Russia, a much-needed jolt, former champions Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov will face off for a series of matches in Spain, beginning tomorrow, the Telegraph reports. The younger Kasparov took Karpov’s world title in 1985, and then seemed to... More »

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Russia • Mikhail Gorbachev • chess • Garry Kasparov • Anatoly Karpov

TALKSHOW ROUNDUP

 Obama 'Skeptical' 
 About More Troops 
 in Afghanistan 

Pres calls Russians 'paranoid' and refuses to comment on ACORN

Sep 20, 09 9:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - If it’s Sunday, it’s President Obama, who took to five Sunday talk shows today (including Univision, but excluding Fox) to promote his agenda. Among the highlights:
  • Obama warned US commanders on This Week he’s “skeptical” that more US troops in Afghanistan will make a difference.
... More »

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Afghanistan • Russia • health care • Barack Obama • missile defense system • unemployment • troop levels • Sunday morning talk shows

Russia Says It Won't Deploy Missiles Near Poland

Kremlin also criticizes Iran's president for denying Holocaust

Sep 19, 09 7:11 PM CDT
(AP) - Russia said today it will scrap a plan to deploy missiles near Poland since Washington has dumped a planned missile shield in Eastern Europe. It also harshly criticized Iran's president for new comments denying the Holocaust. Neither move, however, represented ceding any significant ground. A plan to place Iskander missiles... More »

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Russia • Barack Obama • Poland • Kremlin • missile • missile defense system

 Russia Silent 
 on Iran Concessions 

Critics charge that Obama may have scrapped missile shield for nothing

Sep 19, 09 5:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - While Russia's leaders praised President Obama's decision to drop plans for a missile shield in Eastern Europe yesterday, they were conspicuously silent on whether they would, in return, join the West in pressuring Iran to halt its nuclear program, the New York Times reports. If Russia doesn't start taking a... More »

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Iran • Russia • missile shield • Vladimir Putin • nuclear weapons • nuclear program • missile defense system • Dmitry Medvedev • Obama administration

 Putin Praises US 
 for Ditching 
 Missile Shield 

But Moscow may not support nuclear sanctions against Iran

Sep 18, 09 11:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a development sure to further tick off President Obama's critics on the right, Vladimir Putin says he's quite pleased with the decision to scrap an American missile-defense system in Eastern Europe, the New York Times reports. “I very much hope that this correct and brave decision will be... More »

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Russia • Eastern Europe • missile shield • Poland • Moscow • Vladimir Putin • Czech Republic • Kremlin • missile defense system • Western Europe • Obama administration

(Newser) - One day after the US decided to scrap a missile-defense system that Russia opposed, NATO wants to make relations with Moscow even cozier. Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen proposed combining Russia's anti-missile defenses with those of NATO and the US, Reuters reports. He pitched it as a shared interest: "If... More »

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Russia • NATO • anti missile bases • missile defense system • Anders Fogh Rasmussen • NATO Secretary-General

ANALYSIS

Dropping Missile Shield Is Jab at Bush—Not US Allies

Obama & Co. see Russia, Iran threats differently

Sep 17, 09 6:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama’s decision to shelve the missile shield for Eastern Europe is appeasement only to those obsessed with “legacy threats” like Russia, Marc Ambinder writes for the Atlantic. Obama believes the threat from Iran was overstated by President Bush, and that the shield technology wasn’t a sure... More »

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Iran • Russia • intelligence • missile shield • Poland • Robert Gates • Czech Republic • George W. Bush • appeasement • President Obama • short-range missiles • Marc Ambinder

(Newser) - President Obama’s decision to scrap plans for a missile defense shield is a political bombshell, writes Robin Oakley for CNN. America’s allies in Poland and the Czech Republic are left holding the bag after expending significant political capital on the unpopular system. Abandoning it might make their lives... More »

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Russia • Barack Obama • diplomacy • Eastern Europe • Poland • Czech Republic • missile defense system • Western Europe • foreign policy • Obama administration • President Obama

 US to Shelve 
 European 
 Missile Shield 

Kremlin delighted as Obama administration ends Bush program

Sep 17, 09 6:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama administration will scrap Bush-era plans to build a missile defense shield in eastern Europe, sources tell the Wall Street Journal—a move expected to delight Russia, which has strongly opposed the program. Washington is basing its decision on a new, more modest assessment of Iran's long-range missile capabilities.... More »

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Iran • Russia • missile shield • Poland • missile • missile defense system • Obama administration

 Russia Lends Chavez 
 $2B in Arms Deal 

Chavez to beef up weapons to rebuff expected attack by 'the empire'

Sep 14, 09 2:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Russia has agreed to lend Venezuela more than $2 billion to buy Russian-made weaponry to ward off what the South American country sees as an imminent US-Colombian attack, reports the BBC. "With these rockets, it is going to be very difficult for them to come and bomb us,"... More »

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Russia • Hugo Chavez

Russia Puts Kibosh on Iranian Nuclear Sanctions

Calls Iran 'a partner that has never harmed Russia'

Sep 11, 09 7:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Russia wouldn’t support another round of tough UN sanctions against Iran, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said yesterday, throwing a major wrench into Barack Obama’s Middle East strategy. It’s also a sign that Obama’s plan to “reset” relations with Moscow is on the rocks. “We’... More »

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Iran • Russia • Sergei Lavrov • nuclear enrichment • UN sanctions • UN Security Council

 Chávez in Russia for 
 Military Spending Spree 

Venezuela recognizes breakaway republics ahead of arms deal talks

Sep 10, 09 5:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hugo Chávez arrived in Moscow today, where the Venezuelan president is reportedly ready for an arms "shopping spree." Chávez is ready to buy at least 100 tanks for $500 million, reports the Times of London, and a Kremlin aide said Venezuela may get loans for helicopters,... More »

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Russia • Venezuela • Vladimir Putin • arms deal • tanks • Hugo Chávez • Dmitry Medvedev • Abkhazia • South Ossetia

 Melting Ice Opens Arctic 
 to Trade, But US Lags 

Climate change opens north to shipping, tourism, resource development

Sep 6, 09 5:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Climate change is melting away the main barrier to business in the Arctic—ice—but the US lags behind other countries seeking to exploit the region, the Anchorage Daily News reports. As receding ice opens the area to shipping, resource exploitation, and tourism, it's Russia and Canada who have established... More »

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climate change • Russia • Alaska • global warming • tourism • Canada • Arctic • Coast Guard • resources • shipping • Bering Strait • transport

Journo Who Broke Russian Pirate Story Flees Country

Mikhail Voitenko says he knows more than he can tell about Arctic Sea's cargo

Sep 4, 09 5:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Russian journalist who was first to report on the disappearance of the Arctic Sea cargo ship has fled the country after receiving threats, the Guardian reports. Mikhail Voitenko, who speculated that the ship may have been carrying a secret cargo of weapons or "something much more expensive and... More »

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Russia • piracy • shipping • pirates • Arctic Sea • Mikhail Voitenko

Russian High Court Reopens Case of Murdered Journalist

Suspicion of Anna Politkovskaya's killers leads to Chechnya

Sep 3, 09 7:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Russia's supreme court ordered a new investigation into the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, the crusading journalist whose killers have not yet been found, reports the Guardian. The move received a cautious welcome from Politkovskaya's lawyer, who welcomed a new manhunt but said, "Whether the general prosecutor will use this... More »

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Russia • Chechnya • journalists killed • journalist • Anna Politkovskaya • Ramzan Kadurov • Natalya Estemirova

 'Reborn' Jesus 
 Leads Vegans 
 in Russia 

Known as Vissarion, former traffic cop preaches against war

Aug 29, 09 6:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - A former traffic cop in Russia has declared himself a reincarnation of Jesus and amassed a following of 5,000 devotees, including artists and intellectuals, the Daily Mail reports. Sergei Torop, "reborn" as "Vissarion" after losing his job in 1991, preached against the evils of war and harming... More »

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Russia • church • cult • Jesus Christ

US May Scrap Polish, Czech Missile Sites; Russia Pleased

Alternative sites in Turkey and the Balkans under consideration

Aug 29, 09 5:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - The White House may drop sites in Poland and the Czech Republic where the Bush administration planned to build a billion-dollar missile defense shield, the New York Times reports. The alternative plans under consideration would please Russia and Germany but strain ties with Eastern Europe, where the Obama administration's review... More »

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Iran • Russia • Turkey • Poland • Czech Republic • Balkans • Dmitry Medvedev • Obama administration

South Korea Launches
Space Rocket

First attempt from own soil; satellite aboard fails to reach orbit

Aug 25, 09 6:44 AM CDT
(AP) - South Korea's first rocket blasted off into space today following an aborted attempt last week and just months after its rival North Korea drew international ire for its own launch. A problem quickly surfaced, however, when the satellite the rocket was carrying apparently failed to enter its intended orbit. ... More »

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Russia • South Korea • aerospace • space • satellite • rocket • outer space

(AP) - Russia's navy arrested eight men accused of hijacking the Arctic Sea freighter near Sweden and forcing the crew to sail to West Africa, the defense minister said today. The suspected hijackers were detained by the naval vessel that found the Russian-crewed freighter yesterday off Cape Verde, thousands of miles from... More »

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Russia • Anatoly Serdyukov • pirates • Arctic Sea • hijacking • Russian Navy • missing ship

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