Post Tagged with: "Russia"

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  [Mood Riffs] The Russo-Sino-No-Americo Space Program

  Russia and China have signed a space exploration agreement that is clear in its dismissal of U.S. space interests
   
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  [Mood Riffs] The Battle Rages

  Violence and separatism continue to surge in Ukraine. In the eastern city of
   
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  [Mood Riffs] The Bigger They Fall, the Harder They Crack Down

  Russia’s RTSI stock index broke to a four-year low on March 21. A Reuters story said it was because
   
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  [Article] Sizing Up A Superpower: Is Russia Becoming a Dictatorship?

  It’s no secret that in the past several years, Russia has become increasingly belligerent in its interactions with other nations. Take the contemporary conflict with Crimea
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Crimea and Punishment

  Social mood is becoming dangerously negative in Russia.
   
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  [Social Mood Watch] Ukraine: The Geographic Center of A New Cold War?

  Negative social mood trend has been sharply rising for months in Ukraine. This past weekend the US media finally paid attention.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Power Corrupts

  Transparency International has released their annual report on corruption
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Keeping an Eye on Immigrants

  In mid-October, Russian nationalists rioted as revenge for the murder of
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Welcome to Russia, Exalted Olympian. We Will Take Your DNA Now, Yes?

  Russian authorities are now taking DNA samples from conservative Muslim women in the country
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Negligee? Nyet!

  On August 26, reported the Wall Street Journal, Russian authorities raided a newly-opened, aptly-named