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Russia is ready to consider using the Russian and Chinese national currencies instead of the dollar in bilateral oil and gas dealings. Russia and Iran Officially Talking of Dumping Dollar for International Trade

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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has warned against military action targeting Iran or imposing new sanctions to curb its nuclear program

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A Kremlin bill expanding the legal reasons for using military force abroad won a quick preliminary approval.Kremlin taking tougher posture in relations with ex-Soviet neighbors

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Sir Bernard Lovell, the astronomer, was among the team listening to transmissions coming from the area of space and began tracking the unmanned Soviet spacecraft Luna 15, which was trying to collect samples of lunar soil and rock and then return to Earth before the US mission.

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The US dollar is not Russia’s basic reserve currency anymore. The euro-based share of reserve assets of Russia’s Central Bank increased to the level of 47.5 percent as of January 1, 2009 and exceeded the investments in dollar assets,

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Europe’s loans to Eastern Europe’s states within and outside the EU is going to cause the next world economic storm – and that is still while the US and UKs’ banks are bankrupt and their debts are bankrupting their countries. Collapse of the Austrian financial sector is imminemt

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The war in Georgia will be remembered as the place where the American Empire fell flat on its face. “Everything that the Georgians left behind, I mean everything, was American. All the guns, grenades, uniforms, boots, food rations — they just left it all”

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Russian warships sailed into port in Venezuela on Tuesday in a show of strength as Moscow seeks to counter U.S. influence in Latin America.

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Warships, nuclear power, arms sales and perhaps cooperation on oil prices — Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev is in Venezuela this week with an alarming sounding list to wave under Washington’s nose

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Russia has evidence that citizens from NATO member states including the United States and Turkey fought for Georgia in the five-day August war, Russia’s top investigator said on Monday.

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