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Polish Prime Minister Sings ‘Hey Jude,’ Internet, Opposition Go Crazy
The Kremlin’s Favorite Right-Wing Radical Dies in Police Shootout
The Surprisingly Socialist Origins of International Women’s Day
Who Was Right on Ukraine: Sarah Palin or FP?
All (Not) Quiet on Ukraine’s Eastern Front
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Polish Prime Minister Sings ‘Hey Jude,’ Internet, Opposition Go Crazy
Donald Tusk is no Barack Obama. Earlier this week, the Polish prime minister posted a mysterious link to a YouTube video on his Twitter account. That clip featured a snippet of none other than Tusk singing The Beatles' 1968 hit "Hey Jude."...
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Wed, Apr 04 2014 5:10 PM
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The Kremlin’s Favorite Right-Wing Radical Dies in Police Shootout
Ukrainian right-winger Oleksandr Muzychko was a larger-than-life figure who was videotaped carrying a machine gun into a government building and grabbing a prosecutor by the collar while he screamed profanities into the official's face. On Monday...
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Tue, Mar 03 2014 2:38 PM
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The Surprisingly Socialist Origins of International Women’s Day
International Women's Day was once a staple holiday of Eastern European communism, a day when bosses would give red flowers to their female employees. Ostensibly, it was a day to celebrate the achievements of women workers. But in practice, it was...
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Sat, Mar 03 2014 11:00 AM
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Who Was Right on Ukraine: Sarah Palin or FP?
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 In late October 2008, in the heat of the U.S. presidential campaign, Sarah Palin took to a stage in Reno, Nevada, and announced that if Barack Obama were elected president of the...
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Mon, Mar 03 2014 2:38 PM
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FP Passport
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All (Not) Quiet on Ukraine’s Eastern Front
Revolutionaries in Kiev are cheering the ouster of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, but elsewhere in the country a backlash is not so quietly brewing between the country's pro-Western protest movement and those who would much rather see the...
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Tue, Feb 02 2014 3:36 PM
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Georgia
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Can Yulia Tymoshenko Lead Ukraine Out of Crisis?
On Saturday, Yulia Tymoshenko, the heroine of the 2004 Orange Revolution and a politician who has come to be seen as the martyr of the Ukrainian opposition, walked out of jail a free woman. Together with the impeachment and flight of President Viktor...
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Sat, Feb 02 2014 6:51 PM
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Think That Kiev Agreement Will Hold? Think Again.
After days of bloody street battles in central Kiev that may have left as many as 100 people dead, protest leaders signed an agreement Friday with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to end the stand-off. The deal curtails the powers of the president...
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Fri, Feb 02 2014 8:57 AM
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FP Passport
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Russian Human Rights Report Casts Europe as Land of *** and Gay Propaganda
According to an annual report on human rights in the European Union issued by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Europe is a dark, dark place, filled with *** and xenophobes. The massive, 153-page "unofficial translation" of the report...
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Wed, Jan 01 2014 3:18 PM
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Sochi Watch: Why Tsar Putin Released His Arch-Nemesis
Like any good royal, Vladimir Putin couldn't be bothered to make an act of clemency the main event of his Thursday press conference. Instead, he casually revealed at the end of the four-hour affair that he planned to pardon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the...
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Fri, Dec 12 2013 2:27 PM
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Human Rights
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Barack Obama
Hayden Panettiere Is on the #Frontlines of Ukraine's Protests
Hayden Panettiere, the star of ABC’s Nashville , has often complained about being portrayed too often as “the popular cheerleader type or just the blonde.” But Panettiere has a new role, and this time around she can't be accused of being a lightweight...
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Mon, Dec 12 2013 10:22 AM
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Are Ukraine's Protests About to Turn Very Ugly?
The massive pro-European protests in Ukraine's capital have all the makings of a picture-perfect revolution: a square filled to the brim with demonstrators around the clock, a toppled statue of a former dictator, and riot police shields adorned with...
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Sun, Dec 12 2013 5:54 PM
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FP Passport
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Why Poland's Right-Wing Thugs Keep Burning Rainbows
On Nov. 11 1918, the end of World War I, Poland regained its place on the map of Europe, after having been wiped off for 123 years. Now, on Poland's Independence Day, the capital's sky gives off a red glow and its streets are enveloped in smoke...
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Tue, Nov 11 2013 12:38 PM
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FP Passport
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Politics
This Man Decides Whether Russians Consume Moldovan Wine, Lithuanian Cheese, and Ukrainian Chocolate
You may not have heard of Gennady Onishchenko, but if his own accounts are to be believed, he's the Russian government official who singlehandedly averts major public health crises posed by foreign countries' dangerously lax and unsophisticated...
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Thu, Oct 10 2013 11:00 AM
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FP Passport
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We're 'Next' and Putin Deserves the Nobel Prize: What the Russian Press Makes of Syria
President Vladimir Putin's direct appeal to the American people in the pages of the New York Times is just one part of his government's messaging strategy on Syria. Russia's English-language media outlets are busy blasting out the Kremlin...
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Fri, Sep 09 2013 11:20 AM
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FP Passport
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Middle East
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International Relations
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Syria
That Awkward Time Putin Called for Military Intervention in the New York Times
Russian President Vladimir Putin made a direct appeal to the American public in an editorial in Thursday morning's New York Times . "The potential strike by the United States against Syria," he writes, "despite strong opposition from...
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Thu, Sep 09 2013 8:11 AM
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