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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – April 15, 2013

TODAY: 18 U.S. officials banned from entering Moscow after Magnitsky blacklist published; battle of the lists rages as U.S. negotiator arrives in Moscow; Alexei Navalny embezzlement trial kicks off. Nationalists rally, as do anti-Putin protestors; Putin’s sky high hopes for space programme; Peskov’s pay slip. Following Washington’s publication of the blacklist of Russian officials who [...]

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Japan’s Misplaced Nationalism

Prof. Joseph Nye is not just an interesting guy because of that whole “soft power” thing he pioneered, but because when he talks about Asia, we are treated to a glimpse of insider thinking in Washington, given the broad, informal mandate extended to him by State Department demonstrated by his recent visit to the region [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Nov 5, 2012

TODAY: 6,000 Nationalists march against Putin, his industrial support wanes; homophobic attacks; prosecutors probe Left Front; Kirill warns against return to troubles; Lavrov in Cairo for Syria; Japan to build Russian gas pipeline? A reported 6,000 nationalists (‘from moderate to far-right’) gathered in Moscow for an anti-Kremlin march yesterday, with a small group detained for [...]

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