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Russian warships visit Libya on way to Venezuela

Russian warships, bound for Venezuela for joint naval exercises next month, put in Saturday at the Libyan port of Tripoli for refueling. The rare visit by the Russian warships to Tripoli port was the latest signal of re-warming...

Not Quite Ready To Dump America

EVIAN, France -- Looking down on the smoking ruins of the world's stock markets and financial institutions from the Alpine foothills, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev took consolation where he could find it last week by...

Russia to Europe: Let’s have an anti-US alliance

Somehow, I doubt that Russia’s latest diplomatic project will gain much traction with its closest European neighbors, but it does at least expose the Russians as something other than allies to the US. Dmitry Medvedev has called...

Russia test-fires ballistic missile to mid-Pacific

MURMANSK, Russia (Reuters) - Russia carried out the first test launch on Saturday of a strategic missile that reached the equator in the Pacific Ocean, a navy spokesman said. The spokesman said the Sineva missile was launched...

Under Bush, US influence in Latin America wanes

In a matter of weeks, a Russian naval squadron will arrive in the waters off Latin America for the first time since the Cold War. It is already getting a warm welcome from some in a region where the influence of the United...

Russia to spend almost $7B on domestic stocks

The Russian government will start buying stocks next week, spending billions to help prop up stricken markets, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said as parliament approved measures designed to get cash moving quickly into the...

A rose for Cloris Leachman

Celebrity gossip, famous birthdays and other tidbits, compiled from Seattle Times news services. People Academy Award-winning actress Cloris Leachman, 82, will serve as the grand marshal of the 2009 Tournament of Roses Parade,...

Vlad the Impaler

Memo to George W. Bush (and/or Barack Obama or John McCain): If Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ever suggests single combat as a substitute for war, you might want to go ahead and send in the B-2s. On Tuesday, his 56th...

U.S. cosmonauts

It likely will come as a shock to most Americans when they learn that the nation that landed men on the moon and won the Cold War soon will no longer have the ability to launch people into space. The shock is likely to be...

[$$] Recession Dividend (at Barron's Online)

Preview | Follow-Up | Dow Indicator AS TERRIBLE AS THINGS NOW ARE IN THE U.S. ECONOMY, and no matter how much worse they become, there's one silver lining: The U.S. and its allies stand to reap a national-security windfall from...

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