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Why Cyprus Is Not Your Typical Bailout Story

Diane Francis | Posted 03.24.2013 | Canada Business
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Diane Francis

So the Cyprus story is more than just another profligate nation begging for help. This mess may force the unification of this island, and tapping of its resources, at long last for the betterment of all its citizens. It may stop the takeover of a nation inside the EU by Russian bad guys.

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Canada's Embassy In Moscow Vulnerable To Attack

CP | Mike Blanchfield, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.18.2013 | Canada Politics
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OTTAWA - Canada's diplomats in Moscow will have to work another three years in an embassy compound that's vulnerable to terrorist attack and the pryin...

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Pussy Rioters Should Count Themselves Lucky

Peter Worthington | Posted 10.14.2012 | Canada Politics
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Peter Worthington

Anyone interested in just how much Russia has changed since the days when it was the Soviet Union should examine what's called the "Pussy Riot" case. Having interrupted a church service with a political protest, they are facing several years in prison. But the Pussy Riot girls likely have no appreciation of how lucky they are. In Stalin's time there'd be no publicity, no public trial, no knowledge even of the girls staging a political protest inside a cathedral. They'd just disappear.

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Exit Polls Show Drop In Support For Putin's Party

Associated Press | Posted 02.03.2012 | Canada
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MOSCOW - Exit polls cited by Russian state television showed Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's party with less than 50 per cent of the vote in Sunday's ...

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Russia's War With Islam

Peter Worthington | Posted 12.07.2011 | Canada
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Peter Worthington

We in North America tend to forget that Russia is Europe's second biggest economy. It's also the world's biggest producer of oil and gas -- probably more than the rest of the world combined. What Russia has that we haven't to the same extent, is Islamic terrorism.

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Today's Moscow: Golden Domes and Golden Arches

Peter Worthington | Posted 12.06.2011 | Canada
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Russia's Economy of Corruption

Peter Worthington | Posted 11.10.2011 | Canada
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Peter Worthington

Now that it no longer aspires to take over the world -- or at least subvert Western countries -- Russia is not the threat to peace that it once was. Even when I lived in Moscow, true communism was never really practiced. Most Muscovites had clandestine deals going on, where they could manipulate or cheat the system.

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