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Fred Weir

Truthout
Dec 10, 2017
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Russian Journalist’s Beating Signals Looming Medvedev-Putin Battle

Moscow – Russian journalists are demanding the Kremlin take urgent action after yet another member of the country’s beleaguered independent press corps, Kommersant reporter Oleg Kashin, was brutally…
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Fred Weir,
The Christian Science Monitor | Report
November 8, 2010
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WikiLeaks Ready to Drop a Bombshell on Russia. But Will Russians Get to Read About It?

Moscow – The Kremlin had better brace itself for a coming wave of WikiLeaks disclosures about Russia, the website’s founder, Julian Assange, told a leading Moscow newspaper Tuesday.…
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Fred Weir,
The Christian Science Monitor | Report
October 26, 2010
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Russia: Sanctions Unlikely to Delay Iran Nuclear Power Plant

Moscow — Russia may be lining up to support a US-sponsored resolution calling for tougher sanctions against Iran in the United Nations Security Council, but that does not…
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Fred Weir,
The Christian Science Monitor
May 21, 2010
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Deadly Riots in Kyrgyzstan Challenge Interim Government

Ten days after an interim government overthrew the president in Kyrgyzstan, riots have killed several people and mobs are seizing ethnic minorities’ land and businesses. Moscow – Unrest…
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Fred Weir,
The Christian Science Monitor
April 20, 2010
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Moscow Metro Bombings: Insecurity in Chechnya, North Caucasus Comes to Moscow

Officials blamed today’s twin Moscow Metro bombings, which struck near the FSB security service and a major state-run media outlet, on two female suicide bombers from the North…
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Fred Weir,
The Christian Science Monitor
March 29, 2010
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Ukraine Election Signals Shift Toward Russia. Was Orange Revolution for Naught?

In Sunday presidential elections, Ukraine appears poised to shift back toward Russia, just five years after the Orange Revolution. Polls show its pro-Western leader Viktor Yushchenko with only…
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Fred Weir,
The Christian Science Monitor
January 16, 2010
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