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• Syria: UN offers help as Homs assault continues – live updates
• Syria: Assad pledges reform as siege of Homs continues – Wednesday 8 February
• Bashar al-Assad’s Syria offers Iran a springboard into the Arab Middle East
• Astroturfing: what is it and why does it matter? | Adam Bienkov
• The siege of Homs: scores killed in fifth day of shelling
• Intervention in Syria will escalate not stop the killing | Seumas Milne
• Syria: Assad pledges reform as siege of Homs continues – live updates
• Intervention in Syria will escalate, not stop the killing | Seumas Milne
• Hacked emails allege Russian youth group Nashi paying bloggers
• Syrian crisis needs Arab solution, says Russia
• ‘Syrian uprising has sparked proxy regional war’ – video
• Assad meets Russia’s Lavrov as France withdraws ambassador to Syria – video

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• Russia's Putin warns against outside interference (Reuters) February 8, 2012
  MOSCOW (Reuters) – Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday the world faced a growing "cult of violence" and Moscow must not let events like those in Libya and Syria be repeated in Russia, warning the West against interference in a country he intends to lead for years to come. Weeks ahead of a March presidential election he is almost sure to win despite th […]
• Russians Rally for and Against Putin, Despite an Icy Day (Time.com) February 8, 2012
  Unless you have a passion for ice fishing or catching pneumonia, Feb. 4 would have been about the worst day to spend outdoors in Moscow. The temperature fell to 20 degrees below zero Celsius, the kind of cold that sinks into your bones and sucks the feeling from your face. But on Saturday, exactly a month before Russia's presidential elections, Moscow b […]
• Results of Syria talks must not be set in advance: Russia (Reuters) February 8, 2012
  MOSCOW (Reuters) – The outcome of any talks on ending the bloodshed in Syria must not be predetermined, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday, sticking to its opposition to Western and Arab pressure for President Bashar al-Assad to cede power. "It is not really the international community's business to try to determine the outcom […]
• Iran says can hit U.S. interests worldwide if attacked (Reuters) February 8, 2012
  MOSCOW (Reuters) – Iran is capable of carrying out military strikes on U.S. interests all around the world if the Islamic Republic is attacked by the United States, Iran's ambassador to Moscow said on Wednesday. The United States has tried to force Tehran to scrap sensitive nuclear work by imposing sanctions targeting Iran's central bank and giving […]
• Russia reaches lake under Antarctica (AP) February 8, 2012
  MOSCOW – After more than two decades of drilling, Russian scientists have reached the surface of a gigantic freshwater lake in Antarctica that had been hidden under miles of ice for 20 million years, potentially holding life from the distant past and a clue to the search for life on other planets. Reaching Lake Vostok is a major discovery avidly anticipated […]

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