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• Putin’s veto sets Russia apart | David Hearst
• Syria’s murderous regime is doomed, says defiant William Hague
• Russia’s veto on Syria sidelines UN as diplomatic options run out
• Syria resolution vetoed by Russia and China at United Nations
• Anti-Putin protesters march through Moscow
• Russians protest against Putin – in pictures
• Anti-Putin protests draw up to 100,000 in Moscow
• Syria: more than 200 dead after ‘massacre’ in Homs
• Syria: over 200 dead after ‘massacre’ in Homs
• Pussy Riot’s Kremlin protest owes much to riot grrrl | Laura Barton
• European cold snap threatens energy crisis as death toll rises
• New push to remove tactical nuclear weapons from Europe

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• Fire at Moscow nuclear institute, Russia says no risk (Reuters) February 5, 2012
  MOSCOW (Reuters) – There was no risk of a radiation leak after a fire broke out at a Moscow nuclear research center housing a non-operational 60-year-old atomic reactor Sunday, said officials, but Greenpeace Russia expressed serious concern about the incident. The fire broke out early Sunday in a part of the Alikhanov Institute of Theoretical and Experimenta […]
• Anti-Putin protesters show staying power in Russia (Reuters) February 5, 2012
  MOSCOW (Reuters) – Vladimir Putin's opponents vowed on Sunday to press on with demonstrations against his 12-year domination of Russia after tens of thousands attended a march which kept up the momentum of their protest movement. "We'll be back," the organizers said on a social network site, one day after demonstrators defied the cold to […]
• Moscow support for Assad well-calculated (AP) February 5, 2012
  MOSCOW – By bluntly using its veto power to block a United Nations resolution urging Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down, Russia has shown a willingness to defy the West at a scale rarely seen since the Cold War times. The price Russia will have to pay in international condemnation of its action clearly doesn't seem excessive to the Russian leade […]
• Russia protest movement shows its staying power with massive rally (The Christian Science Monitor) February 4, 2012
  Moscow – Defying predictions that Russia's protest movement had run out of steam, or that bone-chilling winter cold would keep them away, tens of thousands of people converged on downtown Moscow Saturday to demand fair elections and an end to political corruption.       Estimates of the pro-democracy crowd ranged from […]
• Russians stage rival protests over Putin (Reuters) February 4, 2012
  MOSCOW (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Russians defied bitter cold in Moscow on Saturday to demand fair elections in a march against Vladimir Putin's 12-year rule, while supporters of the prime minister staged a rival rally drawing comparable numbers. Smaller protests were held in other cities across the vast country maintaining pressure on Putin one m […]

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