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Russia Is No Longer Junk

Image by Hellerick The Russian Federation’s sovereign debt was upgraded to investment grade on Friday by the rating agency S&P, to BB+, stable outlook. Funny Russian Central Bank Video: You’ve Never Seen New Bank Notes Promoted Like This…Guaranteed “Fitch Ratings, which already has an investment-grade score for Russia, on Friday…

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German Foreign Minister Wants To Relax Russian Sanctions With ‘Some Progress’ On Peacekeepers In Donbass

Image by Michael Lucan This year the Munich Security Conference seems to producing some interesting comments. In a stunning departure from his own Chancellor Angela Merkel’s position, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said that it is ‘not realistic’ to insist on full implementation of the Minsk agreements before some sanction…

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Russian Resupply Mission To International Space Station Aborted At Last Minute

Image by Kremlin.ruhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ A Russian resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) was automatically aborted at the last minute. Engineers are attempting to find the reason for the scrubbed liftoff of the Soyuz 2.1a rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Russia Playing Catch Up With SpaceX…But Will It Work?…

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“How The Mafia Is Going To Kill Me”

Image by LA(Phot) Dean Nixon Artan Hoxha is an Albanian investigative journalist who for 19 years addressed drug and other clan issues, met informants, police, politicians, and businessmen. During this risky career he has been kidnapped, persecuted, blackmailed and insulted, putting his life in danger on many occasions through his…

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