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SYRIA News, Aug 31, 2011


Landau: If PA goes to UN, declare all agreements null
Jerusalem Post
“I don't know what will be in Syria in the future,” Landau said. “The only thing I know is that if he falls there will be big short-term advantages. First, it is a heavy blow to Iran, since Assad is their most important ally.” Also, he said, Assad's ...
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Amnesty slams Syrian torture, deaths in detention
Jerusalem Post
... burns, electric shocks; Syria researcher: These may point to crimes against humanity, UNresponse so far utterly inadequate. LONDON - Deaths in Syrian prisons and police detention have soared in recent months as President Bashar Assad's government ...
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U.S. Sanctions Syrian Foreign Minister and Assad Adviser
Wall Street Journal
The United Nations estimates that more than 2000 Syrians have been killed since the uprising began in mid-March. Bouthaina Shaaban, adviser of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, at a news conference in Damascus in a March 2011 file photograph. ...
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Wall Street Journal
Russia suggests settlement plan for Syria
The Voice of Russia
Moscow voiced support of Syria's course for political and economic change. Following negotiations with Mikhail Bogdanov, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad referred to Russia's stand as balanced, unlike that of the West which only envisages pressure on...
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The Voice of Russia
The real story today is in Syria
Jewish Chronicle
As well as the regular army and police forces, Assad has Alawite militias and Hezzbollah death squads he can unleash on a largely defensive population. Syria is story that cries out for coverage. But it is not receiving the 'play' it deserves. ...
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UN Security Council has choice of resolution dealing with Syria
Monsters and Critics.com
A second, separate draft was submitted by Russia, which proposed a diplomatic settlement rather than measures like financial and assets freeze sanctions against the government of President Bashir al-Assad. The US and the UN said Syrian security forces ...
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Why wait for politicians to oust foreign tyrants? Every one of us can do our bit
The Guardian
Such methods entailed no violence and yet might have hastened Gaddafi's downfall – and are applicable to today's Syria. The target would emphatically not be the Syrianpeople but the Assad regime, restricting the travel and freezing the bank accounts ...
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The Guardian
Mitt Romney: 'We can't lead the world by hoping our enemies will hate us less'
Los Angeles Times
The administration was quick to criticize Israel but slow to confront Syria's strongman, Bashar alAssad, even though he facilitated arming Hezbollah, allowed terrorists to cross his border into Iraq to attack US troops, and turned weapons on his own ...
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France Wants To Be A Player In 'New Middle East'
NPR
President Nicolas Sarkozy is pressing for the UN Security Council to act against Syrian President Bashar Assad, who has brutally cracked down on his people. France will also try to extend its influence on the Middle East peace process. ...
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Analysis: Iran Pushing for Global Caliphate?
Christian Broadcasting Network (blog)
The lone exception is Syria, where Iran wants desperately to prop up the secular, fascist regime of its close strategic ally, Bashar al-Assad. With Ghadaffi on his way out and the rebels--a good portion of whom are linked to Al Qaeda and other jihadist ...
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Thorny road towards Palestinian statehood
The Voice of Russia
We have now the uprising in Syria and Bashar al-Assad and his father Hafez al-Assadwere horrible dictators and terrible to their own people, but from the Israeli point of view since 1975 Israeli border with Syria on the Golan Heights has been Israel's ...
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The Voice of Russia
Eid al-Fitr 2011: How the Muslim World Celebrated
International Business Times
Syria: After early morning prayers, thousands of demonstrators once again rallied in the streets, and were once again attacked by President Assad's forces. At least seven people were shot dead in the Daraa province, including a 13-yera-old boy. ...
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International Business Times
The Secret Deals of the Gulf War
FrontPage Magazine
All these regimes – Egypt, Libya, Syria – are socialist regimes and former Soviet clients. What we witness today is simply the collapse of the Soviet empire in the Middle East, part of the same process which we had seen in Europe in 1989-1991. ...
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FrontPage Magazine
NGO Summit on Discrimination and Persecution, Sep. 21-22, NY
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Bringing together prominent dissidents and human rights activists from countries with abysmal human rights records—including China, Syria, Sudan, Zimbabwe, North Korea and Iran—the conference will produce draft UN resolutions on governments that ...
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Russian Envoy in Syria Urges Assad to Stop Violence
The Moscow Times
Russia also opposes an initiative by the United States, Britain and France, to impose United Nations sanctions on Syria. The UN puts the death toll at more than 2200. Vitaly Churkin, Russia's ambassador to the UN, told reporters in New York on Aug. ...
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News Briefs
The Rotunda
This occurred shortly after Farzat's depicted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad "hitching a ride with outgoing Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi." It is reported that the thugs inflicted most of their attacks on the artist's hands—"a clear message that ...
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The Arab League can't keep up
The National
And money can make a guerrilla war last a long time. A regime like Bashar Al Assad's in Syriacannot reform itself, because doing that would spell the end of it, according to columnist Ilyas Harfoush in the pan-Arab newspaper Al Hayat. Next page.
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Press digest
Times of Malta
Thousands took to the streets demanding the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad after morning prayers marking the end of the Islamic month of Ramadan. USA Today reports that soldiers have begun airlifting storm-relief supplies to Vermont towns which ...
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Four killed in Eid protests in Syria: activists
Reuters
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay said this month that 2200 people have been killed, with Assad's forces continuing "to employ excessive force, including heavy artillery, to quell peaceful demonstrations and regain control over the ...
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Reuters
"No one shall be subjected to enforced disappearance"
Reporters without borders (press release)
The uprisings in Libya and Syria have led to extra-judicial arrests of many journalists. Mexico has many cases of unsolved disappearances of journalists. The inhumane prison conditions in Eritrea, a small country forgotten by the international ...
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Statement on Palestinian Refugees in Syria
Al-Arabiya
We, the Palestinian people, express - in the name of the movement of the Free Palestinian Refugees in Syria - our condemnation of the acts of violence and massacre committed by Assad's militias against the Palestinian refugees in several refugee camps ...
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US sanctions Syrian foreign minister, two others
Khaleej Times
18 called on Assad to leave power but the Syrian leader has shown no signs of doing so. “We are bringing additional pressure to bear today directly on three senior Assad regime officials who are principal defenders of the regime's activities,” David ...
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Times Suddenly OK With Warring President: Is Obama Intervention in Syria Next?
Media Research Center
While military intervention in Syria is highly unlikely, administration officials say that the coordinated approach to calling for Mr. Assad's ouster and imposing financial penalties on the Syrian government show that they are already applying the ...
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Arab Spring to spur arms exports to Middle East
ArabianBusiness.com
Rosoboronexport on Wednesday said it would continue to supply Syria with weapons deliveries because the United Nations had failed to impose sanctions against President Bashar al-Assad's regime. “There are no sanctions and we have received no such ...
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ArabianBusiness.com
3Qs: A second 'Arab Awakening'
News@Northeastern
Men like Gadhafi, along with Bashar al-Assad of Syria, are a legitimate focus of people's anger and sense of injustice. This is not only true for the Libyan (or theSyrian) people; it is also true for many people around the world who have also been...
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News@Northeastern
Algeria, Forgotten by Arab Spring, May Rue Taking Qaddafi Family
BusinessWeek
At home, the ninth president of Algeria since France's 132- year colonial rule in Algeria ended in 1962 moved swiftly to quash signs of unrest with a brutality matching that of Qaddafi in Libya or President Bashar Al-Assad in Syria, according to ...
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RUSSIA News, Aug 31, 2011


Russian Muslims flood into streets for Eid
The News International
Tens of thousands of Muslims gathered in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg for worship on Eid-ul-Fitr, the festival marking the end of the month-long Ramazan holy fast. Russia's Muslim citizens — usually estimated at over 20 million people concentrated in ...
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Russia & Korea hold high speed rail seminar
Rail.co
By A. Samuel · August 31, 2011 · High Speed, Rail News The proposed line betweenMoscow & St Petersburg will be capable of permitting up to 42 trains to run simultaneously at speeds of up to 400 km/h. On August 29th, a Russian/Korean seminar took place ...
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Rail.co
Fuller on Food: White nights and long days
Longview Daily News
Much of our time in Europe was spent traveling from St. Petersburg to Moscow. For us, Russiaaboard a 200-passenger river ship was a new way to travel and learn about another country. St.Petersburg was a beautiful city filled with history of Peter the ...
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ExxonMobil signs Russian oil pact
Washington Post (blog)
By Will Englund and Brad Plumer, MOSCOW — ExxonMobil and the Russian oil firm Rosneft agreed to a deal Tuesday to begin joint operations on Russia's Arctic Sea shelf and in the deep waters of the Black Sea, far to the south. In return, Rosneft will ...
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Putin Protégé Nominated for Governor
Wall Street Journal
By ALLAN CULLISON MOSCOW—A long-time protégé of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was nominated to become governor of St. Petersburg, where the Kremlin is trying to shore up popular support before parliamentary elections in the fall and a presidential ...
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Nine Killed In Chechnya Attacks
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
He also has said he was responsible for the March 2010 suicide bombings on Moscow's metro transit system, which killed 39 people. Russianauthorities also blame Umarov for ordering the November 2009 bombing of a train from Moscow to St. Petersburg that ...
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RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Russian LTE plan hits stumbling block
Total Telecom
In major cities Moscow and St Petersburg mobile penetration is around the 210% mark. MTS has the largest share of the Moscow market with 37.6%, while MegaFon leads in St Petersburg where it serves 32.7% of all subscribers.
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Total Telecom
RZD seeks international high speed expertise
Railway Gazette International
RUSSIA: Foreign contractors would be invited to bid for the construction of a proposed high speed line between Moscow and St Petersburg, Russian Railways President Valdimir Yakunin has confirmed. A seminar was held in Moscow on August 29 to discuss the ...
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Anne Odom, expert on Russian art, dies
Washington Post
Post maintained the largest private collection of Russian artwork outside of Russia. After joining Hillwood, Mrs. Odom conducted research at the Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, and wrote books about Post's collection. ...
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Russia May Halve Training Time for Pilots to Meet Shortage
Daijiworld.com
Moscow, Aug 31 (IANS/RIA Novosti): Russia's aviation authorities are reportedly considering halving the training time for the country's airline pilots in a bid to end a shortage of crew in civil aviation. The transport ministry thinks the current ...
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Cannibal, 21, confesses to making meatballs with his victim and posting video ...
Daily Mail
During the long winters, the temperature regularly drops to minus 14C. This is the latest in a number of cannibal cases in Russia. In May an unemployed man killed his drinking partner and butchered his body in his Moscow flat. In St Petersburg in 2009,...
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Daily Mail
The vampires are coming
St.Petersburg Times.ru
The main roles in the show will be performed by Moscow actors Ivan Ozhogin and Yelena Gazayeva, and by the St. Petersburg actor Georgy Novitsky. The musical will be performed in Russian, having been rewritten by Suzanna Tsiryuk, who has translated many ...
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SLAMI to distribute dBTechnologies
L&Si Online (press release)
With its headquarters in Moscow, SLAMI offers an full range of MI products, via an extensive network of music shops called 'Mir Muzyki'. Located in many of the largest cities in Russia including StPetersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan and Samara, ...
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NEI Treatment Systems Announces Ballast Water Treatment Systems Orders From ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The Company is registered in St. Petersburg with offices in Moscow, Novorossiysk, Murmansk, Vladivostok, London, Limassol, Madrid and Singapore. The Group offers a wide range of vessels and a powerful grouping of vessels in the market segments most ...
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Transaero Airlines reports mid-year cargo jump
aircargoworld
... Airlines' Moscow-to-Singapore and Moscow-to-Houston routes, and Singapore Airlines customers can fly from Transaero's hub at Moscow's Domodedovo International Airport to the Russian cities of Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Samara and St. Petersburg. ...
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Medvedev Names Ex-KGB Officer as St. Petersburg Governor
The Moscow Times
A St. Petersburg native and presidential envoy for the Central Federal District that includesMoscow, Poltavchenko worked for the KGB and Federal Security Service between 1979 and 1992. He was appointed acting governor on Aug. 22. ...
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Raven Russia first-half net soars to $71m
Property Investor Europe (subscription)
Gearing was 38%. Raven Russia was founded in 2005 to invest in class A warehouse complexes inRussia, and has a completed portfolio of some 1m sq.m. in Moscow, St Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don and Novosibirsk. pie.
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Governor's Meetings 'Lacked Substance'
St.Petersburg Times.ru
Thousands of St. Petersburg residents protested her town-planning policy at annual demonstrations against the Okhta Center project from 2006. Despite the negotiations, a 19th-century building at 68 Nevsky Prospekt and the historic Preobrazhensky ...
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FRANCE / RUSSIA Lazard boss fosters trade relations
Intelligence Online (subscription)
Thomas attended the St Petersburg economic forum on June 17, during which Russian defence export agency Rosoboronexport signed a contract with French defence group DCNS for the supply of four Mistral BPC warships. Dmitry Medvedev, president of the ...
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United Russia Reveals Primary Victors
St.Petersburg Times.ru
By Natalya Krainova MOSCOW — A history teacher, a lathe operator and a potato farmer are the new faces of the revamped United Russia party, which wrapped up its joint primaries with the All-Russia People's Front late last week. ...
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MUSIC, Singers, Concerts News, Aug 31, 2011

Alan and Marilyn Bergman give Streisand more to sing about
Los Angeles Times
There were songs we dreamed one day she would sing. There were some she chose and many that didn't make the cut." One song that did make it is the title tune, a love song they penned with Dave Grusin for Franco Zeffirelli's 1979 version of "The Champ" ...
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