Russia Without Illusions 23/03/14 02:00 from NYT > Columnists: After Crimea, what’s needed is a more realistic assessment about Russian intentions and Western leverage.

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23/03/14 02:00 from NYT > Columnists
After Crimea, what’s needed is a more realistic assessment about Russian intentions and Western leverage.

Who is in Putin's inner circle? - With many of their names on America's sanctions list, the President's cabal of old St Petersburg friends rules Russia...

Who is in Putin's inner circle? by John Kampfner

Sunday March 23rd, 2014 at 7:30 AM

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With many of their names on America's sanctions list, the President's cabal of old St Petersburg friends rules Russia with a will to reverse perceived humiliations at the hands of the West, writes John Kampfner

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• GlobalNews: 22 Mar 14 PM Rising tension in Crimea - 3/22/2014 - 

» GlobalNews: 22 Mar 14 PM Rising tension in Crimea
22/03/14 10:04 from Global News 
Confrontation at Crimean air force base/ China spots debris in southern Indian Ocean/ Africa Union troops take Somalia town.

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» Sanctions on Russia Take First Bite
22/03/14 14:11 from WSJ.com: World News
Putin formally made Crimea part of Russia, even as the Kremlin sent contradictory signals on its willingness to hold off on retaliating against the West for its latest sanctions over the annexation.

» Missing Plane: New Clues As Cyclone Threatens
22/03/14 13:56 from Sky News | World News | First For Breaking News
A 42ft object floating in the sea is spotted by a satellite as an aircraft sights small objects including a wooden pallet.

» Afghanistan: CCTV shows Taliban gunmen at Serena hotel before attack - video
22/03/14 13:53 from World news: World news + Video | guardian.co.uk
CCTV from the Serena hotel in Kabul captures four Taliban gunmen at the hotel before their fatal attack which killed nine people

» The underwater search for flight MH370
22/03/14 13:48 from CNN.com - World
Michael Smerconish talks to deep water search expert, Tim Keller, about how to search for flight MH370 underwater.

» U.S. forces hand seized oil tanker back to Libya
22/03/14 13:48 from CNN.com - World
U.S. forces have handed possession of a tanker carrying an illegal oil shipment back to the Libyan government, the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli said Saturday.

» Journalist shot dead in Baghdad
22/03/14 13:48 from CNN.com - World
Mohammed Bdaiwi, the Baghdad bureau chief of Radio Free Iraq, was shot and killed Saturday in Baghdad, police said.

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