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Covers:  Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Caucasus, Central Asia, Kremlin, military, corruption, money laundering, espionage,
Opponent of Quiet Desperation. Contains Multitudes. In Search Of Meanness Or Sublimity. Ex-Moscow Correspondent. Vladivostok Fanboy. @RFERL Signal: MikeEckel.16

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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; The Associated Press; The Christian Science Monitor; Al Jazeera America; Foreign Policy; VOA

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Exclusive: Washington Autopsy Files Reveal Lesin Sustained Broken Bone In Neck

Exclusive: Washington Autopsy Files Reveal Lesin Sustained Broken Bone In Neck

Since Mikhail Lesin's body was found in a Washington, D.C., hotel room more than three years ago, the exact c…

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Russian Reboot of Crimea Brings Rubles-- And Confusion

Russian Reboot of Crimea Brings Rubles-- And Confusion

SIMFEROPOL, Crimea - When his university stipend finally arrived, several days late, Anton Zavalii was unques…

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Russian troops pull out of key Georgian areas

Russian troops pull out of key Georgian areas

GORI, GEORGIA-Columns of hulking, smoke-belching Russian tanks rolled out of key positions deep inside Georgi…

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King Lear on the Silk Road? In Uzbekistan, a daughter's antics challenge her dictator father

King Lear on the Silk Road? In Uzbekistan, a daughter's antics challenge her dictator father

In Uzbekistan, a dusty, repressive former Soviet republic known for rampant child labor, ancient Silk Road ci…

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Cambodia's Kangaroo Court

Cambodia's Kangaroo Court

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - It was a damning indictment by any estimation: a 100-plus-page report published 10 yea…

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Exclusive: FBI Silent On Lab Results In Kremlin Foe's Suspected Poisoning

Exclusive: FBI Silent On Lab Results In Kremlin Foe's Suspected Poisoning

WASHINGTON -- The FBI has refused to release laboratory results into the suspected poisoning of anti-Kremlin …

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The KGB's Man At State, Or A Double Agent? A Spy Mystery In A Smuggled Cold War Archive.

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By Mike Eckel 
| Radio Free Europe
In September 1955, Robert F. Kennedy arrived in Moscow as part of an unusual Cold War driving tour of the Soviet Union. The future US senator's traveling companion was a prominent judge on the US Supreme Court. Their interpreter during the two-month journey across the closed-off country was a Russian-speaking former US Army officer whose position at the US Embassy in Tehran provided cover for his identity as a CIA agent: Frederick Flott.
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On Springtime Battlefield In War's Fifth Year, Ukraine Claws Back Territory

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By Yehor Lohinov, Mike Eckel 
| Radio Free Europe
NEAR DOBROPILLYA, Ukraine -- The spring fields and rutted forest roads north of Pokrovsk are still muddy, caking boots, wheels, weapons, and ammunition boxes with waterlogged earth that makes everything heavier and slows everything down. For Ukrainians and Russians alike. If you're racing to get bottled water and gasoline to soldiers hunkered down in foxholes and trenches, you have to use all-terrain vehicles.
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Russia's Mercenaries Fled Mali. Here's What They Left Behind.

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By Mike Eckel , Ajla Obradovic
| Radio Free Europe
Embed The code has been copied to your clipboard. width px height px The URL has been copied to your clipboard No media source currently available 0:00 0:03:08 0:00 Mali is a mess. Russia’s Africa Corps is pulling out of a major city it helped capture a couple years ago, what some experts say was a humiliation. Here’s what you need to know about what’s going on in the West Africa nation, and what it could mean for Russia. Russia's Mercenaries Fled Mali. Here's What They Left Behind. Share Share
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