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RUSSIA

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 20, 2015
Putin wants victory against IS, not detente
Putin wants to win the war against Islamic State and be acknowledged as the leader who brought about victory.
MORE SPORTS
Nov 18, 2015
Russian runner disqualified after winning Kanazawa marathon
Russian marathoner Viktor Ugarov has been disqualified after winning the Kanazawa Marathon on Sunday, as Russia is suspended from international athletics events amid allegations of state-sponsored doping, The Associated Press reported.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 17, 2015
Putin questions U.S.-led TPP trade pact arrangements
Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized on Tuesday the way the U.S.-backed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal is being arranged, saying the "clandestine talks" do not promote stability in the Asia-Pacific region.
EDITORIALS
Nov 17, 2015
Russia's culture of sports cheating
There can be no meaningful athletic competition when athletes can systematically cheat. Until Russia can provide assurances that its athletes are clean, they should be banned from international competition.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 17, 2015
No city is safe while the war continues in Syria
France and other U.S.-led coalition countries must all now assume they are potential targets for attacks like the ones in Paris. They need to decide whether they should subscribe to Putin's method of stamping out terror.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 16, 2015
Russian Navy's red tide rising
Short of naval assets but wanting to flex its muscles at sea, Russia is employing a maritime version of the 'hybrid warfare' it used to take control of Crimea.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 16, 2015
Putin's Japan visit shelved for this year amid inconclusive meeting with Abe in Turkey
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Vladimir Putin agree to continue dialogue over the disputed islands off Hokkaido but can't hammer out a visit to Japan by the Russian leader.
WORLD
Nov 16, 2015
U.S. carries out second delivery of ammunition to Syrian Arab fighters battling Islamic State
The United States has carried out a fresh delivery of ammunition to fighters from the Syrian Arab Coalition battling the Islamic State group in northern Syria, pushing ahead with a strategy that initially unnerved ally Turkey, a U.S. official said Sunday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 16, 2015
Focus on wiping out Islamic State in Syria, Obama urges Putin
U.S. President Barack Obama vowed on Sunday to step up efforts to eliminate Islamic State and prevent more attacks like those in Paris, while urging Russia's Vladimir Putin to focus on combating the jihadist group in Syria.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 15, 2015
Talks to end Syria war shift gear in wake of deadly Paris attacks
Russia, the United States and powers from Europe and the Middle East outlined a plan Saturday for a political process in Syria leading to elections within two years, but differences remained on key issues such as President Bashar Assad's fate.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 14, 2015
WHO says 25,000 wounded a month in Syria; medicines lacking and cholera feared
About 25,000 people are wounded each month in the escalating warfare in Syria and it getting harder to deliver medical supplies for civilians trapped in areas held by Islamic State insurgents, the World Health Organization said on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 13, 2015
Japan names new envoys to Germany, India, Russia, other countries
The Japanese government on Friday appointed new ambassadors to Germany, India, Russia and other countries.
WORLD
Nov 13, 2015
'Blood will spill like an ocean very soon' in Russia, Moscow: Islamic State video
Islamic State has released a video threatening attacks in Russia "very soon" in revenge for Russian bombing in Syria, the SITE monitoring group said on Thursday, and the Kremlin said Russian state security services would study the material.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 12, 2015
The rise and fall of America's foreign policy influence
U.S. foreign policy continues to often be guided by the preponderant norm that 'might makes right' but as its power declines the results are now less successful.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 12, 2015
Putin's daughter and Russia's second-generation elite
Since Vladimir Putin began cementing his grip on Russia in the 1990s, many of his friends have grown famously rich.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 12, 2015
Hokkaido photographer documents neighboring Sakhalin
Photographer Masayoshi Saito has spent the past decade shooting the rugged expanses of Sakhalin Island, with the hope that his images will create better understanding between the Russian and Japanese people.
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 12, 2015
Remains match DNA of murdered Czar Nicholas II, wife Alexandra: Moscow
Russian investigators said on Wednesday new DNA tests conducted at the request of the Orthodox Church had confirmed that the exhumed remains of Nicholas II, the country's murdered last czar, and his wife, were genuine.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 11, 2015
Syrian crisis: Are we near the beginning of the end?
With the Syrian regime proving far stronger than Western countries expected, a political settlement to the horrible civil war may finally be within reach.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 11, 2015
Russia's travel ban on Egypt taking a heavy toll
Vladimir Putin's decision to stop flights to Egypt is having a major impact not just on the Russian travel industry but also on a public that has few other inexpensive alternatives for overseas travel.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 11, 2015
Assad represents nothing more than a dead end
Syrian President Bashar Assad created the very monster that he is now pretending to fight, and he has no interest in winning.

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