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A man lays flowers during a memorial service for victims of a blast in St. Petersburg metro, at a memorial by the Kremlin walls in Moscow. (Reuters)

Russian Authorities Face New Challenges in Wake of St. Petersburg Blast

by Taha Abed alWahed | Apr 8, 2017 | Features

Moscow – The bombing at the metro in Russia’s second largest city, St. Petersburg, has put the authorities before new challenges most notably after it was revealed that the suspected perpetrator was a Kyrgyzstan native. Russian security authorities have still not...

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Donald Trump, the First President of Our Post-Literate Age

by Joe Weisenthal | Dec 5, 2016 | Opinion

In the wake of the 2016 presidential election, the media has worked itself into a panic about the rise of fake news on social media. Reporters have examined the subject from dozens of angles — profiling misinformation peddlers from California to the Caucasus,...

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Russian President Vladimir Putin puts a flower outside a wreckage of a trolleybus in Volgograd, Russia, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014 (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Opinion: Putin vs. the “Black Widows”

by Amir Taheri | Jan 3, 2014 | Opinion

As might have been expected, the latest suicide attacks in Volgograd have brought Russia back into the headlines just weeks before the opening of the Winter Olympics in Sochi. The attacks that claimed at least 60 lives and left many more injured were carried out by...