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11.05.2010, 23:06
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While the Russian president is on a visit to Syria, the president of the Institute for Middle Eastern Studies, Evgeny Satanovsky, shared with RT his views on Russia’s contribution to the Middle East peace process.
17.06.2010, 17:11
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After months of debate and talks, the UN Security Council and the EU are taking the first concrete steps in implementing the fourth round of sanctions against Iran in an effort to stall its disputed nuclear ambitions.
13.10.2010, 16:23
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The 23-year-old head of a controversial Russian drug clinic has been sentenced to 3.5 years in jail for abducting addicts and forcing them into rehabilitation.
27.10.2010, 22:16
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Russia has called on Iraq to cancel the death sentence for Tariq Aziz – as has the EU, the UN and the Vatican.
01.07.2010, 03:22
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The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs slammed the US dollar in a new report, saying it is an unreliable international currency and should be replaced.
20.07.2010, 12:04
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The Afghan capital Kabul is hosting its biggest international conference in decades as 60 nations are expected to produce an agreement on handing power back to Afghan forces by 2014.
24.06.2010, 03:08
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The United Nations has expressed alarm about the rise in drug abuse across the world in its annual report on narcotics.
30.09.2010, 14:05
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Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of a Polish opposition party, has called on Europe and the US to counter Moscow’s influence abroad.
23.07.2010, 13:21
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The Russian Foreign Ministry has said that the International Court of Justice’s ruling will not change Moscow’s stance on Kosovo independence: Russia does not recognize it.
07.06.2009, 04:49
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Thousands of people gathered in Normandy to commemorate the sixty-fifth anniversary of the D-Day landings.
Published: 10 June, 2009, 14:13
Cocaine flows from South America. Heroin flows from Asia. Then the drugs are fed into the bellies of mules in Nigeria. The determination of drug traffickers makes the fight to crush the trade an improbable task.
All drugs were legal in the USA prior to 1907, during the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution was possible because of individual freedom, freedom of thought and of choice, and of property ownership. Drug prohibition seeks to reverse each of those advances.