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Video Shows Teen Caretakers Beating Kids
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Plight of Russian orphans brought to light.
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Russia Sends Syria More Advanced Missiles
Destruction by Syrian shelling in Homs on May 13. (Lens Young Homsi/AP)
Showing its support for Assad’s regime.
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Russia Considering Afghan Border Patrol
Afghan commandos in Kabul on January 21. (Shah Marai/AFP/Getty)
In anticipation of instability following NATO withdrawal.
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Why Now Is the Time For Syria Diplomacy
Trita Parsi on why now is the moment to try diplomacy to slow the bloodletting in Syria. MORE
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Russia Hid Tsarnaev's Text Messages
Neglected to share them with the FBI. MORE
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Inside the Pussy Riot Split
When one of the Pussy Riot girls split from the rest, their trial fell apart and exposed their lawyers to unfair accusations.... MORE
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Did the Wife Help?
Female DNA has been discovered on a device used in the Boston Marathon bombing. Michael Daly reports. MORE
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Russian Court to Rule in Pussy Riot Case
One of the punk band’s members has asked for early release. MORE
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Dozens Killed in Russian Mental-Hospital Fire
Most had been confined to the building. MORE
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The Bombings’ Mystery Man
Zubeidat Tsarnaeva tells Anna Nemtsova investigators are asking her about an Armenian convert to Islam. MORE
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A ‘Gift’ to Putin
Chechnya’s opposition prime minister, Akhmed Zakayev, talks to Michael Moynihan about Boston’s impact. MORE
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Russia Is Dying
Peter Pomerantsev on Oliver Bullough’s bleak mix of biography and reportage that looks inside the soul of a bitter country. MORE
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Turning to Tolstoy
As the Boston manhunt blared from TVs, critic Liesl Schillinger found herself turning to Tolstoy’s haunting final novel, ‘Hadji Murat.’ MORE
