The New York Times’ automated voice reads Putin’s middle initial as a number. It sounds very czar-like: Vladimir the Fifth Putin of Russia.

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Assad and his family arrived in Moscow, TASS says citing a Kremlin source

Assad’s fall gives a hope to the exiled Russian opposition. Navalny’s ally Leonid Volkov tweeted: “Bashar al-Assad won more than 95% at the last fair and transparent elections.” For context - Putin got 87% of votes earlier this year

Just saw Jerry Seinfeld on a Wikipedia list of Syrian Americans. His mother was a Syrian Jew from Aleppo. I did not know this

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I was on my way to a party when I read that Syria’s Homs had been taken over by rebels. When I arrived there, I said that Assad’s regime will collapse before the party ends. It did. I can’t say it was absolutely unpredictable

Georgia, the country, is getting serious

The best thing about Alexei Navalny’s memoir is it’s like he’s alive and talking. But once the book is over it hits again that he’s not. Here Navalny tells from a Russian prison about his and his wife’s “bohemian” habit of weekend brunches with oysters and Bloody Marys at trips to NYC

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This is a story a lot of reporters have been chasing:

Starting in 2015, a massive cyberespionage campaign targeted some of America's most prominent environmentalists.

Now, we can reveal that the FBI has been probing whether a longtime Exxon lobbyist was involved.

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This is an insane coincidence. The only place in Manhattan where Trump won since he started running for president was at the address of executed Rosenberg spies www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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