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The not-so-simple murder of Boris Nemtsov

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Vladimir Putin had little reason to have Boris Nemtsov killed, let alone at the Kremlin's doorstep.

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http://bcove.me/yde88uow Video shows Ukrainian and Russian national flags during a march to commemorate Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov. In this article former Kremlin adviser Alexander Nekrassov on AlJazeera shares his London Russian Economic Forum interview with the late Boris Nemstov ten years ago.

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Julian Assange Brief Interview In UK

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Julian Assange still remains holed up in Ecuador’s embassy in London. The WikiLeaks founder told RTS the US government would never let him off the hook for publishing top secret US military documents leaked in 2010.

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Julian Assange has been trapped in a Ecuadorian UK Embassy unit since 2012. He spoke openly this week to RTS in Switzerland about his experience living in the UK and his time with WikiLeaks. Wikileaks got hold of classified documents and shared them with local newspapers in the United Kingdom. Wikileaks all provided a safe place where Whistleblowers could share what they new with the public. Since then whistleblowing as become more popular. Its been a while now, so its interesting what he has to say. Today there is other news about classified information being leaked. With the Internet now not much information is very private, but still there are things out there that they might not want you to know about. If anything its worth a read.  

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Mi-28 Night Hunter Drones

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A motorized infantry brigade stationed in Chechnya has begun exercises in which a town captured by illegal armed formations is liberated with the help of drones and close air support.

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Helicopters practise in the skies alongside drones. Chechnya is a popular place for military exercises. In today's post you can find out more about this Southern military district. Sputnik International is a popular new news website that has video's, features Twitter posts and a live radio broadcast, if you can subscribe, if you like give a thumbs up if your not so sure, confused or did not really enjoy give a thumbs down. You can share your thoughts to them via various Twitter handles or go to the Facebook page to leave comments. 

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New Haven for Women Suffering 'Honour' Violence Opening in London / Sputnik International

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Many refugee women experience rape or sexual violence in their home country before they arrive in Britain. And once they settle in the UK, they remain vulnerable to yet more violence, often ‘honour’ related crimes.

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IKWRO services provide help for women who fear a backlash from honour based violence. They are located in Europe and provide help for women from all sorts of nationalities: Iranian, Turkish and other Middle Eastern areas. Honour based violence have many complicated variables one of which is fears of passed down family vengeance, forced marriages and evil mutilations  to community sanctions that anywhere else in the world seem utterly barbaric. Donations are being requested also in this post find out about how many cases are currently being addressed in a bid to reduce violence and opression against women around the world.

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Cara Delevingne’s Wild Side. The best of top model Cara Delevingne’s funny faces.

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Stephen Nolan presents Radio 5 Live on the 8th of February 2015. Alexander Nekrassov speaks about visit to Russia recently and recent updates reported in the news this week.

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‘Sanctions: Once you define a red line – you have to follow up’ - Klaus Segbers, Professor of political science at the Free University. Berlin. German Chancellor Angela Merkel - who will host the upcoming G7 summit - said there was - quote - “no chance” for President Putin to be invited to the event. In an interview with a German newspaper she said that Russia’s alleged participation in Eastern Ukraine conflict goes against the values promoted by G7. Merkel also repeated that Europe could not consider lifting its sanctions against Russia under the current circumstances.

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‘We need to see Guantanamo closed and not just relocated’ - Robert Freer, USA researcher at Amnesty International. The US has transferred five prisoners of Guantanamo Bay to foreign jurisdictions. All five men of Yemeni origin were cleared for release in 2009. Every single one of them spent over 10 years in the supermax prison. Four of them were sent for resettlement to Oman and one to Estonia.

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'US invested 23bln $ into training of the Iraqi army, but the Iraqi army crumbled in the first fight with ISIS' Dr. Ely Karmon, counter terrorism expert at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel. Iraq has blamed the U.S.-led coalition for not doing enough to defeat the Islamic State jihadists. Reuters reports the country’s Parliament speaker Selim al-Jabouri made the according statement in a closed meeting with Obama's envoy - retired U.S. Marine General John Allen - who visited Baghdad for talks with the country’s government. Islamic State fighters swept through north Iraq last June, seizing the city of Mosul in a lightning offensive and approaching the capital Baghdad as Iraq's army disintegrated.

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'The comedians arrest goes against freedom of speech. The Sunday demonstrations were full of double standards and hypocrisy' John Laughland, Director of Studies at the Institute of Democracy and Cooperation. A French comedian is facing up to 7 years in jail for making fun of recent terrorist attacks in Paris. The man named Dieudonne M'Bala M'Bala has been arrested and may be charged of glorifying terrorism. The arrest came after the comedian posted on his Facebook that he felt like – quote - “Charlie Coulibaly” - a word play mixing “I am Charlie” slogan and Amedy Coulibaly – the gunman who shot a policewoman and 4 customers in a kosher grocery store. Earlier, many human rights activists voiced their concerns about the French anti-terrorist legislation, saying that it could be eroding the freedom of speech.

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'If the US passes the bill than that is the end of the negotiations...' Political analyst and Iranian academic, Professor of Tehran University - Seyed Mohammad Marandi. US Secretary of State John Kerry and Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Jawad Zarif have held a string of intensive meetings. The talks come ahead of highly anticipated P5+1 nuclear discussion in Geneva scheduled to happen on Sunday. The results of the latest meeting remain unknown, but Zarif said that both sides are committed to resolving the lengthy debate over Iran’s nuclear program.

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The first stock of the new issue of Charlie Hebdo has been sold out in a matter of several hours after thousands of people qued up at newspaper kiosks all over France. The cover of the satirical magazine depicts Prophet Muhammad with words printed above his head saying “All is forgiven” and holding a sign saying Je suis Charlie. People from all over the world have shown mixed reaction to the cover. Some praised it as the perfect answer for the attack, showing defiant consistency in the magazine’s take on freedom of speech while also sending a message of forgiveness. However, many argued that promoting a potentially offensive image is hardly a good move. Khalil Charles, Media Director of the Muslim Association of Britain.

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'The problem in the world economy is that Europe is entirely static... China needs to rebalance economically in terms of where it comes from and where it goes' - Patrick L Young, investment and financial markets advisor, best-selling author. Oil prices continue their nosedive. WTI is being traded below 46 dollars per barrel – the lowest level since early 2009. Overall, oil prices fell by more than a half in six months on weaker demand from both Europe and Asia as well as on OPEC’s refusal to cut the production. The price drop severely hits crude exporting countries like Russia, Venezuela and Iran. Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani recently said the oil price slump will not affect Iran as badly as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait as their economies are more dependent on crude exports.

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'We will end up with nothing that limits violent and militant people while creating more inconvenience and more risk for everyone else' Political commentator and a legal expert. Alexander Mercouris.

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Within minutes of U.S. President Barack Obama speaking on the importance of cybersecurity, the U.S. Central Command official Twitter feed was compromised by alledged pro-ISIL hackers, who posted several threats against the U.S. military. Dr. Sandro Gaycken, a researcher in technology and security at the European School of Management and Technology on the matter. For more visit Sputnik: http://bit.ly/1wQaArp

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John Kerry praised the Pakistani military's operation against militants in the country's northwest, saying the results are – quote - "significant". The U.S. Secretary of State is on a surprise visit to Pakistan for security talks. Islamabad boosted operations against violent extremists in the North Wazi-ri-stan region after December 16 terrorist attack. Back then Taliban gunmen slaughtered students and teachers in one of the schools in Peshawar, killing 150 people, most of them children. Rahimullah Yusufzai, political and security analyst and Resident Editor of The News International newspaper in Peshawar, Pakistan on the developments in the region.

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'The French have to strengthen their legal arsenal and not let potential terrorists and criminals out of prison because there is some sort of leniency on the part of Minister of Justice. France has to have more control over travel for radicals.' Dr. Yahia H. Zoubir, the Director of Research in Geopolitics at Kedge Business School in Marseille.