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United States officials are expected to take further action next week to address the threat of a U.N. takeover of the Internet. (more)

Russia has successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile – designed to counter a U.S. defense shield being set up in Europe – firing it from one end of the country to the other, according to reports. (more)

Russia and Japan want to explore the Moon, and in a big way. (more)

Attorney General Eric Holder told Russian news outlets that the U.S. may return convicted arms dealer and terrorist Viktor Bout, the infamous “Merchant of Death,” to Russia to serve out the remainder of his 25-year prison term related to his terrorism conviction in the United States. (more)

Vladimir Putin is back. Freshly re-installed as Russian president, the world’s most intimidating camera hog is raising Western hackles by blowing off the latest G8 summit. He’s also fueling a new round of antagonistic U.S. press. It goes without saying that life under Putin would appall and depress the average American. But Putin’s American critics, invariably demanding a tougher Russia policy than the one president Obama has adopted, are completely missing the point. (more)

The Kremlin’s most recent response to U.S. and NATO missile defense plans in Europe crosses any and all lines associated with both statecraft and logic. Still, some view comments made by Russian Chief of General Staff Nikolai Makarov as simply more of the same. Speaking at an international missile defense conference organized by the Ministry of Defense in Moscow last week, Makarov said that his country would consider “pre-emptive use of force” against NATO’s future missile defense installations. (more)

Around ten percent of the world’s population might as well stop paying attention to politics and personal finances, as they expect the apocalypse to come any day now. (more)

Few nationalities are as good at making money from hacking than the Russians. Their share of the global cyber crime market, an estimated $12.5 billion black market, doubled last year to $4.5 billion, according toMoscow-based Group-IB, a cyber security services firm working mainly with the Russian government and banks to help reduce online fraud. (See infographics here.) (more)

Secretary Hillary Clinton was at the Naval Academy recently. She went there to deliver a prestigious Forrestal Lecture. And she was well received by the 4,000 Midshipmen and hundreds of students attending the Naval Academy Foreign Affairs Conference. (more)

More than 200 real estate brokers and lawyers, many of them among the most ambitious in the Manhattan real estate world, filed into an Off Broadway theater last month for three hours. (more)

On Sunday’s “Face the Nation” on CBS, Vice President Joe Biden took on the chief critic of President Barack Obama’s open-microphone moment last week, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. (more)

By LtCol Oliver North, USMC Ret. (more)

Wouldn’t you like to have been in the White House Situation Room when the president decided to take out Osama bin Laden? Thrilling, right? You’d have been part of history and have stories to tell your grandchildren. Well, you can’t. Not even if you donate a million dollars to the Obama re-election campaign. Sorry, Bill Maher, you’ll have to wait for the movie. It’s top secret. (more)

MOSCOW: Russia has arrested two suspected murderers who are believed to have eaten body parts of at least seven victims, investigators and media reported Monday. (more)

President Barack Obama suggested to Russia’s president that he would accept long-standing Russian demands for curbs on America’s anti-missile defenses, according to a brief conversation overheard by reporters at the nuclear summit in South Korea. (more)

(Reuters) – U.S. pop singer Madonna has promised to defy a recent law against homosexual “propaganda” in Vladimir Putin’s hometown of St. Petersburg on her upcoming tour through Russia this summer. (more)

(AP) STOCKHOLM – Syria imported nearly six times more weapons in 2007-2011 than in the previous five-year period, with Russia accounting for 72 percent of the arms supplies to President Bashar Assad’s regime, an international research institute said Monday. (more)

On Monday, Russian police forces arrested more than 550 protesters who massed in dispute of Sunday’s elections which named Vladimir Putin president fora third term. The demonstrators either were attending unsanctioned rallies, or refused to leave once sanctioned rallies were over. (more)

President Obama began his term badly. He went to London and bowed low before King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. The infamous red “reset” button he told Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to present to the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, was little more than an attempt to give Moscow a pass for its aggression against the neighboring Republic of Georgia. The button was even spelled incorrectly. How do you spell “appeasement” in Russian? (more)

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia needs to modernize its military arsenals to deter others from grabbing its resources, Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said in an article published Monday. (more)