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cduff said:
Add state sponsored doping to the list of Russia's current activities :-
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/nov/09/wada-iaaf-russia-[Poor language removed]-pound-banned
Recommending that Russia be suspended from all athletics.
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Don't understand the fuss here, other than this being more propaganda from the US-led West against the Russians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_sportspeople_in_doping_cases

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I'm not sure Putin will take to kindly to threats like this...

The Islamic State has released a chilling video warning of attacks in Russia 'very soon' and threatening to 'make their wives concubines and their children slaves'.

The footage, posted by the group's notorious propaganda wing, also included chants of 'the blood will spill like an ocean' while showing horrific images of beheadings and scenes of Russian troops.

ISIS has previously called for attacks on Russia and the United States in revenge for air strikes on its fighters in Syria.

Western intelligence officials also suspect the ultra-hardline Sunni group of planting a bomb in a Russian passenger jet which crashed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula two weeks ago killing 224 people.

The video come nearly two weeks after ISIS affiliate Sinai Province claimed it blew up the St Petersburg-bound Metrojet plane on October 31.

Moscow and Cairo both dismissed the initial claim it brought down the Airbus A-321, but ISIS again insisted last week they were responsible and promised to reveal how.

'Prove that we didn't bring it down, and how it came down. We will detail how it came down at the time of our choosing,' the group said in an audio statement posted online.

Its secretive leader Abu Osama al-Masri, 42, has also been named by Western intelligence chiefs as the prime suspect behind the plot.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-claiming-downed-one-jets.html#ixzz3rJ1BhAzj
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Crimea, remember them ?


Crimea without power after pylons 'blown up'
  • 1 hour ago
Image captionCrimea was annexed by Russian in 2014 but Ukraine continues to supply power to the region
Crimea has been plunged into darkness after pylons carrying power lines which supply electricity from Ukraine were reportedly blown up on Saturday night.

All four power lines were cut, reports said, leaving the region's two million inhabitants without electricity.

Images circulated on social media appeared to show Ukrainian flags attached to the damaged pylons.

Crimea was annexed by Russia last year, but the Ukrainian authorities have continued to supply power to the area.

Crimean authorities said they had managed to partially reconnect the cities of Simferopol, Yalta and Saky using generators.

Mikhail Sheremet, Crimea's deputy prime minister, said the peninsula's hospitals had backup power sources and would not be affected.

The Crimean Emergencies Ministry has declared a state of emergency and put rescue teams on high alert.

"Crimea is completely cut off," Viktor Plakida, the director of Crimea Energy, told Russia's Tass news agency.

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A local emergency response official told Russia's Tass news agency that Crimea was "operating in standalone mode". But the peninsula can only produce half the power it needs, Mr Sheremet said.

Two of the four main power lines were cut in an earlier attack on Friday, reports said.

Ukrainian authorities said they encountered activists blockading the site when they tried to repair the damaged pylons.

"The nature of the damage shows that it took place as a result of shelling or the use of explosive devices," Ukraine's state energy company Ukrenergo said in a statement.

Crimean Tatars, an ethnic group native to the peninsula who oppose Russian rule, held a protest at the site of the broken power lines in Kherson region, Russia's RIA news agency reported.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34893493
 

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