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RUSSIA

Japan Times
WORLD
May 30, 2021
Putin is betting coal still has a future
Russia believes that coal consumption will continue to rise in big Asian markets like China even as it dries up elsewhere.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 30, 2021
Belarus' Lukashenko: Hijacking Western complacency
To the European Union, Lukashenko has issued a direct challenge: “We can make fools of you whenever it suits us, and you will not hurt us, because you are weak.”
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
May 22, 2021
How Russia's new gulag tries to break convicts like Alexei Navalny
Six former inmates and a former prisons inspector spoke of regular beatings by guards, sexual assaults and severe psychological pressure at a facility near Moscow.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 19, 2021
Biden’s foreign policy needs a course correction
It will be very difficult for the U.S. to collaborate with China and Russia on virtually any issue if U.S. grand strategy focuses on taking down illiberal powers.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 16, 2021
Russia’s bear economy
Lacking secure property rights and being subject to Western sanctions, Russia can attract only fools and crooks.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
May 15, 2021
Big promises, few doses: Why Russia is struggling to produce Sputnik V
Putin has trumpeted the vaccine around the world, but Russia had produced just 33 million vaccines as of May 12 and exported fewer than 15 million.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 11, 2021
Cybersleuths blunted pipeline hack and choked data flow to Russia
A small group of private-sector companies, with help from several U.S. agencies, disrupted ongoing cyberattacks against Colonial Pipeline Co. and more than two dozen other victims.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
May 8, 2021
Trump Justice Department got phone records of three Washington Post reporters
The department also attempted to get the email records of the reporters, who were looking into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, the newspaper reported.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 6, 2021
In statement, G7 lists the many ways it is deeply unhappy with China
The laundry list of concerns, including China's treatment of Uyghur Muslims and its stance toward Taiwan, is likely to get under Beijing's skin.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 4, 2021
Central Asia’s Afghan route to prosperity
A high-ranking Taliban delegation visited Turkmenistan on Feb. 6, promising to support the project, an indication the U.S., which backs the pipeline, may have facilitated the trip.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 3, 2021
A grandiose dream to carve out a giant coal mine in frozen eastern Siberia
Far from backing away from coal, Moscow is doubling down: Last summer, the Russian government approved an energy strategy that could see its coal output increase by up to 50% by 2035.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 1, 2021
Bare-knuckle fight nights take off online in Russia during pandemic
A brutal boxing tournament in Russia that pits bare-knuckle fighters against each other in short, bloody bouts has surged in popularity on social networks during the coronavirus pandemic.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 30, 2021
Russia says Twitter complying with demand to remove 'banned content'
Russia this month extended a punitive slowdown until May 15, while acknowledging that the U.S. social media company had accelerated the deletion of content.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 30, 2021
Alexei Navalny’s network crumbling under Kremlin pressure
The move seems likely to push resistance to Putin further underground as the Kremlin's yearslong effort to suppress dissent enters a more aggressive phase.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 29, 2021
EU accuses Russia and China of sowing mistrust in Western vaccines
From December to April, the two countries' state media outlets pushed fake news online in multiple languages sensationalizing vaccine safety concerns, an EU study says.
China seizes disputed reef near key Philippine military outpost
China Coast Guard officers unfurl a national flag on Sandy Cay reef, near the Philippine-held Thitu Island, in disputed waters of the South China Sea this month in this screen shot taken from Chinese state broadcaster CCTV.
Japan to resist Trump efforts to form trade bloc against China
As Japan gears up for the trade talks, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is also seeking to cushion the blow that the U.S. tariffs may have on the domestic economy.
As many as nine dead after driver plows into Vancouver festival crowd
An ambulance is parked at the site of the Lapu Lapu day festival, where a vehicle drove into a crowd killing several people in Vancouver on Saturday.
Japan’s legal system struggles to deal with AI-made child sexual abuse images
AI-generated content — including those made using pictures of real people, which are known as “deepfakes” — is not explicitly covered under Japan's current legal framework, nor are human-drawn illustrations that depict child abuse.
How to bring up bad news in Japanese
As in other cultures, when someone shares bad news in Japanese it’s best to respond with supportive words.
Amid uncertain tariffs, is now the time to buy a new iPhone?
An Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in September. Prices for the newest iPhone models start at around ¥100,000 ($700) in Japan.
Built in a flash, Osaka Expo pavilions wrestle with sustainability
Kengo Kuma & Associates oversaw the construction of the Malaysia pavilion, which is encased in interwoven rows of bamboo that appear to ripple.
Japan weighs using U.S. rice imports as tariff negotiation tool with Trump
A restaurant owner pours California-grown Calrose rice into a rice cooker at his restaurant in Tokyo
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
Crow meat, goat tartare: Mauvaise Herbe raises its game
Crow meat, shaped into a ball and attached to a foot of the bird, is one of the peculiar offerings of game at Mauvaise Herbe.

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