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One in fifty U.S. children are homeless The Bush administration, which favored the rich and the financial crisis are to blame for the large number of homeless kids in the U.S., says Jeremy Rosen from the National Policy and Advocacy Council on Homelessness.

Russian oil and gas swap for Ukraine’s Crimea Peninsula? According to Ukrainian sources, Russian officials are in informal discussions with their Ukrainian counterparts over the possibility of swapping Russian oil and gas for Russia’s long-term lease of the Crimean Peninsula.

Gabala radar for both Russia and US? Russia intends to prolong its rent of the Gabala early warning anti-ballistic missile radar in Azerbaijan, and does not exclude US participation in maintaining the facility, said Russian FM Sergey Lavrov.

'Obama is pushing US economy downhill' Obama's policy is pushing the US economy downhill, says vice president of the conservative Business & Media Institute Dan Gainor.

A small war that mattered – 40 years since the Damansky Island tragedy Technically, the Damansky conflict was a local two-episode frontier engagement between Chinese and Soviet soldiers on March 2 and March 15, 1969. Statistically, it was, for the lack of a better term, small.

France rejoining NATO command good news for Moscow France’s intention to fully integrate NATO structures will strengthen the position of those countries within the alliance who don’t seek conflict with Russia, say experts.

'Russia could play important role in US-Iran relations' US relations with Iran could hinge on help from Russia, says Walid Phares of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, who also says the US needs Russia to ensure Central Asia does not attract Taliban activity.

Ukraine: desperate actions taken to guarantee IMF loan The government of Ukraine has announced it agrees with the requirements set down by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for providing increased loans.

Iran wants no mediators with US Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says his country doesn’t need mediators in settling its relations with the US. This comes after Turkey offered to help broker talks between the two countries.

‘US saying one thing, doing another’ Despite promises of a 're-start’ with Moscow, Washington is continuing with a policy of what's described as the ‘military encirclement’ of Russia, says Rick Rozoff, an American political activist and writer.

United they can’t: Palestinian internal split Moderate Arab states have begun a major effort to help the Palestinians resolve their foremost problem – not the conflict with Israel, but the internal divisions that have split the Palestinians into two...

Did Obama send a personal message to Ahmadinejad? Media worldwide is speculating whether Turkey’s President Abdullah Gül did indeed pass on a personal verbal message to Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from US President Barack Obama regarding US-Iran relations.

Will Iran spark a game of nuclear dominoes in Middle East? The prospect of Iran releasing the nuclear genie in the future is greatly upsetting the global geopolitical calculus in significant ways.

Opposition accuses pro-Kremlin party of fraud The Fair Russia opposition party claims to have proof of the use of disappearing ink in several polling stations which made voters’ markings on ballots disappear, and then reappear in the column of United Russia

After 9/11 Russia helped US more than any other country – Stephen Cohen Russia did more to help the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan than any of its NATO partners, says renowned Russian studies scholar Stephen Cohen.

Israeli strategists’ two-state solution suggestion doesn’t include Palestine Amidst widespread calls for a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, leading Israeli strategic thinkers are suggesting that one of those two states need not be Palestine.

Russian peacekeepers to stay in Central Africa Russian peacekeepers will stay on duty in Central Africa after March 15, when the command of peacekeeping mission in the region (EUFOR) will be handed over from the EU to UN, informs Interfax agency.

‘Russia has no imperial ambitions’ – Gorbachev If it were not for Russia, the USSR would still exist, and Vladimir Putin has also definitely confirmed that Russia doesn’t want to create a new empire, former president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev said to RT.

‘Japan’s shooting down North Korean satellite would be act of war’ North Korea has put its military on high alert in response to joint military exercises being held by the US and South Korea. The North’s plans to launch a communications satellite is also raising tensions.

Clinton and Lavrov hit the “peregruzka” button Despite US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stumbling over the Russian language, she and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov found common ground in Geneva.

Legacy of war in South Ossetia It’s been seven months since the war in South Ossetia ended but humanitarian aid is still being distributed among Ossetians, as many lost almost everything they possessed.

'The collapse of America is unavoidable' America must work on starting a new economy and not restarting the old one or it will resemble the former Soviet Union, says author and blogger Dmitry Orlov.

Afghanistan welcomes Obama’s Taliban initiative US forces in Afghanistan can negotiate peace and reconciliation with some elements of the Taliban. That's Barack Obama's hope, as expressed in an interview with the New York Times.

Names of the Cold War game Twenty six years ago, on March 8, 1983 U.S. President Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union an “evil empire”. RT recalls the key brands from the vocabulary of Cold War rhetoric.

‘Russia and US are interdependent’ Russia is ‘part of the game’ now and interdependent with the US economically. So, “we have to find political ways to improve our relations”, says Lev Voronkov from Moscow State University of International Rel

‘The economic ground of Russia-U.S. relations is quite poor’ There are signs of an improvement in Russia-US relations, but it’s unlikely Moscow will benefit from it economically, says Ekaterina Kuznetsova, political analyst from the Post-industrial Society Research Centre.

Iran to help US on Afghanistan? Thirty years after the Islamic Revolution Iran may once more become an American ally. All the US need to do to achieve this is to invite Tehran to an international conference on Afghanistan in March.

'Washington interested in building bridges with Russia' Finding common ground with Russia seems to be one of the US’s top priorities now, says Aleksey Urazov, a political analyst from Moscow State University.

Crisis may open up revolutionary road for Ukraine The credit crunch has left no corner of the globe untouched, but few places are suffering more than Ukraine, where the economy is on the brink. Some media describe the mood as pre-revolutionary.

‘Lavrov & Clinton meeting marks beginning of a hard road’ Russia and US will have to start from a low level of relations, said Professor Angela Stent, director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, Georgetown University, Washington DC.

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