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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Following their 60-minute meeting in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday (July 10), Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has announced the only new points he made with Secretary of State Marco Rubio are two he has made before, often.  These were “the resumption of direct flights [between Russia and the US] and continued efforts to […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with President Vladimir Putin’s speech to the BRICS summit session in Rio de Janeiro this week (July 6) was brief.  Unusually so for Putin’s public speeches, but not so for his speeches to the BRICS summit in earlier years. This time he took 810 words (Kremlin English version; 710 in the Russian). […]