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Millions of refugees have become a political football.</a></div></div><div class="b-radio__v-date">09 March 2016</div></li><li class="m-radio-v b-radio__item"><div class="b-radio__v-img"><a href="/web/20160309192253/http://sputniknews.com/radio_connecting_the_pieces/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160309192253im_/http://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/images/101999/07/1019990792.png" width="224" height="124" alt="Connecting the Pieces" title="Connecting the Pieces" class=""></a></div><div class="b-radio__v-content"><div class="b-radio__v-title"><a href="/web/20160309192253/http://sputniknews.com/radio_connecting_the_pieces/20160304/1035777215/political-party-bosses-american-people.html">Do the Political Party Bosses Listen to the American People?</a></div><div class="b-radio__v-announce"><a href="/web/20160309192253/http://sputniknews.com/radio_connecting_the_pieces/20160304/1035777215/political-party-bosses-american-people.html">The American presidential election season is upon us and scandals are coming fast and furious. Clinton pulls a fast one by using backroom deals, thus negating the popular lead that Bernie Sanders has, while Trump’s rise to the top of the Republican Party has left party bosses scrambling to take him down at any cost.</a></div></div><div class="b-radio__v-date">04 March 2016</div></li><li class="m-radio-v b-radio__item"><div class="b-radio__v-img"><a href="/web/20160309192253/http://sputniknews.com/radio_red_line/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160309192253im_/http://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/images/101998/97/1019989773.png" width="224" height="124" alt="Red Line" title="Red Line" class=""></a></div><div class="b-radio__v-content"><div class="b-radio__v-title"><a href="/web/20160309192253/http://sputniknews.com/radio_red_line/20160304/1035791804/osama-bin-laden-global-jihad.html">Osama Bin Laden: The Eccentric Banker of Global Jihad</a></div><div class="b-radio__v-announce"><a href="/web/20160309192253/http://sputniknews.com/radio_red_line/20160304/1035791804/osama-bin-laden-global-jihad.html">The final will and testimony of the world’s most notorious terrorist has finally been declassified by the American authorities, and it expectedly reveals that Bin Laden bequeathed most of his remaining riches to global jihad.</a></div></div><div class="b-radio__v-date">04 March 2016</div></li></ul></div></div><div class="l-dark"><div class="l-wrap"><div class="b-multimedia"><div class="b-photo"><h3 class="b-title"><a href="/web/20160309192253/http://sputniknews.com/photo/">Photo</a></h3><div class="b-photo__main"><a href="/web/20160309192253/http://sputniknews.com/photo/20160309/1035994911/first-solar-eclipse-2016.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160309192253im_/http://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/images/103599/44/1035994487.jpg" width="405" height="229" alt="Stargazers' Paradise: Mind-Boggling Pictures of First Solar Eclipse in 2016" title="Stargazers' Paradise: Mind-Boggling Pictures of First Solar Eclipse in 2016" class=""></a><a href="/web/20160309192253/http://sputniknews.com/photo/20160309/1035994911/first-solar-eclipse-2016.html" class="b-photo__main-info">Stargazers' Paradise: Mind-Boggling Pictures of First Solar Eclipse in 2016</a></div><ul class="b-photo__list"><li class="b-photo__item"><a href="/web/20160309192253/http://sputniknews.com/photo/20160308/1035954840/russian-airborne-forces-women-photo.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160309192253im_/http://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/images/103599/26/1035992677.jpg" width="195" height="100" alt="Deadly Beauties: Women of the Russian Airborne Assault Forces" title="Deadly Beauties: Women of the Russian Airborne Assault Forces" class=""></a><div class="b-photo__announce"><a href="/web/20160309192253/http://sputniknews.com/photo/20160308/1035954840/russian-airborne-forces-women-photo.html">Deadly Beauties: Women of the Russian Airborne Assault Forces</a></div></li><li class="b-photo__item"><a href="/web/20160309192253/http://sputniknews.com/photo/20160307/1035887220/comic-super-heroines-photo.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160309192253im_/http://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/images/103594/46/1035944623.jpg" width="195" height="100" alt="Girl Power! 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William Engdahl argues that the country is almost bankrupt and its end could be nearer than any of us imagine.</a></div></li><li class="b-opinion__item"><a href="/web/20160309192253/http://sputniknews.com/business/20160306/1035879354/turkey-africa-trade-pivot.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160309192253im_/http://cdn4.img.sputniknews.com/images/103587/78/1035877885.jpg" width="191" height="118" alt="Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, introduces Turkish businessmen to Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, during an official visit at the Presidential Palace in Abuja, Nigeria, Wednesday, March 2, 2016" title="Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, introduces Turkish businessmen to Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, during an official visit at the Presidential Palace in Abuja, Nigeria, Wednesday, March 2, 2016" class=""></a><h4 class="b-opinion__title"><a href="/web/20160309192253/http://sputniknews.com/business/20160306/1035879354/turkey-africa-trade-pivot.html">Facing Catastrophic Losses in Trade With Russia, Turkey Attempts Africa Pivot</a></h4><div class="b-opinion__announce"><a href="/web/20160309192253/http://sputniknews.com/business/20160306/1035879354/turkey-africa-trade-pivot.html">The Turkish economy has been seriously damaged as a result of the rift in relations with Russia following Ankara's downing of a Russian military jet over Syria late last year. Now, President Recip Tayyip Erdogan is attempting a pivot to Africa. But will it succeed?</a></div></li><li class="b-opinion__item"><a href="/web/20160309192253/http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160307/1035899749/ukrainian-radicals-attack-russian-embassy.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160309192253im_/http://cdn4.img.sputniknews.com/images/103589/55/1035895525.jpg" width="191" height="118" alt="Protesters throw eggs towards a building of the Russian embassy during a rally demanding the liberation of Ukrainian army pilot Nadezhda Savchenko by Russia, in Kiev, Ukraine, March 6, 2016" title="Protesters throw eggs towards a building of the Russian embassy during a rally demanding the liberation of Ukrainian army pilot Nadezhda Savchenko by Russia, in Kiev, Ukraine, March 6, 2016" class=""></a><h4 class="b-opinion__title"><a href="/web/20160309192253/http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160307/1035899749/ukrainian-radicals-attack-russian-embassy.html">Green, Eggs and Rocks: Chronicle of the Attack on the Russian Embassy in Kiev</a></h4><div class="b-opinion__announce"><a href="/web/20160309192253/http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160307/1035899749/ukrainian-radicals-attack-russian-embassy.html">On Sunday, nationalist activists in Kiev attacked the Russian Embassy twice in the course of 24 hours, first smashing up diplomatic vehicles with sledgehammers and throwing smoke bombs in the dead of the night, and then pelting the Embassy with green dye, eggs and rocks in the daytime. Sputnik offers a timeline of events.</a></div></li><li class="b-opinion__item"><a href="/web/20160309192253/http://sputniknews.com/asia/20160305/1035837502/us-china-russia-south-china-sea.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160309192253im_/http://cdn4.img.sputniknews.com/images/103583/98/1035839875.jpg" width="191" height="118" alt="Russian Pacific Fleet warships during a naval parade in the Peter the Great Bay marking the wrap-up of the Joint Sea 2015 II Russian-Chinese naval drill" title="Russian Pacific Fleet warships during a naval parade in the Peter the Great Bay marking the wrap-up of the Joint Sea 2015 II Russian-Chinese naval drill" class=""></a><h4 class="b-opinion__title"><a href="/web/20160309192253/http://sputniknews.com/asia/20160305/1035837502/us-china-russia-south-china-sea.html">What Role Will Russia Play in the US-Chinese South China Sea Drama?</a></h4><div class="b-opinion__announce"><a href="/web/20160309192253/http://sputniknews.com/asia/20160305/1035837502/us-china-russia-south-china-sea.html">The US-Chinese standoff in the South China Sea is heating up, with Washington dispatching a small armada to the area following reports that Beijing had reinforced a key island with fighters and air defenses. Much has been said and written about the dispute, with Russian analysts left pondering: if push comes to shove, what will Russia's role be?</a></div></li><li class="b-opinion__item"><a href="/web/20160309192253/http://sputniknews.com/us/20160306/1035871466/trump-neocons-critique-analysis.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160309192253im_/http://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/images/103549/68/1035496883.jpg" width="191" height="118" alt="Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump signs autographs for supporters at the conclusion of a Donald Trump rally at Millington Regional Jetport on February 27, 2016 in Millington, Tennessee" title="Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump signs autographs for supporters at the conclusion of a Donald Trump rally at Millington Regional Jetport on February 27, 2016 in Millington, Tennessee" class=""></a><h4 class="b-opinion__title"><a href="/web/20160309192253/http://sputniknews.com/us/20160306/1035871466/trump-neocons-critique-analysis.html">Neocons Panic That a Trump Presidency Would Mark an End to Their New World Order</a></h4><div class="b-opinion__announce"><a href="/web/20160309192253/http://sputniknews.com/us/20160306/1035871466/trump-neocons-critique-analysis.html">As eccentric billionaire Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump continues to rack up primary victories, the party's establishment is beginning to wonder whether the political outsider can be stopped. Alarmed, neoconservative pundit Anne Applebaum goes so far as to suggest that a Trump presidency would mark "the end of the West as we know it."</a></div></li><li class="b-opinion__item"><a href="/web/20160309192253/http://sputniknews.com/politics/20160305/1035843449/churchill-fulton-speech.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160309192253im_/http://cdn3.img.sputniknews.com/images/103584/05/1035840599.jpg" width="191" height="118" alt="Winston Churchill, former prime minister of England, speaks at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo. March 5,1946" title="Winston Churchill, former prime minister of England, speaks at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo. March 5,1946" class=""></a><h4 class="b-opinion__title"><a href="/web/20160309192253/http://sputniknews.com/politics/20160305/1035843449/churchill-fulton-speech.html">Churchill's Fulton Speech 70 Years On: What's Changed? 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