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href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160303/1035711392/us-turning-on-turkish-president-erdogan.html">As unlikely as it may have sounded just under one year ago, the geostrategic situation has remarkably changed to such an extent that it now looks conceivable that the US might be ready to turn on Erdogan.</a></span></div><div class="b-stories__counters"><div class="b-counters m-counters-white "><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160303/1035711392/us-turning-on-turkish-president-erdogan.html#comments" class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_comments"><i></i>9</a><span class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_view"><i></i>3270</span></div></div></div></li><li class="b-stories__item"><a class="b-stories__img" href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160302/1035673943/syria-truce-russiaa-operation.html"><img 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Escobar</a></span><span class="b-stories__announce"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160226/1035413549/syria-russia-us-forecast.html">Imagine you are part of a hardcore, heavily weaponized Islamist outfit in Syria.</a></span></div><div class="b-stories__counters"><div class="b-counters m-counters-white "><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160226/1035413549/syria-russia-us-forecast.html#comments" class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_comments"><i></i>12</a><span class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_view"><i></i>8007</span></div></div></div></li><li class="b-stories__item"><a class="b-stories__img" href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160225/1035337147/balkans-nato-betrayal.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305130643im_/http://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/images/103295/34/1032953402.jpg" width="309" height="303" alt="Protesters hold a placard reading No to war, no to NATO." title="Protesters hold a placard reading No to war, no to NATO." class=""></a><div class="b-stories__info"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160225/1035337147/balkans-nato-betrayal.html" class="b-stories__info-link"></a><div class="b-stories__upd">Last update: <span>16:32 25.02.2016</span></div><span class="b-stories__date">16:32 25.02.2016</span><div class="b-stories__title"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160225/1035337147/balkans-nato-betrayal.html">Betrayal and Humiliation in the Balkans</a><span class="b-stories__author">by <a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/authors/andrew_korybko/">Andrew Korybko</a></span><span class="b-stories__announce"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160225/1035337147/balkans-nato-betrayal.html">In a display of massive arrogance, the West has grandiosely attacked the pride that many Serbians and Macedonians feel for their countries, possibly heralding a long-awaited turning point where the people finally realize their subservient status under "Euro-Atlanticism" and begin actively pressuring their governments to reject it in full.</a></span></div><div class="b-stories__counters"><div class="b-counters m-counters-white "><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160225/1035337147/balkans-nato-betrayal.html#comments" class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_comments"><i></i>28</a><span class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_view"><i></i>6936</span></div></div></div></li><li class="b-stories__item"><a class="b-stories__img" href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160224/1035286539/europe-brexit-historic-failure.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305130643im_/http://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/images/103266/54/1032665403.jpg" width="309" height="303" alt="Brexit" title="Brexit" class=""></a><div class="b-stories__info"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160224/1035286539/europe-brexit-historic-failure.html" class="b-stories__info-link"></a><div class="b-stories__upd">Last update: <span>19:26 24.02.2016</span></div><span class="b-stories__date">19:26 24.02.2016</span><div class="b-stories__title"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160224/1035286539/europe-brexit-historic-failure.html">Brexit and Good Riddance</a><span class="b-stories__author">by <a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/authors/finian_cunningham/">Finian Cunningham</a></span><span class="b-stories__announce"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160224/1035286539/europe-brexit-historic-failure.html">For many European citizens, the 28-member-state Union has turned out to be a huge disappointment. It is far from the progressive, socialist bloc that many had once envisaged.</a></span></div><div class="b-stories__counters"><div class="b-counters m-counters-white "><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160224/1035286539/europe-brexit-historic-failure.html#comments" class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_comments"><i></i>15</a><span class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_view"><i></i>3911</span></div></div></div></li><li class="b-stories__item"><a class="b-stories__img" href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160224/1035278337/us-runs-eu.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305130643im_/http://cdn4.img.sputniknews.com/images/103236/68/1032366850.jpg" width="309" height="303" alt="US and European flags float in front of the European Commission headquarters in Brussels 22 February 2005" title="US and European flags float in front of the European Commission headquarters in Brussels 22 February 2005" class=""></a><div class="b-stories__info"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160224/1035278337/us-runs-eu.html" class="b-stories__info-link"></a><div class="b-stories__upd">Last update: <span>17:41 24.02.2016</span></div><span class="b-stories__date">17:41 24.02.2016</span><div class="b-stories__title"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160224/1035278337/us-runs-eu.html">How the US Runs the EU</a><span class="b-stories__author">by <a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/authors/alexander_mercouris/">Alexander Mercouris</a></span><span class="b-stories__announce"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160224/1035278337/us-runs-eu.html">As the British gear up for a referendum to decide whether or not to remain in the EU, the most important fact about the EU is never mentioned.</a></span></div><div class="b-stories__counters"><div class="b-counters m-counters-white "><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160224/1035278337/us-runs-eu.html#comments" class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_comments"><i></i>23</a><span class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_view"><i></i>6146</span></div></div></div></li><li class="b-stories__item"><a class="b-stories__img" href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160222/1035168133/umberto-eco-escobar.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305130643im_/http://cdn4.img.sputniknews.com/images/103516/78/1035167885.jpg" width="309" height="303" alt="Italian writer Umberto Eco" title="Italian writer Umberto Eco" class=""></a><div class="b-stories__info"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160222/1035168133/umberto-eco-escobar.html" class="b-stories__info-link"></a><div class="b-stories__upd">Last update: <span>16:57 22.02.2016</span></div><span class="b-stories__date">16:57 22.02.2016</span><div class="b-stories__title"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160222/1035168133/umberto-eco-escobar.html">Umberto Eco: the Professor Who Knew Everything</a><span class="b-stories__author">by <a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/authors/pepe_escobar/">Pepe Escobar</a></span><span class="b-stories__announce"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160222/1035168133/umberto-eco-escobar.html">Once upon a time in the Italian Renaissance, serious scholars regarded polymath Pico della Mirandola as "the last man who knows everything". In our post-modern wasteland, Il Professore ("the professor") Umberto Eco (1932-2016) was arguably the last neo-Renaissance man to know everything.</a></span></div><div class="b-stories__counters"><div class="b-counters m-counters-white "><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160222/1035168133/umberto-eco-escobar.html#comments" class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_comments"><i></i>14</a><span class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_view"><i></i>6724</span></div></div></div></li><li class="b-stories__item"><a class="b-stories__img" href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160220/1035086050/turkey-erdogan-kurds-settlement.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305130643im_/http://cdn4.img.sputniknews.com/images/103457/53/1034575360.jpg" width="309" height="303" alt="Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during the monthly Mukhtars meeting (local administrators) at the Presidential Complex in Ankara on February 10, 2016" title="Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during the monthly Mukhtars meeting (local administrators) at the Presidential Complex in Ankara on February 10, 2016" class=""></a><div class="b-stories__info"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160220/1035086050/turkey-erdogan-kurds-settlement.html" class="b-stories__info-link"></a><div class="b-stories__upd">Last update: <span>13:40 20.02.2016</span></div><span class="b-stories__date">13:40 20.02.2016</span><div class="b-stories__title"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160220/1035086050/turkey-erdogan-kurds-settlement.html">Turkey’s Kurdish Conundrum</a><span class="b-stories__author">by <a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/authors/andrew_korybko/">Andrew Korybko</a></span><span class="b-stories__announce"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160220/1035086050/turkey-erdogan-kurds-settlement.html">Erdogan whacked a hornet’s nest when he broke the ceasefire with the Kurds, and now it looks like there’s never any going back to the way that things used to be.</a></span></div><div class="b-stories__counters"><div class="b-counters m-counters-white "><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160220/1035086050/turkey-erdogan-kurds-settlement.html#comments" class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_comments"><i></i>1</a><span class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_view"><i></i>3207</span></div></div></div></li><li class="b-stories__item"><a class="b-stories__img" href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160219/1035035635/washington-turkey-syrian-war.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305130643im_/http://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/images/103070/24/1030702402.jpg" width="309" height="303" alt="U.S President Barack Obama and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan" title="U.S President Barack Obama and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan" class=""></a><div class="b-stories__info"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160219/1035035635/washington-turkey-syrian-war.html" class="b-stories__info-link"></a><div class="b-stories__upd">Last update: <span>15:48 19.02.2016</span></div><span class="b-stories__date">15:48 19.02.2016</span><div class="b-stories__title"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160219/1035035635/washington-turkey-syrian-war.html">Turk Tail Wags US Dog</a><span class="b-stories__author">by <a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/authors/finian_cunningham/">Finian Cunningham</a></span><span class="b-stories__announce"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160219/1035035635/washington-turkey-syrian-war.html">A spate of atrocities over the past week suggests that the Erdogan regime in Turkey is desperately trying to goad Washington into a wider Syrian war. Who’s giving the orders here?</a></span></div><div class="b-stories__counters"><div class="b-counters m-counters-white "><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160219/1035035635/washington-turkey-syrian-war.html#comments" class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_comments"><i></i>16</a><span class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_view"><i></i>4106</span></div></div></div></li><li class="b-stories__item"><a class="b-stories__img" href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160216/1034827634/munich-security-conference-nato-cold-war.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305130643im_/http://cdn5.img.sputniknews.com/images/103480/41/1034804136.jpg" width="309" height="303" alt="Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev attends Munich Security Conference" title="Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev attends Munich Security Conference" class=""></a><div class="b-stories__info"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160216/1034827634/munich-security-conference-nato-cold-war.html" class="b-stories__info-link"></a><div class="b-stories__upd">Last update: <span>12:34 16.02.2016</span></div><span class="b-stories__date">12:34 16.02.2016</span><div class="b-stories__title"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160216/1034827634/munich-security-conference-nato-cold-war.html">NATO at War… on the World</a><span class="b-stories__author">by <a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/authors/finian_cunningham/">Finian Cunningham</a></span><span class="b-stories__announce"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160216/1034827634/munich-security-conference-nato-cold-war.html">Can we please just dispense with the nonsense and talk about how things really are. The US-led NATO military alliance is at war with the world. And Russia is the main force holding this criminal organization at bay.</a></span></div><div class="b-stories__counters"><div class="b-counters m-counters-white "><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160216/1034827634/munich-security-conference-nato-cold-war.html#comments" class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_comments"><i></i>35</a><span class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_view"><i></i>4725</span></div></div></div></li><li class="b-stories__item"><a class="b-stories__img" href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160212/1034661819/syria-crisis-munich-conference-lavrov-kerry.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305130643im_/http://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/images/103393/09/1033930958.jpg" width="309" height="303" alt="Russian Foreign Affairs' Minister Sergei Lavrov's meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry" title="Russian Foreign Affairs' Minister Sergei Lavrov's meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry" class=""></a><div class="b-stories__info"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160212/1034661819/syria-crisis-munich-conference-lavrov-kerry.html" class="b-stories__info-link"></a><div class="b-stories__upd">Last update: <span>18:41 12.02.2016</span></div><span class="b-stories__date">18:41 12.02.2016</span><div class="b-stories__title"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160212/1034661819/syria-crisis-munich-conference-lavrov-kerry.html">The Syrian Sea of Hostility</a><span class="b-stories__author">by <a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/authors/pepe_escobar/">Pepe Escobar</a></span><span class="b-stories__announce"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160212/1034661819/syria-crisis-munich-conference-lavrov-kerry.html">There could hardly have been a more appropriate start for the Chinese Year of the Monkey, geopolitically, than the prime monkey business enacted in Munich between US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.</a></span></div><div class="b-stories__counters"><div class="b-counters m-counters-white "><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160212/1034661819/syria-crisis-munich-conference-lavrov-kerry.html#comments" class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_comments"><i></i>34</a><span class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_view"><i></i>13991</span></div></div></div></li><li class="b-stories__item"><a class="b-stories__img" href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160211/1034590138/putin-erdogan-refugees-europe.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305130643im_/http://cdn3.img.sputniknews.com/images/103427/22/1034272239.jpg" width="309" height="303" alt="Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan" title="Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan" class=""></a><div class="b-stories__info"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160211/1034590138/putin-erdogan-refugees-europe.html" class="b-stories__info-link"></a><div class="b-stories__upd">Last update: <span>17:28 11.02.2016</span></div><span class="b-stories__date">17:28 11.02.2016</span><div class="b-stories__title"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160211/1034590138/putin-erdogan-refugees-europe.html">US Blames Putin When Erdogan Caught Weaponizing Refugees</a><span class="b-stories__author">by <a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/authors/andrew_korybko/">Andrew Korybko</a></span><span class="b-stories__announce"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160211/1034590138/putin-erdogan-refugees-europe.html">The recently released minutes from a November meeting between Erdogan and the EU prove that the Turkish strongman is manipulating the immigrant flow into Europe for strategic ends.</a></span></div><div class="b-stories__counters"><div class="b-counters m-counters-white "><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160211/1034590138/putin-erdogan-refugees-europe.html#comments" class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_comments"><i></i>16</a><span class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_view"><i></i>6929</span></div></div></div></li><li class="b-stories__item"><a class="b-stories__img" href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160209/1034463609/syrian-army-aleppo-defend.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305130643im_/http://cdn3.img.sputniknews.com/images/103377/23/1033772329.jpg" width="309" height="303" alt="Syrian pro-government troops hold positions in the Syrian town of Ain al-Hanash near l-Bab in Aleppo's eastern countryside on January 26, 2015 as regime forces have recaptured the area from Islamist jihadists" title="Syrian pro-government troops hold positions in the Syrian town of Ain al-Hanash near l-Bab in Aleppo's eastern countryside on January 26, 2015 as regime forces have recaptured the area from Islamist jihadists" class=""></a><div class="b-stories__info"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160209/1034463609/syrian-army-aleppo-defend.html" class="b-stories__info-link"></a><div class="b-stories__upd">Last update: <span>17:56 09.02.2016</span></div><span class="b-stories__date">17:56 09.02.2016</span><div class="b-stories__title"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160209/1034463609/syrian-army-aleppo-defend.html">The Syrian Army is Not Attacking Aleppo But Defending It</a><span class="b-stories__author">by <a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/authors/alexander_mercouris/">Alexander Mercouris</a></span><span class="b-stories__announce"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160209/1034463609/syrian-army-aleppo-defend.html">The Syrian conflict has seen many media distortions but there is one especially which I must take vigorous issue with.</a></span></div><div class="b-stories__counters"><div class="b-counters m-counters-white "><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160209/1034463609/syrian-army-aleppo-defend.html#comments" class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_comments"><i></i>16</a><span class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_view"><i></i>10707</span></div></div></div></li><li class="b-stories__item"><a class="b-stories__img" href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160209/1034443978/losing-war-blame-russia.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305130643im_/http://cdn4.img.sputniknews.com/images/103264/95/1032649505.jpg" width="309" height="303" alt="Syrian government forces inspect an area near the village of Khan Tuman, south from the provincial capital Aleppo, on December 22, 2015" title="Syrian government forces inspect an area near the village of Khan Tuman, south from the provincial capital Aleppo, on December 22, 2015" class=""></a><div class="b-stories__info"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160209/1034443978/losing-war-blame-russia.html" class="b-stories__info-link"></a><div class="b-stories__upd">Last update: <span>13:26 09.02.2016</span></div><span class="b-stories__date">13:26 09.02.2016</span><div class="b-stories__title"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160209/1034443978/losing-war-blame-russia.html">Losing the War, Blame Russia</a><span class="b-stories__author">by <a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/authors/finian_cunningham/">Finian Cunningham</a></span><span class="b-stories__announce"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160209/1034443978/losing-war-blame-russia.html">Western politicians, media and the Turkish regime are full of it. The latest wave of refugees on the Syrian-Turkish border are, we are told, terrified civilians fleeing Russian air strikes.</a></span></div><div class="b-stories__counters"><div class="b-counters m-counters-white "><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160209/1034443978/losing-war-blame-russia.html#comments" class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_comments"><i></i>31</a><span class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_view"><i></i>7629</span></div></div></div></li><li class="b-stories__item"><a class="b-stories__img" href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160208/1034390819/privatization-strategy-attack-russia.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305130643im_/http://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/images/102543/61/1025436188.jpg" width="309" height="303" alt="View of the Ivan the Great Belfry and the Moscow Kremlin's palaces and churches from the roof of the Lenin Russian State Library, Moscow" title="View of the Ivan the Great Belfry and the Moscow Kremlin's palaces and churches from the roof of the Lenin Russian State Library, Moscow" class=""></a><div class="b-stories__info"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160208/1034390819/privatization-strategy-attack-russia.html" class="b-stories__info-link"></a><div class="b-stories__upd">Last update: <span>12:04 08.02.2016</span></div><span class="b-stories__date">12:04 08.02.2016</span><div class="b-stories__title"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160208/1034390819/privatization-strategy-attack-russia.html">Privatization is the Atlanticist Strategy to Attack Russia</a><span class="b-stories__author">by <a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/authors/paul_craig_roberts/">Paul Craig Roberts</a></span><span class="b-stories__announce"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160208/1034390819/privatization-strategy-attack-russia.html">Two years ago, Russian officials discussed plans to privatize a group of national enterprises headed by the oil producer Rosneft, the VTB Bank, Aeroflot, and Russian Railways.</a></span></div><div class="b-stories__counters"><div class="b-counters m-counters-white "><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160208/1034390819/privatization-strategy-attack-russia.html#comments" class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_comments"><i></i>6</a><span class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_view"><i></i>1547</span></div></div></div></li><li class="b-stories__item"><a class="b-stories__img" href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160208/1034390234/north-korea-and-bomb.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305130643im_/http://cdn4.img.sputniknews.com/images/103436/60/1034366000.jpg" width="309" height="303" alt="A North Korean long-range rocket is launched into the air at the Sohae rocket launch site in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang February 7, 2016." title="A North Korean long-range rocket is launched into the air at the Sohae rocket launch site in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang February 7, 2016." class=""></a><div class="b-stories__info"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160208/1034390234/north-korea-and-bomb.html" class="b-stories__info-link"></a><div class="b-stories__upd">Last update: <span>11:54 08.02.2016</span></div><span class="b-stories__date">11:54 08.02.2016</span><div class="b-stories__title"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160208/1034390234/north-korea-and-bomb.html">North Korea and the Bomb: Carrying on With a Failed Policy</a><span class="b-stories__author">by <a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/authors/alexander_mercouris/">Alexander Mercouris</a></span><span class="b-stories__announce"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160208/1034390234/north-korea-and-bomb.html">News that North Korea has launched a satellite into space has caused consternation in the West.</a></span><div class="b-stories__story"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/trend/North_Korea_rocket_2012/">North Korea Rocket Launch Plans</a></div></div><div class="b-stories__counters"><div class="b-counters m-counters-white "><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160208/1034390234/north-korea-and-bomb.html#comments" class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_comments"><i></i>7</a><span class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_view"><i></i>972</span></div></div></div></li><li class="b-stories__item"><a class="b-stories__img" href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160206/1034335764/saudi-arabia-turkey-syria-invasion.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305130643im_/http://cdn4.img.sputniknews.com/images/103424/44/1034244485.jpg" width="309" height="303" alt="A man rides a motorcycle past damaged buildings in al-Myassar neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria January 31, 2016" title="A man rides a motorcycle past damaged buildings in al-Myassar neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria January 31, 2016" class=""></a><div class="b-stories__info"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160206/1034335764/saudi-arabia-turkey-syria-invasion.html" class="b-stories__info-link"></a><div class="b-stories__upd">Last update: <span>15:58 06.02.2016</span></div><span class="b-stories__date">15:58 06.02.2016</span><div class="b-stories__title"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160206/1034335764/saudi-arabia-turkey-syria-invasion.html">Will The Saudis And Turks Really Invade Syria?</a><span class="b-stories__author">by <a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/authors/andrew_korybko/">Andrew Korybko</a></span><span class="b-stories__announce"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160206/1034335764/saudi-arabia-turkey-syria-invasion.html">If they carry through on their threats, Saudi Arabia and Turkey will not do so in the manner that many expect, nor for the reasons that are commonly discussed.</a></span></div><div class="b-stories__counters"><div class="b-counters m-counters-white "><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160206/1034335764/saudi-arabia-turkey-syria-invasion.html#comments" class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_comments"><i></i>38</a><span class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_view"><i></i>8879</span></div></div></div></li><li class="b-stories__item"><a class="b-stories__img" href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160205/1034291834/assange-law-un-ruling.html"><img 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class="b-stories__author">by <a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/authors/paul_craig_roberts/">Paul Craig Roberts</a></span><span class="b-stories__announce"><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160205/1034291834/assange-law-un-ruling.html">The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has ruled that Wikileaks’ Julian Assange has been arbitrarily detained by the “democratic” governments of Sweden and the UK and is entitled to his freedom and compensation for detention by the two “democratic” governments.</a></span></div><div class="b-stories__counters"><div class="b-counters m-counters-white "><a href="/web/20160305130643/http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160205/1034291834/assange-law-un-ruling.html#comments" class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_comments"><i></i>12</a><span class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_view"><i></i>3020</span></div></div></div></li><li class="b-stories__item"><a class="b-stories__img" 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