Once again, Jim took listeners around the nation and the world as he presented news stories of interest to Christians, many of which are set aside by the major media. --Russia begins its largest surface deployment since the end of the cold war as it aims to effectively end the war in Syria on the eve of the U.S. election. --Managers of an arena in the Moscow area received an official letter from the minister of emergency situations last week demanding that they immediately create shelters facilities for wartime.