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Faces of protest are as varied as Russia itself - Boston.com
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Faces of protest are as varied as Russia itself
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February 11, 2012|Alexander Zemlianichenko, AP The faces of the Russian protesters who braved brutal cold to express their discontent were as varied as the vast country itself: youthful and aged, unshaven and elegantly made up, self-confident and shy.
Domestic logic of Russian protestsThe Voice of Russia
Russia Protests: Demonstrators Brave ColdHuffington Post
Russia's Putin too busy to meet election observersAFP
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Faces of protest are as varied as Russia itself - Atlanta Journal Constitution
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Faces of protest are as varied as Russia itself
Atlanta Journal Constitution
By ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO AP MOSCOW — The faces of the Russian protesters who braved brutal cold to express their discontent were as varied as the vast country itself: youthful and aged, unshaven and elegantly made up, self-confident and shy.
Russia's Putin too busy to meet election observersAFP
Russia's presidential contenders unveil policies and objectivesThe Voice of Russia
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Digital espionage in US, China & Russia a real and growing threat - Economic Times
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Digital espionage in US, China & Russia a real and growing threat
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What might have once sounded like the behavior of a paranoid is now standard operating procedure for officials at US government agencies, research groups and companies that do business in China and Russia - like Google, the State Department and the ...
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Unusual Cold Threatens Russian Fruit Crop
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Russian agricultural officials say the abnormally cold temperatures are certain to have an adverse effect on this year's harvest.
Russia Protests: Demonstrators Brave Cold - Huffington Post
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Russia Protests: Demonstrators Brave Cold
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By ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO 02/11/12 02:13 PM ET AP MOSCOW -- The faces of the Russian protesters who braved brutal cold to express their discontent were as varied as the vast country itself: youthful and aged, unshaven and elegantly made up, ...
Faces of protest are as varied as Russia itselfAlbany Times Union
Russia's Putin too busy to meet election observersAFP
Russia's presidential contenders unveil policies and objectivesThe Voice of Russia
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From Soviet Past, Only Architecture Remains
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The Soviets invasion era buildings that are left behind in Afghanistan.
Winter Weather Brings Deaths and Disrupts Travel in Europe
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Regions across Europe sustained another deluge of extreme weather, prompting a deadly avalanche in Kosovo, snarling travel and blanketing Rome with snow.
Diplomat: Russia will keep shielding Assad at UN - CBS News
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Diplomat: Russia will keep shielding Assad at UN
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The European Union will impose harsher sanctions on Syria, a senior EU official said Wednesday, as Russia tried to broker talks between the vice president and the opposition to calm violence. Activists reported at least 50 killed in the regime's siege ...
TA activists condemn Assad, Russia, ChinaJerusalem Post
Russia supporting Syria to retain foothold in Middle EastTehran Times
Should the World Ask for Russia's Help in Syria?The Atlantic
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Russia Calls for Suspension of Adoptions to US Parents - Voice of America
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Russia Calls for Suspension of Adoptions to US Parents
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February 11, 2012 Russia Calls for Suspension of Adoptions to US Parents VOA News FM statement cited what it described as unending series of crimes committed against adoptive children from Russia by US parents Americans who want to adopt Russian ...
Russia to halt US adoptions amid domestic violence claimsUSA TODAY
Russia May Suspend Child Adoption By U.S. CitizensRTT News
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Mike Nova's starred itemsFaces of protest are as varied as Russia itself - CBS News
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Faces of protest are as varied as Russia itself
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Despite temperatures plunging to minus 20 C (minus 4 F), thousands of Russians took to the streets of Moscow to challenge Putin's bid to reclaim presidency in March. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) (Alexander Zemlianichenko) (AP) MOSCOW — The ...
Russia's Putin too busy to meet election observersAFP
Russia's presidential contenders unveil policies and objectivesThe Voice of Russia
Putin Campaign Manager Says Russian Corruption at 'Civilized' LevelsWall Street Journal (blog)
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Russia to halt US adoptions amid domestic violence claims - USA TODAY
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Russia to halt US adoptions amid domestic violence claims
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MOSCOW (AP) – Russia's Foreign Ministry is asking the government to suspend adoptions of Russian children by US nationals following an "incessant string of crimes" allegedly committed by American adoptive parents. This April 2010 photo shows then ...
Russia seeks to suspend adoptions by Americans due to “incessant crimes ...Washington Post
Russia Calls for Suspension of Adoptions to US ParentsVoice of America (blog)
Teenage suicides shake up RussiaThe Hindu
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Russia wants to suspend US adoptions (AP)
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AP - Russia's Foreign Ministry is asking the government to suspend adoptions of Russian children by U.S. nationals following an "incessant string of crimes" allegedly committed by American adoptive parents.
Putin's rivals face pressure, biased coverage (AP)
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AP - European election observers say that presidential hopefuls running against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin face "biased" reports by Kremlin-controlled media and constant government pressure.
Faces of protest are as varied as Russia itself (AP)
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NATO Special Representative Holds Talks In Azerbaijan
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NATO special representative for the South Caucasus and Central Asia James Appathurai visited Azerbaijan on February 11 to discuss routes from NATO cargo to, and from Afghanistan.
The Russian veto: saying “no” is not a policy - Al-Arabiya
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The Russian veto: saying “no” is not a policy
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This is the question that many in the Middle East are asking about Russia's veto of a United Nations' Security Council resolution on Syria. In itself, the veto is neither here nor there. The uprising in Syria is unlikely to end because of it.
Syria, Russia, China - a troika of oppressionSan Francisco Chronicle
Billions at stake as Russia backs SyriaCNN
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Diplomat: Russia will keep shielding Assad at UN - Boston.com
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Diplomat: Russia will keep shielding Assad at UN
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February 10, 2012|Vladimir Isachenkov, AP A senior Russian diplomat signaled Friday that Moscow will again use its veto power at the United Nations to block any resolution aimed at ousting Syrian President Bashar Assad from power.
Should the World Ask for Russia's Help in Syria?The Atlantic
The Russian veto: saying “no” is not a policyAl-Arabiya
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Putin Campaign Manager Says Russian Corruption at 'Civilized' Levels - Wall Street Journal (blog)
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Putin Campaign Manager Says Russian Corruption at 'Civilized' Levels
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By Ira Iosebashvili Russia may stand alongside Nigeria in global corruption rankings, but to Vladimir Putin's campaign manager, that's just fine. Stanislav Govorukhin praised Mr. Putin for bringing corruption in Russia down to “civilized” levels ...
Why real change in Russia faltersWashington Times
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Next US-Russia arms talks to move in challenging direction - Reuters
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Next US-Russia arms talks to move in challenging direction
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By David Alexander | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The next round of US-Russian nuclear arms talks is likely to focus on the delicate task of reducing a much broader range of atomic weapons, US negotiators said on Friday as they discussed the first ...
No Transparency Regarding Russia's Strategic BuildupHeritage.org (blog)
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Turmoil Erupts in Kremlin-Protected South Ossetia
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The opposition leader in the Georgian enclave of South Ossetia was to be inaugurated as president, but her plans were thwarted by police officers apparently acting on Russia’s orders.
Uzbek National Pleads Guilty To Plot To Kill Obama
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An Uzbek national pleaded guilty to a plot to kill U.S. President Barack Obama
Russian Stocks in 'Sweet Spot' to Benefit Over Turkey: Aton - Bloomberg
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Russian Stocks in 'Sweet Spot' to Benefit Over Turkey: Aton
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Russian stocks will benefit at the expense of equities in Turkey and South Africa as their lower valuations lure investors as global risk appetite returns, according to Aton LLC. Russia's 30-stock Micex Index (INDEXCF) trades at 5.7 times analysts' ...
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Syria, Russia, China - a troika of oppression - San Francisco Chronicle
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Syria, Russia, China - a troika of oppression
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Syrian President Bashar Assad (left) welcomes Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to the presidential palace in Damascus on Tuesday. It's no surprise that on the very day Russia insisted it would not support a UN resolution calling for an arms ...
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Billions at stake as Russia backs SyriaCNN
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Why real change in Russia falters - Washington Times
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Why real change in Russia falters
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By David Satter Anyone who has paid heed to Russia in the two decades since the collapse of communism and the Soviet Union has come to realize that things have not worked out all that well. Those desiring better lives, seeking the freedoms enjoyed by ...
The Russians are leaving … RussiaThe Hindu
Putin made Russian corruption 'civilised'-campaign chiefReuters
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Billions at stake as Russia backs Syria - CNN
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Billions at stake as Russia backs Syria
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By James O'Toole @CNNMoney February 10, 2012: 4:15 PM ET A Syrian pro-government supporter holds up a sign as a convoy carrying Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov heads towards the presidential palace in Damascus on Tuesday.
Crisis in Syria Looks Very Different on Satellite Channels Owned by Russia and ...New York Times (blog)
Russian diplomat: Moscow will block any UN resolution urging Assad to step downWashington Post
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Azerbaijani Aviation Engineer Seeks Niche In Civilian Drone Market
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A Baku-born aviation engineer is trying to make a niche for his private company in Germany by producing multirotar miniature drone aircraft that sell for about 5,000 euros each
The Russians are leaving … Russia - The Hindu
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The Russians are leaving … Russia
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They are the kind of people who are supposed to be the mainstay of new Russia and the driving force of its resurgence. Except that they are planning to leave this country for good. They live in the ancient Russian city of Vladimir, about 200 km east of ...
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Russian lawmakers back Assad regime, blast West - Fox News
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Russian lawmakers back Assad regime, blast West
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MOSCOW -- Russian lawmakers voiced strong support Friday for the Kremlin's action to shield Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime from international sanctions over its crackdown on a 11-month old uprising. Lawmakers in the lower house of parliament ...
Russian Foreign Ministry: Responsibility for Stopping Bloodshed in Syria Lies ...Syrian Arab News Agency
Russian diplomat: Moscow will block any UN resolution urging Assad to step downWashington Post
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Ukraine Wants to Help Russia Facilitate Non-Stop Gas Supply to Europe - Sacramento Bee
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Ukraine Wants to Help Russia Facilitate Non-Stop Gas Supply to Europe
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By Worldwide News Ukraine "We are ready, upon official request from Russia, to grant extra gas to Europe," said Ukraine's Energy Minister Yuriy Boyko. In his interview to CNN, the Ukrainian minister explained that currently Ukraine receives 400 million ...
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Russian daily accuses Putin group of cyber attack - AFP
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Russian daily accuses Putin group of cyber attack
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MOSCOW — Russia's Kommersant business daily said Friday it had asked the police to probe a Kremlin youth group for alleged involvement in repeated hack attacks on its website. The popular broadsheet vanished from the Internet for several days in 2008 ...
Russia's 30-Ruble Army Emerges AgainRadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty (blog)
Russian Anonymous targets pro-Kremlin youth movement NashiNew Europe
Hackers vow new 'Anonymous' attacks on Kremlin groupsBBC News
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Gorbachev talks! (And Putin won't like what he's saying.) (+video) (The Christian Science Monitor)
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The Christian Science Monitor - It may be time to add a familiar old face to the gallery of fresh pro-democracy leaders that's been created by Russia's growing anti-Putin street protest movement: the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev.
BlackRock Fund Cuts Russia Stocks Before Election, Buys Turkey - BusinessWeek
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BlackRock Fund Cuts Russia Stocks Before Election, Buys Turkey
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10 (Bloomberg) -- The Eastern European Trust Plc, the stock fund run by BlackRock Inc. that beat the regional index by 19 percentage points in the past three years, has cut holdings in Russia before presidential elections and is buying in Turkey.
Is Now The Time To Buy Russia ETFs?Zacks.com
Is it Time for Investors to Show Russia Some Love?U.S. News & World Report
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'Police Detain Stuffed Animals' In Minsk Toy Protest
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Belarusian youth activists say police have "detained" some stuffed animals used in an antigovernment protest in Minsk, in an echo of similar recent protests in Russia.
Russian police chief fired after boy's death - CBS News
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Russian police chief fired after boy's death
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PETERSBURG, Russia — Russia's president has fired the police chief of St. Petersburg, where a 15-year-old boy died after being beaten while in police custody. The dismissal of Mikhail Sukhodolsky on Friday caused some drama at police headquarters, ...
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St. Petersburg Police Chief Fired on Medvedev’s Orders
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The dismissal came on the orders of President Dmitri A. Medvedev, amid a probe into the death of a 15-year-old boy in police custody.
Russian Police Chief Fired After Boy's Death
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President Dmitry Medvedev has dismissed the police chief of St. Petersburg, where a 15-year-old boy died after allegedly being beaten while in police custody.
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City Police Chief Fired, Riot Police Seal Off Police Headquarters
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St. Petersburg police chief Mikhail Sukhodolsky was removed from his position Friday amid drama at the city’s police headquarters. Armed OMON special task force officers blocked the entrance and exit to the headquarters of the St.
Rash of teenage suicides in Russia spurs calls for govt to take quick action - Washington Post
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Rash of teenage suicides in Russia spurs calls for govt to take quick action
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MOSCOW — A rash of teenage suicides in Russia has set off alarm bells and experts are urging the government to take immediate action. Russia has the world's third-highest rate of suicide among teenagers aged 15 to 19, with about 1500 taking their own ...
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Russians alarmed by rash of teenage suicides
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Nation Newsday > News > Nation Russians alarmed by rash of teenage suicides Originally published: February 10, 2012 7:54 AM Updated: February 10, 2012 10:22 AM By The Associated Press MANSUR MIROVALEV (Associated Press) MOSCOW - (AP) -- A rash of ...
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Russians alarmed by rash of teenage suicides
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(AP Photo) MOSCOW - A rash of teenage suicides in Russia has set off alarm bells and experts are urging the government to take immediate action. Russia has the world's third-highest rate of suicide among teenagers aged 15-to-19, with about 1500 taking ...
Russians alarmed by teenage suicides; Russia has the world's third-highest ...New York Daily News
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Russia Convicts Engineer of Passing Secrets to US - New York Times
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Russia Convicts Engineer of Passing Secrets to US
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MOSCOW — An engineer at a Russian space facility primarily used for military rocket launchings and ballistic missile research was sentenced to 13 years in prison on Friday for passing on classified military information to the CIA, according to Russia ...
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Russian military officer convicted of spying for the CIA and sent to prison - Washington Post
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Russian military officer convicted of spying for the CIA and sent to prison
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MOSCOW — A military court on Friday convicted a Russian officer of providing the CIA with secret information on Russia's new intercontinental ballistic missiles and sentenced him to 13 years in prison. Lt. Col. Vladimir Nesterets pleaded guilty to ...
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Russian officer convicted of spying for CIA - CBS News
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Russian officer convicted of spying for CIA
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(AP) MOSCOW — A military court on Friday convicted a Russian officer of providing the CIA with secret information on Russia's new intercontinental ballistic missiles and sentenced him to 13 years in prison. Lt. Col. Vladimir Nesterets pleaded guilty ...
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Russian officer convicted of spying for CIA - Boston.com
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Russian officer convicted of spying for CIA
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February 10, 2012|Romain Goguelin, AP A military court on Friday convicted a Russian officer of providing the CIA with secret information on Russia's new intercontinental ballistic missiles and sentenced him to 13 years in prison. Lt. Col.
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Colonel jailed for selling missile secrets to CIA
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A Russian military officer was jailed for 13 years yesterday after he was convicted of treason for passing missile secrets to the CIA.
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Russian Military Officer Jailed For 13 Years For Spying For U.S.
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Russia's Federal Security Service says a military officer has been convicted of passing missile secrets to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
Nat Rothschild loses libel case against Daily Mail over Mandelson trip
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Judge rules that conduct of multimillionare financier on Siberian trip exposed Peter Mandelson to conflict of interest claims
It was a week-long libel case which offered an intimate, if brief, glimpse into the lives of the politically powerful and super-rich: impulse trips to Russia in a pair of private jets, birch-leaf beatings in a communal sauna, and an impromptu game of ice hockey, with staff members roped in to make up the numbers.
It was resolved by multimillionare financier Nat Rothschild failing to win damages over the Daily Mail's claims he was a "puppet master". The paper said Rothschild took Lord Mandelson on a trip to Moscow and Siberia to impress a key business contact, exposing Mandelson, the then-EU trade commissioner, to allegations of a conflict of interest.
Sitting at the high court in London, Mr Justice Tugendhat agreed on Friday that some elements were incorrect in the Mail article from May 2010, which recounted how Mandelson had flown in Rothschild's private jet from Switzerland to Moscow, and then on to Siberia as a guest of Oleg Deripaska, the billionaire Russian industrialist.
Notably, the paper withdrew the claim that Rothschild facilitated Mandelson's attendance at a dinner at a Moscow restaurant which sealed a £500m deal involving aluminium plants owned by Deripaska. Mandelson had responsibility at the time for EU metals tariffs. In fact Mandelson did not attend the dinner and the deal had already been sealed.
However, this was where the good news ended for Rothschild, 40, whose closeness to both Mandelson and Deripaska first underwent public scrutiny in 2008 when the trio were together on a yacht off Corfu alongside the then-shadow chancellor, George Osborne. That gathering caused a bitter spat over whether or not Osborne tried to solicit Conservative party funds from Russia's richest man.
Rothschild insisted that Mandelson undertook the entire Russian trip in January 2005 purely for leisure, including a one-night stopover at Abakan in Siberia, where temperatures were somewhere around -30C and the itinerary included a "fascinating" tour of one of Deripaska's aluminium smelting plants. "As far as I was concerned this was a trip made with a group of friends, not an official business trip," Rothschild said in evidence.
But the judge said Rothschild should have known that Mandelson travelling from Moscow to Siberia on Deripaska's private jet and staying at the tycoon's chalet would give "at the very least reasonable grounds" for confusion.
The Daily Mail argued that Rothschild's conduct was "inappropriate in a number of respects", Tugendhat said in his ruling. "I accept that submission. In my judgment, that conduct foreseeably brought Lord Mandelson's public office and personal integrity into disrepute and exposed him to accusations of conflict of interest, and it gave rise to the reasonable grounds to suspect that Lord Mandelson had engaged in improper discussions with Mr Deripaska about aluminium." But there was no suggestion that Mandelson had such discussions.
Rothschild's "different and developing" accounts of the Siberia trip were confusing, Tugendhat said, adding that on this subject Rothschild had not been entirely candid.
Neither Mandelson nor Deripaska was involved in the libel case and Tugendhat said none of his ruling should be construed as a criticism of them.
Rothschild said he would appeal, arguing that claims about Mandelson attending a dinner which ultimately led to the loss of 300 British jobs was "utterly false". "The truth is, as the Daily Mail has now accepted, that I had nothing whatsoever to do with this deal and that it had in any event been completed before Lord Mandelson and I even arrived in Moscow.
"Lord Mandelson's trip to Russia was entirely recreational – as the court has accepted – and Lord Mandelson had obtained clearance for the trip from his office before undertaking it.
"I am disappointed with today's ruling, although I do not regret bringing the action."
The court heard how Mandelson joined Rothschild and others in flying to Moscow from the World Economic Forum gathering in Davos, Switzerland, on an apparent whim, to the extent that he did not even have a Russian visa. In Moscow, Mandelson dined in the same restaurant where the deal was discussed between Deripaska's Rusal corporation and Alcoa, the US aluminium giant, but was sitting separately with a Russian government minister.
That same evening the party flew on Deripaska's Gulfstream jet to Siberia. There, Rothschild said in evidence, they toured the smelting plant, played five-a-side football and had a floodlit game of ice hockey alongside "some of the locals who worked for Mr Deripaska". The group enjoyed "the most delightful banya", a traditional sauna, where a young man beat them with birch leaves, a treatment supposedly good for the circulation. Entertainments at Deripaska's chalet included Russian billiards and a Cossack band.
Rothschild said: "I think that Deripaska's desire to develop a relationship with Mandelson was because Mandelson was an interesting and highly intelligent and, you know, fantastic guy. That's the way I look at it."
This notion seemed "quite unrealistic", Tugendhat ruled.
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What really happened on the bridge when the Costa Concordia crashed
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Astonishing video footage revealing the turmoil on the bridge of the doomed Costa Concordia vessel in the crucial hour after it crashed into rocks near the Italian coast was last night broadcast on the country's TG5 news show.
Russia, Europe freeze in cold spell - The Voice of Russia
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Russia, Europe freeze in cold spell
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According to weather forecasts, temperatures in the European part of Russia will drop to -35C this weekend. While meteorologists predict record low temperatures for Russia, Europe's freeze is showing no signs of letting go. The current cold snap has ...
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Russians alarmed by rash of teenage suicides
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(AP) MOSCOW — A rash of teenage suicides in Russia has set off alarm bells and experts are urging the government to take immediate action. Russia has the world's third-highest rate of suicide among teenagers aged 15-to-19, with about 1500 taking their ...
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Singer Whitney Houston Dead At 48
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U.S. singer Whitney Houston, who rose to stardom with such songs as "How Will I Know," Saving All My Love," and "I Will Always Love You," has died at the age of 48.
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