PRO-KREMLIN YOUTH HUNT DOWN ‘SPICE’ PUSHERS
By MANSUR MIROVALEV In this photo taken on Friday, March 15, 2013, members of a pro-Kremlin youth group douse with red paint two tied-up pushers of spice, a synthetic drug,…
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RUSSIA’S CAUCASUS: BREEDING GROUND FOR TERROR
EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT – FILE -A Russian soldier lies dead as Chechen fighters gather next to a tank outside the presidential palace in central Grozny, in this Jan. 3,…
1 OF 2 MASS. BOMB SUSPECTS DEAD; SUBURBS SHUT DOWN
By EILEEN SULLIVAN, MEGHAN BARR and KATIE ZEZIMA An FBI official arrives at the Watertown neighborhood of Boston, Friday, April 19, 2013. Reports of explosives being detonated and police are…
RUSSIA BANS 18 AMERICANS AFTER SIMILAR US MOVE
By JIM HEINTZ FILE – In this Nov. 30, 2009 file photo, Nataliya Magnitskaya holds a portrait of her son, Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer who died in jail,…
EX-AMBASSADORS URGE US, RUSSIA TO MEND RIFT
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Former U.S. Ambassadors to Russia James Collins listens while other former Russian and U.S. ambassadors gather together at RIA Novosti in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, April 2, 2013.…
US-RUSSIA DIFFERENCES IN EYES OF EX-AMBASSADORS
By LYNN BERRY From left, former U.S. Ambassadors to Russia Alexander Vershbow, Thomas Pickering, Jack Matlock, James Collins, John Beyrle and, right side of the table, Vladimir Lukin, former Russian…
CYPRUS TO VOTE ON NEW PLAN, EUROPE SKEPTICAL
MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Protesting employees of Laiki bank chant slogans outside the Cypriot parliament, Friday, March 22, 2013. Cypriot authorities were putting the final touches Friday to a plan they hope…
CYPRUS HAS 4 DAYS TO FIND BAILOUT SOLUTION
By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS and ELENA BECATOROS People queue at an ATM outside a closed Laiki Bank branch in capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Thursday, March 21, 2013. The European Central Bank says…