EX-TYCOON KHODORKOVSKY MARKS 10 YEARS IN PRISON
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV FILE – In this file photo taken on Thursday Dec. 30, 2010, former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, left, and his co-defendant Platon Lebedev talk behind a glass…
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SUICIDE BOMBER STRIKES RUSSIAN BUS, KILLING 6
By LYNN BERRY A damaged bus is examined by experts in Volgograd, Monday, Oct. 21, 2013. The blast was caused by “an unspecified explosive device,” the National Anti-Terrorism Committee said…
DUTCH DIPLOMAT BEATEN IN MOSCOW AT TIME OF TENSION
By LYNN BERRY A woman walks past the embassy of the Netherlands in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013. A Dutch diplomat was beaten up by two unidentified men…
4 US WHISTLEBLOWERS MEET SNOWDEN IN MOSCOW
Lon Snowden, left, speaks to The Associated Press in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013. Edward Snowden’s father Lon Snowden told Russian television outside the Moscow airport Thursday morning that…
BELARUS PRESIDENT LASHES OUT AT OBAMA
By YURAS KARMANAU Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attend the West-2013 joint war games at the Khmelevka shooting range in Kaliningrad region, western Russia, Thursday,…
JAILED RUSSIAN TYCOON IS HONORED BY LECH WALESA
By ALIK KEPLICZ Solidarity founder and former Polish President Lech Walesa, left, gives his foundation’s annual prize to the son of imprisoned Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Pavel Khodorkovsky, in Gdansk,…
GREENPEACE ACTIVISTS JAILED AMID RUSSIAN PROBE
By ALEXANDER ROSLYAKOV and NATALIYA VASILYEVA A police officer guards the US captain of the Greenpeace ship ‘Arctic Sunrise’, Peter Willcox in a cage in a court room in Murmansk,…
ANALYSIS: UN MAY SEE BIG ACTION ON SYRIA, IRAN
By STEVEN R. HURST This combination made with file photos shows, from left, President Barack Obama, Iranian President Hasan Rouhani, Syrian President Bashar Assad, and Russian President Vladimir Putin. After…