russian events
In this photo, the reactor building of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant is seen, just outside the port city of Bushehr, 750 miles south of the capital, Tehran, in this Nov. 30, 2009, file photo. Russia’s nuclear agency spokesman, Sergei Novikov, said Friday fuel will be loaded into Iran’s first nuclear power plant next week,…
Mikhail Khodorkovsky sits in a defendant’s cage in a Moscow courtroom in this June 16, 2004 file photo. In a lengthy interview published in this week’s issue of SPIEGEL, he argues: “I was not a rober baron in the past, just as I’m not a martyr today.” SPIEGEL interview, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, 47, the former Russian…
The deadly fires have exposed a key problem in today’s Russia: No one knows what’s going on. Russia fought a deadly battle Tuesday to prevent wildfires from engulfing key nuclear sites as alarm mounted over the impact on health of a toxic smoke cloud shrouded over Moscow. Two soldiers were killed by blazing trees as…
Forest fires in Russia Hundreds of thousands of firefighters are battling forest fires across western and central Russia in the worst heatwave for decades. Homes have been destroyed, wildlife and farm stock lost and more than 30 people have died
‘Spy suspect’ disappears in Cyprus Metsos was reportedly last seen on at his hotel reception on Tuesday [AFP] A man wanted by the US authorities on suspicion of being the 11th member of a Russian spy ring has gone missing after being released on bail in Cyprus, police said. Christopher Robert Metsos had been ordered to…
Former Soviet spy Oleg Kalugin, who headed KGB operations in the United States in the 1970s and later left Russia to live in America, told CNN Tuesday he is “amazed” that Moscow is engaging so heavily in espionage against Washington. Reacting to the recent arrests of 11 alleged Russian spies, Kalugin said that getting the…
Russian-Irish spy ring eyed ‘global gold market’ Posted by Paul Murphy on Jun 28 22:32. The stuff of cheap thrillers, this one:
Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s book, “On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System”, attempts to explain why he should be praised and not buried.The question is whether his book should be classified as fact or fiction. I won’t be reading it, but found the leaked excerpts that…