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Created: 21.06.2006 22:44 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 22:49 MSK

Iraqi Al-Qaeda Group Says Kidnapped Russian Diplomats Killed

A group loyal to al-Qaeda in Iraq said it killed four kidnapped Russian diplomats, according to an Internet posting found by the Washington-based Search for International Terrorist Entities Institute.
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Created: 21.06.2006 16:17 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 18:03 MSK

Russian Attacker Stabs Synagogue’s Door Shouting Anti-Semitic Slogans An unidentified man climbed over the fence of a Yekaterinburg synagogue, ran up to the entrance and, while shouting anti-Semitic slogans, knived the door about ten times. FULL STORY...

Created: 21.06.2006 13:50 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 13:50 MSK

Turkmen Leader Orders to Suspend All Work in 45-Degree Heat (113 F) Saparmurat Niyazov, the leader of the Central Asian state of Turkmenistan has signed an order allowing all enterprises, institutions and organizations to suspend work when outdoor temperature reaches 45 degrees Celsius (113 Farenheit). FULL STORY...

Created: 21.06.2006 18:20 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 18:28 MSK

Russia Responds to al-Qaeda Threat to Kill Russian Diplomats Abducted in Iraq Russia has appealed again for the immediate release of four diplomats kidnapped in Baghdad on June 3. FULL STORY...

Created: 21.06.2006 18:03 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 18:03 MSK

Venezuela’s Ambassador to Russia Says His Nation Will Set Oil Fields on Fire in Case of Aggression Venezuela will set fire to its oil deposits in the event of a U.S. military operation, Venezuelan Ambassador to Russia Navarro Alexis Rojas said at a news conference in Moscow on Wednesday. FULL STORY...

Created: 21.06.2006 16:11 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 16:32 MSK

Iraq Militant Group Says It Has Decided to Kill Russian Hostages A militant group led by al Qaeda in Iraq said on Wednesday that it has decided to kill four Russian hostages after Moscow failed to meet demands that it withdraw from Chechnya and free Muslim prisoners. FULL STORY...

Created: 21.06.2006 17:52 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 17:52 MSK

Leading Russian Activist Urges Moscow to Defend Human Rights in Belarus A leading Russian human rights activist bemoaned the closure of Belarus’ largest and most influential rights organization Wednesday and called on Moscow to do more to defend rights in the tightly controlled ex-Soviet republic. FULL STORY...

Created: 21.06.2006 09:25 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 11:47 MSK

U.S. Lawmakers Urge Bush to Pressure Putin over Democracy in Russia Four prominent U.S. lawmakers urged President George W. Bush to rebuke Russian President Vladimir Putin over the “deterioration of democracy” in his country, as Russia prepares to host next month’s Group of Eight summit. FULL STORY...

Created: 21.06.2006 13:52 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 13:52 MSK

2 Police Chiefs Killed in Russia’s Dagestan Republic Head of the Dagestani Interior Ministry’s Khasavyurt district organized crime department Saigidsalim Zabitov and road police inspector Shamsudi Kachakayev were killed in a militant attack. FULL STORY...

Created: 21.06.2006 15:35 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 15:35 MSK

International Reporters’ Association Urges Russia to Protect Tajik Editor Receiving Death Threats Reporters Without Borders has called on the Russian Interior Ministry to protect Dodojon Atovulloyev, a Moscow-based Tajik journalist who has been receiving death threats. FULL STORY...

Created: 21.06.2006 13:50 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 13:50 MSK

Russian Burning Spaceship Sinks in Pacific Ocean The fragments of a Russian cargo vessel carrying space trash dipped into the Pacific Ocean on Monday after a three-hour flight since separating from the International Space Station (ISS). FULL STORY...

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MosNews

Yukos Board Chairman Hints at Possible Sale Off to Rosneft

Selling itself to Rosneft would be a “reasonable” move for Yukos to make, Viktor Gerashchenko, the chairman of the financially troubled Russian oil company, said on Wednesday, June 21. Gerashchenko was talking to the company’s shareholders.

YELENA BATYREVA, YELENA VAKHRUSHEVA

Komsomolskaya Pravda

Russian War Hero Tells Her Secret

She is a remarkable woman. And yet, she is just another Soviet woman who concealed her true sex while serving in a tank regiment during World War II. A Russian paper tells an astonishing story of a Russian woman who defended her homeland back in the 1940s.

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MosNews

Vladimir Putin’s State-of-the-Nation Address

Russian President Vladimir Putin used his annual state-of-the-nation address Wednesday, May 11, to warn that Russia’s population of 143 million was falling by an average of 700,000 each year. He has pledged cash bonuses to Russian women who give birth to two or more children. His speech also focused on the problems of the Russian Armed Forces.

GIDI WEITZ AND AMIR BEN-DAVID

Yediot Ahronot

Gazrprom’s Eye Fixed on Israel

Israel and Russia have started negotiations on contracts for the supply of natural gas and the construction of a pipeline to carry it. Who will profit from the billion-dollar deal? Gidi Weitz and Amir Ben-David at Yediot Ahronot, the Seven Days weekend magazine, search for a key to the puzzle.

MosNews

Ukraine’s Football Achievements Mean a Brighter Future for Children — Shevchenko

Ukraine’s Andriy Shevchenko is one of more than 100 football greats serving as a FIFA charity ambassador. In an interview to SOS-Kinderhof International, Shevchenko explains his decision to take part in the Children’s Villages project, speaking about the situation in his homeland of Ukraine and the chances that Ukraine and Germany have at the World Cup.

Hundreds Rally for “Free Country” in Moscow on Russia Day

On June 12, Day of Russia, some 600 people gathered in Moscow centre for a rally entitled “Free country for free people”. The protesters, mostly young people, rallied against nationalism, mass media censorship, political arrests, army hazing and the so-called “Operation Successor” that kicked off ahead of nearing presidential elections.