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...Might these simply be the imaginings of the conspiratorial Slavic mind? Russia merely says that the threatened cutoff is business. Market prices are for all, friend or foe. And for practical reasons, Russia may want to exert full control over Beltransgaz, Belarus' gas distribution network. The cornerstone of Lukashenko's regime has been his ability to run the economy on cheap Russian gas as well as to sell expensive products refined from cheap Russian crude oil to other customers in Europe. If Russia goes ahead with the cutoff, Belarus threatens to hijack gas designated for European customers that...
...Islamists - and their vow to take control of the Ogaden desert from Ethiopia - as an immediate threat to its own interests. (The Islamists actually back secessionist insurgents in that region.) Given Ethiopia's intervention on behalf of the government, it comes as no surprise that Addis Ababa's fiercest foe, neighboring Eritrea, is supporting and arming the Somali Islamists...
...came at an opportune time. After an 0-3 start to the season, the Crimson appeared to have turned things around with victories over then-No. 3 Boston College and league foe Colgate over a three-game span. But since then, Harvard has faltered again, picking up only one win in its last six games...
...Britain, horrified that a foe of the Kremlin could be murdered with a radioactive isotope that has left traces all over London, has vowed to pursue the Litvinenko investigation wherever "the police take it," regardless of diplomatic sensitivities. However, once the men from Scotland Yard landed in Moscow, Russian prosecutor-general Yuri Chaika bluntly spelled out the limits of the British inquiry: It's the Russians who ask questions - the British just sit tight and watch. And should any Russians be discovered to have been involved, he said, they would not be extradited...
Harvard is currently tied for last in the ECAC with two points. The Crimson faces league-leading Quinnipiac (nine points) and fellow cellar-dweller Princeton (two points) at the Bright Center this coming weekend, and then former conference foe Vermont visits the following Tuesday...