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...would have been in trouble with other prisoners - he hoped the assault would result in his being placed in solitary confinement until the transfer situation dissipates. After the assault, he was indeed sent to solitary confinement for ten days. A source in the Federal Penitentiary Agency (FSIN) told the Interfax wire agency that afterwards Kuchma would be transferred to another penal colony. Khodorkovsky referred to Kuchma as "unstable...
...Russians, he says, "are not ready for sanctions. They want to buy time, stretch the process out." But no one is making it easy on them. In addition to Rice's entreaty, U.S. Ambassasdor to Russia William Burns paid a call Tuesday on Lavrov, and, according to the Interfax News Agency, French foreign minister Philippe Douste-Blazy also telephoned...
...been murdered are a local official in the oil fields of Siberia and the general director of an oil company. "The common denominator in all five criminal cases is conflicts over property between state or commercial bodies and Yukos," a source close to the prosecutor's office told the Interfax news agency. Yukos rejects all allegations leveled against it as baseless. The disarray reflects schisms within the Kremlin. Despite the confident hands-on image that Putin projects to the world - and which Russia's tightly controlled electronic media transmit daily to its citizens - the President is a tentative leader...
...enough. According to one account, he threw a bottle at some of his Chechen captors and ran toward them. A gunman opened fire, missed the youth and hit another man in the eye. "There was blood--foamy. A girl was hit in the side," said Olga Chernyak, an Interfax news reporter among the captives. "It happened right where I was. I thought they would kill us all." As hostages screamed, recalled Chernyak, "The Chechen women were very happy the end was coming and that they would blow us all up. They told us, we have come here...
...caught red-handed" trying to acquire military secrets. The incident follows the arrest earlier this month by the U.S. military of a Navy code-breaker, Petty Officer First Class Daniel King, 40, who faces charges of passing secrets to Russia. The Russians detained a junior embassy staffer identified by Interfax as Cheri Leberknight, a second secretary of the U.S. embassy's military-political department, and accused her of working for the CIA to procure state secrets. She was later released, and Russia's Foreign Minister Igar Ivanov said he hoped the case would not harm relations with Washington...