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...anniversary on Aug. 7. "The Georgian leadership is plotting various events on the border with South Ossetia to coincide with the anniversary of the 2008 events in the Caucasus ... They are of a distinctly provocative nature," Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin said on Wednesday, according to Russian news agency Itar-Tass. (See pictures of Russia celebrating Victory...
...fearless, and boldly defended the truth and protected the interests of people," Shamkhan Akbulatov, head of Memorial in Chechnya, told Russian news agency Itar-Tass. "She was killed because of her professional work." Prosecutors investigating the case agree, saying the murder was linked either to her work or a personal enemy...
...Leonid Slutsky, First Deputy Chair of the Russian Duma's Foreign Relations Committee, told Itar-Tass on Friday that "So far, Russia doesn't have plans of recognizing Abkhazia and South Ossetia." However, he said, "Should Georgia try using force there, the situation will cardinally change. The same concerns Georgia's plans of joining NATO...
...time. The hotel is in an isolated spot, far from the streets where we might encounter ordinary North Koreans. And that was the point: our hosts plainly didn't want us mingling. When I later groused about it to the Pyongyang correspondent for the Russian news agency ITAR TASS, he just chuckled. "Don't you know what foreigners here call your hotel?'' he asked. "Alcatraz. Difficult to get into--and even harder to leave...
...from. And that was the point. There hadn't been this many Americans on North Korean soil since the Korean War, and our hosts plainly didn't want us mingling. When I later groused about it to a colleague posted to Pyongyang for the Russian wire service Itar-Tass, he chuckled: "Do you know what foreigners here call your hotel? Alcatraz. It's difficult to get into - and even harder to leave...