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...glass are fairly limited, but this is bound to change once their “on tap” wine is up and running. Lest we forget cocktails, those listed under “Quintessential Classics” are well-priced and excellent, the Last Word and Moscow Mule both being green concoctions of Prohibition-era deliciousness...
...Russian region of Dagestan this week, few were surprised when the sound of heavy artillery and helicopter gunships began to reverberate from the forests around the city of Gubden. The husband of one of the suicide bombers who blew herself up on the Moscow subway on March 29 had been hiding out in the area, and the security forces were bound to come looking for him and his cohorts. The hunt began on April 11, turning several square miles of forest into a war zone on Russia's southern flank. Now it seems clear that the more measured approach...
...public debates in Russia about how to treat terror suspects, nothing like the American soul-searching on detainees in Guantanamo Bay. Officials have openly announced that civil rights will be null and void in the "zones of operation," including the freedom of movement and information. (See pictures from the Moscow subway suicide bombings...
...Hansen's decision to abandon her child a "monstrous deed." Hansen's adoption agency, World Association for Children and Parents - one of only about 30 agencies fully accredited by the Russian government - had its license to facilitate Russian adoptions suspended in the wake of the Hansen case, and some Moscow officials are calling for a halt to all foreign adoptions. The Joint Council on International Children's Services, which helps oversee intercountry adoptions, has started an online petition urging President Obama and Medvedev to allow adoptions to continue. (See TIME's interactive graphic on declining international adoptions...
...have to spend at least a year in an orphanage before the country deems them eligible for international adoption. It can take years for older adopted children to fully integrate into their new families; some never do, and require a lifetime of therapy and extra care. (See pictures of Moscow...