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...Estemirova, a researcher and activist for the highly respected Russian human-rights-defense organization Memorial, was abducted early Wednesday morning as she was walking to catch a bus to work. According to Memorial head Oleg Orlov, who spoke with neighbors who had witnessed the kidnapping, she was hustled into a white car by four unknown men. Eight hours later, police found her body in the violence-plagued neighboring republic of Ingushetia. (Read "Moscow Removes Ingushetia President...
...While human-rights activists in Russia have been pointing the finger at Kadyrov - "I know, I am sure of it, who is guilty for the murder of Natalya ... His name is Ramzan Kadyrov," said Orlov, Memorial's chairman, in a statement on the organization's website - the Interfax news agency reports that hours after the murder, Kadyrov released a statement calling those who carried out the killing "monstrous" and saying that they "deserve no support and must be punished as the cruelest of criminals...
...former East Bloc into Europe. Russia has sought to "ensure that the Energy Charter ceases to be the basis for the energy dialogue between the E.U. and Russia in the future, and to emphasize the need for new ad hoc arrangements in the format proposed by Russia," says Dmitry Orlov, head of the Agency for Political and Economic Communications, a Moscow-based think tank. During the talks, Medvedev reiterated that Russia would not participate in the current version of the document. Because of Medvedev's steadfastness, Orlov believes the E.U. is "now ready to consider new positions on energy questions...
Shultz devoted the bulk of his 20-minute speech to another familiar topic: U.S. displeasure with Moscow's human rights record. He named 22 Soviet citizens victimized by Moscow over the past decade. Among them were Nobel Laureate Andrei Sakharov, Physicist Yuri Orlov, Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky and more obscure citizens like Yuri Balovlenkov, whose "crime" was to marry a U.S. citizen...
...call girls and boys, imports opium from India and Pakistan and is ruthless in his pursuit of communists, a label he gives to whomever he takes a disliking. After Field uncovers other cases of Russian women horribly stabbed to death?all connected to Lu?he begins to worry that Orlov's beautiful neighbor, Natasha Medvedev, may be next...