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...Qatar, two Russian security agents lost their cloak of invisibility when they were charged with helping to assassinate Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, a former Chechen President with alleged links to al-Qaeda. The Russian Foreign Minister, Igor Ivanov, denounced their arrest as "unsubstantiated" and blasted Qatar for "virtually becoming Yandarbiyev's patron" - but at the same time defended the agents as "members of the Russian special services ? linked to the battle against international terrorism." Which is almost like saying they didn't do it and if they did he wouldn't admit it. The day before Short made her charge, the British...
...meet to compose poetry and perform that most quintessentially Japanese of arts, the tea ceremony. (Today, any object of the tea ritual from that time, even the humblest bamboo ladle, fetches a fabulous sum at auction if an association with Yoshimasa can be established.) An accomplished poet and great patron of Noh theater, Yoshimasa explored every artistic field known in his day and even created a few: he played a crucial role in the emerging art of flower arrangement and dabbled in the blending of perfumes...
...accuse Mr. Putin." The state-dominated media dismissed Rybkin's story. He had suffered a nervous breakdown or had simply been drinking in Kiev, they suggested. Others claimed he was being used by Boris Berezovsky, the London-based billionaire and bitter enemy of Putin who has been Rybkin's patron since the mid-'90s. "Rybkin is not just finished as a politician," said analyst Andronik Migranyan. "He is simply not a very bright man." Strategist Gleb Pavlovsky predicted he would garner a "big fat zero" in the elections. Others, however, thought Rybkin's story plausible. Russian and Western observers with...
...barely through the door when one patron noted, loudly and to no one in particular, “Rembrandt went bankrupt! That’s too bad.” I quickly moved to a self-portrait, where an old man stridently lectured his wife on the finer points of the painting. This was just the beginning...
Representatives of the monastery have been seeking the bells’ return for almost 20 years, and intensified their quest last year before the 700th anniversary of the death of St. Danil, the Monastery’s patron saint...