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...sorry.' ANDRZEJ HALICKI, chairman of the Polish parliament's foreign-affairs committee, on the speech by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (right) marking the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II. Putin drew praise for his conciliatory tone, but he stopped short of apologizing for Russia's occupation of Poland...
...Arctic Sea,” a ship with an Estonian, Latvian, and Russian crew that was nominally bound from Finland to Algeria with a cargo of harmless timber. Initial reports claimed masked men speaking accented English subdued, but did not harm, the crew; then the ship simply vanished. Russia has claimed, once the ship was found off West Africa, that there was no suspicious cargo on board besides the intended logs. Yet experts believe there was more to the ship’s hijacking than pirates seeking ransom...
...More and more it seems likely that the ship was illicitly carrying powerful Russian anti-aircraft missiles to Iran. Russia has denied this assertion, but its position seems fishy. Whether Russia was coerced into taking back the missiles and covering the situation up or the missiles were forcibly removed, they would not be reported in the inventory following the ship’s recovery. Furthermore, the first whistleblower on the ship’s secret cargo, Mikhail Voitenko, a maritime expert and editor of the Russian maritime journal “Sovfracht,” has been fired and induced...
...announced and then maintained in the face of doubting by its press that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had spent a full day incommunicado last week because he was visiting a secret Israeli base, it has since admitted Netanyahu leased a private jet from an Israeli citizen and flew to Russia for the day, where he spoke in secret...
...countries work more closely together, it appears Israel avoided any post-op crisis and successfully negotiated with its much larger counterpart on the issue. Around the time the ship was discovered off the west coast of Africa, Israeli President Shimon Peres even declared victory of a kind, announcing that Russia would reconsider selling a variety of missiles types to Iran; in what seems Russia’s preferred form of disclosure, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s office neither confirmed nor denied the claim that Medvedev has promised to work with the Israelis on the issue...