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...Except that most of those who were killed are Uzbeks, Tajiks, Chinese and Vietnamese - the "blacks" or "churki" (wooden stubs), as Russian Nationalists derogatively call non-white foreigners, and as the increasing number of average Russians casually echo them. On Tuesday, law enforcement officials said they identified the bombers as three young ethnic Russian students of Moscow colleges. The suspects believed, Moscow's Prosecutor Yuri Demin told the press, that "There are too many Asians" here...
...risk anything. He supported Putin and believed the President shared some of his goals. "He is for rubbing the churki out, and for a strong Russia, and so are we," Belyayev said. Back in the fall of 1999, in the wake of terrorist apartment bombings in Moscow and other Russian cities, then-Premier Putin pledged "to rub out the terrorists on the john." Neo-Nazis - along with many Russians who would genuinely feel insulted if they were called Nazis - interpreted this statement in the same way Belyayev did - as a virtual license to attack. I heard it from officers...
...well). After testing the Kwarx effect, Simon Tam, director of the International Wine Centre in Shanghai, rules: "These glasses deliver an accurate environment for wine appreciation. The calculated, wide glass bulb gives plenty of surface area for the wine to blossom." There's just one drawback: Will Greek or Russian weddings, where wineglasses and other breakables are smashed for luck, ever be the same again...
...KILLED. Mitsuhiro Morita, 35, Japanese crab fisherman, after a Russian patrol boat opened fire on his vessel in disputed waters northeast of the Japanese island of Hokkaido; in the Sea of Okhotsk. Russian officials claimed the ship's captain had illegally crossed into Russian territory, while Japan called the act "unacceptable" and demanded immediate compensation and the release of the vessel's remaining crew, who are being held by Russian authorities. The shooting is rooted in a 150-year-old row over the strategic, resource-rich Kuril Islands, which are claimed by both countries...
...Korea have signaled their willingness to give Abe a chance once he takes power, to allow him to begin to repair the immense damage that Koizumi has done to Japan's Asian relations. But with national pride is surging in Japan - on Wednesday the government reacted furiously after a Russian patrol boat opened fire on a Japanese fishing boat sailing in disputed waters, killing a fisherman - Abe would need to show real statesmanship. "It would take a Prime Minister who has a rational view of the situation, who says, 'This is bad for Japan, and I won't go,'" says...