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...city-center location will prove irresistible to guests planning a breakout. Things are even grittier at Latvia's Karosta Prison, karostascietums.lv - a former jail near the Baltic Sea resort of Liepaya. Originally built as a military hospital in 1900, it began housing prisoners during the early days of the Russian Revolution and continued to do so throughout the Nazi occupation, during the Soviet era and right up until 1997, when Latvian authorities released the last detainees. Today, for less than $10 a night, you can sleep on real prison bunks, eat prison food and be harangued by local drama students...
...Cabinet. He called them "bastards" and promised to "crucify them." French President Jacques Chirac heated up the old Anglo-Franco rivalry at a 2005 summit in Russia. Unaware that a French journalist still had a microphone switched on, Chirac joked with German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Russian President Vladimir Putin that "the only thing [Britain has] ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease ... you can't trust people who cook as badly as that. After Finland [Britain is] the country with the worst food...
...Chartreux, Shampoo & Conditioner, tel: (32-2) 511 0777, is the creative lab of young designers Aude de Wolf and Vanessa Vukicevic who draw their inspiration from contes noirs (dark tales). "Our style is somewhere between little girl and dangerous woman," says Russian-born Vukicevic...
...November 2004, Plotkin introduced Shpigelman to Pajcin at a Russian day spa and sauna in lower Manhattan, according to prosecutors...
...civil lawsuits and the claims of more than a hundred suspects, it was by force - sometimes a cattle prod held to a man's groin, or a burn caused by a radiator. One suspect said he was electrocuted during interrogation. Another says Burge forced him to play fake Russian roulette. Over the years, hundreds of similar stories emerged, some with enough merit that they factored large in former Gov. George Ryan?s decision to declare a moratorium on executions in Illinois in 2000 and clear the state?s Death...