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...National Poisons Service, told Nature magazine last month. While deliberate poisoning hasn't been proven, it isn't unknown in Russia and its former satellites. In Chechnya in March 2002, a rebel commander named Khattab died after handling a letter coated with an unidentified poison; the Russian foreign-intelligence service fsb claimed credit. In July 2003, Russian investigative journalist Yuri Shchekochikin died from a sudden, agonizing disease whose symptoms included blistering; doctors blamed an allergic reaction. In Yushchenko's case, forensic scientists will now try to determine when and how he was poisoned, though fingering a culprit may be next...
...WITH THE SCREAMING BRAIN Bruce Campbell, David Goodman, Hilary Barta (w) An adaptation of the upcoming Bruce Campbell feature film about a business man on vacation in Europe whose gets half of a Russian cab driver's brain put inside his head. (Summer...
...semantic dispute, featuring four dictionaries and conflicting testimony among current and former Harvard professors, the jury concluded Shleifer was in fact “assigned to” Russia when he served as lead adviser to a Harvard Institute for International Development program which helped privatize the Russian economy after the fall of the Soviet Union...
...verdict related to a narrow and technical issue in the case,” said Harvard spokesman Joe Wrinn. “Harvard remains confident that as the matter proceeds we will demonstrate that the work on the Russia Project was of great value to both the Russian Federation and the United States government...
Last June, Shleifer and former HIID employee Jonathan Hay were found liable for fraud because of personal investments they made in Russia while advising the Russian government on privatization...