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...every encounter with officialdom, every gape from rural school kids and every well-meant compliment on your chopstick skills. This is not an "Expat-as-Victim" article: I know that in the immigration authority's hierarchy of gaijinhood, Caucasians have a far easier time than, say, Filipino "Japayukis," Russian exotic dancers or South American laborers. My point is that foreignness is like a magical garment from a folktale, one with the sewn-in curse that its wearers cannot remove themselves. Only social consent will allow my child to feel at home in his or her Asian mother-country...
...Infighting among local warlords in the region allowed al-Qaeda to mass there. "We were busy with clashes of power," says Afghan commander Abdul Mateen Hassan Khel, sitting in an office in the provincial capital of Gardez, with 40 Russian tanks rusting outside his window. "Pockets of al-Qaeda from Jalalabad and other places were able to move in with them, so many are there now." Whether or not bin Laden and his top lieutenants are in the region, the known commanders are ripe enough targets. They include Ibrahim Haqqani, whose brother, a Taliban leader sought...
RUSSIA President Accused Former media mogul Boris Berezovsky attempted to link his one-time ally President Vladimir Putin to the bombing of Russian apartment blocks that killed over 200 people in September 1999. Berezovsky told a London news conference that Putin knew the country's special services were involved in the attacks. Putin, who headed the fsb security service before becoming Prime Minister that year, blamed Chechen rebels. Moscow said the accusations were an attempt to detract from investigations into Berezovsky's shady business dealings...
...selective memory, Boris Berezovsky and the Putin administration he helped bring to power spent much of last week exchanging allegations of horrible crimes. Berezovsky, the exiled billionaire who was one of the most influential figures in Boris Yeltsin's Kremlin, accused Vladimir Putin of complicity in devastating bombings of Russian apartment blocks in 1999 that killed over 200 people in Moscow and the small southern town of Volgodonsk. The Russian government refused to respond to the allegations, but announced that Berezovsky was being investigated for links to Chechen guerrillas...
...have been dwarfed at least 10 or 12 times over in recent years by the illegal catch in the four former Soviet republics. In the first post-Soviet decade, poaching evolved into a lucrative, high-stakes business, with abundant illegal canneries and "caviar Mafias" in places like the Russian republic of Dagestan...