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...William H. Webster. Over the decades, the former FBI and CIA chief has headed numerous high-profile investigations into public agencies, including the Los Angeles Police Department's response to the 1992 Rodney King riots and the FBI's failure to catch Soviet and Russian mole Robert Hanssen...
...Kryukov, a graduate student in open pit mine development, says he and four classmates caught a train to Moscow and were housed at a resort outside the capital that is owned by the Russian State Technology University. "That's where all the students were taken. They treated us really well. We didn't pay for any of it," he says. Rehearsals for the program lasted two days and were organized by Putin's press service and producers from the state-owned Vesti television channel. "We had other questions, ones that were more relevant to us, about mining, about the education...
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited Moscow this week to negotiate a multibillion-dollar arms deal, meet the Russian President and Prime Minister and seal a new civilian nuclear deal with Russia - which the Indian press hailed as even more advantageous than India's similar technology-sharing agreement with the U.S. Singh told a Russian news channel, "We have been able to get equipment and technologies from Russia which were not available to us from any other countries...
...friendship, celebrated so elaborately and so recently over gilded plates of collard greens and basmati rice? It certainly hasn't been forgotten, but the ritual pomp and genuine goodwill of the Nov. 24 state visit to Washington have quickly made room for the realities of Indian politics. The Russian bear hug is a "note of caution" and a reminder of earlier American agreements gone sour, says G. Parthasarathy, a former Indian ambassador and visiting professor at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi. While the details of the U.S. deal are still being ironed out and President Obama...
...Jawaharlal Nehru's vision of a nonaligned India, a belief that cuts across party lines. So every step closer to the U.S.'s embrace is likely to be followed with at least a symbolic show of keeping its distance. Witness Singh's ceremonial review of a fur-hatted Russian honor guard less than two weeks after dining at the Obamas...