Word: russianness
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...usual suspects? For a terrorist bombing in Moscow, there may be too many to round up. Russian authorities confirmed Thursday that an overnight explosion that killed 23 people and injured more than 150 was caused by a 450-pound bomb, opening another round of speculation as to the identity of the perpetrators. Although a caller to the Interfax news agency claimed the attack was a "response to the bombing of villages in Chechnya and Dagestan," that?s unlikely to close the betting on the identity of the perpetrators...
Coming hard on the heels of last weekend?s car-bomb attack that killed scores of people in an apartment block used by Russian military personnel in Dagestan ? and the renewed offensive by Islamic separatists there ? the temptation to link the latest Moscow blast to the turbulence in the Caucasus is strong. But the blast also follows last week?s attack on a games arcade in a shopping mall near the Kremlin, which sparked speculation that a gangland turf battle was involved, or, conversely, that the attack was part of a pattern of provocation by unnamed forces in the corridors...
IGOR SERGEYEV Russian Defense Minister routs Dagestan rebs. Keep your AK-47 warm. More revolts coming...
...challenge facing U.S. officials probing an alleged money-laundering scandal in which $15 billion is said to have been funneled out of Russia through the staid Bank of New York. Members of the investigating task force were reported Wednesday to be reluctant to share information with their Russian colleagues, for fear that such information would find its way quickly into the hands of the targets of the probe. "The concern here is not that individual criminals have bought off individual law enforcement officials, but rather that the police, prosecution and security services all toe the line of the political powers...
...apparent hesitation of American law-enforcement officials to involve their Russian counterparts comes at the same time that the White House finds itself under increasing criticism for having shoveled billions in aid to Moscow through the International Monetary Fund, much of which appears to have been siphoned off by criminal elements. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers was quoted Wednesday as vowing to halt all further IMF aid to Russia until the Kremlin had provided satisfactory accounting for previous loans. Meanwhile, the Yeltsin administration?s performance over the issue hasn?t given Western law enforcement much cause for confidence. The best efforts...