Word: russias
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...roughly where America and Russia were in the late 1950s. But the ICBMs we were developing then were significantly bigger and more complex--and far more accurate...
...vicious accuracy ? strengths and weaknesses in Turkish society," says TIME Istanbul reporter Andrew Finkel. If anything good has come of the disaster, it?s been the human solidarity both within Turkey and from abroad. Turkish rescue teams have worked alongside those sent by such old enemies as Greece and Russia, and even where the Turkish state?s own response had been inadequate, local communities rose to the challenge. "There?s still a strong sense of community in Turkey," says Finkel. "It was neighbors, not civil defense units, who began digging through the rubble, many with their bare hands." That sense...
...down the toilet of corruption. Few figured the cesspool ?- or, more accurately, the sewage treatment plant ?- could end up in Manhattan. According to the Wall Street Journal, authorities are investigating whether some $200 million allegedly laundered through the Bank of New York was siphoned off IMF funds loaned to Russia to stave off its financial collapse. It?s happened before - in 1996, Russia?s own central bank (their Fed!) funneled $1.2 billion in IMF money to an offshore holding company, never to return - and if it?s happening again, the clues are everywhere...
...Bank of New York senior VP Natasha Gurfinkel Kagalovsky, who spearheaded the bank?s expansion effort into Russia, is one of the executives suspended in the money-laundering flap. Her husband? Konstantin Kagalovsky, who in the early '90s was Russia?s representative to ?- guess what? - the IMF. It gets better. The other suspended executive, Lucy Edwards, is married to a shady businessman named Peter Berlin, who authorities have linked, through his company Benex Worldwide, to reputed Russian mobster/arms dealer Semion Mogilevitch. All this makes the Bank of New York look either complicit or stupid - and the IMF look just plain...
...hard-liners want, it could make the Kosovo peacekeeping mission a political nightmare for NATO. Russian defense and foreign ministry statements warned last Friday that Moscow may consider pulling out of KFOR. But that wouldn?t be the easy victory the KLA hard-liners might imagine, because while Russia may have threatened to abandon its torturously negotiated relationship with the NATO-led peacekeeping command structure, it has no intention of quitting Kosovo...