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...before, but with little success. In August 2008, Magomed Yevloyev, an opposition journalist in Ingushetia, was shot dead while in police custody. Many blamed Ingushetia President Murat Zyazikov for allowing the murder to happen, so the Kremlin replaced him in October with Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, a highly decorated career soldier. While Yevkurov struggles to cope with corruption among local authorities and attacks on officials by Muslim radicals, he seemed to have calmed the violence in the area - until the killing of the deputy chief judge on Wednesday...
When Barack Obama sought the presidency, he pledged to reverse the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy preventing gays and lesbians from serving openly in the U.S. military. Yet on Monday, the Supreme Court rejected a gay Ohio soldier's challenge to the law - with the legal backing of none other than the Obama Administration...
SENTENCED Former U.S. Army soldier Steven Green, 24, was sentenced on May 21 to life in prison for raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and killing her and three members of her family...
...Russia's foreign relations front. A year after Medvedev made his speech promising greater respect for the rule of law, a report by human-rights watchdog Amnesty International said that in Russia "impunity prevails" for human-rights violations by the government. Russia may have gained a hardened combat soldier as the leader of its élite forces, but it's losing international faith in Medvedev's reforms...
...take yourself too seriously, but do take your work seriously.” Petraeus—whose remarks were part of a ceremony following the commissioning of four seniors into the Army and three into the Marine Corps—was hailed as a “soldier scholar” by University President Drew G. Faust, who spoke before Petraeus. Faust also gave the moniker to the seven newly-commissioned officers and one graduate student to be commissioned in the fall, telling them that as such, their role is to “never let the military or society...