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CONVICTED. MIKHAIL KHODORKOVSKY, 41, former chief of Russian oil giant Yukos, who became the country's wealthiest oligarch after the collapse of the Soviet Union; on charges including tax evasion and fraud; ending a nearly yearlong trial that critics claimed was part of a politically motivated campaign by the Kremlin to deter the billionaire from financing opposition to Vladimir Putin; in Moscow. Khodorkovsky, whose dwindled fortune was once estimated at $15 billion, was sentenced to nine years in jail...
...senator also speculated on the potential implications of a smallpox attack on the U.S. The Soviet Union produced three tons of weaponized smallpox during the Cold War, and “it is impossible to rule out that quantities of this or other deliberately manufactured pathogens...may have found their ways into the possession of terrorists such as [Osama] bin Laden and [Abu Musab] al Zarqawi,” Frist said...
...Former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky was a prominent member of Ariel Sharon's Cabinet until May 2, when he quit to protest the Israeli Prime Minister's plan to pull out of settlements in the Gaza Strip. Now a fellow at the Shalem Center, a Jerusalem think tank, Sharansky talked to TIME'S Jerusalem bureau chief, Matt Rees, about terrorism, human rights and Sharon...
...estimated Tuesday that there were some 1,000 foreign fighters in Iraq, out of a total force of hardcore insurgent fighters believed to number up to 20,000. But the Institute warned that the campaign against the U.S. in Iraq has begun to play the role that the anti-Soviet jihad in Afghanistan once did in creating the first generation of al-Qaeda leaders. Its experts warned that Iraq "could serve as a valuable proving ground for 'blooding' foreign jihadists, and could conceivably form the basis of a second generation of capable al-Qaeda leaders ... and middle management players...
...North Korea] also has nuclear warheads and carrier missiles, which are targeted on the big cities of South Korea and Japan." INTERNAL MEMO from the Hungarian Foreign Ministry, dated Feb. 16, 1976, part of a trove of declassified Soviet-era documents released last week by the Woodrow Wilson Center's Cold War International History Project...