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...poisoning hasn't been proven, it isn't unknown in Russia and its former satellites. In Chechnya in March 2002, a rebel commander named Khattab died after handling a letter coated with an unidentified poison; the Russian foreign-intelligence service fsb claimed credit. In July 2003, Russian investigative journalist Yuri Shchekochikin died from a sudden, agonizing disease whose symptoms included blistering; doctors blamed an allergic reaction. In Yushchenko's case, forensic scientists will now try to determine when and how he was poisoned, though fingering a culprit may be next to impossible. The poisoning has already given him martyrlike status...
...near record crude prices and Iraq in turmoil, Russia's vast untapped wealth of oil and gas has never looked more attractive. There are production challenges: many of the reserves are located in remote locations deep in Siberia or above the Arctic Circle. Russia's Minister for Natural Resources, Yuri Trutnev, has cautioned that extracting Russian oil will become increasingly difficult. Nonetheless, the Western oil companies are eager to export Russia's reserves, which are conservatively estimated at 70 billion bbl. - more than double those...
...Jyoti Thottam. Reported by Perry Bacon Jr. with Kerry, Massimo Calabresi and Douglas Waller/Washington, Matthew Forney/Beijing, Ghulam Hasnain/ Islamabad, Donald Macintyre/Seoul, Tim McGirk/Kabul and Yuri Zarakhovich/ Moscow
...J.F.O. McAllister, Paul Quinn-Judge and Yuri Zarakhovich
...Russia's Racists You quoted Yuri Belyayev, the leader of the St. Petersburg neo-Nazi Freedom Party [Aug. 9], as saying that unless the Russian government recognizes his ultra-right-wing group and agrees to share power, the Nazis will be forced to "launch our version of Sinn Fein to keep talking to the government and our version of the I.R.A. to practice terror." This disturbed young man is grossly misinformed. The I.R.A. was not attempting to wipe out the Unionist population of Northern Ireland, but fought a guerrilla war against the British army to attain Irish sovereignty...