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  • Ryan Fogle vodka bears and gypsies

    Pravda - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

    Exposing a CIA agent, who was trying to recruit an agent of Russia's FSB (Federal Security Bureau), has become the talk of the day in Russia. Some experts say that in addition to the wig, Ryan Fogle should have brought bears and gypsies. Others seriously say that the FSB excelled in detaining the spy. Three years have passed since the last spy scandal between Russia and the United States. ...

  • The West wont shed a tear for Chavez

    Pravda - Monday 20th May, 2013

    The death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has become a number one topic in the Western press. Journalists discuss the Comandante's personality and the legacy he left behind. They also wonder how his death will affect other countries in Latin America, and who will replace ...

  • USSaudi covert operations in Chechnya Ricin diamonds Stingers

    Pravda - Monday 20th May, 2013

    Bank accounts were opened at BCCI by US intelligence agencies in order to fund the Mujahideen not only in Afghanistan but in the Caucasian Region to include Chechnya and Dagestan. Once BCCI was shut down a new means of off-the-books funding was needed. It was then that the US and Saudi intelligence organizations figured out that diamonds from the African Continent would be a worthy convertible ...

  • Brazil retains the worst FIFA world ranking

    Pravda - Monday 20th May, 2013

    ZURICH / SWITZERLAND - The Brazilian Soccer Team has the worst team in the history of the FIFA world rankings. In the monthly update on the list, the team led by Luiz Felipe Scolari remained in 19th place. The country that won the World Cup most times only appears as the fifth force in South America, according to the report. By ANTONIO CARLOOS LACERDA ...

  • European Space Agency names first Briton for space station mission

    Yahoo - Monday 20th May, 2013

    The European Space Agency says a former army helicopter pilot is to be Britain's first official astronaut to go to the International Space Station. Major Tim Peake, 41, is set for a five-month mission to the ISS in 2015 in a move being called a major boost for Britain's space industry, The Daily Telegraph reported Monday. Peake has been awaiting a mission assignment since graduating ...

  • The Federal Security Service of Russia arrested in the early hours of Tuesday U.S. diplomat Ryan Christopher Fogle accused of trying to recruit a counterterrorism officer of the Russian security services in a new episode of the war of spies between Mo

    Pravda - Monday 20th May, 2013

    Opera Mundi The Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB, former KGB) arrested in the early hours of Tuesday (14th) U.S. diplomat Ryan Christopher Fogle, accused of trying to recruit a counterterrorism officer of the Russian security services, in a new episode of the war between spies Moscow and Washington. "On the night 13-14 May counterintelligence services of the FSB arrested Christopher ...

  • Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denies that his government would employ chemical weapons as the governments of western and regional countries and variations predicted a possible military invasion against the country. The claim was that they used chemic

    Pravda - Monday 20th May, 2013

    Now, if they were used on a city or suburb with a balance of 10 or 20 victims, would it be believable? - he questioned. The allegations regarding the use of chemical weapons or information about my resignation change every day and it is likely to be used as a prelude to a war against the nation, said the representative of the Arab country during an interview with Argentine media. The interview ...

  • They call it the kangaroo hug - cradling a new-born baby close to the body raising its body temperature faster and better than any incubator and 90 per cent effective in restoring body temperature to premature babies. But what about the mother whose lov

    Pravda - Monday 20th May, 2013

    Australia. The name of the mother is Kate Ogg, who had twin babies born prematurely at 27 weeks - first Emily, who survived and then after three hours of labour, Jamie who was still-born and after 20 minutes of struggling to get him to breathe, the doctors pronounced him dead. They then handed Jamie to his mother, wrapped in a blanket, for her to say ...

  • Four killed in Dagestan blast as Moscow plot foiled

    ABC Australia - Monday 20th May, 2013

    Russian Federation Four people have been killed and close to 50 wounded by twin car bombs in Russia's restive Dagestan region, while the Kremlin also announced it had foiled a major plot to attack Moscow.Investigators in Dagestan initially put the death toll from the blasts at eight but the local interior ministry later revised it to four, adding that 44 people were also wounded, most of ...

  • Council of Europe tells Putin of concern over Russian NGO law

    The Star - Monday 20th May, 2013

    SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - The head of the Council of Europe told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday he was concerned a law requiring non-governmental organisations which received funding from abroad to register as foreign agents could have a "chilling ...

  • Moscow Terror Attack Foiled After Shootout

    Sky News - Monday 20th May, 2013

    Russian security services claim to have foiled a planned terrorist attack in Moscow after a shootout that killed two alleged militants. "Our forceful actions prevented an attempted act of terror in the capital," the National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) said in a statement. Two suspects were killed and a third arrested during the raid on a house in the town of Orekhovo-Zuyevo, ...

  • Russians kill 2 suspected terrorists following shootout

    Middle East Times - Monday 20th May, 2013

    Russian police said they killed two suspected terrorists and captured a third in a shootout outside Moscow Monday. RIA Novosti said the men had recently returned from the border area ...

  • Three defeats of the media subservient to U.S.

    Pravda - Monday 20th May, 2013

    The colonialist media in Brazil, which looks more like a branch of the U.S. State Department, suffered three tough losses early this week. President Hugo Chávez, who the vultures of old news already gave up for dead, returned to Venezuela and was greeted by thousands of people. By Altamiro Borges Already Rafael Correa, another demonized by the media, was reelected handily in Ecuador. ...

  • Dagestan bombs kill four two dead in shootout near Moscow

    The Star - Monday 20th May, 2013

    MAKHACHKALA, Russia (Reuters) - Two car bombs killed at least four people and wounded dozens of others on Monday in one of the bloodiest attacks this year in Dagestan, a turbulent province in Russia's North Caucasus region where armed groups are waging an Islamist insurgency. Car bombs, suicide bombings and firefights are common in Dagestan, at the centre of an insurgency rooted in two ...

  • Russian Billionaire Lebedev Pleads Not Guilty in Court

    VOA - Monday 20th May, 2013

    MOSCOW -- Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev has pleaded not guilty to charges of hooliganism motivated by political hatred. Lebedev says that he is being targeted by Russian President Vladimir Putin because Putin believes he is funding the opposition. Alexander Lebedev, co-owner of Novaya Gazeta, Russia's leading opposition newspaper, went on trial Monday in a Moscow court. Lebedev ...

  • Putin foe gets boost from trial witness

    IOL - Monday 20th May, 2013

    MOSCOW - Russian media magnate Alexander Lebedev received unexpected support from a prosecution witness on Monday and told a court that charges laid against him over a televised punch-up were invented by state ...

  • Keep the Pressure on Putin

    Human Rights Watch - Monday 20th May, 2013

    What can Germany do? Russia is a key strategic ally for Germany, with important relations spanning business, energy, and geo-politics. German politicians and diplomats always have to keep these aspects in mind. Equally, international human rights standards provide part of the bedrock of German foreign policy and form the basis of co-operation with Russia and ...

  • US spy scandal A typical example of Washingtons Modus Operandi

    Pravda - Monday 20th May, 2013

    Skullduggery, bullying, blackmail, bribery, the buzz words in the lexicon of US diplomacy, increasingly a handbook of demonic activities and a classic example of a what-not-to-do list. It comes as no surprise then to find a CIA agent unceremoniously kicked out of Russia in abject humiliation for himself and for Washington. Good riddance! Instead of cooperation, transparency and collaboration, ...

  • George Orwell and the American complex terror

    Pravda - Monday 20th May, 2013

    When Orwell wrote his most famous novel, which happened to be the most emblematic of dramatic past century, he was not writing about Soviet Union and Stalin. He was basically writing a dystopia about Britain, the ruined Britain of Churchill and Lord Beveridge, a desperate country ruled now by conservative nihilism, social security services and the ideology of iron curtain and cold war. Orwell ...

  • Russia Two Militants Planning Terror Attack Killed Near Moscow

    VOA - Monday 20th May, 2013

    Russian officials said Monday that security forces killed two suspected militants and detained another, in a special operation near Moscow that thwarted a terrorist attack on the ...

  • Russian Security Service Says It Foiled a Terrorist Attack in Moscow

    General Sources - Monday 20th May, 2013

    Russia 's security agency surrounds someone's house—a firefight broke out and two suspects were killed. This is one of the rare times that one of the suspects survived, but it's unknown what fate will befall him now that he's been captured by security ...

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