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Yesterday I noted John Shaw’s claims that Russia removed weaponry from Iraq just prior to the 2003 invasion. I argued his claims were rubbish. Now it turns out even the US administration doesn’t support...

Note (added 29/10/04): Shaw’s claims (below) have been rejected by the White House and the Pentagon. John A Shaw, America’s Deputy Undersecretary for International Technology Security, is behind the...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been attracting quite a bit of criticism on his visit to Ukraine for allegedly interfering in the Presidential election there. But what caught my eye was Putin’s statement...

October 25th marked the one year anniversary of oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s arrest at gunpoint on a Siberian airfield, an anniversary which not only escaped my notice, but the notice of most of the...

Hot on the heels of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has adopted a Russian baby. Mosnews broke the news on Monday, revealing that Jolie fell in love with baby Gleb the moment she saw...

I never thought I’d live to see the day when terrorists went so far as to deliberately target schoolchildren.
I was wrong.

Two Russian passenger jets crashed yesterday within minutes of each other, killing all 89 passengers. Both planes flew out of the same Moscow airport (Domodedovo) yesterday evening, and both crashed within two to three...

Remember how back in May I told you about Terek Grozny upsetting the odds to win the Russian football cup and qualify for the UEFA (European) Champions League? Well, their Champions League campaign has begun… and...

The Guardian newspaper reports that German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and his wife have recently adopted an orphan from Russia… Three-year-old Victoria, from St Petersburg, has been living at the...

A couple of days after the raid on Ingushetia, everyone seems to be getting their bearings and slowly figuring out what exactly happened. Here are a few of the key developments of the last 24 hours: • ITAR-TASS has a...