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Feb 05, 2006	Iran To Face Security Council: Iran To Face Security Council QUOTE: As a signatory of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran has the right to develop nuclear technology and to enrich uranium. But it became enmeshed in controversy in 2002 when Iranian dissidents disclosed that the country had concealed its nuclear programs for almost two decades. Iran suspended the most controversial parts of its activities, and European diplomats agreed not to pursue Security Council action while they conducted intensive negotiations to ensure that Iran's program was and would remain peaceful.	Washington Post
Feb 01, 2006	Iran on IAEA Agenda, but Next Step Concerns U.S. QUOTE: [International Atomic Energy Agency--Ed.] board members will consider a new assessment from the IAEA's investigation of Iran. The two-page report depicts a country that remains under suspicion and continues to conceal information from inspectors, and it says Iran is preparing to begin pilot-scale enrichment.	Washington Post
Feb 01, 2006	Russia Revisits Issue of Conscript Abuse QUOTE: A horrific case of hazing at a Russian military academy has catapulted the issue of the brutal treatment of conscripts back into the public eye and led to demands that the Defense Ministry finally deal with a problem it has been accused of ignoring for years.	Washington Post
Jan 31, 2006	U.S., Allies Set Terms for Palestinian Aid QUOTE: The United States, the European Union, the United Nations and Russia agreed Monday that financial assistance to the new Palestinian government, which will be led by the radical Islamic group Hamas, would be contingent on the government's recognition of Israel and renunciation of violence.	Washington Post
Jan 16, 2006	Russian Case Shows No Holds Barred in Business and Politics QUOTE: The controversy opens a window on an enduring feature of life across Russia: the high-stakes battles between clans of politicians and business leaders. Elections, the courts, the bureaucracy and the news media all become weapons in these bitter contests.	Washington Post
Jan 10, 2006	Iran Delays Threatened Resumption of Nuclear Work QUOTE: France, Britain and Germany have negotiated with Iran over the last three years, seeking a deal by which it would permanently shut down parts of its nuclear program in return for diplomatic and trade incentives. Iran has tentatively shuttered certain nuclear operations, such as the enrichment facility, but has also repeatedly broken or altered various interim agreements.	Washington Post
Jan 06, 2006	Gas Dispute Leaves Cloud Over Russia's Chairmanship of G-8: Putin's Moves Upset U.S., Europe QUOTE: ...the business rationale Gazprom cited for its decision was a thin disguise for political action, punishing a new Ukrainian government for its policy of pursuing membership in the E.U. and NATO. Russia's membership in the G-8 has been controversial since its entry in the late 1990s. Recently, the issue has come back to the fore with the government's legal assault on the oil giant Yukos and a new measure that would bring grass-roots activism under greater government control.	Washington Post
Jan 03, 2006	Russia Reverses Itself on Gas Cuts: Supply Largely Restored After Move Against Ukraine Is Felt Across Europe QUOTE: Russia retreated abruptly Monday from its confrontation with Ukraine over natural gas prices, after an uproar in West European capitals over dead-of-winter cuts in gas supplies threatened to undermine Russia's ambition to expand its highly profitable role as a strategic energy partner of the European Union.	Washington Post
Jan 02, 2006	Russia Cuts Off Gas to Ukraine In Controversy Over Pricing: Move Raises Concerns About Energy Supply for Other European Countries QUOTE: The state-controlled Russian energy giant Gazprom cut off the supply of natural gas to Ukraine...the standoff has a fraught political backdrop and could also have potentially far-reaching implications for Europe, which is increasingly dependent on Russia for natural gas.	Washington Post
Jan 02, 2006	Major Russian TV Station Is Accused of Censorship QUOTE: Last July, RTL Group, the broadcasting arm of the Bertelsmann Group, agreed to buy a 30 percent stake in REN-TV from Irena Lesnevskaya, who founded and ran the channel with her son, Dmitry Lesnevsky. Some journalists are criticizing RTL for not intervening in what they say are moves to restrict the station's coverage	New York Times
Dec 22, 2005	Revised Russian Bill Governing NGOs Fails to Mollify Critics QUOTE: The Russian parliament on Wednesday passed a revised version of a controversial bill governing grass-roots activity in the country. Nongovernmental organizations welcomed a few of the amendments but reiterated their concern that the measure will authorize strict government supervision and allow the shutting down of some groups.	Washington Post
Nov 27, 2005	Chechens Head to Polls Voicing Mistrust: Many See Putin Loyalist Dictating Outcome of Elections for Local Parliament QUOTE: Voters go to the polls in Chechnya on Sunday to choose a new local parliament, an election that the Kremlin hopes will further a policy of "normalization" in the conflict-torn republic. But many Chechens and analysts predict little effect on the violence and corruption that has exhausted and alienated a population desperate for peace.	Washington Post
Nov 24, 2005	Grass-Roots Activism Faces Setback in Russia: Legislators Endorse Tough Restrictions QUOTE: ...force local organizations, from medical charities to human rights groups, to re-register with a state body that would examine their activities and decide if they could continue their operations. The law would also restrict the ability of Russian nongovernmental organizations, or NGOs, to accept foreign grants or employ foreigners.	Washington Post
Nov 18, 2005	Revival of Cossacks Casts Muslim Group Out of Russia to U.S. QUOTE: Thousands of Muslims from a small ethnic group known as the Meskhetian Turks are fleeing this Black Sea region for the United States. The exodus is caused by what human rights groups call a campaign of persecution sanctioned by local authorities and spearheaded by the Cossacks, a Russian militia that fought for the czars and is being revived.	Washington Post
Oct 11, 2005	Militia Violence Escalating In Darfur, U.N. Envoy Says QUOTE: Khartoum has not abided by a long-standing Security Council order to establish a "plan to disarm" the Sudanese-backed Arab militiamen, who stand accused of driving more than 2 million tribal Africans from their homes since 2003.	Washington Post
Oct 03, 2005	Russian Former Minister to Be Extradited Over Embezzlement Charges QUOTE: Switzerland has agreed to extradite Russia's former atomic energy minister to the United States, where he faces charges that he embezzled at least $9 million....The case has rankled Russian officials...	Washington Post
Oct 02, 2005	Russia's 1-Step Program: Scaring Alcoholics Dry QUOTE: ...a Russian method of treating alcoholism that essentially involves scaring the living daylights out of the alcoholic... it involves the manipulation of the alcoholic's psyche to create the belief that alcohol equals death.	Washington Post
Sep 24, 2005	Chernobyl Report Reignites Debate: Those Affected Doubt Findings QUOTE: Uncertainty about the long-term health consequences of the catastrophe at Chernobyl has generated an angry debate here [Ukraine and Belarus--Ed.].	Washington Post
Jul 22, 2005	Who's To Blame for Beslan? ABSTRACT: The families of Russian children in Beslan killed in attacks by Chechen separatists want answers about how the attack came to be; they want the surviving perpetrator given immunity so he will be motivated to provide those answers. They believe that Russian officials, from bribed local police who let the militants pass checkpoints all the way up to Russian President Vladimir Putin, share responsibility for the tragedy.	Slate
Jun 01, 2005	Russian Tycoon Gets Nine Years: Moscow Newly Criticized at Home and Abroad for Failure to Uphold Rule of Law QUOTE: Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was sentenced Tuesday to nine years in prison on fraud, embezzlement and tax evasion charges following a 10-month trial shadowed by claims that the Kremlin orchestrated the case to crush a potentially dangerous political opponent.	Washington Post
May 31, 2005	Russian Troops To Leave Georgia: Deal Struck on Pullout by 2008 QUOTE: Russia agreed Monday to a timetable for the withdrawal of its forces from two military bases in Georgia	Washington Post
May 10, 2005	Know Thy Allies: What Bush got wrong about Yalta. QUOTE: Along with the myth of FDR's treachery in leading America into war, the "stab in the back" interpretation of Yalta became a cudgel with which the old right and their McCarthyite heirs tried to discredit a president they had long despised.	Slate
Mar 28, 2005	Saving Nonproliferation QUOTE: While claiming to be protecting the world from proliferation threats in Iraq, Libya, Iran and North Korea, American leaders not only have abandoned existing treaty restraints but also have asserted plans to test and develop new weapons...abandoned past pledges and now threaten first use of nuclear weapons against nonnuclear states.	Washington Post
Feb 11, 2005	"Dresden Bombing Is To Be Regretted Enormously" QUOTE: The Feb. 13, 1945 bombing of Dresden by the British Royal Air Force has become a symbol for excessive, gratuitous violence on the part of the Allies during World War II. But with the 60th anniversary of the bombing on Sunday, a new book by British historian Frederick Taylor argues that this view may not be quite accurate.	Der Spiegel
Nov 25, 2004	Arctic Countries Agree on Perils of Climate Change but Not Solution QUOTE: The United States and the seven other countries with Arctic territory jointly expressed concern yesterday about profound changes in the Arctic climate and said they would consider new scientific findings concluding that heat-trapping emissions were the main cause.	New York Times
Oct 19, 2004	'New Stage' of Fear For Chechen Women: Russian Forces Suspected in Abductions QUOTE: ...as Chechen guerrillas increasingly recruit female suicide bombers... Russian forces are sweeping through Chechnya abducting women from their homes as well...	Washington Post
Oct 08, 2004	Many Helped Iraq Evade U.N. Sanctions On Weapons QUOTE: As part of its stealth effort to evade U.N. sanctions and rebuild its military, the Iraqi government under President Saddam Hussein found that it had no shortage of people around the world who were willing to help.	Washington Post
Sep 06, 2004	Russia Admits It Lied On Crisis QUOTE: The Russian government admitted Sunday that it lied to its people about the scale of the hostage crisis that ended with more than 300 children, parents and teachers dead...	Washington Post
Apr 30, 2004	Study Finds 25 Nations Hindered by Corruption QUOTE: A survey of government accountability and openness in 25 countries around the globe has found that each one is challenged by corruption and lacks sufficient protections against electoral abuses, including developed democracies such as the United States, Germany and Japan.	Washington Post
Apr 11, 2004	Poisons From Afar Threaten Arctic Mothers, Traditions: Toxins, Coming North by Air and Water, Enter Inuit Food Chain QUOTE: Scientists say the Arctic, once considered pristine and unspoiled, has become a sinkhole for pollutants. The contaminants -- including heavy metals, mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls or PCBs, DDT and other pesticides -- come north by air and water.	Washington Post
Mar 29, 2004	Follow-Up To Kofigate QUOTE: At least $5 billion in kickbacks went from corrupt contractors mainly French and Russian into the pockets of Saddam and his thugs. Some went to pay off his protectors in foreign governments and media, and we may soon see how much stuck to the fingers of U.N. bureaucrats as well.	New York Times
Mar 23, 2004	Oil for Food: Annan Seeks to Blunt Allegations QUOTE: Secretary General Kofi Annan is pressing reluctant members of the Security Council to help investigate charges of corruption in the oil-for-food program that it ran in Iraq...	New York Times
Jan 28, 2004	Siberians Tell Moscow: Like It or Not, It's Home QUOTE: ...it will be one of the largest mass migrations of Russians since the Soviet Union began forcibly populating the region at the height of Stalin's terror in the 1930's. But the experience so far shows the difficulty of undoing by persuasion what was accomplished by decree.	New York Times
Jan 04, 2004	Moscow Paper Opens New Era QUOTE: Newspapers have not been targeted for government-orchestrated takeovers the way television has... But some Russian journalists say the Kremlin nonetheless manages to intimidate many newspapers into muting their criticism and investigative journalism.	Washington Post
Dec 25, 2003	Treason Trial for Russian Researcher Delayed Indefinitely QUOTE: A Russian court has suspended the espionage trial of arms control scholar Igor Sutyagin indefinitely, leaving him in limbo again after four years in prison and outraging human rights groups that consider it another violation of judicial due process.	Washington Post
Oct 23, 2003	Historian Urges Revocation of 1932 Pulitzer QUOTE: A Columbia University historian retained by the New York Times said Wednesday that he had recommended that the Pulitzer Prize awarded in 1932 to the newspaper's Moscow correspondent be revoked.	Los Angeles Times
Aug 13, 2003	85 Indicted in Insurance Scam QUOTE: ...indictment of 85 people involved in a massive scheme to collect millions of dollars in insurance awards for staged car accidents and fraudulent injuries.	Newsday
Jul 14, 2003	Chechnya's forgotten refugees QUOTE: "When young women in the prime of life blow themselves up, it's terrible. But they've been driven to desperation.	British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Jun 06, 2003	Attack Kills at Least 17 Near Chechnya QUOTE: Female Suicide Bomber Tried to Board Bus Carrying Military Personnel to Base	Washington Post
Feb 24, 2003	Russia's Irksome Bioweapons Stock QUOTE: The former Soviet Union had the most successful bioweapons program in the world -- and those in charge of what remains of the program would like to keep it that way.	Wired
Jan 23, 2003	Personal Data Is Pirated From Russian Phone Files QUOTE: ...Mobile Telesystems, a Russian mobile phone company...suffered a huge security breach that led to pirated CD's, purportedly containing its entire database of five million customers	New York Times
Feb 12, 2002	Business Versus Biznes QUOTE: ...the term "biznesmen" (pronounced "beeznessmen") refers to the class of sudden new rich who emerged after the fall of Communism — and who generally got rich by using their connections to strip away the assets of public enterprises.	New York Times
Dec 29, 2001	Cleaning Up Russia's Culture of Corruption: Putin Targeting All Who 'Feed Off' Small Business QUOTE: As part of his campaign to reform Russia's economy, President Vladimir Putin has declared that corrupt and overlapping bureaucracy is choking the growth of small businesses, which breathed life into other post-communist economies.	Washington Post
Dec 09, 2001	War On Terror Casts Chechen Conflict in a New Light QUOTE: ...that [Russia's] two- year-old war in Chechnya is a battle against international terrorism, not a brutal suppression of domestic separatists. It is also the sort of story that Americans and other Westerners shrugged off until the attacks of Sept. 11...	New York Times
Oct 06, 2001	The 40-Year War QUOTE: That decent 1990's impulse to do good in Bosnia and Kosovo, even at the price of alienating Russia and China, was already, before Sept. 11, giving way to a foreign policy based on an unsentimental notion of our national interest.	New York Times
Aug 22, 2001	U.S. Sets Deadline for Settlement of ABM Argument QUOTE: ...the United States had given Russia an unofficial deadline of November to agree to changes in the Antiballistic Missile Treaty or face a unilateral American withdrawal from the arms control accord.	New York Times
Aug 08, 2001	Are 'White Hat' Hackers Unfairly Under Siege? QUOTE: Aren't we squelching the whistle-blower hackers (the white hats) who are keeping the software industry in check? Or should we just trust the software giants...	ZDnet
Jul 11, 2001	Commander Says His Troops Committed Crimes in Chechnya QUOTE: The commander of Russian military forces in Chechnya said today that his troops had committed "widespread crimes" in two days of terror they inflicted on civilians in Chechnya.	New York Times
Jul 06, 2001	Ex-F.B.I. Agent Pleads Guilty to Spying QUOTE: former F.B.I. agent pleaded guilty today to charges that he had spied for Moscow since 1985	New York Times
Jul 01, 2001	'Jihadistan' QUOTE: QUOTE: Religious fanaticism.... when it merges with economic and cultural despair....the world's first "virtual nation," perhaps best called "Jihadistan." They recognize no borders save those of the Umma, the Islamic world...	Washington Law & Politics

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