“Putin is more of an oligarch rather than a dictator. In other words, he wants to rule like Stalin and live like Abramovich,” this is the viewpoint expressed by chess ex-world champion Kasparov in his interview to Spanish periodical El Pais.

Sources in the United Province of Kabarda, Balkaria and Karachai (KBK), The Caucasus Emirate, reported that early morning of Jumada Al-Akhirah 19 1429 (June 23, 2008), a sabotage unit of the Caucasus Armed Forces (Mujahideen) attacked a clandestine apartment of Russian Federal Security Service (FSB, former KGB) in Elbrus District …

Sources of the Russian invaders claim that three Mujahideen from one of the units of Shali Sector of Eastern Front of The Caucasus Armed Forces died last weekend during a battle near the village of Mahkety.

Russian media reported that Prosecutor’s Office of the Krasnoyarsk Province in Siberia has conducted an examination and did not discover any violations of the law of the Russian Federation in placing the verse from the Koran “There is no god but Allah” on the wall of the Krasnoyarsk mosque.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian prosecutors said on Monday they had charged a gang led by two teenagers of murdering 20 people in a series of racist killings over eight months.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Five Iraqi appeals court judges escaped assassination attempts on Monday when bombs exploded outside their homes in eastern Baghdad, an apparent attempt to intimidate the court, police and a judicial official said.

(Reuters) – Following are security developments in Iraq at 9:30 EDT on Monday: BAGHDAD – Five Iraqi appeals court judges escaped assassination attempts when bombs exploded outside their homes in eastern Baghdad, police and a judicial official said.

GAZA (Reuters) – A Palestinian journalist said from his hospital bed on Monday that he was abused and injured by Israeli security personnel on his way home to the Gaza Strip after receiving a journalism award in Britain.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – An explosion destroyed the home of a militant in Pakistan’s Khyber region on Monday, killing seven people, on the third day of a government offensive against Islamists threatening the city of Peshawar.

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Turkey will ask Malaysia’s main opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim to leave its embassy in Kuala Lumpur as soon as possible, Malaysia’s foreign minister said on Monday.