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The rogue Russian “government” has never been straightforward about its plans to take control of the oil and natural gas business. So Lithuanians were suspicious in late July when Moscow said it had shut down the only pipeline supplying them with Russian crude oil and blamed it on the environmental …

A media rights group on Friday denounced the conviction of a Russian journalist who has been fined for writing a satirical article about the Russian dog Putin, saying the court’s decision underlined shrinking media freedom in Russia.

The Taliban accused NATO forces of genocide on Friday, October 27, 2006,  after the latest in a series of civilian deaths from the US invaders, and said they would step up already rising fidayeen attacks.

According to a press release from the Jamaat Staraya Sunja Sabotage-and-Blasting Operations Group that has been received by Chechen news agencies today, October 28, 2006, three attacks were carried out by the Jamaat against local puppet troops on October 25-26, 2006, Daymohk agency reported.

Finland is calling on Russia’s secret police, the FSB, to stop levying extortion fees for crossing the border with Finland. The demand includes both the illegal fees that had been charged by FSB border guards at the Svetogorsk crossing adjacent to Imatra, as well as so-called legal ones.

The chauvinistic Russia’s foreign ministry on Wednesday bristled at Ukrainian officials’ push for declaring a Russian-provoked  Great Famine that killed up to 15 million people as genocide. Up to 15 million Ukrainians died in the 1932-33 Great Famine, which was provoked by Russians as part of their campaign to

U.S. and world emergency crude oil reserves could replace a complete shut-off of Iranian oil exports for 18 months, avoiding an estimated 1 billion in damage to the American economy, the Government Accountability Office said on Tuesday.

The spiritual leader of English and Welsh Roman Catholics said on Wednesday that he wished to make efforts for a warmer relationship between the British Catholic and “Russian Orthodox” churches according to Russian media.

Chechen Mujahideen armed with subbarrel grenade launchers attacked a Russian occupation base in the Kargalinovskya village in the district of Shelkovskaya late Thursday, October 5, 2006, according to Russian media.  

China has beamed a ground-based laser at U.S. spy satellites over its territory, a U.S. agency said, in an action that exposed the potential vulnerability of space systems that provide crucial data to American troops and consumers around the world.