Makers of portraits have found the way for the Russians who still cannot decide whether to take Putin’s portrait off the walls in their offices or not. Novy Region (“New Region”) reported that combined portraits of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev have been brought to a number of bookstores in …

“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 …