Responding to a speech made on Wednesday, October 25, 2006, by Bush, the Ministry of Information in the Islamic State of Iraq issued a statement on October 26, 2006. Converse to Bush’s discussion of future U.S. strategy for Iraq as a means to victory, the group finds only success for …

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