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  • Pakistan Roots Seen in Moscow Plot

    The Moscow Times - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

    Suspected militants targeted this week in a deadly raid outside Moscow as they purportedly plotted an attack on the city received training in the troublesome border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan, law enforcement said Tuesday - an allegation that experts called a reminder of the threat posed by Russian radicals coached and sometimes financed from abroad. Special forces officers killed ...

  • Booted U.S. Lawyer Backed Magnitsky

    The Moscow Times - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

    The lack of an official explanation for the abrupt expulsion from Russia of U.S. lawyer and former Justice Department official Thomas Firestone earlier this month has led to a flurry of speculation about what may have prompted it. Firestone, an expert on corruption in Russian law enforcement agencies who worked as a lawyer for the Moscow office of the Baker & McKenzie law firm, was detained ...

  • Nikiforov Says States Weight Is Behind IT

    The Moscow Times - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

    Nikolai Nikiforov told business representatives at the Leaders' Club forum on Tuesday. Information technology is important for the Russian economy, Nikiforov said. It accounts for 4.6 percent of the nation's GDP and is growing three times faster than the economy overall. He said that the ministry is committed to push ahead with introduction of electronic identification cards, mobile ...

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