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Mere weeks after America banished sexy Russian spy Anna Chapman, another may have surfaced: 24-year-old Anna Fermanova is accused of smuggling military technology to Moscow. She has a bellybutton ring and wears bikinis on Facebook. Meet America's new sexy outlaw. The Smoking Gun reports that Fermanova is under house arrest in Texas awaiting trial for "knowingly and intentionally" exporting contraband weapons-grade night-vision scopes to Moscow. (She denies this, and says the scopes were for big game hunters.) She has an American cosmetology license and teaches English languages in Moscow. According to her booking papers, Anna is 5'6" and has a...

A Russian opposition activist who was a victim of a sophisticated "honey trap" operation in Moscow has told the BBC there are more videos ready to be posted on the internet to discredit other government critics. Ilya Yashin, of the group Solidarity, is one of five opposition figures to have appeared in videos posted on Russian websites after being secretly filmed having sex with a woman who had lured them back to an apartment rigged with cameras. The videos started to be posted on the internet at the end of March. "The scale of the operation is stunning. It is...

MOSCOW. March 27 (Interfax) - Russia intends to form a group of forces in the Arctic region in order to ensure state military security, which is provided in the strategy of Russia's policy in the Arctic region in the period to 2020 and beyond. "As to the sphere of military security and the protection of the Russian state border, a group of general purpose forces of the Russian Armed Forces, other troops, military units and agencies, primarily border agencies, should be created in Russia's Arctic zone, which are capable to guarantee military security in different military and political situations," the...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A wealthy Russian tried to buy a U.S. B-52 bomber from a group of shocked American pilots at an air show near Moscow, a Russian newspaper reported on Friday. The unidentified Russian, wearing sunglasses and surrounded by bodyguards, approached the U.S. delegation and asked to buy the bomber, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper said. An astounded member of the U.S. delegation said the bomber was not for sale but that it would cost at least $500 million (249.5 million pounds) if it were to be sold on the spot. "That is no problem. It is such a cool...

Saturday, March 04, 2006...and Now Positive Actions By the Bush Administration and Russia The world community continues to dance around Hamas, weaving to and fro, changing directions at such an amazing rate as to cause a sort of political whiplash for those of us observing and trying to figure out what a given country's policy really is. I've described Bush administration policy as schizophrenic. Here is a lovely example of why. Two days ago I chastised the Bush administration for cheering a European Union decision to release €120 million ($143 million) in aid to the Palestinian Authority, pointing out that...

Mar 2 2006 5:37PM London to consider Russia's request for Berezovsky's extradition MOSCOW. March 2 (Interfax) - Britain will thoroughly study the Russian Prosecutor General's Office's request for the extradition of businessman Boris Berezovsky, Anton Atrashkin, deputy head of the Press and Public Affairs Section of the British embassy in Moscow told Interfax on Thursday. "We know that a corresponding request has been filed. I can assure you that any enquiry filed by Russian government bodies will be thoroughly examined in London," he said.

Ukraine will hold a rerun of its presidential runoff election Dec. 26. Like the original presidential election between candidates Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich and opposition Viktor Yushchenko, this election is sure to cause controversy in Ukraine. Summary Ukraine will hold a rerun of its presidential runoff election Dec. 26. Like the original presidential election between candidates Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich and opposition Viktor Yushchenko, this election is sure to cause controversy in Ukraine. Analysis After the Ukrainian Supreme Court's decision to nullify the country's hotly contested presidential runoff election, the country will hold a rerun of the election Dec....

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