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Opinion: What Can Soccer Teach Us About Fighting Terrorism?

You have to hand it to the Russian government. Just as the United States scrapped its widely mocked color-coded threat-level system, Duma lawmakers have adopted a near replica in response to a suicide bombing at the Domodedovo Airport that killed 40 people. Moscow has not grasped the sheer inanity of such a ridiculous...

Putin Hints at Crackdown on Opposition Ahead of Elections

MOSCOW (Dec. 16) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin vowed Thursday that Russia would take strong action to prevent racist violence and also harshly criticized his liberal political foes, signaling a possible crackdown on government opponents ahead of the country's next elections. Some 5,000 far-right extremists rallied...

Housing Development Threatens Russian Seed Bank

Cary Fowler, Global Crop Diversity Trust

(Aug. 11) -- During World War II, 12 Russian scientists starved to death at a biodiversity seed bank in what was then called Leningrad, choosing to die rather than eat the rare specimens of seeds and plants they'd dedicated their careers to protecting. Now that same seed bank, the Pavlovsk Experimental Station, which...

10 Russian Spies Deported After NY Guilty Pleas

NEW YORK (July 8) -- Ten Russian agents who infiltrated suburban America and acted as spies for Moscow were deported Thursday after admitting their crimes. The spies left New York for Moscow hours after pleading guilty to conspiracy in a Manhattan courtroom and being sentenced to time served and ordered out of the...

Russian Spies Revealed: Mikhail Semenko's Double Life

Mikhail Semenko is listed along with Anna Chapman in a federal complaint accusing the two of working clandestinely for the Russian government. They were arrested last weekend along with eight other alleged members of a Russian spy ring. A LinkedIn account for a Washington, D.C., man named Mikhail Semenko claims he works...

Background on Russian government

The Government of the Russian Federation () exercises executive power in the Russian Federation. The members of the government are the prime minister (Chairman of the Government), the deputy prime ministers, and the federal ministers.

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