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Shabattai Kalmanovich Dead: Former KGB Spy Killed In Moscow

AP | Posted 11.02.2009 | World

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MOSCOW — A Russian businessman who had been convicted in Israel of being a KGB spy was shot dead in Moscow on Monday, police said. Shabattai Ka...

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'GQ' Buries Article Critical Of Russian President Vladimir Putin

NPR | David Folkenflik | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Kgb, Russia, Conde Nast, Scott Anderson, Media, Investigative Journalism, Censorship, Gq, Journalism, Media News

For war journalist Scott Anderson, the most confounding part of his recent assignment for GQ magazine to explore the root of terrorist acts in Russia ...

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Drug Wars: Brazil's Amazon The New Rio Grande

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 09.08.2009 | World

Read More: Bill Clinton, Council on Foreign Relations, Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Latin America, Lula, Farc, Mexico, Dea, Obama, Brazil, Plan Colombia, Kgb, France Iran, Hip Hop, Colombia, Michele Bachelet, Alvaro Uribe, Vladimir Putin, Hillary Clinton, Drug War, Celso Amorim, Cuba, Amazon, Sivam, World News

The last thing president Lula and Brazilian democracy need is the United States on its northern border using the drug war to interfere in internal politics like it has done in the past with Mexico.

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Russia: Police, Security Agents Have Right To Open Mail

AP | KARINA IOFFEE | Posted 08.22.2009 | World

Read More: Kgb, Russia, Russian Police, Russia Security Agents, Russia Police to Open Mail, Russia KGB, Russia Postal Service, World News

MOSCOW — The Russian government has issued an order telling postal workers that police and security agents have a right to open mail, causing al...

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Was Izzy an Agent?

D. D. Guttenplan | Posted 08.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Kgb, Communism, I.F. Stone, Ron Radosh, Spies, National Security Agency, Cold War, Media News

I've always had a soft spot for Ron Radosh. This may seem surprising, particularly since Radosh just penned an attack on me, my I.F. Stone biography, ...

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Obama Does Moscow, and Vice Versa

William Bradley | Posted 08.08.2009 | World

Read More: Bishkek, Russia, Islamic Jihadist, Boris Yeltsin, Ussr, Kremlin, Iraq, Georgia, Vladimir Putin, Soviet Union, Dacha, Ukraine, Kgb, Iran, Chechnya, Nato, Barack Obama, Kyrgyzstan, George W. Bush, Poland, Gazprom, Manas, Moscow, Afghanistan, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Grozny, John McCain, Dmitri Medvedev, Czech Republic, Fsb, Dick Cheney, World News

Unlike most of the rest of Europe, Russia is hardly in the grips of Obamamania. He's certainly more popular than George W. Bush or John McCain, but that's damning with faint praise.

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Reliable Sources: Raising the Stakes of the Interrogation Debate

Rolf Mowatt-Larssen | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kgb, CIA Interrogations, Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, Curveball, Enhanced Interrogations, Spying, Espionage, Politics News

Protecting our country from terrorist attacks by obtaining reliable intelligence is essential. But it is also essential to assure U.S. moral authority by acting in a manner that is consistent with our high ideals.

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Putin's First Column: 'Why It's Hard To Fire People'

The Independent | Posted 06.27.2009 | World

By Shaun Walker in Moscow | The Independent In the past year he's been painting pictures, singing songs, and demonstrating his expert judo moves. Th...

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Top 10 Real-Life Spy Gadgets

Times Online | Times Online | Posted 06.12.2009 | Home

Read More: Kgb, Gadgets, Poison Tip Umbrella, Spy Tools, Cia, Spies, Spy Gadgets, Home News

1. Poison-tipped umbrella Probably the most infamous real-life spy gadget is the umbrella used by the Bulgarian secret services -- with KGB help --...

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Try Catching a Few ZZZ's to Stop Catching Colds

Anne Dunev | Posted 04.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Driving, Sleeplessness, Cold Remedies, Mothers, Illness, Traffic Accidents, Kgb, Carnegie Mellon, How to Sleep Better, Alcohol, Romans-Empire, Sleeping, Science of Sleep, Sleep Deprivation, Russia KGB, Torture, Sleep, Living News

Getting less than seven hours of sleep each night can make you three times more likely to catch a cold. And if you sleep restlessly, that makes you five times more susceptible.

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Alexander Lebedev, New Evening Standard Owner, Tells Media: Drop KGB Tag

Independent | Ian Burrell | Posted 03.07.2009 | Media

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The Russian oligarch who has purchased the London Evening Standard made an appeal for the British media to refrain from branding him as a former agent...

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Alexander Lebedev, Former KGB Spy, To Buy London's Evening Standard

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 02.21.2009 | Media

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LONDON — When Alexander Lebedev was a KGB spy in London, it was a daily habit to read the capital's Evening Standard newspaper. Now, he owns it...

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Georgian Lobbyist Has KGB Ties, AP Reveals

AP | DESMOND BUTLER and MATT SIEGEL | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Kgb, Lira Tskhovrebova, Pat Leahy, Georgia, Russia Georgia War, Politics News

WASHINGTON — A foreign activist lobbying in Washington to draw American attention to a war over a Russian-backed breakaway region has had freque...

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The KGB And Russia's Economy: How A Group Of Friends Gained Control

Fortune | Bill Powell | Posted 10.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Putin Economy, Russian Economy, Kgb, Russia, Russia KGB, Russian Oligarchs, Business News

(Fortune Magazine) -- Long before the small group of men gained control of a $1.3 trillion economy, they could be found gathered at a lakeshore deep i...

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CIA's 'Most Valuable Defector,' Yuri Ivanovich Nosenko, During Cold War Dies

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 09.27.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — A KGB spy who switched allegiances at the height of the Cold War and was considered by the CIA as its "most valuable and economical...

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Rumors Of The Next Cold War

Judah Freed | Posted 09.18.2008 | Home

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No matter how subtly the conquest happens, Russian control of Georgia would amount to an historic shift in the balance of power -- especially as long as the world economy is fueled by oil.

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