Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, pictured here on November 20, 2008, on Friday embarked on a four-nation Latin American tour seen as sending a defiant message to the United States at the close of the George W. Bush presidency. (Source: AFP)

Russian leader embarks on defiant Latin America tour

AFP, Nov 21 05:53 PM US/Eastern — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday embarked on a four-nation Latin American tour seen as sending a defiant message to the United States at the close of the George W. Bush presidency.

…Meanwhile back home

‘MTV’ will stop broadcasting as its license expired this summer after 15 years, but its not the famous music channel experiencing problems. Malovereiskoe TV, a small broadcasting station in the heart of a Russian region. Its programming was mainly farming and local gossip and it only had around 600 viewers, but in terms of local TV it was a ratings success.

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Cadets in historical uniforms take part in a military parade in the Red Square in Moscow, November 7, 2008. Moscow marked the anniversary of a historical parade in 1941 when Soviet soldiers marched through the Red Square to the front lines of World War II. REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov

Russia rejects U.S. missile proposals

Wed Nov 12, 2008 8:30am EST, By Guy Faulconbridge

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Wednesday rejected U.S. proposals aimed at easing concerns over a missile defense system in Europe and said it would try again to resolve the row once Barack Obama is in the White House.

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The documents make clear that within weeks of the incident, investigators piecing together the fragments realised that only three of the weapons could be accounted for.

Mystery of lost US nuclear bomb

By Gordon Corera BBC News security correspondent, northern Greenland

The United States abandoned a nuclear weapon beneath the ice in northern Greenland following a crash in 1968, a BBC investigation has found.

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, right, visits Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has spent the weekend watching missile tests. After watching Saturday a submarine-launched ballistic missile, a part of naval exercises being staged in the northern Barents Sea, Medvedev witnessed a test-firing of a 21-year-old Topol ICBM on Sunday at a rain-soaked launch site in the northern forests. (AP Photo by Dmitry Astakhov)

Russia flexes muscles with volley of missile tests

13 Oct 2008 14:27:48 GMT Source: Reuters By Dmitry Solovyov MOSCOW, Oct 13 (Reuters) – Russia test-fired two ballistic missiles and bombed a dummy town at the weekend, but analysts said the show of military preparedness was for domestic consumption and not a Kremlin warning shot to the West.

Russia Execises Military Muscles
10-12-2008 Russia test-fired long-range ballistic missiles Sunday as President Dmitri Medvedev pledged to build up the country’s armed capabilities.

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Russia ratchets up US tensions with arms sales to Iran and Venezuela

From Times (UK) Online September 18, 2008 Tony Halpin in Moscow — Russia snubbed its nose at the United States today by announcing plans to sell military equipment to both Iran and Venezuela.

A picture taken on December 4, 2007 shows Magomed Yevloyev, owner of the Ingushetiya. ru website in Moscow. The founder of the website and vocal critic of the Kremlin’s policies in the Caucasus died on August 31, 2008 from a bullet wound to the head while in police custody, Interfax reported quoting prosecutors. Yevloyev ran the website ingushetiya. ru, a major source of information in the region, and was a prominent opponent of the pro-Kremlin president of Ingushetia, Murat Zyazikov. (Photo from Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images)

01 Sep 2008 17:21:40 GMT Source: Reuters NAZRAN, Russia, Sept 1 (Reuters) – Police in Russia’s troubled Ingushetia region were in a standoff on Monday with protesters angered by the death of a leading opposition journalist who was shot in the head while in police custody.

‘The Ingush people are native to the Caucasus. They lived in the Caucasus for over 10,000 years. Constant warfares with nomads from all over the world shaped the nation of warriors and engineers. This can be well traced through defence structures, castles, and combat towers all over Ingush mountains and lowland. The number of the structures built on such a small territory is much higher than anywhere else in the world. Majority of the structures were dynamited by the Soviets in the middle of the twentieth century on the orders of Joseph Stalin in order to hide the national identity of the Ingush people.’ (photo and text courtesy http://www.ingush.us/index.htm)

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: August 31, 2008 Filed at 10:23 a.m. ET MOSCOW (AP) — The owner of an independent Web site critical of authorities was shot and killed Sunday by police in a volatile province in southern Russia, his colleague said.

How Chechnya came to Ingushetia
In a few years, Ingushetia has gone from a haven of peace to a place where suspected rebels are ‘disappeared’ or gunned down in cold blood All comments (4) Tanya Lokshina guardian.co.uk, Tuesday July 08 2008 10:00 BST

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The Republic of Ingushetia (Ingush: ГӀалгӀай Мохк; Russian: Респу́блика Ингуше́тия, Respublika Ingushetiya) is a federal subject of Russia, located in the North Caucasus region with its capital at Magas. The smallest of Russia’s federal subjects, Ingushetia is a home to the indigenous Ingush, a people of Vainakh stock.

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By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Daily Telegraph UK, Last Updated: 4:02pm BST 29/08/2008 Fears are mounting that Russia may restrict oil deliveries to Western Europe over coming days, in response to the threat of EU sanctions and Nato naval actions in the Black Sea. Any such move would be a dramatic escalation of the Georgia crisis and play havoc with the oil markets.