In Russia, fishermen are in hopes that the authorities will search Lake Chany (in Siberia) for a mysterious creature resembling Scotland’s famous, Loch Ness monster. Witnesses describe the beast to be “snake-like”. Locals are claiming that “Nesski” as they call it, have been dragging anglers to their deaths. Imamentinom Naurusovym, a 59-year old was the [...]
On Friday afternoon, a plane believed carrying Russians involved in the US-Russia spy swap landed at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C. There was no confirmation on whether all the four Russians freed earlier in the day were aboard. The US and Russia have successfully completed a spy swap in Vienna, Austria, the US Justice [...]
The US government agreed in a rapidly arranged spy swap Thursday to send to Russia 10 agents who had burrowed into American society and, in return, won the release of four jailed Russians accused of passing information to the West. The 10 agents, who pleaded guilty Thursday to acting as unregistered foreign agents, were deported [...]
A day after being released on bail, an alleged member of a Russian spy ring that authorities say operated under deep cover in America’s suburbs vanished in Cyprus on Wednesday. On Tuesday, the man who had gone by the name Christopher Metsos and was wanted in the US on charges he supplied money to the [...]
The arrest of 11 people accused of being part of a Russian spy ring is a mere bump in the road to better relations with America’s former Cold War foe, said US officials. The White House and the State Department both downplayed the implications of the blockbuster investigation, which revealed an elaborate Russian intelligence plot [...]
In a two-day summit, the G8 (Group of Eight) rich nations plan to focus on revival from global economic crisis, but they also touched on other crucial issues as well. They touched on Iran and North Korea, and criticized both. The leaders of G8 rebuked North Korea’s communist government and its alleged part in the [...]
At 8:56 a.m in Poland (0656 GMT) Saturday, church bells and emergency sirens rang out to mark the time a week earlier that the plane bearing Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, and 94 others crashed on Russian soil, sparing no survivors. The Pilsudski Square in Warsaw was crowded with thousands of Poles for the [...]
The body of Polish President Lech Kaczynski arrived in Warsaw on Sunday, as Poles mourned his passing along with 95 other political leaders and staff, in a plane crash in Russia. The casket where Kaczynski was lain was draped with a Polish flag and carried out by a military guard of honor. Polish dignitaries including [...]
