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After 13 years of complete Labor dominance...

After 13 years of complete Labor dominance in the Parliament and at Downing Street, the British are preparing to put on conservative attire. However, they will hardly dare to fully change colors from red (color of the Labour Party) to blue (color of the Conservatives). All the latest polls as well as various analysts, psychics, and the most reliable political forecasters - the bookmakers - suggest that after the May 6, 2010 general election, Britain will be dressed in a blue top and red bottom with substantial elements of orange (color of the Liberal Democrats) in the middle.


MOSCOW, December 23 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow...

MOSCOW, December 23 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow police officially rejected media reports on Tuesday that two violinists from a famed Russian orchestra had been attacked by racists, a police spokesman said. A member of the Moscow Virtuosi chamber orchestra, Denis Shulgin, was hospitalized with a fractured skull and brain concussion after an attack in the Russian capital on Monday. Attackers stole his valuable violin. In a separate incident on Sunday, his colleague Georgy Tsai, an ethnic Korean, was stabbed in the stomach and suffered numerous hand injuries. His bag was stolen during the attack, which occurred near his home. Both men are reported to be in a stable condition. Police are investigating whether the attacks were linked. After the first incident, media said the violinist had been a victim of a race-hate attack. However, the police spokesman Viktor Biryukov dismissed the reports saying: "We officially deny this information as there no grounds for such allegations." Criminal cases into assault and robbery have been opened, he said. Racially motivated crimes have become common in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Attacks by gangs of youths on foreigners and people with non-Slavic features are a routine occurrence in Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as the city of Voronezh, which hosts many foreign university students. Last week, the Moscow City Court sentenced seven young men, convicted of 20 race-hate murders and 12 other attacks, to between six and 20 years in prison. The gang carried out a series of attacks between August 2006 and October 2007 targeted at foreigners and non-Slavic migrants. The suspects filmed some of the attacks and posted them on the Internet.


MOSCOW, October 29 (RIA Novosti) - Alrosa...

MOSCOW, October 29 (RIA Novosti) - Alrosa, Russia"s largest diamond miner, said on Thursday it sold diamonds worth $1.73 billion in January-October 2009.

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While western countries have expressed their...

This proves that a sizable portion of Western society still see developments in Chechnya, Dagestan and other North Caucasian republics through the prism of separatists movements, whereas the Islamists in the North Caucasus have long been striving to establish an anti-Western Islamic entity in the region, which is supposed to become part of the illusory caliphate in the Caucasus and Central Asia.

Experts have long been following the cross border movement of Islamists in Central Asia. The Pakistani government’s military operations in South Waziristan and U.S. air strikes in the North Waziristan have confirmed that, in addition to the Afghan and Pakistan Taliban, Islamists from Chechnya, Dagestan and Uzbekistan are playing an active role in the conflict in the tribal regions.

Therefore, a link between the terrorist attack in Moscow and Al-Qaeda and the Taliban cannot be excluded. Moreover, the way in which the attacks were carried out in Moscow and Dagestan fits the

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