Interview: Unprecedented opportunity

Rami Khouri, a veteran editor and reporter who currently serves as editor-at-large for the Lebanese English language newspaper, The Daily St

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"… , they’ve gotten nowhere because the American government, as well as the Russians and others, have been supporting the tyrants.Now, it’s the U.S. that …"

"… e not going to use them aggressively, if Israel and Pakistan and China and Russia, and all these other people around have nuclear weapons and the U.S. is ne …"

"… o the best thing is to engage the Iranians as the Europeans are doing. The Russians are working with the Iranians, the International Atomic Energy Agency. T …"

"… ey share values. And the answer is either containment, as the U.S. and the Russians and the Chinese did to prevent the use of weapons, or engagement, which …"

Romanian weapons modified in the U.S. become scourge of Mexican drug war

By Rick Schmitt and Rick Young

Center story focused on Romanian weapon now targeted by Feinstein legislation

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"… d early 1990s, Century was one of the largest importers of SKS rifles from Russia and China, variants of a semi-automatic carbine that was once a staple of …"

FBI tracked alleged Russian mob ties of Giuliani campaign supporter

By Knut Royce

WASHINGTON, December 14, 1999 — The Center for Public Integrity is investigating how billions of dollars of allegedly corrupted money from t

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"… ng after cash, end up with equally questionable contributions as suspected Russian organized crime figures seek to move into the U.S. political mainstream I …"

"… mob organization headed by Vyacheslav Ivankov, the imprisoned godfather of Russian organized crime in the United States, lists Kislin as a “member/associa …"

"… ssociate” of Ivankov’s gang. It claims that his company co-sponsored a Russian crime boss and contract killer for a U.S. visa and asserts that he was a …"

"… of the late notorious arms smuggler Babeck Seroush, who later settled in Russia.In a telephone interview on December 17, Kislin confirmed he had employed …"

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Last bastion of free press

By Yevgenia Albats

MOSCOW, July 10, 2001 — Surprise, surprise. ...

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"… the upcoming G-7 meeting in Genoa, to announce his firm intention to make Russia’s best political radio station even more independent – under state pat …"

"… omplete control over the only independent national broadcast organ left in Russia. Hardly a coincidence.Time and again, we must give credit to President Vla …"

"… had happened.Now I’m wondering what Bush is going to say as a eulogy to Russia’s free press. “I trust him until he proves different,” as the presid …"

"… be called “missiles in exchange for the Baltics.” The essence is that Russia will quietly allow the United States to abrogate the 1972 Antiballistic Mi …"

Part I: Moscow's open, revolving door for big tobacco

By Roman Anin

Moscow's open, revolving door for big tobacco

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"… th campaigns designed to stem smoking-related deaths and illnesses. But in Russia, the industry has more than a chair at the talks.  It appears to run …"

"… It appears to run the table.A turning point should have come in 2008, when Russia signed on to the WHO’s tobacco-control convention, which calls for tight …"

"… treaty, they had already struck a deal with tobacco companies on a set of Russian rules – lighter restrictions – that pre-empted the WHO mandate.That l …"

"… ng to the new tobacco rules had worked hard to spread its influence across Russia’s political landscape. In an eight-month probe, the International Consor …"

Europe's future mafia states

By Marina Walker Guevara

The National Intelligence Council released its latest study on the world’s future last week, Global Trends 2025. The report, produced by exp

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"… aria, and various other Balkan states, including Serbia.And then there’s Russia.“Russia of course is its own monster,” said one crime expert with long …"

"… various other Balkan states, including Serbia.And then there’s Russia.“Russia of course is its own monster,” said one crime expert with long experienc …"

"… nster,” said one crime expert with long experience in the region. “The Russian Far East is already ‘captured’ by criminal interests and run by crime …"

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From Russia for Love

By Bill Birnbauer

MELBOURNE, March 29, 1998 — They told Anna Vladimirovna that if she tried to escape, “things” could happen to her son and family back in the

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"… en hurt badly if I caused any problems.”The heat didn’t end there. The Russian pimps continually checked on her and the three other Ukrainian prostitute …"

"… far as government authorities were concerned.Terrified and silenced by the Russian mafia, Anna left Melbourne in November last year, her dream of life-long …"

"… left, she told migration officials that more girls were on their way from Russia. Police believe that up to 50 women from the Ukraine and Russia were broug …"

"… r way from Russia. Police believe that up to 50 women from the Ukraine and Russia were brought to Melbourne in the past year as sex workers or, quite legall …"

McCain's friends

By Caitlin Ginley

While Republican John McCain has severed ties with two campaign advisers who lobbied for the military junta in Myanmar, connections between

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"… The Wall Street Journal, worked for a Ukrainian political party backed by Russian leader Vladimir Putin.The Center for Public Integrity’s 1992 report, …"

Few prosecutions for unregistered foreign agents

By Nick Schwellenbach

The major roll-up of 11 Russian spies-cum-suburbanites involves the relatively rare use of the criminal code that requires agents of foreign

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"… convicted of failing to register as foreign agents. …"

"… r the same part of the criminal code – 18 U.S.C. 951 – used in the new Russian spy ring, Cabelly and Duran cases. The latest Justice Department report a …"

"… nd other foreign entities.Some speculate that U.S. prosecutors charged the Russians with failure to register – rather than the more difficult-to-prove cha …"

"… ove charge of espionage – because the government lacks evidence that the Russians transmitted sensitive information, according to Foreign Policy magazine. …"

San Francisco bank linked to laundering probe at Bank of New York

By Knut Royce

November 9, 1999 — FROM ALL OUTWARD APPEARANCES, Boris Avramovich Goldstein is a model immigrant, a successful businessman in the San Franci

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"… dollars in interest-free deposits from the former Soviet bloc, mostly from Russia. Alas, that money, in turn, has attracted unwanted attention from the Fede …"

"… ith the key players sometimes coming out of the former KGB, sometimes from Russia’s hard-core Mafiya, sometimes from the corrupt bureaucracy and sometimes …"

"… the Moscow bank.But Goldstein thrived. Fed up, he says, with corruption in Russia and neighboring countries, he moved to the United States in 1991.Three yea …"

"… s deposits, mostly non-interest-bearing checking accounts, come from small Russian businesses, bank chairman and president Robert A. Fuller Jr., acknowledge …"

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