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Feb 16, 2011

Putin criticizes Customs’ YouTube video

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday criticized a group of customs officers for a video clip they posted on YouTube celebrating the lavish lifestyle they say comes with their government jobs.

The mock rap video link.reuters.com/dyt97r made in the Pacific port city of Vladivostok shows customs officials in sunglasses driving a Rolls Royce and drinking champagne surrounded by scantily clad women.

Feb 16, 2011

Russia’s Putin criticises Customs’ YouTube video

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday criticised a group of customs officers for a video clip they posted on YouTube celebrating the lavish lifestyle they say comes with their government jobs.

The mock rap video link.reuters.com/dyt97r made in the Pacific port city of Vladivostok shows customs officials in sunglasses driving a Rolls Royce and drinking champagne surrounded by scantily clad women.

Feb 16, 2011

Russia’s Putin criticizes customs officers’ YouTube video

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Wednesday criticized a group of customs officers for a video clip they posted on YouTube celebrating the lavish lifestyle they say comes with their government jobs.

The mock rap video link.reuters.com/dyt97r made in the Pacific port city of Vladivostok shows customs officials in sunglasses driving a Rolls Royce and drinking champagne surrounded by scantily clad women.

Feb 8, 2011

Explorers plan first Russia-Canada voyage via North Pole

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian-led expedition aims to make the first ever crossing from Russia’s Arctic shore into Canada over the North Pole, a months-long voyage over precarious shifting ice floes.

The expedition, set to begin on February 17, will serve for some of the first tests of Russia’s GLONASS satellite navigation technology, Moscow’s bid to challenge the dominant U.S. global positioning system (GPS).

Jan 27, 2011

Russian Islamist wanted for Moscow blast: report

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Security forces are searching for an ethnic Russian member of a North Caucasus Islamist group suspected of involvement in the Moscow airport bombing which killed 35, a leading daily reported on Thursday.

Monday’s suicide attack in the arrival hall of Moscow’s Domodedovo airport bore the hallmarks of Islamist insurgents from the North Caucasus, on Russia’s southern flank. No group has claimed responsibility, which left some 130 injured.

Jan 26, 2011

Airport bomb may aggravate Russian ethnic tensions

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s millions of Muslim migrant workers fear Monday’s suicide bombing can only worsen a rising tide of nationalist and ethnic violence against them.

The blast that ripped through the crowded arrivals terminal of Moscow’s Domodedovo airport, killing 35 people, bore all the hallmarks of Islamist rebels from Russia’s restive North Caucasus region.

Jan 26, 2011

Analysis: Airport bomb may aggravate Russian ethnic tensions

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s millions of Muslim migrant workers fear Monday’s suicide bombing can only worsen a rising tide of nationalist and ethnic violence against them.

The blast that ripped through the crowded arrivals terminal of Moscow’s Domodedovo airport, killing 35 people, bore all the hallmarks of Islamist rebels from Russia’s restive North Caucasus region.

Jan 26, 2011

Putin vows revenge for suicide bombing

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Prime Minister Vladimir Putin vowed revenge on Tuesday for a suicide bombing that killed at least 35 people at Russia’s busiest airport and underscored the Kremlin’s failure to stem a rising tide of attacks.

Talking tough a day after the bombing, Russia’s leaders ordered security services to root out the culprits behind the attack, which bore hallmarks of militants fighting for an Islamist state along Russia’s southern flank.

Jan 25, 2011

Russia’s Putin vows revenge for suicide bombing

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Prime Minister Vladimir Putin vowed revenge on Tuesday for a suicide bombing that killed at least 35 people at Russia’s busiest airport and underscored the Kremlin’s failure to stem a rising tide of attacks.

Talking tough a day after the bombing, Russia’s leaders ordered security services to root out the culprits behind the attack, which bore hallmarks of militants fighting for an Islamist state along Russia’s southern flank.

Jan 25, 2011

Medvedev orders bomb probe, threatens sackings

MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Dmitry Medvedev ordered investigators on Tuesday to root out the culprits behind a deadly bombing at Russia’s busiest airport and threatened sackings over security lapses he said had aided the attack.

Talking tough a day after the suspected suicide bombing at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport that killed at least 35 people, Medvedev echoed demands that have followed previous attacks blamed on militants from Russia’s troubled North Caucasus region.

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