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“Police arrested Yuri Mozhnov, a florist, and Maxim Golovatskikh, a street-market butcher and one-time psychiatric patient on Saturday, Kapitonov said. The suspects, both 19, knew the victim, and she accompanied them voluntarily to an apartment rented by another acquaintance on the day she went missing, Kapitonov said. Prosecutors believe they drowned the girl in a bathtub. “The arrestees said they ate the girl’s body parts because they were hungry,” Kapitonov said. They told investigators they baked some body parts with potatoes, he said.” [Link]
“Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili punched his nation’s prime minister in the face and then threw a telephone at him, media reports said. Russian media picked up a story that first appeared in a Georgian tabloid, Alia, attributed to an unnamed source, Britain’s Daily Telegraph reported. The account did not say what motivated the alleged assault against Prime Minister Grigol Mgaloblishvili.” [Link]
“Stalin, the brutal Soviet dictator responsible for the deaths of millions of his citizens, has been undergoing a makeover of sorts in recent years. Russian authorities have reshaped the Georgia-born dictator’s image into that of a misunderstood, demonized leader who did what he had to do to mold the Soviet Union into the superpower it became.” [Link]
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Ksenia Sukhinova, Miss World 2008, returns home to Moscow
“Russia’s Kseniya Sukhinova has won the Miss World 2008 title at the international beauties competition in South Africa after beating 108 contestants. The top five finalists also included Miss India, Parvathy Omanakuttan, Miss Trinidad and Tobago, Gabrielle Walcott, Miss Angola, Brigith dos Santos, and Miss South Africa, Tansey Coetzee. Tutors at the university in northwest Siberia where the new Miss World studies praised her academic record on Monday, happily complaining that the news of her victory almost disrupted classes.” [Link]
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“Russian oligarch Sergei Rodionov married a notorious Moscow femme fatale named Olga and then commissioned famed French photographer Bettina Rheims to do a big bucks X-rated photo shoot. He liked it so much he talked Rheims into two more photo shoots, and the results have just been published in book form, to a decidedly mixed reaction from Moscow society.” [Link]
“Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev will join forces with Russian tycoon Alexander Lebedev to launch a new political party independent of the Kremlin, the billionaire businessman said on Tuesday. ” [Link]
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“Several foreigners were on the flight, including passport-holders from Abkhazia, Germany, France and Ukraine, said Lev Koshlyakov, spokesman for flight operator Aeroflot Nord. Authorities are trying to confirm the presence of an American on board, Koshlyakov said.” [Link]
“Palin told Charles Gibson of ABC News that she’d favor including Georgia and Ukraine, both former Soviet republics, in NATO despite opposition by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Asked whether the United States would have to go to war with Russia if it invaded Georgia, and the country was part of NATO, Palin said: ‘Perhaps so.’” [Link]
“Naomi Campbell has finally hit it big with her Russian billionaire, Vladimir Doronin. The two were just in her favorite country, Brazil, where he dropped a cool $18.5 million on a penthouse apartment for Campbell in Jardins, the Upper East Side of Sao Paolo, after Campbell told him how much she loved the country” [Link]
“Prosecutors in Russia want to ban the award-winning satirical U.S. cartoon South Park, calling the series ‘extremist’ after receiving viewer complaints, a spokeswoman said Monday. South Park, a cartoon aimed at adults and featuring a group of nine-year olds in a Colorado ski town, has courted controversy from its 1997 debut, parodying celebrities, politicians, religion, gay marriage and Saddam Hussein.” [Link]
“Russia said Monday it will send a naval squadron and long-range patrol planes to Venezuela this year for a joint military exercise in the Caribbean, an announcement made at a time of increasingly tense relations with the United States. The apparently retaliatory move follows the U.S. deployment of warships to deliver aid to the former Soviet nation of Georgia, barely a month after Russian armor and aircraft crushed the Georgian military in a five-day war.” [Link]
