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The Contradictory Accounts of Boris Nemtsov's Murder: A Timeline by Reuters <moscowtimes@themoscowtimes.com>
Since Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov was killed, contradictory accounts have emerged of what happened, fuelling talk of a conflict between rival groups inside the system of power built by President Vladimir Putin.
The inquiry, which revealed the missteps among the Rochdale force, also found that no officer would face serious discipline.
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Russia Update: March 13, 2015 by Liveblog Team
Welcome to our column, Russia Update, where we will be closely following day-to-day developments in Russia, including the Russian government’s foreign and domestic policies.
The previous issue is here.
The Kremlin has published a new picture of President Vladimir Putin reportedly meeting with the head of the Supreme Court today, but as throughout the week, there was no confirmation that the picture hadn’t been taken in the past.
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Special features:
- Alexey Navalny On the Murder of Boris Nemtsov
-Theories about Possible Perpetrators of the Murder of Boris Nemtsov
-Novaya Gazeta Releases Sensational Kremlin Memo: ‘It is Seen as Correct to Initiate Annexation of Eastern Regions of Ukraine to Russia’
-Former Russian Intelligence Officers Behind Boisto “Track II” Talks – and Now the Flawed Minsk Agreement.
-Theories about Possible Perpetrators of the Murder of Boris Nemtsov
-Novaya Gazeta Releases Sensational Kremlin Memo: ‘It is Seen as Correct to Initiate Annexation of Eastern Regions of Ukraine to Russia’
-Former Russian Intelligence Officers Behind Boisto “Track II” Talks – and Now the Flawed Minsk Agreement.
See also our Russia This Week stories:
Remembering Boris Nemtsov, Insider and Outsider (1959-2015)
Ultranationalists Angry over ‘Capitulation’ of Minsk Agreement,
‘Anti-Maidan’ Launched by Nationalists, Cossacks, Veterans, Bikers
The Guild War – How Should Journalists Treat Russian State Propagandists?
Ultranationalists Angry over ‘Capitulation’ of Minsk Agreement,
‘Anti-Maidan’ Launched by Nationalists, Cossacks, Veterans, Bikers
The Guild War – How Should Journalists Treat Russian State Propagandists?
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Villagers Tell Their Story on MH17 Downing Over Eastern Ukraine by Reuters <moscowtimes@themoscowtimes.com>
Villagers in eastern Ukraine have said they saw a missile flying directly overhead just before a Malaysian airliner was shot out of the sky on July 17 last year, providing the most detailed accounts to date that suggest it was fired from territory held by pro-Russian rebels.
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Seven Unique Animals You'll Only Find in Russiaby By Katrin Scheib <moscowtimes@themoscowtimes.com>
They may be the symbol of Russia, but bears aren't the only remarkable animals the country boasts. In fact, Russian fauna includes many creatures that make the old brown bear look positively commonplace.
Tajik Activists Get Long Jail Terms For Ties To Opposition Leader by noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL's Tajik Service)
Two Tajik activists have each been sentenced to 16 1/2 years in prison for being members of a banned political opposition movement.
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Mother of seven was arrested on suspicion of phoning Ukrainian embassy in Moscow to warn Russian troops might be sent to Ukraine
Russia has dropped treason charges against a woman accused of phoning the Ukrainian embassy in Moscow last year to warn that Russian solders might be heading to eastern Ukraine, her lawyer has said.
Svetlana Davydova, 37, was arrested at her home west of Moscow in January on suspicion of making the call after overhearing a soldier’s conversation about troops from a nearby military base being sent to Ukraine.
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Spain Arrests 8 Suspected Islamist Militantsby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
Spain has arrested eight suspected Islamist militants with ties to the Islamic State group, the Interior Ministry announced in a statement Friday. The six men and two women are accused of being part of a network planning terrorist attacks in Spain and recruiting fighters to send to Syria and Iraq. The ministry statement said the arrests were made in the northeastern provinces of Barcelona and Girona, as well as the central provinces of Ávila and Ciudad Real. All eight of the people detained are Spanish nationals. Five of them are of Moroccan origin. "The group represented a serious, definite and continuing threat to national security," said the statement. The ministry said the eight were serving as a propaganda arm for the Islamic State group within Spain. Spain has arrested dozens of suspected jihadists in recent years. In March 2004, Islamist militants killed nearly 200 people in Madrid in an attack on the commuter train system in the capital. Bombs exploded on four trains, injuring more than 1,800 others. Spain is a member of the U.S.-led coalition currently fighting Islamic State militants. It increased its own security after January's deadly terrorist attacks by Islamist militants in Paris. Some material for this report came from AP and Reuters.
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At Odds with Google, US Seeks New Rule on Computer Accessby webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)
The Justice Department is at odds with Google and privacy groups over the government's push to make it easier to locate and hack into computers in criminal investigations, a simmering conflict with constitutional and policy implications. Federal prosecutors say better tools are needed to track down computer users who hide their locations while committing crimes on the Internet. But civil libertarians fear that the proposal, now under consideration by a federal advisory committee, would grant the government expansive new powers to reach into computers across the country. The proposal would change existing rules of criminal procedure that, with limited exceptions, permit judges to approve warrants for property searches only in the districts where they serve. The government says those rules are outdated in an era when child pornographers, drug traffickers and others can mask their whereabouts on computer networks that offer anonymity. That technology can impede or thwart efforts to pinpoint a suspect's geographic location. The Justice Department wants the rules changed so that judges in a district where "activities related to a crime” have occurred could approve warrants to search computers, even those outside their districts. The government says flexibility is needed for cases in which it can't figure out the location of a computer and needs a warrant to access it remotely, and for investigations involving botnets — networks of computers infected with a virus that spill across judicial districts. There are 94 federal judicial districts in the country — at least one in every state, and as many as four in some. "There is a substantial public interest in catching and prosecuting criminals who use anonymizing technologies, but locating them can be impossible for law enforcement absent the ability to conduct a remote search of the criminal's computer,'' Justice Department lawyers wrote in one memo. The advisory committee considering the rule change is meeting this month. The opposition The proposal has generated fierce pushback from privacy organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union, which say the rule change could violate a constitutional requirement that search warrant applications be specific about the property to be searched. They also say the proposal is unclear about exactly what type of information could be accessed by the government, and fails to guarantee the privacy of non-suspects who might have had access to the same computer as the target, or of innocent people who may themselves be victims of a botnet. "What procedural protections are going to be in place when you do these types of searches? How are they going to be limited?'' asked Alan Butler, senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Among the critics is Google, which says the proposal "raises a number of monumental and highly complex constitutional, legal and geopolitical concerns that should be left for Congress to decide.'' Privacy groups are also concerned that the proposal would lead to more frequent use by the FBI of surveillance technology that can be installed remotely on a computer to help pinpoint its location. Such tactics caught public attention last year when FBI Director James Comey acknowledged that in 2007 an agent posing as an Associated Press reporter had sent to a bomb-threat suspect a link to an article that, once opened, revealed to investigators the computer's location and Internet address. "To the extent that the government has been prevented from doing lots of these kinds of searches because they didn't necessarily have a judge to go to, this rule change raises the risk that the government will start using these dubious techniques with more frequency,” said Nathan Freed Wessler, an ACLU lawyer specializing in privacy and technology. The Justice Department says such concerns are unfounded. It says the proposal simply makes sure that investigators have a judge to go to for a warrant in cases where they can't find a computer, and that the proposal would not provide the government with new technological authorities that it doesn't already have. It's hard to quantify the scope of the problem. Justice Department lawyers acknowledge that in past cases they have successfully argued for search warrants that extend outside a judge's district. But in one case from 2013, a magistrate judge in Texas rejected a request to search a computer that the government said was being used to commit bank fraud but whose location was unknown. Prosecutors sought authority to install software on the machine that would have extracted records and location information. The judge, Stephen Smith, said he lacked the authority to approve the search for a computer "whose location could be anywhere on the planet'' but said "there may well be a good reason to update the territorial limits of that rule in light of advancing computer search technology.'' The proposal is before a criminal procedure advisory committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States — a panel made up of judges and lawyers — that meets twice a year, including this month. If approved, it will then be forwarded to the Supreme Court and ultimately to Congress, which does not have to approve it but can block it. It would take effect in December 2016.
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Ramzan Kadyrov and Vladimir Putin have long been close allies. And both were at center stage this week for different reasons.
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Per Samuelson, a lawyer for Julian Assange, said he welcomed the decision of a Swedish prosecutor to question the WikiLeaks founder Mr. Assange in London over sexual assault accusations.
He may have died more than a quarter of a century ago, but Salvador Dali, the eccentric surrealist painter who once told a US talkshow that he didn’t believe in his own death, may be about to become a father for the first time.
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As the evidence against Russian secret agents Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun continues to mount at the Litvinenko inquiry – closing statements are due at the end of the month – the other spook who met the former spy on the day he was poisoned has slipped back into the shadows.
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US Health Care Worker Being Treated for Ebolaby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
An American health care worker infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone is being evaluated at the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s hospital in suburban Washington, officials announced Friday. The patient – whose name, sex and age are being withheld for privacy reasons – had contracted the illness while working at an Ebola treatment center. The patient was transported by chartered plane and was admitted at 4:44 a.m. local time to NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Care is being providedin a high-security containment facility. "The patient’s condition is still being evaluated," an NIH statement said. The New York Times reported Thursday that a worker from the U.S. medical aid organization Partners In Health had been infected. The organization, in a news release, acknowledged that a clinician had tested positive for Ebola, the first "as a result of a confirmed occupational exposure since PIH began treating patients in Liberia and Sierra Leone in November 2014." The BBC also reported that a British military health care worker was being flown back to the United Kingdom for treatment. This is the 11th Ebola patient receiving care in the United States and the second at this facility. The first was a nurse, Nina Pham, who has since recovered. She had contracted the disease while caring for the first U.S. patient with Ebola, a West African man treated at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. Thomas Eric Duncan died there October 8 after having been turned away from its emergency room days earlier. Attorneys for Pham last month filed a lawsuit against the Texas hospital, complaining of its "lack of training and proper equipment, and violations of her privacy," The Dallas Morning News reported. The NIH, in a statement, said the clinic's special clinical studies unit is "designed to provide high-level isolation capabilities and is staffed by infectious diseases and critical care specialists...." Health care workers, working in the front lines of treatment, continue to be disproportionately infected by the epidemic. The World Health Organization’s Thursday update shows 24,350 cases and 10,004 deaths have been reported,primarily in the West African countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, though it estimates the actual numbers in each category are far higher. Some material for this report came from AP and Reuters.
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Mission Impossible: Ukraine's 3-Step Plan to Join NATO and Upset Russiaby By Matthew Bodner <moscowtimes@themoscowtimes.com>
Even without the confrontation with Russia, Ukraine is nowhere near being compatible with the alliance. Its security services are riven with Russian spies and a quarter of its defense budget is stolen.
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