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...Even though she wasn’t fencing, she came to the match and helped to coach us,” said freshman foil fencer Anna Podolsky. “It was really nice that she is lending her experience to help us succeed in competition...
...Western media has been too lenient with Putin’s administration for far too long. But instead of condemning, say, Anna Politkovskaya’s death, the Chechen campaign, or even the Kremlin’s nuclear dealings with Iran, the media has made its criticism on the basis of irrational and sensationalistic fantasy scenarios. As comparisons with the luckier spy James Bond flooded in, The London Times’ Edward Lucas recommended the West got ready for a new Cold War. The Financial Times’ John Thornhill nostalgically remembered Churchill calling for Europe’s union...
...even for the renegade spy, Nov. 1 was a busy day. An official British citizen since the previous month, he met with former KGB contacts and an Italian informant for sushi and tea. Apparently, he was looking into the recent murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who had been a fervent critic of the Kremlin’s actions in Chechnya. Litvinenko fell ill soon thereafter, and less than three weeks later he died of poisoning at the intensive care unit of the University College Hospital in London. His renegade life might have ended but the media frenzy had just...
...really fun, I was a little nervous in my first bout, but after that, once you get the nerves out, it’s just fun,” she added. And the foil fencers impressed. Despite a few blips, including their only loss in freshman Anna Podolsky’s second bout, they posted a commanding 8-1 victory. Goldfeder and classmate Arielle Pensler won all three of their bouts convincingly. “Technically they have a lot of experience, so I expect that they will progress fairly quickly,” Brand said. The saber...
...Anatoly Chubais, Gaidar's fellow reformer of the '90s and now head of Russia's electricity monopoly, sees a link between Gaidar's illness and murders of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and Litvinenko. "The deadly triangle - Politkovskaya, Litvinenko and Gaidar - would have been quite desirable for some people who are seeking an unconstitutional and forceful change of power of Russia," Chubais said, hastening to disclaim any state's involvement. Hence, the Russian media interpreted his statement as a hint at the oligarch Boris Berezovsky, once Putin's key ally, now an exile in London, who has been accused by Putin supporters...