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NORTH KOREA Korea's Nuclear Winter Intense diplomatic efforts to convince North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions continued last week, spurred by Washington's push to send the issue of the country's nuclear ambitions to the U.N. Security Council. South Korean and Russian negotiators, who are in talks with North Korea, fear that any sanctions imposed by the U.N. could provoke Pyongyang. In Vienna, the International Atomic Energy Agency said it would hold a meeting on Feb. 3 to decide whether to refer the issue to the top U.N. body; South Korea urged a postponement to allow time...
After another brutal year in Chechnya, where hundreds of thousands of civilians and over 10,000 Russian soldiers have died in eight years of bloody conflict, six Chechens have won a potentially significant victory over the Russian armed forces. Their triumph came not on the streets of Chechnya's devastated capital, Grozny, nor in traumatized villages like Shaami-Yurt or Katyr-Yurt, but some 3,000 km away, at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. For the first time, the court agreed to hear lawsuits brought by ordinary Chechens against the Russian military under the European Convention...
...rejected three and deferred 21 suits against the city of Moscow brought by Lyudmila's husband, Igor, on behalf of victims and families involved in last October's Chechen hostage crisis. "Everything is clear now," Igor said. "The other complaints will also be struck down." Trunov argued that, under Russian antiterror law, the city should compensate his 61 clients for the three-day siege of a Moscow theater by Chechen separatists. The raid at the Theater Center on Dubrovka ended - as did the lives of 41 guerrillas and about 130 of their more than 800 captives - after Russian troops filled...
...Stewart's mining of Mongol history is fascinating. Who knew, for example, that Khan's son supposedly considered massacring China's entire population? But the author's real strength is in sketching the characters he encounters: a Dickens-loving Russian pimp, a shy newlywed, a Mongolian librarian of Chekhovian futility. Far from the taciturn nomads one might expect, Mongolians are voluble talkers ravenous for news: Stewart disappoints his attentive hosts only when he fails to relay sufficiently lurid gossip...
...Union and Iran. But when the Soviet regime collapsed, so did governmental control. Today poachers supply some 300 tons of caviar per year, 10 times as much as legal traders. The temptations are great in a region where economic opportunities are scarce. In a typical bust, smugglers in the Russian county of Astrakhan managed to load an air-force cargo plane with almost 350 kilograms of sturgeon roe before it was seized by the Federal Security Service...