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...UNITED STATES Porn Ring Broken Four Americans and five Russians were arrested after a year-long investigation into the sale of child pornography over the Internet. U.S. officials broke up the pedophile ring, which operated the Blue Orchid website, after posing as customers for the videos advertised. The men arrested are charged with producing and distributing the videos, which show Russian boys, some as young as eight years old, being sexually abused...
...earned silver medals in defeat for the seventh consecutive time. The Russian National Team earned the bronze with a 2-1 upset over Finland earlier in the afternoon. The Russian team-which includes MIT women's hockey coach Katia Pashkevitch-finished well beyond expectations...
...Variations of "Kill the Imperialist American Pigs" have littered Chinese message boards. Although the American version of the midair collision is available on the Net, most students buy the account that appears in China's state-controlled media. "Of course, I know what happened," says Li Shen, 20, a Russian-studies major whose political-science professor taught him, incorrectly, that the U.S. was nominating the head of the outlawed meditation group, Falun Gong, for a Nobel Peace Prize. "The U.S. plane was in Chinese airspace and deliberately rammed...
...Paul Quinn-Judge: This is a very good example both of the desires and of the limitations of President Vladimir Putin. His fundamental desire is to have a well-controlled society, and an integral part of that desire is to have the electronic media, which unlike most Russian newspapers actually has a nationwide reach, under his control. So he's been slicing away at NTV all year, using all manner of economic pressure and police investigation to erode the network's independence and bring it under the control of elements sympathetic to the Kremlin. Yet, when Putin tries to make...
...This standoff, and the planned demonstration, is a problem for Putin, although not a big one. It's not going to shake his grip on Russian public opinion, but he's in a no-win situation. If he uses strong-arm tactics to close the network down, that will create a messy political situation. But if he doesn't, he'll look like he's unable to follow through on his threats. Of course Putin's modus operandi is to deny any knowledge that these things are even going on, but in reality the NTV standoff presents him with...