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...said they would appeal for a life term. An outspoken, right-wing gay man who wanted to restrict immigration, Fortuyn has in death become an icon of modern Dutch life. Van der Graaf, who admitted shooting Fortuyn last May, might only serve 12 years. Political Crime Wave RUSSIA Sergei Yushenkov, a leading liberal Duma Deputy and critic of President Vladimir Putin, was shot to death as he was entering his Moscow apartment block, hours after registering his Liberal Russia Party to compete in December's parliamentary elections. Yushenkov's colleagues accused the government of inaction in the face...
...that it was not heading for Russian territory. It turned out to be a Norwegian scientific rocket sent aloft to observe the aurora borealis. The Norwegians had dutifully notified the Russian embassy in Oslo, but the word was never relayed to the military. "For a while," says Sergei Yushenkov, a member of the Russian parliament's Defense Committee, "the world was on the brink of nuclear...
That's forward thinking, but Moscow has an oversupply of yesterday's men who are concerned about Russia's security above all. If NATO expands, says Sergei Yushenkov, one of parliament's leading defense experts, START II, "is dead. There is no chance it will be ratified by the Duma...