Russia's Hamas gambit (Flight from moscow)

Russia's Hamas gambit
Christian Science Monitor - By reaching out to Hamas, the militant Islamist party that won a majority in Palestinian elections last month, Mr. Putin hopes to vault Russia back into the center of the stalled Middle East peace process, experts say. But the effort could backfire

On the Tube column
Winnipeg Sun - - Huff goes to Tijuana to retrieve his schizophrenic brother Teddy, only to find Teddy needs new ID to get back across the border -- a hitch that leads to a boozy reunion with lawyer pal Russell on Huff, on Movie Central Ch. 55 at 10 p.m. - It seems

Should Russia Be Booted Out of the G8?
MSNBC - He's likely to be kept waiting. Instead of a triumph, the St Petersburg summit is fast shaping up as the biggest rethink of Russia's relationship with the West since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Rather than the recognition that Putin craves

Cross-platform Virus Infects Linux And Windows
TechWeb - A Russian security company announced Friday that it had found a cross-over virus that can infect PCs running either the open-source Linux or Microsoft Windows operating systems. Dubbed "Linux.Bi.a" and "Win32.Bi.a," the split-personality malware

In search of 3-star lodgings
Charleston Post & Courier - MOSCOW - You'll find few people shedding tears for the destruction of the Hotel Rossiya, a dour, hulking behemoth that glowers at St. Basil's Cathedral and lurks near the Kremlin like a bad Cold War hangover. Ask tour operators, however, and you'll