The Wall Street Journal has published an open letter of the victims of the 1999 blasts of apartment buildings in Moscow. The letter was addressed to the Kremlin’s new ringleader Medvedev. The authors are demanding that Medvedev conducts an investigation of the events and prosecutes the murderers.

Analysts at security vendor PC Tools today revealed that Russia has superseded the US and China as the world’s highest producer of spyware and viruses, with Russia now accounting for 27.89% of malware while China accounts for 26.52% and the US 9.98%.

Russian version of BBC reported with reference to Russia’s Prosecutor General, Fridinsky, that the share of so-called ‘noncombatant casualties’ in the Russian army is increasing, and today it exceeds 50 percent.

Tel Aviv threatens to attack Iran if that country keeps developing nuclear weapons. This statement was made by one of the deputies of the Zionist leader Ehud Olmert, Shaul Mofaz, who is one of the most likely candidates to the post of the head of the government in case Olmert …

BERLIN (Reuters) – President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday in Berlin that Russia has “come in from the Cold” and will become an organic part of European civilization but wants to be treated fairly by its partners. On his first European trip as president, Medvedev said he wanted a broader …

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has not softened his position on reconciliation with Hamas and dialogue still depends on the Islamists ceding the Gaza Strip, his aides said on Thursday. Abbas called on Wednesday for reconciliation talks with Hamas leaders without explicitly repeating previous demands they …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has closed down the final reactor of a plutonium production plant on Thursday as part of a deal with the United States to cut the risk of atomic materials from Cold-War-era bomb feeding nuclear proliferation. The reactor known as ADE-5 was founded by Soviet leader Josef …

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A Danish team has arrived in Pakistan to work with agents investigating a suicide car-bomb attack on Denmark’s embassy which al Qaeda said it carried out in revenge for the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. The attack on the embassy on Monday killed six people …

GAZA (Reuters) – A young Palestinian girl was killed by an Israeli shell in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Thursday, medical workers said. The army confirmed it carried out an air strike targeting a militant near Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s military is cooperating with Iran by sharing information and coordinating strikes against PKK guerrillas in northern Iraq, a senior Turkish general said on Thursday. “We haven’t done it (coordinated strikes) for one or two months but we would do it if necessary,” General Ilker Basbug, head …