British Govt. Downplays Impact of Russian Food Sanctions on UK Economy

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Russia’s ban on food imports from the so-called sanction nations will not have a significant impact on the UK agricultural industry, the British government said Thursday.

Russia unveiled earlier on Thursday a substantial «blacklist» of food imports from the European Union, the United States, Australia, Canada, and Norway. The list includes meat, poultry, fish, seafood, milk, dairy products, as well as fruits and vegetables.
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#UkraineCrisis Live Update: Video leak - Ukraine's Tymoshenko threatens not to leave from Russia 'even scorched earth'

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Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said that Ukrainians must take up arms against Russians so that not even scorched earth will be left where Russia stands in phone call with with the former Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, the representative of the Party of Regions, Nestor Shufrych. The tape was leaked online. In her microblog on Twitter Tymoshenko acknowledged that the telephone conversation took place indeed.

Record of a two-minute conversation appeared on the video sharing site YouTube, which was as well posted on the website of the TV channel RT.

Vids: Polish Nationalist Attacks Moscow Embassy in Poland, Protesters retaliate Polish embassy in Moscow, tension rises.

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The regional court of the Polish capital has passed the first sentences on ruffians who participated in the nationalist ‘independence march’ in Warsaw on Monday.

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Nigerian court releases Russian naval sailors

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The court in Nigeria, West Africa, has released from custody seven Russian naval sailors from the crew of the patrol ship Myre Seadiver, which was detained in October 2012 at the port of the city of Lagos by the authorities of that African country under the pretext of the transportation of allegedly incorrectly declared firearms, the Russian Embassy in Nigeria said on Tuesday.

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Russian UN delegates walk out over Saakashvili's 'сrazy' speech

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**Russian delegation left UNGA hall over Saakashvili's 'russophobic' speech

The Russian delegation has left UN General Assembly room during the speech of Mikhail Saakashvili, President of Georgia. The anti-Russian and anti-Christian character of the Georgian president’s speech at the UN General Assembly forced the Russian delegation leave the room, Russian UN envoy Vitaly Churkin said.

Russian diplomats left when Saakashvili criticized the Russian authorities and the Russian policy in the post-Soviet space.

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Sending US cruise missile carriers to Syria coast to escalate conflict – Russian Defense Ministry

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The sending of US Navy cruise missile carrying ships to the Syrian coast will escalate the conflict, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Oleg Dogayev said at a Public Chamber hearing on Tuesday.

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"Democracy is when both privates and generals are put on trial for breaching the law" - Russian MP

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**Manning’s sentence shows that American democracy goes wrong - Russian MP -

A 35-year prison sentence for WikiLeaks informer Bradley Banning shows that in the United States it’s “privates” and not their superiors that stand trial for breaching the law, which is a glaring sign that something is going wrong in the American democracy, Alexei Pushkov, head of the foreign affairs committee of Russia’s lower house of parliament, said on Wednesday.

“A private has stood trial for breaching the US laws, but none of the generals, who lied to the American nation and who claimed that the system for tapping phone calls and intercepting Internet mail had not been used against Americans, appeared before court,” he said.

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FULL UPDATE: Information on use of chemical weapons by Syria's Assad fabricated - senior Russian lawmaker

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A senior Russian lawmaker said on Friday that information on the use of chemical weapons by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces was fabricated and suggested the United States would use it to justify intervention in the conflict.

"Information about the use by Assad of chemical weapons has been fabricated in the same place as the lies about (Saddam) Hussein's weapons of mass destruction," Alexei Pushkov, head of the foreign policy committee in the lower chamber of the Russian parliament, said on Twitter. "Obama is taking the same path as George Bush."

A U.S. official said on Thursday that President Barack Obama has authorized sending U.S. weapons to Syrian rebels for the first time, after the White House said it has proof the Syrian government had used chemical weapons against opposition forces.

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Check Out The story of the 2 Russian brothers suspected in the Boston bombings

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Two Russians bothers, 26 year old Tamerlan and 19 year old Dzhokhar, a second-year medical student in the U.S, are suspected to be behind the Boston Marathon bombings. Tamerlan was killed in a shootout with police last night, Dzhokhar is being intensely pursued. Below is their story...

From Boston Associated Press 

In May of 2011, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev (pictured above and below right), then a senior at a prestigious high school, was awarded a $2,500 scholarship from the city of Cambridge, Mass., to pursue higher education. Now, Tsarnaev is on the run, described as "armed and dangerous" and suspected of the Boston Marathon bombing.

Two brothers, one now dead, one alive and at large. After hours of only grainy images of two men in baseball caps to go on, a portrait gradually started emerging Friday of the men suspected in the attack.

Tsarnaev, 19, and his older brother, Tamerlan, who was killed during a violent night in Cambridge, had been living together on Norfolk Street in Cambridge. An uncle, Ruslan Tsarni of Montgomery Village, Md., told The Associated Press that the men lived together near Boston and have been in the United States for about a decade. They came from the Russian region near Chechnya, which has been plagued by an Islamic insurgency stemming from separatist wars.