A and S Gutterman

Moscow subway re-Stalinized
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 10/29/2009; 357 words; ...MOSCOW - A Moscow subway station is the newest focus of Russia's bitter dispute over the legacy of Josef Stalin, whose outsize...used to stand, facing commuters entering the station.Moscow's chief municipal architect Alexander Kuzmin, who raised the idea...

Neglect Cited in Russian Accident
The Washington Post; 10/4/2009; 605 words; Russia's top industrial safety oversight official said...factor in a major accident at the country's biggest hydroelectric power plant, and he hinted...workers in seconds. Kutin, who heads Russia's Federal Service for Environmental, Technological...

Russian diplomat: Iran's proposals enable dialogue
AP Worldstream; 9/29/2009; 671 words; Iran's proposal for talks with global powers this week can provide...proposal that did not satisfy the United States. Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said, however, that Iran's proposals encompass a whole series of questions of international...

Court orders renewed probe into Russian slaying
AP Online; 9/3/2009; 1154 words; Russia's Supreme Court changed the rules Thursday for...investigation into Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya's killing, giving her family a glimmer of hope...justice and testing President Dmitry Medvedev's commitment to judicial reform. But lawyers...

Putin blames WWII on West's deal with Hitler
AP Worldstream; 8/31/2009; 1037 words; ...wrote in an article for Poland's daily Gazeta Wyborcza. But he...and intellectuals in Russia's Katyn forest and other locations...for failing to oppose Hitler's appetite for territorial expansion...Associated Press Writer Steve Gutterman contributed to this story from...