<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Russia</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/europe/easterneurope/russia?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia</link><description>Russia</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Chechen Activist Groups Feel Pressure From Russia]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45652-2005May8.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45652-2005May8.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:00:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia  --  When four security service officers arrived at the offices of a prominent human rights group here on Jan. 20, they demanded to see back issues of the group's monthly newspaper. Employees showed the officers to what passed for an archive, a pile of dusty papers on the floor.]]></description><author> Peter Finn</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Faults WWII Legacy In E. Europe]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45654-2005May8.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45654-2005May8.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:00:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  RIGA, Latvia, May 7  --  President Bush condemned the Soviet subjugation of Eastern Europe after World War II but acknowledged Saturday that the United States bore some blame for the "division of Europe into armed camps" and vowed never again to trade freedom for stability.]]></description><author> Peter Baker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russia Rebukes Bush on Remark]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41482-2005May6.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41482-2005May6.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:00:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Russia issued a testy rebuke of President Bush yesterday on the eve of his departure for Europe, denying that Moscow had forcibly occupied the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in 1940. This restatement of a Soviet view of history provoked a new round of controversy over modern Russia's intentions toward the now-independent states.]]></description><author> Peter Baker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russian Munitions Not Secure, Report Says]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41481-2005May6.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41481-2005May6.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:00:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Efforts by Washington and Moscow to prevent Russian nuclear materials from falling into the hands of terrorists remain slowed by bureaucratic red tape and a lack of urgency, according to a new report released yesterday by a research group affiliated with Harvard University.]]></description><author> John Mintz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Putin Calls Arms Aid No Threat To Israel]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26976-2005Apr30.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26976-2005Apr30.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:00:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ JERUSALEM, April 29  --  Russian President Vladimir Putin chided Israel on Friday for thwarting his efforts to provide military equipment to the Palestinian Authority's security forces. But he said he would not antagonize Israel by moving forward with the military assistance now.]]></description><author> Molly Moore</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adventurers Conquer Arctic, and History]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18751-2005Apr27.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18751-2005Apr27.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:00:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ TORONTO, April 26  --  Fighting a shifting ice pack and open water that threatened to swallow their dogs, a team of five adventurers reached the North Pole at 9:32 a.m. Tuesday, five hours faster than the record claimed by explorer Robert E. Peary almost a century ago.]]></description><author> Doug Struck</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Russian's Trial Ends, So Does Era Of First Oligarchs]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18629-2005Apr27.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18629-2005Apr27.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:00:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ MOSCOW, April 26  --   Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former oil tycoon, is to soon hear a verdict that will likely close out the era of the first oligarchs of post-communist Russia, the small group of men who built huge fortunes and achieved enormous political influence in the 1990s.]]></description><author> Peter Finn</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Putin Tries to Calm Investors]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16412-2005Apr26.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16412-2005Apr26.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:00:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  MOSCOW, April 25  --  President Vladimir Putin sought Monday to blunt rising concern about the country's political direction and business climate, declaring in his annual state of the nation address that "ensuring human rights and freedoms is critical both for the development of the economy and for the social and political life of Russia."]]></description><author> Peter Finn</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eva Zeisel, Still Bringing Plenty to the Table]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10757-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10757-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:00:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Eva Zeisel's ceramic designs are among the most sensual and vibrant of any manufactured in modern times.]]></description><author> Linda Hales</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rice Cites Yukos  In Moscow Talks]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5104-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5104-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:00:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ VILNIUS, Lithuania, April 20  --  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday she "pretty pointedly" told Russian officials that the outcome of the criminal case against former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky would affect prospects for business investment in Russia.]]></description><author> Glenn Kessler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trends in Russia 'Very Worrying' to Rice]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1069-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1069-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:00:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Secretary of state says Putin's efforts to amass power and control television broadcasts  have undermined Russian democracy.]]></description><author> Glenn Kessler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coinage Commission Director Kenneth M. Failor]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64477-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64477-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:00:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Kenneth Merle Failor, 95, a man who watched over the nation's nickels and dimes for many years as an official with the U.S. Mint, died March 26 at the Life Care Center in Scottsdale, Ariz. A resident of Rockville and Annapolis before moving to Scottsdale in 1991, he had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.]]></description><author> Joe Holley</author></item></channel></rss>