RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Oct 28, 2008
Source: http://www.robertamsterdam.com/2008/10/ras_daily_russia_news_blast_oc_33.htmPosted on Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 | In Russia
TODAY: French police conclude Moskalenko poisoning was ‘an accident’; Russia criticizes US over Syrian attack, offers Cuba support; Saakashvili dismisses PM; British MP admits it was a ‘mistake’ to meet Deripaska; youth groups, internet firewalls.
French investigators have reportedly concluded that mercury found in the car of Karinna Moskalenko, former lawyer to Anna Politkovskaya and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was the result of an accidental spillage.
Russia is up in arms over the allegation that US helicopters attacked a Syrian farm near the Iraqi border. Will the IMF’s newly agreed loan to Ukraine protect the latter from ‘cash-rich’ Russia, wonders The Economist. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, dismissing his prime minister, said that he needed a new team to help him face the Russian threat. The Russian military is to offer defense expertise to Cuba this week.
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