Read more Russia stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/59/russia.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 9:30:15 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74480/russia-blocks-autopsy-on-jailed-lawyer.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFriends of an anti-corruption lawyer who died in a Moscow prison this week accuse the government of denying him medical care and say authorities have refused to release his body for an independent autopsy. Sergei Magnitsky, 37, died after spending almost a year in jail in squalid conditions awaiting trial...http://www.newser.com/story/74480/russia-blocks-autopsy-on-jailed-lawyer.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 20 Nov 2009 4:54:24 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74202/corpse-sold-to-russian-kebab-shop.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThree homeless Russian men have been arrested for killing a man, butchering his body, eating parts of it, then selling some of it to a shop selling kebabs and pies. It's not known whether any kebabs containing parts of the 25-year-old victim were eaten by customers of the shop, located...http://www.newser.com/story/74202/corpse-sold-to-russian-kebab-shop.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 17 Nov 2009 3:51:38 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73735/gorbachev-take-it-from-me-leave-afghanistan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMikhail Gorbachev—the man who pulled the Soviet Union's troops out of Afghanistan after a decade of stalemate—says the US should do the same. "There is no prospect of a military solution," he tells Bloomberg . The nation is too fragmented among clans, dooming even a troop surge to failure,...http://www.newser.com/story/73735/gorbachev-take-it-from-me-leave-afghanistan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 10 Nov 2009 17:01:57 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73144/russian-sports-concert-tycoon-gunned-down.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA former KGB agent turned sports- and concert-promoter was gunned down today in Moscow, with the submachine gun-toting assailants pulling alongside Shabtai von Kalmanovic’s Mercedes and killing him nearly instantly in a hail of bullets. Kalmanovic, 60, brought stars of the WNBA to Russia during its off-season to play for...http://www.newser.com/story/73144/russian-sports-concert-tycoon-gunned-down.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 02 Nov 2009 19:00:48 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72962/well-ride-nuke-to-mars-russia.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Russians are planning to ride a $600 million nuclear-powered spaceship to Mars, and they say they may begin construction by 2012. “It’s a very serious project, and we need to find the money,” president Dmitry Medvedev says. Small nuclear reactors and batteries have long powered satellites, but their adaptation...http://www.newser.com/story/72962/well-ride-nuke-to-mars-russia.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 30 Oct 2009 12:33:08 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/72894/fbi-let-blacklisted-russian-tycoon-visit-us.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Russian billionaire barred from the US for years because authorities suspected him of involvement in organized crime was allowed into the country twice this year under a secret deal with the FBI. Despite the objections of other government agencies, metals tycoon Oleg Deripaska was allowed to bypass the visa...http://www.newser.com/story/72894/fbi-let-blacklisted-russian-tycoon-visit-us.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 30 Oct 2009 1:42:21 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/72522/russian-banks-foreclose-on-pigs-lingerie.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWith loan defaults soaring, Russia’s banks have had to seize a lot of collateral lately—and we’re not talking about houses. By year’s end, 20% of Russian loans could be non-performing, by Moody’s estimate. In order to recoup those losses, the banks have accepted controlling stakes in a lingerie retailer...http://www.newser.com/story/72522/russian-banks-foreclose-on-pigs-lingerie.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 26 Oct 2009 6:21:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/72434/iran-balks-at-un-plan-on-nukes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagState TV says Iran wants to buy nuclear fuel it needs for a research reactor rather than accept the UN deal negotiated earlier this week, in which much of Iran's uranium would be shipped to Russia for further enrichment. The response will come as a disappointment to the US, Russia,...http://www.newser.com/story/72434/iran-balks-at-un-plan-on-nukes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 23 Oct 2009 9:30:33 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/72122/obama-had-hand-in-secret-talks-with-iran.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBarack Obama personally stepped in multiple times during the secret multinational talks with Iran that led up to the negotiations that began yesterday in Vienna, White House sources tell Time . When Iran put the word out that it needed enriched uranium plates for its aging research reactor, the Obama administration...http://www.newser.com/story/72122/obama-had-hand-in-secret-talks-with-iran.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 20 Oct 2009 10:22:44 CDT