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• Grrr! Russia's Putin gets tiger cub for birthday
   Oct. 10: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was recently given a baby tiger as a birthday present. MSNBC's Willie Geist reports. Oct. 8: Russian Prime Minister Vladamir Putin unveils a new instructional judo DVD. NBC's Yonatan Pomrenze ...
• Russia to begin pullback from buffer zone
Sept. 2: After the poisoning death of an ex-KGB agent and the Russia-Georgia war, the New York Times' Alan Cowell, author of "The Terminal Spy," says signs points to a troubling era in Russia-West relations. JAVA, Georgia - Russia will pull back on ...
• Russia steps up Georgia pullout plans
Russian forces leave the town of Sukhumi in the Georgian breakaway region of Abkhazia on Monday. Moscow must pull back thousands of troops from buffer zones surrounding South Ossetia and Abkhazia by Friday under the terms of a deal brokered by France ...
• CONTINUED : Market's hair-trigger mentality
A stream of selling forced exchanges in Austria, Russia and Indonesia to suspend trading, and those that remained opened were hammered. The rout in Australian markets caused traders there to call it “Black Friday.” European stocks sank Friday ...
• Rice says U.S. not trying to undermine Russia
ASTANA, Kazakhstan - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday rejected any suggestion that U.S. efforts to build closer ties to this former Soviet republic are meant to undermine Russian influence in Central Asia. "This is not a zero-sum game ...