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KABUL - Twelve years after
Soviet fighters were forced to withdraw in humiliation, armed Russian
troops are back in Afghanistan, raising curiosity and some anxiety in the
capital over the possible role of international
peacekeepers. full
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WASHINGTON - The U.S.
military has used Russian advice in its campaign in Afghanistan but is
fighting a different conflict than the Soviet Union did in the 1980s when
it faced a united nation, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said on
Monday. full
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UNITED NATIONS - With the
United States and Russia still at odds over Iraq, the U.N. Security
Council is not expected to overhaul sanctions against Saddam Hussein's
government when it extends Iraq's U.N. humanitarian program later this
week. full
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2001-11-27 07:08 MSK -
US grants $3.4 mln to fight
tuberculosis in Russia
MOSCOW - The U.S.
Agency for International Development has given a dlrs 3.4 million grant to the
Red Cross to fight tuberculosis in Russia, the Red Cross said Monday.
Tuberculosis has spread rapidly in Russia over the past decade, especially in
the country's overcrowded jails. Among Russia's 145 million people, there are
some 130,000 new cases and 30,000 deaths from the disease each year, according
to the Red Cross. The prevalence of drug-resistant strains of the disease in
Russia has become a major international health concern in recent years. In its
three-year program, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent
Societies aims to introduce international principles of tuberculosis control,
focusing on marginalized groups such as the homeless, alcoholics and prison
inmates, the organization said in a press statement. -AP
2001-11-27 10:55 MSK -
Court skeds hearing for Russian
programmer trial
SAN FRANCISCO - A
federal court judge in California on Monday set a hearing for April 15 to
schedule a trial date for a Russian software programmer charged with violating a
new U.S. copyright law. Dmitry Sklyarov, who turns 27 on Dec. 18, probably won't
face trial until June or later, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph
Sullivan. The trial schedule was pushed back by U.S. District Court Judge Ronald
Whyte in San Jose, California, to allow time for defense attornies to have
evidence translated from Russian into English, Sullivan said. In the meantime,
hearings were set for April 1 and March 4 for attorneys to discuss motions in
the case. Sklyarov and his Moscow-based employer, ElcomSoft Co. Ltd, face
charges of selling and conspiring to sell technology designed to circumvent the
U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which bans the sale of technology that
allows people to thwart copyright protections in computer and electronic
programs. Sklyarov is the first person to be prosecuted under the controversial
law which took effect last year. The case has prompted Russia to warn its
computer experts about visiting the United States. Free speech advocates oppose
the law, saying it is too broad and impedes software development, while many
U.S. businesses favor such extensions of copyright protections in cyberspace.
Sklyarov, who pleaded not guilty in August, wrote a program that allows people
using Adobe Systems Inc. eBook Reader software to copy and print digital books,
transfer them to other computers and have the computer read them aloud. He was
arrested in July after giving a presentation on his software at the DefCon
hacker convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, and then released 21 days later on
$50,000 bail. -Reuters
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