Новости за 03.06.2011

Lauren Lynch reports the latest news at the French Open men’s semifinals and women’s doubles final. Rafael Nadal beat Andy Murray to race Roger Federer for another Grand Slam title at Roland Garros. Federer ended Djokovic’s 41-0 streak and chance at breaking McEnroe’s record. After an exhausting 3 weeks, Maria Sharapova reported sick and will not play in Birmingham. Chris Evert will join the ESPN commentators for the upcoming majors. Francesca Schiavone will face Li Na tomorrow to defend her title. Читать дальше...

A federal grand jury indicted former Sen. John Edwards on felony charges that he violated campaign-finance regulations, in part to conceal an extramarital affair. WSJ's Evan Perez explains the charges and whether the onetime presidential hopeful is facing jail time. Photo courtesy of Associated Press.

United's Champions League loss to Barcelona at Wembley, including live audio from the night itself when thousands of Reds gathered in north London

United's Champions League loss to Barcelona at Wembley, including live audio from the night itself when thousands of Reds gathered in north London

In this podcast, we focus on smartphones for soldiers, the Navy’s shipbuilding challenges and plants that can detect explosives.

Paul Goble

Staunton, June 3 – Young Russians increasingly deify Stalin not only because he represents a system radically different from that of Russia today but also because the contemporary Russian state has failed to offer a specific ideological alternative that is not mired in abstraction, accord to two Russian scholars.

In the course of a St. Petersburg conference last week on “Russian Self-Consciousness and the Space of Russia,” which concluded that this consciousness today is... Читать дальше...

Paul Goble

Staunton, June 3 – The Russian government needs to adopt a nationalities policy for the country as a whole and to establish a special ministry to implement it, several Duma deputies say, pointing not only to the increasing number of ethnic conflicts around the country but also to the increasing and potentially dangerous tendency of the regions to go their own way in this area.

According to the Regions.ru portal, “local officials are hostages to a situation [in which ethnic... Читать дальше...

Paul Goble

Staunton, June 3 – The liquidation of Osama bin Laden and Moscow’s military successes in the North Caucasus have inflicted “a serious defeat” to radical Islam in Russia, Yevgeny Satanovsky says, but despite these victories, Islamist radicals are regrouping themselves and present an ever greater threat to the Russian Federation.

In an interview published in the current issue of Lechaim.ru,” the president of the Moscow Institute of the Near East says that this development... Читать дальше...

Gwyneth Paltrow's looking pretty sharp. I wonder where she got that suit.

Newsday readers share photos of their insanely cute pets.