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A woman saw him from the roof of her house. She told the Russians, "Muhammad al-Madani is in that house. "

The Russians, he said, are still scratching their heads over how the Chinese were able to tell the two apart.

In two weeks, a Russian naval task force is to reach Syrian waters to be ready to help in the possible evacuation of Russians.

The Russians found the charred bodies of the Propaganda Minister and his wife the next day and immediately identified them.

"Russians are drinking a little bit more due to the crisis, and this helped me get out of the rubbish dump, " Konovalov said.

Among former Warsaw Pact countries, the majority of Russians and Ukrainians said the break up of the Soviet Union was a bad thing.

Intriguingly, there was no mention anywhere of Medvedev, whom few Russians believe to be the country's real leader.

Right now, the "citizens of Lenin buried, " seems to be the voice of the majority of Russians.

It did not escape Russians' attention that the initials of the bank, FSB, are the same as Russia's main spy agency.

It hit just as millions of Russians had begun to enjoy improved lifestyles -- a new car, foreign holidays and renovated apartments.

The neighborhood is full of Russians and Macha has already found a place where she can run up a little credit.

Only rare bursts of gunfire could be heard at the entrance to Gori, and the Russians seem to have captured the city largely unopposed.

And it was that kind of attitude of the West towards Russia in the Nineties that changed the attitude of many Russians.

Several years of unchecked xenophobia have made Russians much more receptive to authoritarian and nationalistic rule than to liberal ideas.

Had they not, thousands of Italians and Russians would have had to leave their kids with foster care on Ellis Island.

Subject matter: It can't be easy to put a positive spin on Stalin, under whose leadership more than 20 million Russians lost their lives.

He gave brief televised remarks almost immediately, telling Russians that he believed the blast was a terrorist act.

It was quite a shock for some Russians in a rural backwater of the Urals recently to see lorry-loads of Chinese troops go by.

In the nights the French dispersed to get round the Russians, hid themselves in the woods, and all that could struggled on again.

One of the Russians, Anna Chapman, captured attention with her looks and stories of her New York party life.

Russians' position on New Energy is defined by the fact that it is, after a century, beginning to enjoy wealth from its oil riches.

He said he believed that Russians were slowly growing more comfortable with sex as a new post-Soviet generation has come of age.

For the sake of that sport with life he had now come over to the Russians, and for the same sport he might go back to Shamil tomorrow.

The Russian Foreign Ministry repeated the statement Thursday, saying it was ready to provide consular assistance to any Russians in custody.

Russians are very hospitable. So if you come by, be ready to drink black tea and eat fattening food (like sausages).

Though Russians do not now believe it, there was a genuine upsurge of goodwill in the west, and a desire to help.

The Russians, despite crying foul in public over the arrests, were ready to privately listen.

Japan's Fuji television said the Russians had laid out a carpet and set up fences at a border crossing near the Far Eastern city.

At a press conference Friday during a Latin American trip, she said the State Department has had good private discussions with the Russians.

In Poland, though, the war is usually portrayed as a single heroic struggle, against Russians as well as Germans.

It has been already shown to be possible at some degree by Russians and Chinese, but this might be more like the prediction of 2100.

I do not wish to have to tell the Russians that there will be ANOTHER delay.

But go back to what you feel that we learned from the Russians, because we had some fascinating conversations about this.

During the first ten weeks of the invasion, the Germans pushed the front eastward, and the Russians suffered more than a million casualties.

No books on his life were available, and few Russians had heard of him.

The expectation was that the Russians could be lured into an ambush upon the River Angerapp.

One bearish New York-based dealer says: "Mark my words, the Russians will turn out to be the Japanese of the early 21st century. "

Russians love their social media so much that over the last decade many set up a social network profile before an email address.

Germans and Frenchmen, Irishmen and Englishmen, Jews and Russians - into the Crucible with you all! God is making the American.

For several years, the Russians and Chinese have been trying to push a treaty to ban space weapons.

"The Russians are still the biggest buyers but the Chinese aren't far behind, " said the head of a local trade association.

Television mentions of Mr Ivanov shot up; soon 37% of Russians said they were ready to vote for him.

On June 12th the company sent out a 38-page document to highlight the advantages of its proposed marriage with the Russians.

More details of the energy bit of the Russians' ambitions emerged in a leaked draft this week.

Putin wants Russians and Russia to be the same as he is, one strong personality with multiple facets, not multiple personalities.

Now the Russians recognize that Obama will be very different from his know-nothing predecessor.

Now if the Russians start to find all that and take it home, then we'd have to start taking them more seriously as competitors.

Orban said Hungary is in the post after a year of difficult negotiations to reach an agreement with the Russians.

The Hungry Steppe: that's what the Russians used to call the area beside the road from Samarkand to Tashkent.

I figured the Russians would eventually take over the world, and I would then be able to ask for something to eat.

Russian officers arrested the "pirates" , who turned out to be a bunch of ethnic Russians from Estonia and Latvia.

The former was a pointless irritant to the Russians who never believed the US story that it was a response to a threat from Iran.

Gonzalez was being held in a Brooklyn jail. Prosecutors would not comment on the whereabouts of the two Russians.

The plotting to which they are linked is not mere chatter. Members of Zarqawi's network say their goal was to kill Russians with toxins.

Today, Russians no longer think of Siberia as a cold wasteland, but as an area to be prized because of its rich natural resources.

It would be wrong to stereotype, to say that Russians are fatalistic or heartless.

Obviously, I disagree with this notion that somehow we did not forcefully object to Russians going into Georgia.

But most Russians did not express concern at the outcome, which some hope will prolong the economic boom they have enjoyed under Putin.

He said that it was especially wrong to kill a Russian because Russians were natives.

Pierre and Steve never say no to any offer of food or drink (they would make terrible Chinese) and when in Russia did as the Russians do.

Chief arms control negotiator Rose Gottemoeller said the Russians wanted a general statement on arms reduction, not numerical targets.

Armenia is the only country bordering Turkey, a NATO member, in which the Russians have troops and a base.

U. S. President Barack Obama is urging Russians to work with the United States to tackle the big security and economic problems of our time.

Gates felt this would assuage the Russians' fears that the system might be aimed against them.

The Russians had not succeeded in imposing monetary discipline on themselves.

I hear that the Russians show favors to you and call for your submission.

He is of a generation of Russians that cannot shake off the notion that Russia's natural adversary is the US-led Nato alliance.

A year on, when he spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, he was favoured by 35% of Russians for president.

As you know the French do this, the Russians do this and the Japanese are now doing this.

Then, just as Chinese friends arrived who might secure my journey, the Russians arrested me as a "spy" and sent me out through Poland.

Russians do not allow two people through a door or shake hands stepping the threshold , thought that it is unlucky to do it in this way.

The only ballots yet to be counted are from Russians voting abroad and inaccessible places of the country.

Some young people dressed in black shouting "Russia for Russians" and stretched out his right arm Nazi salute.

(*) Russians, Chinese, North Koreans -- I'll bet you could make it an invasion from Grenada and shoot an almost identical script.

When the Russians finally pulled out in 2002, Hanoi vowed never to let any foreign power have control of the facility.

The Russians, you see, thought they were going to be ruling the world by now, but then the oil price collapsed.

He led the project to translate the Encyclopedia Britannica into Mongolian and was jailed by the Russians, whom he clearly does not like.

Just as the Russians suffered most from communism, so the worst damage from revived Soviet-style history is done to Russia itself.

The facility is not operational, and the Russians have offered 'nonspecific reassurances ' that it poses no threat to the U. S.

What was that? - The Russians, they have fired on their own ship.

Deutsche Welle that, whether it sounds more tragic, but the Russians do not guarantee its own security in the country regarding the trust.

Meantime, a State Department spokesman says the US wants to see the Russians stand down.

Notwithstanding their present political disenfranchisement, post-Soviet Russians will not be a "lost generation. "

If it has to, it will sell Mazeikiai, a loss-making refinery in Lithuania, to the Russians.

There is no doubt that Russians feel they suffered great hurt and indignity during the 1990s.

His career was blemished by his offensive remarks about Spaniards, Japanese, Filipinos, and Russians.

The implosion of the Soviet Union could not stir anything but a sense of shame among Russians.

By the mid-1600s Russians had reached the Sea of Okhotsk, floated down the Amur and passed through the strait dividing Asia from America.

The Russians even planted their national flag at the bottom of the polar seafloor beneath the North Pole.

Although the United States still needed to catch up to the Russians, we then certainly became a contender in the space race.

First the Russians planted a flag on the bottom of the Arctic. Then they promised to return to the Mediterranean.

Brave Russians who still demand that their rulers face up to the awful past may feel let down if others settle for half-truths.

But now, he said, many Russians simply hunt at night from trucks equipped with spotlights.

We let the Russians come over to see the dog and pony show IAW with the INF treaty. Why not let the Chinese see the dog and pony show too.

Schmidt: "They [Russians - AWW], possibly, will continue offensive up to the middle of March" .

In the past, the Russians have always used sledge - hammer tactics In tryIng to take over Iran.

Ukrainians and Russians will be quick to ask, justifiably, why they have been excluded from this notional category.

That will force the Russians, as always, to respond, and "provoke an end to the long regime of peaceable toleration of satellites" .

Opinion polls show that the majority of Russians, particularly the young, do not consider bribery a crime.

For a moment, the Germans slowed down. They may have been utterly confused, why the Russians are shooting at their own.

The Russians have been warning that should this effort stall, it may not be possible to negotiate deeper cuts in existing nuclear arsenals.

He joined the Austro-Hungarian Army after graduation, only to be captured by the Russians and sent to a prison camp in Siberia .

One of the first Russians to entertain the thought of taking asylum in England in case things got tough in Russia was Ivan the Terrible.

The Russians, both on land and in the air, had now the upper hand , and the Germans can have had few hopes of ultimate victory.

At the same time, indignant Russians add, the new kit is not such a threat that they couldn't deal with it easily.

The French retreat turned into a nightmare. From fields and forests, the Russians launched hit-and-run attacks on the French.

American troops occupied Japan , excluding the Russians, not to mention the Australians and the British.

The quick, decisive victory that Napoleon expected never happened. To his surprise, the Russians refused to stand and fight.

It has allowed Vladimir Zhirinovsky, another nationalist, to run on the slogan "For the Russians" .

The British Government of those days feared the Russians it is true, but not the pen of a 14-year old poet.

One teenager who was there with a group of friends said that he was there because he felt a discrimination against Russians.

although she professed fear of the russians , she seemed to have ambivalent feelings toward philby himself.

If this was the case, the Russians had severely misjudged the sophistication of the new D Branch team they are facing.

But, like the Russians, the US now has to worry that it will sacrifice power in a traditional sphere of influence.

The Russians adopted it into their own cuisine with the name "Steak Tartare , " (Tartars being their name for the Mongols).

The Russian Orthodox Church was rising everywhere from the ashes of the Soviet era, and millions of Russians were rushing to be baptized.

For the vast majority of Russians, the pedigree of the men now running Russia Inc. is not something they dwell on.

Just as few expected the Russians to invade Georgia, we remain unaware of precisely where our next crisis will erupt, or when.

After their defeat of the Georgians, the Russians will throw their weight around the neighbourhood.

He says ordinary Russians are reluctant to move, and notes their government has not taken concrete steps that would encourage them to do so.

The Russians also gave the crew incorrect weather and visibility information, and a crucial height warning too late, the Polish side said.

Presently, the Russians comprise less than half of the Soviet population, yet they are the dominant element.

Surveys show that Russians were basically content with the system, comfortable in the bosom of their state enterprise or state farm.

Among these Russians, one of the significant issues is the formation of their new political identity.

in the name of latvia ' s ethnic russians , he supported activists who took over a church in riga.

The Russians like hanging out in the kitchen and philosophically talk about life.

Moreover, the Russians still refuse to allow any of the 200-odd ceasefire monitors deployed by the EU into the two disputed territories.

He urged Americans and Russians to "break all the outdated stereotypes" concerning each others' countries.

This tragedy was the culmination of Poland's unfortunate location between powerful Russians and powerful Germans.

Apparently there are a lot more Russians in Chinatown than I thought.

Apparently there are a lot more Russians in Chinatown than I thought.

The Russians tend to gloss over the fact that in many of those countries, long-serving ruling parties have fallen.

Thus, after what many Russians see as years of slights from the West, NATO's suspension of co-operation has been swatted aside.

As a result, the US may not have an ambassador in place in Moscow next March as the Russians vote for a new president.

"The Russians and the Chinese were able to come to a final agreement quite amicably without serious contradictions. "

The Russians outnumbered the enemy two to one.

To the Russians it was a symbol, and the most irritating example of the US's failure to take their concerns into account.

In the twenty years since the Soviet collapse, Russians' real incomes have increased. But democratic institutions have not kept up.

But the Russians could, short of compromising state security, offer total co-operation with the British inquiry.

Russians often trim off the brim and place it in the centre of a serving plate.

Nato's operations have exceeded the terms of the UN resolution and it has not consulted the Russians.

Jeremy Davidson, a buying agent, says the Russians, Middle Easterners and Indians remain omnipotent at the top of the market.

The annual gas dispute between Ukraine and Russia escalated sharply after the Russians decided to shut off all gas supplies.

The State Department said Thursday that the Russians requested more information and that U. S. officials would fly to Moscow to present it.

The Russians have pulled out of their self-declared buffer zones, but they remain inside Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

It is further proof that neither the Russians nor the US can afford the outrageous costs incurred by the maintenance of a bloated military.

"As life began improving in recent years for average Russians, one of the first things people wanted to spend cash on was travel. "

Just as the Russians fear Chinese influence over Siberia, so the Chinese fear that Muslim Xinjiang could drift off into Central Asia.

"Russians are a very polite people, had been tutored before my " I arrival.

The Bush administration seemed not to care, which stoked the Russians' feeling that they were being ignored.

The Bush administration seemed not to care, which stoked the Russians' feeling that they were being ignored.

"I had a crew of Russians once, " he says, "and it wasn't that they were lazy, but the Russians are always at the same pace. "

In this tense area, filled with Chinese, Mongolians, Japanese, and Russians, the war for Japanese control began.

A majority of Russians seem content with autocratic rule, at least for now.

Many Russians scorn the EU as a strange animal they do not understand (they are not alone in that).

He repeated again that unless this were done he was tied and could not, as he wished, serve the Russians and destroy Shamil.

The U. S. State Department welcomed the Russians' release and urged both countries to avoid friction.

The Russians, he was instructed, were decayed, the French degenerate, the British on the verge of civil war.

The Russians have no divine right to dominate the steppes, or the Swedes to control the Baltic.

Russians and Poles are these days almost as likely to be found downing bottles of beer as shots of vodka.

Russians and Poles are these days almost as likely to be found downing bottles of beer as shots of vodka.

I considered the matter for a long time and then went over to Shamil, and from that time I have fought the Russians continually.

Two-thirds of Russians consider the concentration of power in Mr Putin's hands to be a good thing.

The Russians see that and are expanding from oil into financial services, telecom and retail.

Until Monday's attacks, most Russians seemed reassured by the Kremlin's claims to have the separatists on the run.

Russia had largely outgrown rationing, although Russians had to stand in line for specific products, particularly alcohol.

Russians maintain that they love it, but the neighbours find the smell a bit overpowering.

After the fall of the Berlin wall, East Europeans and Russians demanded the Marshall Plan they had been denied by the Soviet Union in 1947.

'The Russians are looting everything in sight. The whole city is full of marauders, ' said Roland Bochiashvili as he left Gori.

The British and Russians managed to bring down two of the complexes after several failed attempts.

The British and Russians managed to bring down two of the complexes after several failed attempts.

In some quarters there was an unpleasant note of triumphalism, a feeling we could now bend the Russians to our will.

The Russians are rich and sophisticated enough to sort out their politics themselves.

The new limits, he argues, will force the Russians and the Americans to stick to a more stable nuclear-force structure.

On the contrary, it still has influence over the Russians, who remain surprisingly sensitive about their international image.

Then, just as Chinese friends arrived who might secure my journey, the Russians.

Meanwhile, the Russians were attempting their own envelopment maneuver against the German XX Corps and 1st Reserve Corps.

Russians, an Italian-Colombian, a Frenchman and a Chinese are making final preparations before spending 520 days inside a mock spaceship.

The initial assault resulted in very high casualties for the Russians and an almost complete breakdown of morale in the Russian forces.

The Russians also threatened to target missiles at Ukraine if the Ukrainians joined NATO and accepted deployment of American missiles.

Brand-conscious Russians, it seems, are happy to have their taste dictated by design gurus in Stockholm and London.

the chinese seem to be even more secretive than the russians !

Although Kazakhs are a majority, the country has millions of Russians, Ukrainians and descendants of other nationalities exiled by Stalin.

The infection proved catching, though, and soon world oil prices slid and hundreds of thousands of Russians lost their jobs.

Leon : A Russian! I love Russians! Comrade, I've been fascinated by your five-year plan for the last fifteen years.

To this day, Russians remain deeply divided over the Soviet collapse and the economic and political chaos that followed.

An infuriated Azerbaijan promptly threatened to turn to Russia. In June it signed a deal to sell gas to the Russians from 2010 onwards.

he was a genuine man , with that sudden sadness that all russians have.

From autumn 2011, the Russians do not have to be delayed and then the clock back an hour.

The Russians were able to remove some furniture and small art objects from the Amber Room.

Kennedy stared down the Russians over missiles in Cuba and was then assassinated the following year.

In spring sunshine, Poles and Russians including relatives of the dead gathered for solemn prayers at the memorial site in the Katyn Forest.

In principle we willingly admit the Russians'right to a share in the Italian Fleet.

A few Russians had emigrated to the United States and Israel.

Some reek of colonialism ( "Black Africa" ) or lingering imperialism ( "the near abroad" , Russians' term for the former Soviet empire).

The shipment is intended for a nuclear reactor the Russians have helped build in the southern Iranian port city of Bushehr.

The Piazza della Signoria was a riot of sun-pinked Russians, American students, and cops in white thimble-shaped helmets.

This set of pictures is supposed to show the preparations of Russians to this magnificent festive occasion.

As financial turmoil spreads and storm clouds gather over the entire world, many middle-aged Russians are feeling a familiar chill.

I ran into the meat-fumigated coldness of the magical place, the larger Russians following behind me, lugging something big and red.

They moved on then to the main business to consider what measures should be taken to prevent the Chechens going over to the Russians .

It quickly became clear that the Russians were still intent on harboring an adversarial relationship with the West.

The Russians, oddly, did not quail.

Poles focus on the Warsaw uprising; Jews on Auschwitz; Russians on the siege of Leningrad; Ukrainians on the great famine.

To get the Russians behind tougher sanctions you'll have to give them something big, like dropping the idea of missile defence for Europe.

Hundreds of man hours and countless trips went into nudging the Russians westward.

Georgi always had a soft spot in his hard heart for veterans of the Afghan war, though he despised Russians in general.

The operation, which is unprecedented in Russia, is designed to help Russians do more business with China, bank authorities said.

Thanks to GDP growth that has averaged almost 7% a year under Mr Putin, many Russians feel better off, even if a lot are still poor.

Will be interesting to see how Obama surrenders to the Chinese after having done so with the Russians.

At another moment, a character brags that "we're going to make it farther than the Russians did. "

Around the year 2000, the Russians came back with an answer: Space Adventures could purchase a seat in the capsule . . . for $20 million.

Russians are quite right in believing that they, not the US and British Empire, defeated Hitler's Germany.

The ISS is currently manned by three Russians, two Americans and a Japanese astronaut.

worsening America-Russia rivalry, left the Russians free to look more realistically to their own defences.

As Nixon instructed, I devoted my first day and a half in Moscow to bearding the Russians on Vietnam.

even cod is still being hauled from the north-east Atlantic, mostly by Norwegians and Russians.

The Russians say they will ensure that legitimate businessmen get their goods back in the coming months.

Today, Russians absorb American (and global) culture through the Web, despite Moscow's attempts to control information.

Recently Russians were undertaking numerous attempts to start negotiations with Army command or with command of subordinate divisions.

And she gave the president his favourite catch-phrase for dealing with Russians: "Trust, but verify. "

Those Russians who have achieved something, look down on those who haven't.

As a result, the Russians began to place more emphasis on their sniper training programme.

After all, Russians have been pretty tolerant of costly government measures, provided cash still flows from the ATMs.

Hard negotiations with the Russians will now be followed by hard negotiations with [U. S. ] Republican Senators to achieve ratification.

Only a few Russians had experience in world markets, and they had all worked for the foreign trade monopoly.

Railing against Washington's supposed love of military meddling abroad plays well with the ordinary Russians, Mr Putin's main constituency.

Most Russians grumble about their lives, but see "international prestige" as a consolation prize.

The Russians see Europe as a source of useful technology and a holiday destination; their elites spend time and own property there.

It deals a massive blow to his credibility as a tough man with tough policies that can bring Russians security.

Local media were full of often grisly reports, however, centering on the two Black Widows, as Russians describe the female attackers.

The Russians were just a block away.

An increasing number of Russians say that their country is moving in the wrong direction.

The new president must also work more harmoniously with the Russians than Mr Yushchenko, but without conceding them any special influence.

The Russians might object to the introduction of a competitor to their space-transport service.

At the Valdai conference, some Russians spoke of China and Asia as an alternative if Moscow is spurned by Europe.

Price liberalisation made the erosion of Russians' savings visible, and was hugely painful.

The building was occupied mainly by Russians, flanked by other buildings occupied by other Russians.

The Russians haven't done carrier operations a very long time and United States is certainly not going to be training them.

The Russians bombarded Grozny constantly for weeks, killing mainly the civilians who were still trapped inside.

On the contrary, it still has influence over the Russians, who remain surprisingly sensitive about their internationalimage.

The fate of this ambitious scheme is in the hands of the Russians.

There's only been two concepts tried -- two by the U. S. and one by the Russians.

As I see it, the Russians are starting to break the backbone of Hitlerism, but at terrible cost.

The Russians founded a uniform country whose center is Moscow. They drove out the Mongols and gained the independence again.

In 1880, railroad technology was advancing rapidly, and the Russians received several private petitions for a concession in the Far East.

Moscow hasn't specified how many of the 10 are Russians; two of those arrested, Anna Chapman and Mikhail Semenko, had not hidden that fact.

The Russians are pushing for deeper cuts in delivery vehicles because their missiles generally fit more warheads than American missiles.

Russians fought with incredible heroism, suffered unthinkably casualties and damage, and ground Nazi Germany into dust.

The Russians have also reached out to Middle East sovereign wealth funds.