Stories tagged "russia"

A beautiful description about Moscow and Saint Petersburg by Ed Yourdon.

Nations began signing a treaty banning cluster bombs on Wednesday in a move that supporters hope will shame the US, Russia and China and other non-signers into abandoning weapons blamed for maiming and killing civilians.

The 'malware' strike, thought to be from inside Russia, hit combat zone computers and the U.S. Central Command overseeing Iraq and Afghanistan. The attack underscores concerns about computer warfare.

Months after leaving office and becoming prime minister, Putin is helping Medvedev do exactly what he promised never to do himself - rewrite the constitution to extend the presidential term.

Russia's top investigator is claiming that the Georgians employed mercenaries during their August war -- including female snipers from Ukraine and Latvia. Reuters reports: Asked to list the nationalities of

A botnet that once controlled 40 percent of the world's spam apparently has found a new home.

The U.S. agreed to support a modest reopening of NATO’s dialogue with Russia, despite Moscow’s continuing occupation of Georgia’s South Ossetia and Abkhazia territories.

Focking...hillarious!

MOSCOW — In the heat of the Georgia crisis in August, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany flew to Russia to warn about the consequences of renewed militarism. Two days later she was in Georgia, voicing support for the country’s eventual entry into NAT

Senior military leaders took the exceptional step of briefing President Bush this week on a severe and widespread electronic attack on Defense Department computers that may have originated in Russia.