Vladimir Putin

LONDON - Detectives searching for a missing British spy said Wednesday they had launched a murder investigation after a body matching the man's description was discovered stuffed in a bag in his apartment near the headquarters of the MI6 spy agency.

MOSCOW - A band of 100 masked people staged a violent environmental protest in a quiet Moscow suburb, hurling Molotov cocktails and fireworks at city hall while objecting to plans for clearing a local forest for highway construction, Russian police said.
FOROS, Ukraine - Vladimir Putin says he sang a patriotic song with the Russian spies who were expelled from the United States and promised them a "bright" future.

MOSCOW - Russian police on Friday detained two journalists and 15 protesters at a suburban Moscow forest where they have been living to try to protect the woods from destruction.

WASHINGTON - The capture of those alleged deep-cover Russian agents has - for a moment of nostalgia - taken Americans back to a day when their enemy was sneaky but familiar, ensconced right there behind the crenelated red-brick Kremlin walls.
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