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Meet Gulmurod Khalimov, the US-trained and funded former commander of Tajikistan's special forces, who, as Reuters reports, has now gone to Syria to fight with ISIS. He has a message: "Listen, you American pigs, I’ve been three times to America, and I saw how you train fighters to kill Muslims...God willing, I will come with this weapon to your cities, your homes, and we will kill you." As Reuters reports: Colonel Gulmurod Khalimov commanded the Central Asian nation’s special-purpose police known as OMON, used against criminals and militants. He disappeared in late April, prompting a search by Tajik police. He...

Putin wants hostages' killers hunted down By JIM HEINTZ, Associated Press Writer 29 minutes ago MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered Russia's special services to hunt down and "destroy" the killers of four Russian diplomats in Iraq, the Kremlin said. Nikolai Patrushev, the head of the Federal Security Service — the main successor to the Soviet KGB — later said that everything would be done to ensure that the killers "do not escape from responsibility," the Interfax news agency reported. "The president has ordered the special forces to take all necessary measures to find and destroy the criminals...

"The newspaper as television set." It is under this heading that we will give some well-known television journalists, who under various pretexts have been removed from the Russian ether, a chance to speak. Here are the tele-journalists whose programs we would like to see on the pages of ‘Novaya Gazeta’: Alexander Gerasim, Alexander Gurnov, Sergey Dorenko, Yevgeny Kiselev, Vladimir Karamurza, Stanislaw Kucher, Alexander Lyubimov, Nikolai Nikolayev, Andrei Norkin, Leonid Parfenonov, Igor Pototskiy, Yuri Rostov, Eduard Sagalayev, Svetlana Sorokina, Victor Shenderovich, and Savik Schuster. Today - Nikolai Nikolayev, from 'Independent Investigation'. What went on behind the scenes of a famous news...