Sergei L. Loiko

Putin says Russia may build stockpile if new START treaty founders

MOSCOW -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, his confident bluntness on full display, has declared Russia might build up its nuclear weapons instead of reducing them if the new START treaty arranged with the Obama administration is not ratified by Congress.

If the treaty is held up by U.S. legislators showing "a very dumb nature" then Russia will "have to react somehow," Putin said in an interview with CNN's Larry King scheduled for broadcast Wednesday.

Key Russian spy betrayed compatriots

MOSCOW -- A high-ranking intelligence officer betrayed Russia by exposing a secret spy ring operating in the United States until last June and defecting, a newspaper reported Thursday.

The officer, identified only as Col. Shcherbakov, was instrumental in the high-profile arrests of Russian spies in New York, Boston, Virginia, New Jersey and Cyprus on charges of conspiring to act as unregistered agents of the Russian Federation, according to a cover story in the Moscow-based Kommersant daily. Shcherbakov reportedly left Russia shortly before U.S. officials announced the arrests in June.

Prosecutors seek 14-year prison term for former Russian oil tycoon

MOSCOW -- Russian prosecutors said Friday they will seek a 14-year prison sentence for onetime oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who is currently on trial for embezzlement and money laundering while already in his seventh year of incarceration for a tax-evasion conviction -- all charges he has vehemently denied.

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