Nikolai Makarov denounced U.S-NATO plans to build defenses against ballistic missiles launched from the Middle East.

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The company is run by champion cyclist Igor Makarov from Turkmenistan, who operates out of a four-story building in Jacksonville, Fla.

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To prove his point, Makarov offers this: Plus One Collection, a 200-page photography book representing work from 53 countries on four continents.

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In July 2004, on a dark Moscow street, Paul Klebnikov--the American editor of FORBES RUSSIA and one of the leading investigative reporters in business journalism--was shot nine times with a semiautomatic Russian Makarov pistol.

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In the first piece of research, a team from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the National University of Singapore, led by Vadim Makarov and Ilja Gerhardt, hacked into a system that connects several buildings on the National University of Singapore's campus.

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