Early in 2011, they intercepted text messages that alarmed Russian officials, sent by Mr. Tsarnaev's mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva.

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The West and its Arab supporters had agreed to numerous changes in the text earlier this week to accommodate Russian demands.

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Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov gave his country's tacit approval to the text of the resolution, although his support came with a caveat.

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Russian companies occupy leading positions in, among other specialties anti-virus software, search engines, and text recognition.

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Though the sample Doctor Web found targeted Russians by piggybacking on an application for listening to music on the popular Russian social media site Vkontakte, screenshots of the malware show that the fraudulent installer uses English-language text, a sign that it may also be targeting non-Russians.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin seems to favour bringing back the Soviet hymn and replacing its original lyrics with a new text by the same author, the 87-year-old Sergey Mikhalkov.

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