Jim Heintz

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Lavrov: Iran ready to stop 20-percent enrichment

Jim Heintz · June 18, 2013 1:10 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin, third right, and his wife Lyudmila, second right, attend the ballet "La Esmeralda" in the Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, June 6, 2013. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Russian president Putin, wife divorce

Jim Heintz · June 6, 2013 4:00 am

Putin supports wrestling’s Olympic inclusion

Jim Heintz · May 30, 2013 11:42 am

In this handout photo provided by the FSB, acronym for Russian Federal Security Service, a man claimed by FSB to be Ryan Fogle, a third secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, is detained in Moscow, early Tuesday, May 14, 2013. Russia's security services say they have caught a U.S. diplomat who they claim is a CIA agent in a red-handed attempt to recruit a Russian agent. Ryan Fogle, a third secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, was carrying special technical equipment, disguises, written instructions and a large sum of money when he was detained overnight, the FSB said in a statement Tuesday. Fogle was handed over to U.S. embassy officials, the FSB, said. (AP Photo/FSB Public Relations Center)

National Security

Russia says alleged spying case was 2nd this year

Jim Heintz · May 15, 2013 4:00 am

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2009 file photo, Nataliya Magnitskaya holds a portrait of her son, Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer who died in jail, as she speaks with The Associated Press in Moscow, Russia. The Treasury Department on Friday announced the names of 18 Russians subject to financial sanctions and visa bans because of their alleged violations of human rights. The list, an outgrowth of a law enacted last December to hold Russian officials accountable for human rights abuses, is certain to further strain relations with the Moscow government. Russia has strongly objected to the act and threatened to retaliate with its own sanctions. The act is named for Magnitsky, who was arrested in 2008 for tax evasion after accusing Russian police officials of stealing $230 million in tax rebates. He died in prison the next year, allegedly after being beaten and denied medical treatment. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Russia bans 18 Americans after similar US move

Jim Heintz · April 13, 2013 4:00 am

New dilemma in Russia: Where to buy beer?

Jim Heintz · January 1, 2013 4:18 pm

Rescuers work at the site of careered off the runway plane at Vnukovo Airport in Moscow, Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012. A Tu-204 aircraft belonging to Russian airline Red Wings careered off the runway at Russia's third-busiest airport on Saturday, broke into pieces and caught fire, killing several people. (AP Photo/Alexander Usoltsev)

4 dead in Moscow airliner crash

Jim Heintz · December 30, 2012 6:10 am

Putin signs anti-US adoptions bill

Jim Heintz · December 28, 2012 5:18 pm

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, welcomes his Egyptian counterpart Mohamed Kamel Amr prior to a meeting in Moscow on Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. (AP photo)

Russia reaches out to Syrian coalition

Jim Heintz · December 28, 2012 10:34 am

Russian lawmakers attend a session of the lower house of the State Duma in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. The lower house of parliament takes a final vote on the measure Friday against the United States that would include banning adoption of Russian children by Americans. Some top government officials oppose it, but President Vladimir Putin hasn't tipped his hand on whether he'd sign it into law. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

Russian parliament passes anti-US adoption measure

Jim Heintz · December 21, 2012 2:41 pm

Police officers detain a protester near the State Duma, in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012. People picket parliament's lower chamber, to protest against planned debate of an amendment that would ban Americans from adopting Russian children. The poster reads: Are orphans guilty of Magnitsky's death ? Stop putting shame on yourselves! Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian lawyer who was arrested by the officials he accused of a $230 million tax fraud. He was repeatedly denied medical treatment and in 2009 died in jail. (AP Photo/Novaya Gazeta, Yevgeny Feldman)

Russia gives initial OK to American adoption ban

Jim Heintz · December 19, 2012 5:00 am

Russian FM against any ban on US adoptions

Jim Heintz · December 18, 2012 2:40 pm