Going Underground in Moscow

(Source: NZ Herald/ Independent) In the Soviet era, subterranean Moscow was filled with secret tunnels and nuclear bunkers. But Josef Stalin's paranoid underground facilities are about to be overtaken and dwarfed in scale by the high priests of Russia's prevailing religion: capitalism. In a move that has alarmed geologists and preservationists, Moscow's city fathers have announced plans to gouge out 80 per cent of the land beneath Moscow to create a city beneath a city.

The Plot thickens: Polonium detected at Berezovsky's office

(Source: The Guardian) Detectives have found traces of polonium 210 at the London offices of the exiled Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, it was revealed last night. Officers were searching 7 Down Street, Mayfair, after the discovery of the radioactive substance that killed Mr Berezovsky's friend and former employee, Alexander Litvinenko.