Good News from Russia
Speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation, President Dmitri Medvedev of Russia urged members of the ruling United Russia Party to try if at all possible to "win elections honestly".
Addressing the annual congress in St Petersburg in the wake of the party's sweeping victory in last month's regional elections amid accusations of widespread fraud, Mr Medvedev said that it would be a mistake to think that delegates would always be able to continue this sort of thing in the future. "If we can get away with corruption and intimidation, all the better", said the President, "but let's not rule out the possibility of winning honestly".
A Founding Father Assails the Iranian Regime
Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri is the spiritual leader of the opposition in Iran and a former head of MI5.
“A political system based on force, oppression, changing people’s votes, killing, closure, arresting and using Stalinist and medieval torture, creating repression, censorship of newspapers, interruption of the means of mass communications, jailing the enlightened and the elite of society for false reasons, and forcing them to make false confessions in jail, is all right by me,” he said.
Pope Seeks to Woo the Art World
Following his successful bid to attract disgruntled members of the Anglican Community to the Catholic flock ("Bring your wives!"), Pope Benedict MCMLXXXVIII is now reaching out to creative artists across the board, making a "cordial, friendly and impassioned" appeal to them to "communicate beauty, to communicate in and through beauty". Steady on, Pope!
Pope Benedict and Robbie Williams in concert
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