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media type="custom" key="9527276" Article Summaries **Russia expels Israeli military attaché for 'industrial **espionage' Russian security sources say that Air Force Colonel Vadim Leiderman, Israel’s military attaché in Russia, has been caught. Not only caught but caught ‘red handed.’ He was receiving classified documents in Moscow on Thursday of last week. One of the security sources for Russia told RIA Novosti news agency that “This deals entirely with his overly active work on behalf of certain Israeli companies on the Russian market.” Col Leiderman was apparently apprehended at a café. He was meeting a source from a Russian defense ministry and was questioned for several hours, before being told to leave the country in 48 hours. Russia had attempted to recruit him as a double agent and grown angry when he refused. =Russian troops fed dog food = Russian Interior Ministry troops were fed dog food earlier this year to save money, a former officer in the ministry said Thursday. The story was attempted to be covered up by the officers. Matveyev, a male who served in war against the Chechen separatists in 1990’s says he was ordered to be dismissed after posting video of widespread corruption in the Interior Ministry forces.  Then there was no member available of the Ministry’s troop to comment right away on the allegations. Matveyev said it was very embarrassing having to say that soldiers here were fed dog food, but it’s true. Apparently they covered up the label that said DOG FOOD and put another label over it which read, PREMIUM QUAILITY BEEF. Russia was very embarrassed **U.S. Seeks ‘Fugitive’ Who Posed as Diplomat to Export Porsches to Russia ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">The U.S. state department as started an investigation on if a former Ney York native acted as Russian diplomats. They were posing to car dealerships all around the country. These posers were wanted to get discounts on Porches and Lexus automobiles so that they could sell them overseas. These men were trying to sell them for tens of thousands of dollars more in profit. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> Apparently in February the group that posed as Russian diplomats had targeted many states including <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> North Carolina, Texas, Missouri and Connecticut. They had bought 6 luxury vehicles. One man agreed to buy a Porsche for $67, 890, in Russia these cars are very rare a d are very hard to get and in Russia are sold to people for $180,000. Even though they think they have caught them the investigation is still active. =<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 32px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Russian companies seeking IPOs = <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Russian companies are now trying a fresh wave of IPO attempts. As the high price of oil keep going up. Some had predicted that the private issuers could raise up to $30 billion with the right market conditions. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> The wave of attempts in London as the high price is growing; the Russian economy will bring the private issuers back to equity markets. The total raised in 2011 to this date is just over $2 billion. If the market conditions where good then there would be good amounts of money. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px; letter-spacing: -0.75pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Belarus 'to get Russian bail-out' worth $3bn ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.75pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">A Russian backed loan has come to terms and has been agreed for Belarus says the ex-soviet republic s prime minister. The deal is said to be ready no sooner than June. Reports say that Vladimir Putin has been visiting with Belarus for talks with President Alexander Luckashenko. A crisis is griping at Belarus and eroding rouble saving this is causing shortage of goods. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.75pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> Conditions have been agreed to give a crisis loan of $3 to $3.5 billion over three years. Moscow said that they will be keeping a close eye on Belarusian assets like oil refineries. Russia is already subsiding the Belarusian economy in exchange because of there smoothly delivery of Russian oil to Europe.