The Third Bit (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
... the usability of three scientific workflow packages (Taverna, LONI, and Kepler); Justin Foong, Vladimir Markin, and Teren Teh, who integrated Mozilla’s Ubiquity natural language interface into Thunderbird; AJ Guillon, who is building a mixed task- and data-parallel library for GPU programming; Lenny Han and Can Zhang, who extended the Eclipse feature diagram plugin to create a WYSIWYG...
qwstnevrythg.com (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
... and died at the hospital, officials said.“Given the nature of the shot, it was fired by a sniper,” Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for the Prosecutor General’s Investigative Committee, told reporters.Dmitri A. Medvedev, Russia’s president, ordered law enforcement agencies to employ all possible measures when investigating the murder, the Kremlin Web site said.Vladikavkaz is the capital...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
... went off in his car, Itar-Tass reported. A spokesman for Russia's top investigative committee, Vladimir Markin, said an investigation had been opened into the killing. Vladikavkaz, the main regional capital of Russia's volatile North Caucasus region, has been targeted in attacks by Muslim separatist from Chechnya and neighbouring regions. In 2004, Chechen rebels took hostage a school...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia The mayor of a major city in Russia's troubled North Caucasus was shot and killed Wednesday in the latest violence to hit a region roiled by years of insurgency and war, officials said.
Vladikavkaz Mayor Vitaly Karayev was shot as he got into his car to go to work, said Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for Russia's top investigative body. He died shortly afterward...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Russian mayor shot and killed in restive regionBy SERGEI VENYAVSKYAssociated Press WriterROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia -- The mayor of a major city in Russia's troubled North Caucasus was shot and killed Wednesday in the latest violence to hit a region roiled by years of insurgency and war, officials said.Vladikavkaz Mayor Vitaly Karayev was shot as he got into his car to go to work, said Vladimir Markin,...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
... said.Vladikavkaz Mayor Vitaly Karayev was shot as he got into his car to go to work, said Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for Russia's top investigative body. He died shortly afterward in hospital.Ekho Moskvy radio cited unnamed law enforcement officials as saying that Karayev was shot once in the heart, most likely by a sniper.Karayev had been mayor for less than a year. His deputy...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
... said he died of a bullet wound to the heart. A spokesman for Russia's top investigative committee, Vladimir Markin, said an investigation had been opened into the killing. North Ossetian President Taimuraz Mamsurov confirmed the mayor's death and said he had been shot at around 9:00 am (0600 GMT). Mamsurov called an emergency meeting of regional security officials after the attack,...
