I like Russians. I play chess with them every day. But this is not very nice:

New York Times

"Russian plot to pay bounties to the Taliban to kill American troops in Afghanistan."

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Washington Post

Russian bounties offered to Taliban-linked militants to kill coalition forces in Afghanistan are believed to have resulted in the deaths of several U.S. service members, according to intelligence gleaned from U.S. military interrogations of captured militants in recent months.