steves: a selection of ferries make the 50-mile crossing between helsinki and tallinn nearly hourly.ecause of the ease of this delightful two-hour cruise and the variety a quick trip over to estonia adds to your nordic travels, pairing helsinki and tallinn is a natural. stepping off the boat in tallinn, the capital of estonia, you feel you've traveled a long way culturally from finland. its a mix of east and west. tallinn's nordic lutheran culture and language connect it with stockholm and helsinki, but two centuries of czarist russian rule and nearly 50 years as part of the soviet union have blended in a distinctly russian flavor. fins and estonians share a similar history. first, swedish domination, then russian. then independence after world war i. until 1940, the estonians were about as affluent as the fins, but then estonia was gobbled up by an expanding soviet empire and spent the decades after world war ii under communism. when the ussr fell, estonia regained its freedom, and in 2004, it joined the european union. tallinn has modernized at an astounding rate since the fall of

in this year, we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the helsinki act and the 25th anniversary of the paris charger. we would like to reaffirm our commitment to these principles and we would like to continue , prosperity in the european region. we wish success to the group of wise men of osce celebrating the 70th anniversary of the second world war. we should be aware of our common and shared responsibilities. thank you very much. [applause] >> foreign secretary lavrov, thank you very much. he has agreed to take some questions. we have a bit of time. i have already received two cards with two questions and will take those first and then we will call on the next colleagues. just give me a chance to call up the first one. the first one was joe yoffe, whom i am going to ask, where is he? i'm going to have him ask this question himself. >> mr. foreign minister, i understand all of the problems that you mentioned that you had with the united states, such as cfe, or on the missile defense, and apart from the fact, or on the treaty against cruise missiles but i would add as a footnote, obama final

in this year, we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the helsinki act and the other charters signed against terrorism, and we would like to continue prosperity in the european region and we wish success to the group of wise men of osce celebrating the 70th anniversary of the second world war. we should be aware of our common and shared responsibilities. thank you very much. [applause] >> foreign secretary lavrov thank you very much. he has agreed to take some questions. we have a bit of time. i have already received two cards with two questions and will take those first and then we will call on the next colleagues. just give me a chance to call up the first one. the first one was joe yoffe, whom i am going to ask, where is he? i'm going to have him ask this question himself. >> mr. foreign minister, i understand all of the problems that you mentioned that you had with the united states, such as cfe, or on the missile defense and apart from the fact, or on the treaty against cruise missiles, but i would add as a footnote, obama finally took down essentially, the european missile defense syst

a fundamental point here is with the 1975 helsinki final act, that was designed to say you will playe rules and one of the cardinal rules is non-viability of borders and you don't use military force to take territory from other countries, and that's what russia is doing. >> we'll see what happens in the big meeting in moscow in the coming days and revisit this. thank you both very much, mere moor mere -- mearsheimer near in chicago and steven pifer in moscow. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> woodruff: today's disclosure of a major hacking attack on the nation's second-largest insurer, anthem, is setting off alarms about cybercrime at a new level. hackers were able to crack a database that included records for 80 million people. the cyber-criminals were able to get names, addresses and emails. as well as social security numbers and income, but hospital and doctor information related to patients was not hacked. bloomberg news reported investigators believe chinese state-sponsored hackers are involved. mark bower is a noted expert on these issues and a vice president at voltage secur

cia knew the russians's bottom line, and those negotiations, before anybody ought off the plane in helsinki. this was an amazing source of information we had. to run this operation, required the cia, and my office in particular, the office of technical service, to give case officers and agents in moscow, people like peter, and trigon, give them capabilities they had not had before. this was so important. we developed a camera, call the t-50, a camera so small -- there is one in this museum, one on display upstairs. it was so small you could put it in a key father, a lipstick, a pin. you could put it in anything. this was a camera that had a tiny cassette. this is not digital, it was film. the little cassette had the tiniest piece of film in it you ever saw. it was so small, to get film in the cartridge, you had to go to extraordinary efforts. we went to aerial reconnaissance film that the satellites used, which was very thin film, it is a weight thing, you can't lift that much weight into space. aerial reconnaissance film is so thin, in the dark room, when you put it on the reels, you could

in this year, we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the helsinki act and the 25th anniversary of the paris charger. we would like to reaffirm our commitment to these principles and we would like to continue prosperity in the european region. we wish success to the group of wise men of osce celebrating the 70th anniversary of the second world war. we should be aware of our common and shared responsibilities. thank you very much. [applause] >> foreign secretary lavrov, thank you very much. he has agreed to take some questions. we have a bit of time. i have already received two cards with two questions and will take those first and then we will call on the next colleagues. just give me a chance to call up the first one. the first one was joe yoffe, whom i am going to ask, where is he? i'm going to have him ask this question himself. >> mr. foreign minister, i understand all of the problems that you mentioned that you had with the united states, such as cfe, or on the missile defense, and apart from the fact, or on the treaty against cruise missiles but i would add as a footnote, obama finally

their hard work helsinki but safe.s governors, you know that we cannot afford to play politics with our national security. that said, let's try to focus on some of the things that we have in common. i want to thank governor ensley and his fellow west coast governors that reach an agreement to help open 29 points and keep is the slowing. i have to add an applause for tom perez who went out there and really made an extraordinary conjuration to the effort. that will make a big difference for the country's economy as a whole. that's the kind of thing that we can accomplish when we put aside divisions and focus on some common sense steps to improve the economy for everybody. it is an economy -- an example that i know congress follows in the months ahead. keep in mind, when congress does not act or does not act fast enough, i think we can still work together to make a difference. whether you're a democrat or republican, what i have found is that the more specific we are on focusing on problems, less concerned about politics,

appointment, commission on security and corporation on europe helsinki united states caucus on international narcotic control. signed sincerely, karen l. haas. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will entertain up to 15 further requests for one-minute speeches on each side of the aisle. for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina seek recognition? mr. wilson: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without obctn. mr. wso mr. speaker congratulations to safe federal credit union which on january 14 celebrated its 60th anniversary of a federal charter. in january, 1955, 15 civilian employees at the air force base organized the safe federal credit union. the membership has expanded to 500 additional groups and eight underserved communities. headquartered in sumpter, south carolina, is now the largest credit union with 108,000 members and $903 million in assets. i'm grateful for the work of safe employees who have developed a reputation of exemplary service, knowledge and trust under the lead

senate caucus on international narcotics control, commission on security and cooperation in europe helsinkiboard of trustees of the john f. kennedy center for performing arts. president's export council, united states holocaust memorial council. with best wishes i am, signed sincerely, karen l. haas. the speaker pro tempore: the luss -- the house will be in order. will members please take their conversation off the floor. for what purpose does the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. ryan, seek recognition? mr. ryan: mr. speaker, pursuant to house resolution 101, i call up the bill h.r. 644 and i ask for its immediate consideration in the house. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: union calendar number 12 h.r. 644, a bill to amend the internal revenue code of 19 6 to permanently extend and expand the charitable deduction for prohibitions of food inventory. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution 101 in lieu of the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the committee on ways and means printed in the bill, an amendment in the