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This approach has usually worked. Putin has also quite often denied knowledge of an embarrassing event or subtly hinted that it was the responsibility of subordinates. He did this in February, when Radio Liberty journalist Andrei Babitsky was handed over by security services to spurious Chechen guerrillas. In June, when Gusinsky was arrested, Putin told a press conference in Germany that he had been unable to find out why Gusinsky was in prison: he had not been able to phone the prosecutor general. Today Chechnya, once Putin's abiding policy passion, is rarely mentioned now that the military effort there...
...Federal officials suspend a $14 million contract with the Harvard Institute of International Development after discovering possible improprieties in HIID projects in Russia. Accusations focus on Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer '82, who allegedly "abused the trust of the United States government by using personal relationships...for private gain," officials...
...still talking about one universe--though one vastly larger than the tiny patch, a mere 30 billion light-years across, that we can see. But then scientists, including the Russian emigre Andrei Linde, realized that this inflation was more flexible than anyone had thought. Energy fields of early-universe intensity could arise purely by chance in subatomic-size regions of even a normal cosmos...
...recent years the institute has been troubled by claims of mismanagement and a Justice Department investigation of Professor of Economics Andrei Schleifer '82 and his former colleague on HIID's Russian project, Jonathan Hay. Both were accused of using their knowledge of the Russian economy to help private investors...
...ANDREI BABITSKY Missing Russian who reported Chechens' side turns up. World rejoices; he still faces charges...