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...will that lead to more conflict with other countries, even another cold war? Repayments Churchill's old saw about russia being a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma continues to have force now that the Iron Curtain has long since been pulled back. Moscow's more muscular approach to the world has roots in its domestic politics. And there, a contradictory welter of good and bad developments contend for dominance, giving the Kremlin cause for both expansive confidence and prickly insecurity. The economy is booming. Since 1999, growth averaging more than 6% a year has produced a cumulative...
...official abuses have been curbed; George Soros' Open Society Institute was shut down. These restrictions, which Putin argues were necessary to halt a slide into anarchy, are a big reason why others in the G-8 are critical. It's a problem that goes deeper than Putin: his approach has won substantial popular support, which means that any successor will likely continue along his path. Buoyed by stability and economic growth at home, Russia under Putin has been able to develop a foreign policy that seeks to re-establish its place as a key actor on the world stage...
...draw their countries' long-contested border and conducted large-scale joint military exercises. Two-way trade, which reached $29.1 billion last year, was up more than 50% in the first quarter of 2006 compared to 2005. Hu and Putin have a lot in common besides their approach to the U.S.: hostility toward "separatism" (in Chechnya, Tibet and Xinjiang) and wariness of politically unpredictable actors such as environmental groups, journalists and U.S.-funded ngos. They combined to pressure the U.S. to withdraw from a base in Uzbekistan established to help fight the Taliban, and have tried to engineer an eviction from...
...political ties that such an alignment requires. George W. Bush is no exception. He ran for office proclaiming contempt for Bill Clinton's closeness to Yeltsin, but in office has tried the same dance with Putin - and his aides argue that over Iran, Hamas and North Korea, such an approach is getting results. Next week George and Vladimir will meet once again. Hard facts will be attractively packaged. Bush is prepared to say that Putin should stop centralizing power, for example, but not because Russia's government is an embarrassment to democracy. Rather, says a senior U.S. official, more centralization...
...office work was detailed involvement in the daily life of our gas sector," Milov wrote in a Russian biweekly, Novaya Gazeta. "I felt that Putin personally handled a great deal of what Gazprom's ceo was supposed to do." Such confusion of roles finds its echo in Europe's approach to Russia. A green paper published by the European Commission in March called for a common external energy policy to coordinate relations with Russia and opec, but that quickly ran into objections from E.U. governments which want to make energy policy themselves. Poland, for example, is extremely nervous about Putin...