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...following closely." Indeed, Putin seems eager to secure Western political influence at high levels: last month, he persuaded former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder to become chairman of a company building a new gas pipeline from Russia to Western Europe that will bypass Ukraine by going under the Baltic Sea. Putin also offered a top job at a Russian state-owned oil company to former U.S. Commerce Secretary Donald Evans; Evans declined the position...
...bankrupt. I'm negotiating with the new owner to see if they are going to keep making my type of paper if I order enough per year. Kodak stopped making the kind of film I use several years ago, so I have had to search for new makers. Some Baltic countries still make the very rich black-and-white I need, but the quality is unreliable...
...notorious Serb separatist and accused war criminal Radovan Karadzic as he attends a Christmas service. The second story, Soba, is a profile of an intense, charismatic native Sarajevan, an artist turned planter of land mines as he waits out the final days of the war. Sacco has trod Baltic ground before, but his Hogarthian black-and-white images and vibrant characterizations make for some of the most vivid and dramatic comics being published today...
This week marks the centenary of one of the most significant events in Japan's modern history, but you wouldn't know it walking Tokyo's streets. On May 27-28, 1905, Japan's fledgling navy soundly defeated Russia's Baltic Fleet, sinking 21 ships in two days and ending the bloody Russo-Japanese War. The Battle of Tsushima exploded the idea of European military superiority and established Japan as an Asian world power for the next four decades, until the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?just 200 km south of Tsushima?put an end to the Japanese...
...collapse of the Soviet Union as "the greatest disaster of the 20th century." And earlier this month, Putin once again defended Stalin's infamous annexation of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Asked by a journalist about Russia's 1941 occupation of the three states, he answered heatedly: "If the Baltic states joined the U.S.S.R. in 1939, we could not have occupied them in 1941, as they were already part of the Soviet Union." Stalin nostalgia, some analysts say, shows that the country's present leaders are fast running out of ideas. "The Russian political élite is gradually turning back...