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...rather, it's the new version of the old world. In the early 20th century, as the age of oil dawned, the globe's imperial powers- Britain, Germany, Russia-jousted for control of newly discovered oil fields in the Caucasus, Central Asia and later the Middle East. The struggle became known as the Great Game. A century later, the game is on again as China scrambles to secure its energy future, roiling markets and even ensnaring the U.S.'s Middle Eastern policy in the process. In the past year China's energy companies have signed deals for oil reserves...
...their chief propagandist, Movladi Udugov, declared, marks a "new period" in the war with Russia. There will be no negotiations or temporary halts in fighting, he said, vowing the war will end "only when the regime that generates and nourishes aggression against the Chechen state and Muslims of the Caucasus is finally annihilated." As the Soviet Union began to crumble in the early 1990s, Maskhadov, an artillery colonel, returned to Chechnya to mastermind the military strategy for its 1994-96 revolt against Russia. Elected Chechen President by a landslide in 1997, he quickly lost support for failing to stop...
...IRAQ The Bush Administration used to think that nation building was beneath it; now it's clear that the creation of a civil society is crucial to stability in Iraq. That happens to be a European speciality. In Slovakia, Bosnia and the Caucasus, the E.U. has created civil, judicial and political institutions, from agricultural advice bureaus to customs inspectors. Can it work in Iraq? Germany and France, among others, have now promised to forgive some of the country's debt, and the E.U. is launching a training program for some 800 top Iraqi law-enforcement and justice officials...
...whose identities were not revealed, are "a little above the rank of major or lieut. colonel," Torshin declared. If the men are guilty, their high rank would be more surprising than the fact that the rebels had penetrated law-enforcement agencies. Chechen guerrillas and their allies in the North Caucasus boast that they buy weapons from the Russian army and are assisted by local police. Meanwhile, bloody clashes, usually unreported in the media, occur daily in Chechnya. Last week, seven guerrillas were killed in a gunfight in Nalchik, capital of the once sleepy republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. A standoff...
Think Vladimir Putin's iron rule has turned Russia into a land of obedient, beaten-down people? Not in Cherkessk, a city of 140,000 in the Caucasus. A bus conductor there asked an elderly disabled passenger to pay his fare last week and the old man used his crutches to pummel the conductor - because he'd never had to pay before. Not in Tula, 165 km south of Moscow, where more than 40 such assaults on bus and tram conductors were recorded in just three days. Not in Khimki on the outskirts of Moscow, where several thousand travelers heading...