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...horrible." He apparently didn't mention that it looks that way because the Russian military has periodically pounded it with bombs and artillery shells as part of the Kremlin's campaign to quell a separatist uprising in the region. With last week's assassination of Moscow's hand-picked Chechen President, Akhmad Kadyrov, Putin might also have remarked that his strategy for pacifying Chechnya looked pretty horrible too. But Kadyrov's murder gives Putin a choice: he can launch yet another crackdown or finally try a new approach. Judging from his comments last week, he's not sure which...
...authorities but also by a seven-member intelligence Advisory Group that includes the U.S., Britain, France and Israel. Last month, NATO agreed to provide 24-hour AWACS surveillance. U.S. battleships will be steaming offshore. Israeli intelligence teams are consulting on the suicide bomber threat; Russian experts are advising on Chechen-style suicide attacks. Athens is supposed to be the best defended Games ever. Then three bombs go off right behind a police station. Although the blasts didn't injure, much less kill, anybody, they hurt global confidence in all of those elaborate security measures. "Any bomb that goes...
...natural-gas prices--which once made the Soviet Union seem like the way of the future, until prices collapsed. Putin has not used the boom to diversify the country's economic base. He claims victory in Chechnya but has only devastated the tiny republic, not pacified it. Hard-line Chechen secessionists are waging a pitiless war of urban terrorism in Moscow and elsewhere. Russia is a much more dangerous place to live now than before Putin came to power. In politics, he speaks of democracy but opts for authoritarianism. The result is in all but name a one-party system...
...risen ghost from Russia's nasty past. His government's relentless campaign to squelch political opposition and silence independent media; its hounding of the "oligarch" business tycoons whose control over vast swathes of the economy create a potential alternative power center; and the clumsy brutality of his campaign against Chechen separatism fuel concerns that post-communist Russia is being turned, once again, into a fiefdom worthy of the Czars and the Commissars. And the fact that Putin has eschewed the roll-over-and-beg geopolitics of his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, in favor of a vigorous nationalist foreign policy that frequently...
...DIED. RUSLAN GELAYEV, 39, Chechen separatist, in a shoot-out with Russian border guards; near the village of Bezhta, Dagestan. Gelayev was a formidable military commander in the 1994-96 war against Russian forces. Even some foes showed grudging respect for Gelayev, who was known as a ruthless fighter but not as a terrorist. Moscow-backed Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov told the Itar-Tass news agency that fighting in Chechnya would continue despite the warlord's death...