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...What do you think of President Bush? If the American people are really happy with George Bush, Clinton was a man of unnecessary brilliance. What about Putin? The Russians have never known democracy, so transformation will take a long time. Putin cannot escape decentralization. Take Chechnya. The only solution is autonomy for the regions. A unitary state with Moscow or St. Petersburg as its capital is utter nonsense. Your latest project is the study of prejudice. Why such an abstract idea? It's not abstract at all. Prejudice is the destructive root of most human conflicts. Conflicts can be sorted...
...want," Ustinov says. "He believed democratic reform was possible within the framework of the Soviet system, which of course it wasn't." Of the current Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, Ustinov opines that "he is still young enough to learn," despite having made an "unholy mess" of Chechnya. Ustinov isn't particularly worried about Putin's KGB origins. "The Bush dynasty has a CIA background. KGB or CIA, it's all the same dirty tricks, but the KGB is a better school. At least Putin speaks German, which helps in his dealings with Schröder. And he was smart enough...
...them - included Middle Eastern "chemists" skilled in poisons. Many of them, Georgian sources told Time, subsequently ended up in U.S. hands - when Georgians thwarted poison attacks against American citizens and installations in other parts of the Caucasus and Central Asia. One of the main al-Qaeda lieutenants in the Chechnya-Georgia region, says Jacquard, is a Jordanian known as Abu Atiyya. In addition to overseeing the deployment of militants to training camps, he is thought to play a key role in reassigning trained personnel to terror networks, including setting up sleeper cells in such places as Azerbaijan and Turkey...
...MPCI). The attack took place in an area controlled by the MPCI 50 km north of a cease-fire line established after a failed MPCI coup in September. French troops had been enforcing the truce, but two other rebel groups continue to fight in the west of the country. CHECHNYA Mandate Denied Russia refused to extend the mandate of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) mission after the failure of last-minute talks to determine the body's exact role in the breakaway republic. Moscow had insisted that the OSCE limit itself to providing humanitarian...
Islamic fundamentalist groups are pursuing their own agenda, at their own pace and for their own reasons. Their goal is to establish fundamentalist states, whether in Chechnya or Southeast Asia. It is in the national interest of the Russians, faced with such a purpose, to stop being a source of weapons for Iraq. It is time for them to drop their rivalry with the U.S. and get serious about peace. TOM MINCHIN Melbourne...