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...matter how irksome, for fear that any violation of that sacrosanct principle might rebound on Beijing some day. And the permanent members certainly don't see eye to eye on issues ranging from Iraq to Kosovo, while Russia reserved its right to systematically bomb and shell civilian villages in Chechnya on the grounds that it was a domestic matter...
...idea terrifies the Chinese, who think of Tibet when they hear it. It unnerves the Russians. "When we say Kosovo," Annan says by way of picking an example of how the world should step into emergent disasters, "they hear Chechnya." And it bothers the U.S. because, in Annan's view, the doctrine works both ways. Seeing a crime and failing to prevent it are as bad as committing the crime. But who in the U.S. wants to send troops parachuting into every flaming country on earth...
...that Putin does not think he mishandled the Kursk sinking. He has behaved in much the same way several times in the past six months, without anything like the repercussions he faced last week. The submarine casualty figure is roughly the number of soldiers who die every month in Chechnya, often under horrific circumstances. The Russian defense establishment follows the same information policy in that war--postpone the news as long as possible, then admit the details as gradually as the situation allows...
...Andrei Babitsky was handed over by security services to spurious Chechen guerrillas. In June, when Gusinsky was arrested, Putin told a press conference in Germany that he had been unable to find out why Gusinsky was in prison: he had not been able to phone the prosecutor general. Today Chechnya, once Putin's abiding policy passion, is rarely mentioned now that the military effort there is firmly bogged down...
...navies. Of the few ships remaining in the Russian inventory, only about 10% are considered by Western experts to be fit to put to sea. One reason is that the bulk of Russia's dwindling defense budget goes to the army and air force to fight the war in Chechnya. That means little money for maintenance, and the result can be seen in naval bases all around Russia, where ships lie in rusting rows, crewed by unmotivated and often unpaid sailors...