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...daily users. And a whopping 12.4 million are believed to have occasionally experimented with the drug. French cannabis consumption cuts across virtually all socio-economic categories and locales, according to the study, and ranks France at the top of Europe's tokers list, alongside Spain, the U.K. and the Czech Republic...
...help. Yet the country has grown increasingly pugnacious, picking serial fights with Western powers. Putin has recently appeared to draw parallels between U.S. interventionism and the aggression of the Third Reich, threatened to train missiles on Europe if America sited its planned missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, and this month suspended Russian participation in the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty, which places limits on the heavy weaponry deployed on the Continent...
...Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, who increasingly positions himself as Putin's hawkish potential successor, said that Russia would deploy its newly tested Iskander-M cruise missiles in is westernmost Kaliningradsky region, wedged among Poland, Lithuania and Belarus, unless the U.S. scraps its defense shield bases in Poland and the Czech Republic. Ivanov's threats only infuriated Poland and made Lithuania consider asking the U.S. for deploying its ABM on its soil as well. However, cruise and new MIRVED ICBM missiles, promised to be retargeted on Europe, are not the only ace up Putin's sleeve. Other measures, like troop buildups...
...Maybe 48-star American flags are to Czech homes what lava lamps are to college dorm rooms. But assuming that this is more than a coincidence, which story came first...
...While Bush can be sure of a rapturous welcome in Tirana, the same is no longer true of all post-communist European countries, including some others on his current itinerary. In the Czech Republic, more than 60% of citizens are against his missile defense initiative, not because they agree with Moscow (which has also, loudly, opposed the plan) but because they fear being dragged into another superpower slugfest. Surprisingly, Czechs view Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, more highly than they do Bush, although polls show they still would prefer the U.S. as a neighbor...