Word: dacha
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...Central Asia, to join the anti-terrorist coalition as well. A ranking diplomatic source told TIME that Putin made the pledge on Saturday in an hour-long telephone conversation with Bush while the Russian President was taking a break from a six-hour cabinet meeting at his Black Sea dacha at Sochi...
...part of the home-improvement trend that market researchers call "fluffing the nest." The grill has entered the world of luxury goods, status symbols, showmanship and precision performance. Kalamazoo, a small company in Michigan, sells its customized sculptural grills largely for their beauty. Boris Yeltsin has one at his dacha, according to the company. It's no accident that stainless steel--functional, low maintenance and totally showy--has become the metal du jour for all early 21st century grills. And where luxury items go, the mass market follows: Coleman released a stainless-steel grill this year...
...rival grouping, Putin evidently bears no grudge. Indeed, they're cut from the same cloth - Primakov is a former KGB chief and Putin headed up its successor organization, the FSB. Putin underlined the significance of that connection soon after taking power, at a highly symbolic gathering at a remote dacha. In the presence of senior intelligence officers, Putin presented Primakov with a hunting rifle - a traditional gesture of respect in the Soviet-era power structure...