Word: faction
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...such swap, and a video of the alleged handover released by Russian authorities raised more questions than it answered. It's far from clear that the gruff men in black masks seen on the tape marching Babitsky away are in fact Chechens at all. And when the liberal Yabloko faction tried Wednesday to raise questions about the incident in the Duma, they found themselves blocked by a majority loyal to acting president Vladimir Putin. "Putin himself has maintained an unseemly silence throughout this affair," says Meier...
...fall of Kohl took on elements of a Greek tragedy, complete with reversals of fortune and fatal character flaws. It probably reached a nadir late last week, when Wolfgang Hullen, the official in charge of finance for the C.D.U.'s parliamentary faction, hanged himself at home as the Bundestag opened its investigation into the funding scandal. While the reasons for the suicide remain hazy, Hullen apparently feared being arrested for diverting some of the party's huge cash flow into his own account. But he's not likely to be the scandal's last victim. It has already touched...