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...true Russian. As a result of a 74-year communist interlude, Russia retains the kind of imperial ambition that at the beginning of this century was shared by all the major European powers. Much of the former Russian Empire consisted of 19th century conquests, among them Chechnya and Finland. Russia wants to hold on to the parts still in her possession, and sees fit to use warfare to do so. However, as a victim of imperialism, Chechnya has the right to independence...
Northrop Corp. may have been a bit too creative in its dealmaking. When Finland agreed to buy $3 billion worth of Northrop jets, the company pledged to sell $2 billion in Finnish goods in the U.S. Northrop then offered $1.5 million to the International Paper Co. if it would buy a $50 million papermaking machine from a Finnish company instead of its U.S. competitor. This led Senator Russell Feingold of Wisconsin to push a law through Congress last year barring such payoffs as part of U.S. defense deals. "I am deeply troubled," he says, "by a defense company paying...
...European Union, with 52.2% of voters opposing E.U. membership and 47.8% supporting it. With its rich fisheries and large North Sea oil and gas deposits, Norway saw no advantage in joining the 12-member trading bloc, due to expand to 15 on Jan. 1 with the admission of Austria, Finland and Sweden. It was not the first time the country had spurned a proposal from Europe: in 1972 Norwegians passed up the opportunity to join what was then the European Economic Community...
...pianist, who is 79, was already a legend by the time he burst onto the international scene in 1960 with concerts in Finland and America. Like his late Soviet compatriot Emil Gilels, he had been a student of Heinrich Neuhaus' at the Moscow Conservatory, where he met Prokofiev and premiered the composer's Sixth, Seventh and Ninth piano sonatas. Unlike most of the fire- breathing Soviet wunderkinder, though, Richter came to the piano late, originally planning a career as a conductor; until he went to study with Neuhaus at age 21, he was largely self-taught...
...PRESIDENT OF FINLAND...