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...could only dream of such freedom. Still, Kondaurov's feeling of claustrophobia - what Victoria Webb of Amnesty International describes as "the shrinking space for individual voices in Russia" - now appears to be widely shared. This year, Stanislav Dmitrievsky was prosecuted and saw his human-rights group, the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society, closed down after its newsletter reprinted speeches by Chechen separatist leaders. Amnesty International contends that shuttering the society "appears to be the latest move in a carefully calculated strategy to get rid of an organization that has been outspoken on behalf of victims of human-rights violations in Chechnya...
...four-day visit to India -the first by a Chinese head of state in more than a decade - there was plenty of talk about the good ties between the two countries, about the free trade agreement they hope to sign and about the fact that 2006 is "India-China Friendship Year." But what you won't hear as much about this week, at least not officially, are the tensions that remain between Beijing and New Delhi...
...investment by snarling Chinese companies in bureaucratic red tape, and chafed at a decision to bar a company linked to the Chinese military from taking up a lucrative air cargo contract, apparently over security concerns. And, of course, China remains a close ally of Pakistan, India's archenemy, a friendship Hu will shore up during talks with President Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad as soon as he leaves India...
...arrived. Yet the Holy Father was undaunted. "Love is stronger than danger," he said. "I am in the hands of God." He fared forward--to Ankara, to Istanbul--and preached the commonality of the world's great faiths. He enjoined both Christians and Muslims to "seek ties of friendship with other believers who invoke the name of a single God." He did not leave covered with garlands, but he set a groundwork for what would be years of rapprochement between the Holy See and Islam. He was a uniter, not a divider...
...occasional Gilbert and Sullivan show, Kibbe added, “but he was the star in a really impressive way.” Reading a letter addressed to Symonds, Kibbe expressed a widely held sentiment, that despite his many contributions as an adviser, it is Symonds’s friendship that will be missed the most. “Many friends would agree in saying that I count your friendship as one of my life’s greatest honors,” he said. Symonds’s surviving brother, Robin, recalled their childhood...