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...Putin tries never to mention Chechnya. Jokesters, though, are having a field day. Variations on his famous threat-"sign on toilet door: do not enter, rubbing out terrorists. Signed Putin"-are among the barbs. Government officials, though, neither joke nor predict a swift victory. When Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov is asked how long the conflict will last, he answers with a question of his own. "How long did it take to eliminate the Lithuanian partisans after World War II?" The analogy is surprising-the Lithuanian "forest brothers" are now heroes in their homeland. And the answer is not encouraging...
...RUSSIA Personal Choices President Vladimir Putin put his stamp on Russia's government with significant changes to the Cabinet that he inherited a year ago from Boris Yeltsin. Out went Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev, to be replaced by Putin's closest confidant, Sergey Ivanov. Duma Deputy Boris Gryzlov, who in his first year in high politics has become best known for unquestioning devotion to the President, took over the Interior Ministry from Vladimir Rushailo. And the Defense Ministry acquired its first female deputy minister, financial specialist Lyubov Kudelina...
...losing credibility with Arafat--something that opened the door to a whole host of other diplomats. As a result, when last week's fighting began to look truly out of control, everyone from U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook to Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov rushed to toss in his 2[cents]. The diplomacy that followed was chaotic and--for the White House at least--downright frustrating. The heavy lifting of trying to bring the two sides together was handled by Annan, who spent a good part of the week dashing from meeting to meeting...
After his well-photographed chat with Kostunica, Ivanov spent a very private hour with Milosevic. To tell him what? Assurances that no one would haul him to the Hague? We know for sure what Milosevic told him: I may be down, but I'm not out. The wily old manipulator said it again to the Serbs, vowing to lie low only for a while. He would be back, ready to help his party "gain force" and take up a "prominent" role in politics again...
...late for that. The opposition had enlisted former chief of staff Momcilo Perisic, fired by Milosevic two years ago, to cajole reluctant generals into accepting Kostunica as President. And Milosevic lost his last hope Friday morning when Moscow, after days of indecision, dispatched Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov to Belgrade to congratulate Kostunica...