Word: kgb
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...Russia's President last March, Vladimir Putin remained a riddle. Was he really, as his own staff members whispered, a cautious reformer who had learned his stuff in St. Petersburg during the early years of perestroika? Or was he the product of his training and times--a middle-level KGB officer whose views had been formed during a period when the Soviet Union seemed, on the surface at least, a mighty power? Thanks to the Kursk submarine debacle, which cost 118 lives, the guessing game is over. Putin is a gosudarstvennik--a believer in a strong state...
...disclosure agreements worth a $4 million lawsuit, and former KGB agents in the highest level of the p.r. department. It is now expected that most of the flacks at the network will be offered staff posts in the next presidential administration, so tight and well-perceived has been their operation during this "long national daydream...
...attacks--and the war they engendered--thrust then Prime Minister Vladimir Putin into a role of unexpected prominence and eventually into the presidency of Russia. That chain of events has also provided rich ground for a whole crop of conspiracy theories: that the bombs were planted by ex-KGB goons trying to push Putin into power, for instance. Some Muscovites and many liberal Russians are worried that the Pushka killings will become a precursor to a political crackdown. "Moscow is the capital of a country at war," warned Alexander Musykantsky, Moscow city's information minister. "People should live accordingly...
...there voluntarily, he allowed to Clinton. Putin told the President he was taken aback by the whole strangeness of the isolated dictatorship, which Putin said reminded him of Stalinist Russia in the 1950s. (When it was pointed out to a Clinton aide that Putin once worked for the KGB, which admired Stalinist Russia, the aide said with a laugh, "People can change...
...other words, unlike Boris Yeltsin, President Putin's going to be no pushover. And that's a lesson both Bill Clinton and his successor may learn the hard way - while, thousands of miles away, an aging former KGB chief smirks cryptically...