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Bush's approach might at least be bracing if there were not so many instances in which his initial instincts have proved to be the wrong ones. He initially dismissed Russian President Vladimir Putin with a glib quip: "Once a KGB man, always a KGB man." But as he learned more about the Russian, largely at the prodding of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, he changed his mind, saying he had "had a sense of [Putin's] soul...
...years in a maximum security prison for passing state secrets to the U.S.; in Moscow. Kalugin was found guilty of undermining national security for disclosing state secrets in his 1994 book First Directorate, which he co-wrote with a U.S. journalist. Kalugin, who lives in Washington D.C., ran the KGB external counterintelligence section in the late 1970s and then sided with the democratic movement in Russia in the late 1980s. RELEASED. LAI CHANGXING, alleged Chinese smuggler, from a Canadian jail; in Vancouver. Lai, who is now under house arrest, has been fighting to remain in Canada as a political refugee...
...Press; 465 pages). Written by Richard Lourie, a U.S. author and filmmaker who translated Sakharov's Memoirs into English, it is the first full biography of this multifaceted 20th century giant. Along with the facts of Sakharov's life, Lourie provides vivid historical and social details - some drawn from KGB files - that flesh out the story of an independent thinker in science and politics alike. Descended from a long line of Russian Orthodox priests, Sakharov was born, writes Lourie, into a family that valued "Russian and European culture, Christianity, patriotism, hard work, high ideals, modesty, courtesy, a quiet but implacable...
Early in his Presidential campaign, George W. Bush was on a four-mile run with a reporter when he began ruminating on the nature of Vladimir Putin, the former KGB lieutenant colonel who had become Russia's President. "Anyone who tells you they've figured Putin out," Bush said, "is just blowing smoke." Months later, on the eve of Bush's inauguration, his soon-to-be National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, stood near a cocktail-party buffet table with a glass of white wine in her hand and predicted a gloomy future for U.S.-Russian relations. "There...
...grow stronger. Rice goes to great lengths to emphasize that Bush is not basing his Russia policy on his personal chemistry with Putin. But the distinction is hard to discern. After all, the next time Bush needs to talk to his friend in the Kremlin, that once mysterious former KGB agent, he will probably call Rice into the Oval Office and, using his pet nickname for the Russian leader, say, as he has in the past, "Get me Pootie-Poot on the phone...