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...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...
...Primakov comes in. Although the former foreign minister and prime minister was sidelined by Yeltsin in the runup to Putin's accession and had been the presidential candidate of a rival grouping, Putin evidently bears no grudge. Indeed, they're cut from the same cloth - Primakov is a former KGB chief and Putin headed up its successor organization, the FSB. Putin underlined the significance of that connection soon after taking power, at a highly symbolic gathering at a remote dacha. In the presence of senior intelligence officers, Putin presented Primakov with a hunting rifle - a traditional gesture of respect...
...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...