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...neocons" in Russian? Taking a page from the Bush Administration's playbook, the Kremlin has adopted a national-security policy that includes preemptive military strikes. Russia may even revise its nuclear strategy, unless NATO abandons what the Kremlin calls its "anti-Russian orientation." The statements came at a conference on the reform and development of Russia's armed forces, held in Moscow last week and attended by senior state officials, military brass and national media editors. President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov both spoke at the conference. Ivanov said Russia should be ready to carry out preemptive strikes...
...after Tarpishchev, Yeltsin's coach and longtime confidant, founded the National Sports Foundation (nsf), Yeltsin gave it the right to import untaxed alcohol and tobacco. In the next four years, some $9 billion in revenues was allegedly diverted from the nsf. The ensuing scandal helped drive from power the Kremlin faction Tarpischev belonged to, though he has denied wrongdoing and no one has ever been charged. Moreover, tennis also makes a nice place to park ill-gotten gains. "The dirty money invested in courts seems more presentable than the dirty money just tucked away," says Izvestia's Zuyenko. Far removed...
Throughout his career, Heydar Aliyev - President of Azerbaijan, KGB general and veteran of spectacular Kremlin intrigues in the waning years of the U.S.S.R. - was a consummate in-fighter who prided himself on total control of the state machine. Earlier this month, as the 80-year-old Aliyev lay in a Turkish hospital, reportedly near death, he pulled off his final piece of political gamesmanship: the appointment of his 41-year-old son, Ilham, as Prime Minister, ensuring that should Heydar die or become incapacitated, Ilham can take over as acting President. And as a Russian IL-62 flying hospital rushed...
...northern province of Navarre, injuring a passing van driver, again after a telephoned warning from someone claiming to represent ETA - By Jane Walker Kremlin Controversy RUSSIA The confrontation between the Kremlin and Mikhail Khodorkovsky turned uglier, with the nation's richest man warning that hard-liners might level more charges against his Yukos oil corporation. Lawyers for Alexei Pichugin, the senior Yukos official detained on suspicion of murder, claimed investigators had spiked his coffee with drugs during interrogation. Meanwhile, a judge ruled to keep a key Khodorkovsky business associate, billionaire Platon Lebedev, in prison pending an investigation into embezzlement charges...
...Communist Party. The scheme, if it existed, was farfetched, given the modest showing of SPS and Yabloko in recent years and the Communists' tendency to self-destruct. But if the alleged plan had worked, Khodorkovsky would have become extremely powerful. Anyway, it came at a delicate time for Kremlin strategists: their party, Unity, is showing signs of coming apart at the seams. Khodorkovsky's apparent venture into open politics is perplexing. A former official in the Soviet Communist Party youth organization, Komsomol, he had until recently the reputation of a secretive, careful operator who accumulated a fortune by deal making...