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...attack is, however, a major embarrassment for Putin, because it undermines his claim - officially announced last April - that the war in Chechnya is over. By restricting media coverage, Kremlin claims of success in the breakaway republic have gone largely unchallenged at home, except by occasional dramatic events such as the killing of 119 Russian personnel when a military helicopter was shot down in August. But violence in Chechnya has been ongoing, with large numbers continuing to die on both sides. And the fact that a heavily armed group of this size was able to travel undetected from the Caucasus...
...budget, with a mixture of Chechen and Georgian actors, a minimum of official permission and the tacit consent of local guerrillas. During last winter's filming, Pankisi was a little-known backwater where no Georgian policeman dared tread. Now it is the center of an ominous dispute between the Kremlin and Georgia, as Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze struggles to hold together his crumbling, corruption-ridden state in the face of pressure from Vladimir Putin, whose policy is informed by a mixture of geopolitical frustration and personal animosity. Putin's demands that Russians troops "restore order" in the Pankisi have been...
...sent an envoy to Moscow in an effort to persuade President Vladimir Putin to back a tough new UN ultimatum to Iraq to disarm, or else. Russia has maintained that Saddam Hussein's recent offer to comply with new arms inspections means that no new resolutions are necessary. But Kremlin-watchers have long suggested this was a bargaining strategy, designed to win guarantees on Russian interests in a post-Saddam Iraq, and also to win U.S. consent for Russian military action in Georgia. Moscow says the pro-NATO government in Georgia is sheltering Chechen rebels, but until now Washington...
...surrounded by gorgeous cars and fast women. To the Italian finance police and the American FBI, which have been tailing him for at least a year, he is a suspect in drug dealing, arms trafficking and money laundering--an international sleaze king with influential friends among Russian celebrities and Kremlin politicos...
...this bill they ducked the stock-option expensing; they ducked the past disgorgement, where you have to pay it back and go to jail; and they ducked corporate governance in any fundamental way. The election of corporate board members is a Kremlin type of election. It's a self-perpetuating system, with the shareholders having no real power. That has not been touched. And basic problems of conflict of interest have not been dealt with. You have all the watchdogs in the private sector getting commissions from all the people they are supposed to be watching. The companies...