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...force within the nascent Soviet human- rights movement. Years were marked by highs and lows: in 1968, Sakharov was barred from all military research; in 1972, he married his soulmate and second wife, the activist Elena Bonner; in 1975, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Kremlin finally lost patience, and Sakharov was exiled to the closed city of Gorky in 1980 after he condemned the invasion of Afghanistan. There he remained until 1986, when Mikhail Gorbachev - then in power about a year - told the Politburo that Sakharov "appears to have a good head and seems...
Secret Service agents now know that when Russian President Vladimir Putin is the tour guide, they're going to have their hands full. While giving President Bush what was supposed to be a carefully scripted tour of the Kremlin grounds, Putin decided to take his guest to see his private study. On the way the two leaders found themselves abruptly plunged into a crowd of hundreds of Russian tourists in the Kremlin's Cathedral Square. As panicked agents scrambled to protect Bush and his wife, a White House official was heard shouting above the din, "I can't find...
...Star Wars Russia agreed to a dramatic reduction in stockpiles of nuclear weapons, despite its concern that the u.s. intends to withdraw from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty in order to develop its national missile-defense program, known as Star Wars. After long and contentious negotiations, both the Kremlin and the Pentagon committed to slashing arsenals of active nuclear warheads by around two-thirds. No sooner was the ink dry on that agreement, than NATO and Russia signed up to fight terrorism together, despite Moscow's reservations about the impending NATO expansion eastward. As NATO foreign ministers met representatives...
...relationship between the two to 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...
...felt as if I’d given one of those Kremlin seven-hour speeches on the next five-year plan,” Knowles writes in an e-mail about the earlier review...