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...even ingratiating overseas, he can be implacable at home, determined to build a political system where you question or embarrass the state at your peril. NTV learned this to its cost last year, and TV-6 became a prime target when it adopted the same stridently critical approach to Kremlin policies. Since Putin endorsed the war against terrorism after the Sept. 11 attacks, the West has been mostly silent about Putin's continued crackdown on the media and in Chechnya...
...been directed against some of Chechnya's largest towns and settlements - places Moscow declared free of guerrillas several years ago. The few human-rights observers who have dared visit, mostly from another Gorbachev-era group, Memorial, report a tragic litany of murder, brutality and looting by the military. The Kremlin denies this. There are few independent reports: covering the war has become too dangerous for Russian journalists, and foreign reporters are not allowed to move around the war zone on their...
...military coup. What's more, Tukhachevski publicly accused Stalin of losing the Polish campaign of 1920. Stripped of his office and appointed to command the obscure Volzhski military district in Kuibyshev, Tukhachevski was doomed ? but Stalin never acted openly. On May 13, 1937, he invited Tukhachevski to the Kremlin. The Party, said Stalin, still had confidence in the Marshal, and wished him success in his new command. On May 22, they arrested Tukhachevski in Kuibyshev and brought him to Moscow to be shot...
...months ago Western countries were pummeling Putin for his crackdown on NTV, the independent TV station whose blatant criticism of the war in Chechnya infuriated the Kremlin. Now, silence...
President Richard M. Nixon once called Harvard the “Kremlin on the Charles.” While he may have had a point in the ’60s and ’70s, this comment seems antiquated in 2001. And so the question arises: What is the face of student protest here now, and how do students see their activist peers on this campus today...