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Putin's missteps during the Kursk affair--his silence and the fact that he stayed on vacation throughout the first week of the crisis--point to a disastrously weak staff and a total absence of feedback. Boris Yeltsin's Kremlin was usually surrounded by a network of former advisers or ministers who could always phone a key member of the Yeltsin staff or a family member and warn them when a policy was going badly wrong. Putin, who seems to trust only a tiny group of intimates, clearly does not have such a back channel...
...meetings he did not sit in on, complains that "Cheney comes back from the White House and tells nothing." Pete Williams, an NBC News correspondent who was for years Cheney's press spokesman, used to joke about how the capital was full of Che-ney watchers, a breed like Kremlin watchers, who would try to fathom the man's thinking from whatever small signs he gave...
...instead contain figures unpalatable to the media tycoon. Indeed, the new president's campaign against some of the other oligarchs - politically powerful billionaires who, like Berezovsky, accumulated their fortunes by questionable means in the Wild West early years of Russian capitalism - and his efforts to centralize power in the Kremlin have gotten Berezovsky so worried that he's announced his intention to quit parliament and launch a rival political party...
...Russia in the early years by less than ethical means at a time when the legislative framework was weak, but attempting to redistribute property now by executive order, he says, would simply result in further abuses. He wants these issues settled exclusively by the courts, rather than by the Kremlin or the public prosecutor...
...Ringo Starr in the Kremlin?" b That the Russian military has been inept in Chechnya c "Welcome, Shriners" d "I'm with Stupid...