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...during the time of the Third Reich-are the same contempt for human life and the same claims of exceptionality and diktat in the world.' VLADIMIR PUTIN, President of Russia, in a speech that prompted some to say he was likening U.S. policy to that of Nazi Germany. The Kremlin said he was referring to violent extremism...
...West sour and the screws are tightened domestically. Opposition parties are banned, and rallies are brutally broken up by the police. NGOs get shut down, while the state launches criminal probes into their leaders. The cowed media's controls grow ever harsher. And, just as 42 years ago, the Kremlin propaganda invokes the specter of an external enemy and its internal agents threatening Mother Russia. The continuing hysteria against "the desecration" of the Soviet memorial in Estonia (which in reality has been moved to a military cemetery and reopened with full military and state honors) now extends into warning signals...
...Poland and the Czech Republic. The American justification is that NATO needs to extend its defenses against a potential attack from Iran, but few Russians accept that argument. Poland and the Czech Republic are a vast distance from Iran, so Russian public opinion needs little persuasion by the Kremlin to worry that NATO's true aim is to line up bases against Russia. Such fears have been growing since the mid-1990s. Presidents Gorbachev and Yeltsin had never imagined that NATO would recruit the states of the former Soviet bloc into its membership. But Russia at the time...
...That's why the U.S. is continuing to work on the missile shield system on which it has already spent about $100 billion. And U.S. officials can't figure out why, given Russia's proximity to Iran and Washington's willingness to actually share the technology with Moscow, the Kremlin keeps saying "Nyet...
...Chief of Staff Sergei Filatov told a Russian web site that Yeltsin had confided his unhappiness with Putin dismantling everything he had created and stood for. Putin's policies, said Filatov, chagrined Yeltsin to the point of expediting his demise. This week, Komsomolskaya Pravda, a Gazprom-owned, heavily pro-Kremlin Moscow daily, ran its list of Yeltsin's top mistakes and top achievements, "built on our audiences' opinions." It held that his biggest mistake was dissolving the Soviet Union. And that his last great achievement was handing over power to Putin. If Russians are thinking this way, then Yeltsin...