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...Basayev despised Maskhadov's calls for peace talks. Last week, the Chechen resistance quickly announced a new president, Abdul Khalim Saydulayev, the head of the Shariat, or Islamic court. In his mid-30s, Saydulayev is virtually unknown. Moscow and pro-Russian Chechens dismiss him as a Basayev puppet. Some Kremlin officials now predict the slow death of the guerrilla movement. A few veterans in the hills may well decide to make their peace with the authorities. But with Maskhadov gone, Basayev could become even more influential. And the war is increasingly being waged not by fighters in forests...
...head of the National Security and Defense Council, and Petro Yushchenko, the President's brother. And if the President is perceived to be unfairly targeting his opponents, the scheme could raise unwelcome comparisons with Russia's Yukos, the energy company many believe was driven out of business by the Kremlin for political reasons. Another concern is that regional and local officials might use reprivatization to settle old scores. Even Yushchenko and Tymoshenko potentially have big axes to grind. Tymoshenko spent 42 days in jail in 2001 on bribery and other charges, which the Prosecutor General's office has since dropped...
...China was a good idea; he listened as German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder argued that the U.S. must be more engaged in trying to convince Iran to drop its nuclear program; and he listened as Russian President Vladimir Putin batted back concerns about creeping autocracy in the Kremlin. Bush came to Europe, heard the views, but was he conquered by the arguments...
...During a speech in Brussels, Bush said that "all European countries should place democratic reform at the heart of their dialogue with Russia." So when the two leaders met later in the week in Bratislava, Slovakia, there was no chummy back-slapping. Putin was defensive, deflecting concerns about the Kremlin's crackdown on the media by pointing out that reporters from TV network cbs had been fired in the U.S., too. The accusation - no American reporters have been fired by the White House - confused Bush and reinforced the Administration view that Putin sometimes acts based on urban myths about...
George Bush knew Vladimir Putin would be defensive when Bush brought up the pace of democratic reform in Russia in their private meeting at the end of Bush's four-day, three-city tour of Europe. But when Bush talked about the Kremlin's crackdown on the media and explained that democracies require a free press, the Russian leader gave a rebuttal that left the President nonplussed. If the press was so free in the U.S., Putin asked, then why had those reporters at CBS lost their jobs? Bush was openmouthed. "Putin thought we'd fired Dan Rather," says...