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...number of questions have been raised about the link between carbon dioxide and climate change, which do not appear convincing." ANDREI N. ILLARIONOV, senior Kremlin official, justifying Russia's expected decision not to ratify the Kyoto protocol to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases...
...committed to the country's independence and territorial integrity. CHECHNYA: A promise to crush the rebellion in the breakaway republic brought Putin to power in 2000. But guerrillas are still defying him: last week a suicide bomber brought mayhem to a street less than 100 m from the Kremlin. The most likely scenario is stasis: Chechnya will continue to bleed and bombs will explode throughout Russia. One thing is certain: however bad it gets, Putin will get no flak from the tame Duma...
...Stavropol region, some 1,600 km south of Moscow. The attack killed 41 and injured more than 170. Now, the Chechen insurgency is spreading to neighboring regions. Ten hours after the train bombing, rebels fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the FSB security service headquarters in Magas, Ingushetia. The Kremlin hoped to pacify the Chechens with elections in October, which the pro-Moscow candidate Akhmad Kadyrov won. But according to a senior Russian military official, "Kadyrov made a deal with the separatists. He recruits rebels into his police force, while the rest of the rebel forces shift the fighting...
...conceivable measure, Duranty’s reporting in 1931 was an utter failure. “It reads like Pravda and Izvestiya in English,” historian Mark von Hagen tells me, citing two of the leading Kremlin press organs of the time. Von Hagen, Professor of Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian History at Columbia, was commissioned by the Times this summer to conduct an independent study of Duranty’s 1931 coverage of the Soviet Union...
...hold. So why is Putin anxious? Because the Yukos affair has destroyed the balance of power between the associates of former President Boris Yeltsin - known as the Family - and the siloviki, the law- enforcement and security officials who are close to Putin. The Khodorkovsky crackdown split the Kremlin, pushing Putin even closer to the siloviki and unnerving the Family. One key figure associated with the Family, the head of the presidential administration, Alexander Voloshin, resigned a few days after Khodorkovsky's arrest. Another, Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, is so disaffected that his departure is only a matter of time. Speculation...