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Indeed, growing numbers of ordinary Russians appear willing to trade some liberties for the economic opportunities that stability provides. Sergei Kuznetsov, 32, is one Russian in a hurry to live better. He used to sell sausage from a kiosk in Kaluga's open-air market, a tough business under any circumstances and particularly after the 1998 crisis, when the government temporarily suspended debt repayments and devalued the ruble 30%. But the economy recovered much faster than anyone expected. Together with his wife and a friend, Kuznetsov scraped and borrowed to buy a crude packaging machine and set up a business...
...Cuban missile confrontation was the whole watershed. The Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister [Vasili] Kuznetsov told John McCloy, who had been Kennedy's disarmament adviser, 'We agreed to pull out, but you Americans will never be able to do this to us again.' "After that began the massive Soviet buildup of nuclear arms." We had a policy of building 1,000 weapons, and we thought that if they built up to 1,000 as well, that would be all right, a standoff. What happened is that they didn't stop at 1,000. That is the situation that confronted me when...
...They registered two major seismic tremors. Such a tremor could be caused by a heavy surface ship hitting the Kursk hull. The brass hastened to show that the Petr Veliki heavy cruiser was in full order. But The Petr Veliki was not even close to the place. The Admiral Kuznetsov cruiser...
...they also inspect the Admiral Kuznetsov...
...least to the levels of the French and British fleets, if not to the size and might of the U.S. Navy. It was intended as a dress rehearsal for a show-of-force cruise of the eastern Mediterranean later this year to be led by the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov and the battle cruiser Peter the Great. Losing the Kursk is a major setback for these plans and for Putin's naval ambitions. "He has aligned himself personally with the revival of the navy's fortunes," says Kidd. "This is a big humiliation...