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...finally forced to retreat into a private meeting room off the Security Council chamber. As Putin and Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov made it through the door, his security men blocked anyone else from entering. Left outside among the disappointed autograph seekers were Russia's high-powered U.N. ambassador Sergey Lavrov and Putin's naval attach? - who happened to be carrying the briefcase containing the launch codes to Moscow's nuclear arsenal...
France and Russia contend that military action against Saddam could be self-defeating: if he refuses to budge, the Arab world could rise up against the spectacle of sustained bombing. "Surgical air strikes will not eliminate [U.S.] suspicions," says Russian Ambassador to the U.N. Sergei Lavrov, "and they will raise hell in the region. Blanket bombing will turn everyone in the Arab world against...
This same mood characterized the politics ofthe period, most notably in the Classical Populismof Mikhailovsky and Lavrov. The intelligentsiaaimed to bridge the gap between themselves and thesoul of Russia, her peasantry, by "going to thepeople," to teach and to learn, to atone forlosing touch with the essence of their motherland.The culmination of this philosophy was a vastPopulist movement in the summer...