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...Russia's not going to allow any kind of independent investigation of massacres in Chechnya," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "And the harder the West pushes, the deeper they'll dig in. In fact, they're using these charges to get as much political mileage as possible, accusing the Europeans of maintaining Cold War stereotypes and accusing NATO of committing its own human rights violations against Serbia during the Kosovo campaign...
...This could be another example of someone caught in the gray area of gathering information on sensitive Russian programs," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "During the Cold War everything was black and white, and any attempt by a foreigner to gain access to information on anything related to the military was automatically considered espionage. But nowadays you have Russians, and sometimes Americans, working on non-governmental contracts from institutions that sometimes also have some federal funding and are working with open sources of information to gather information on the Russian military-industrial complex. Even when it's aboveboard, this...
...really is his name) could face a lengthy jail term if convicted. The arrest also appears to be a calculated attempt by Russia?s new president, Vladimir Putin, to send out a political signal both at home and abroad. "This reeks of an effort to make political capital," says Meier. "It's illustrative of a new mood in official Moscow which maintains that Russia has its national interests, and those will be aggressively defended. Five years ago this might have all been quietly settled with a few conversations and a flight home, but this time it was the FSB that...
...future brings a world of clamorous buildings, it is possible that the cool virtues of Modernism will be rediscovered. "For me, Modernism is a way of understanding the most direct way of making things," says Richard Meier, who designed the Getty Center in Los Angeles. "Technology gives us the ability for a continual exploration of that question 'How do we come down to the essence of things?'" What worries some people is that a few decades of promiscuous creativity will clog the world with second-rate imitation Gehrys, strenuously entertaining streetscapes and Times Squares in every town square. "The Guggenheim...
...However the case unravels, says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier, the latest news from New York has set the Russian financial circles on edge - and bracing for the next major revelation. "There's a great political will among Western law enforcement agencies to nab people higher up," says Meier. "Particularly someone higher up on the Russian side." Moscow agencies may or may not join in the hunt, adds Meier. "It remains to be seen whether Russians share the West's urge to investigate this case...