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...crackdown on contrary voices at home, exemplified by the arrest this week of anti-Kremlin media mogul - and erstwhile Primakov backer - Vladimir Gusinsky has been widely interpreted as a signal that domestic dissent will not be tolerated by the Kremlin's new leadership. But while Western leaders may have expected a more authoritarian regime from Putin in the wake of his ruthless handling of Chechnya and his staring down of Western criticism of same, his vigorous foreign-policy offensive against Washington has caught them off guard. Not only has Putin refused to accede to U.S. demands to renegotiate the Antiballistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pay No Attention to Russia's Man Behind the Curtain | 6/16/2000 | See Source »

Even Stalin was fond of citing the fiction that his prosecutors were independent and beyond his control. And that's why Russians will take little comfort in President Vladimir Putin's suggestion, while traveling in Spain, that he knew nothing about the arrest this week of anti-Kremlin media mogul Vladimir Gusinsky. Gusinsky, the oligarch whose Media-MOST company operates radio, TV and print media critical of President Putin's administration, was arrested Tuesday, purportedly on charges of stealing $10 million in state property, and taken to a 19th-century prison where he'll have to wait 10 days before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Even a Media Mogul's Enemies Fear the Implications of His Arrest | 6/14/2000 | See Source »

...arrest is not being underestimated. "This spells the beginning of the end of freedom of speech in Russia, which has been the only tangible benefit the country has gained since the collapse of the Soviet system," says Zharakovich. And it's not only Putin critics who see the media mogul's arrest as an ill omen. Even Boris Berezovsky - the oligarch most closely connected with Putin's rise, and a mortal enemy of Gusinsky because of business and political rivalry - has expressed disquiet. "Berezovsky, who actually wanted Gusinsky out of the way, appears to be scared by how the Kremlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Even a Media Mogul's Enemies Fear the Implications of His Arrest | 6/14/2000 | See Source »

...Making of the Mogul...

Author: By Vasant M. Kamath, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Intel's Innovator Leads the Revolution | 6/7/2000 | See Source »

...Naive Oklahoma girl assists bad-boy real estate mogul (with KRISTIN CHENOWETH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Happened to Boy Meets Girl? | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

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