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Alexander Lebedev is telling the story of how he met his girlfriend, Elena Perminova, who is 22 and heavily pregnant. We are sitting in the dining room of Lebedev's house in the ultra-exclusive enclave of Rublyovka, just west of Moscow, early this year. The house includes an underground pool with a cherub-laden fresco on the ceiling, Italian marble floors and a huge ovoid window onto a grand staircase that, Lebedev says, is typical of classical Italian architecture. Outside, there are four or five guards milling around in the driveway. Former President Boris Yeltsin once lived beyond...
...Berlin Wall 20 years ago, I pray that the world can force Israel to demolish the wall of hate it has erected illegally. That wall, and Israel's illegal settlements, are making a peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict virtually impossible. You recollect that President Reagan famously urged Moscow to "tear down this wall." It is high time for President Obama and Western leaders to say exactly those same words to Israel - and to impose sanctions if it doesn't comply. Samir Hawa, PRANGINS, SWITZERLAND...
...says that no one in the Duma leadership supported him, but that he met with Perminova's father - and Elena - and that eventually they started seeing each other. "We've been together since she was 19 or 20," he says. Perminova is a model and an economics student at Moscow State University. Throughout our two-hour breakfast, she alternately serves as waitress - doling out espressos, porridge, and pastries stuffed with black caviar - and as significant other, sampling the kiwi fruit and playing on her laptop. (See pictures of Russia celebrating Victory...
Biden tried to reassure Ukrainian and Georgian leaders that better U.S. relations with Moscow could benefit their countries. "The more substantive relationship we have with Moscow, the more we can defuse the zero-sum thinking about our relations with Russia's neighbors," he said during a speech in Kiev. He also called on Yushchenko and Georgia's Saakashvili to heal rifts with their respective opposition parties and upbraided Ukraine and Georgia for the political infighting that has slowed reform...
Nikolai Petrov, an analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center, an independent think tank, said the trip "was pretty successful in the sense that he managed to reassure the leaders of these countries and to not make any statements which would seriously influence the Russian leadership." The problem in "Russian-American relations in this part of the world is to keep certain expectations and not to aggravate," he said...