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...helped calm Sunni fears of being left out of oil revenues. The law is crucial for Iraq's economic survival - and its ability to ease its dependence on U.S. funds - since no international oil company can begin work without it. Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki wants a vote in parliament by the end of May. But talks in Dubai last week left even one of the law's authors grim about its prospects. "I can assure you the law will have a very rough ride in parliament," says Tariq Shafiq, an Iraqi petroleum consultant in London after the Dubai meeting...
...spent days trying to get close to him. Finally, in the bleak coal-mining region of Kuzbass, I slipped past his detail of beefy bodyguards and stood face to face with Russia's most perplexing figure: the leader who promised reform but who later opened fire on his own Parliament; the man on whom Washington put all of its chips even as Moscow handed the country's assets to a new class of kleptocrats; the man of the people who would become a man of the bottle...
...Things came to a head in 1993. Russian politics were paralyzed and Yeltsin, with dubious constitutional justification, suspended parliament and called for new elections. When his foes in the legislature wouldn't leave, and accumulated a stockpile of arms, Yeltsin brought his tanks to the Parliament building. I remember watching from a rooftop across the street as the tanks fired shell after shell into Russia's highest legislative body. In the name of democracy, Russia's president had suspended, and now was bombing, his own parliament. And the West mostly went along, convinced that it was necessary to support this...
...encountered in his presidency would have been enough to drive him to drink. He had to struggle back into political power without the help of the party that, though verging on collapse, still wielded considerable power until the failed 1991 coup attempt. In typical truculent fashion, he ran for parliament in Moscow instead of his old Sverdlovsk home base, taking on the party establishment directly, and winning a seat in 1989. With that as a political base, he fought successful campaigns for the chairmanship in 1990 of the Russian Supreme Soviet, the former parliament, and then the newly created presidency...
...Annick Lepetit, a Socialist Party official and member of parliament from Paris, agrees that Royal's presence in the second round corrects the anomaly of five years ago, when the presidential runoff amounted to a choice between the center-right and the far right. "This time, voters will have the choice between two different programs and visions for France - one from the right, the other from the left," Lepetit says. "For that reason, whoever wins will have a legitimacy to rule that's been absent the last five years...