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...with the near authoritarian power invested in Russia's President by its constitution? He has always been the competent staff officer, the universal soldier supremely faithful to his bosses at the time--whether they were Soviet hard boys at the KGB, reforming zealots in St. Petersburg or the corrupt and failing Yeltsin regime. Now he will be giving the orders. "We do not know enough of him, and he does not know enough of himself," says Dimitri Simes, president of Washington's Nixon Center, "to know how he will evolve on the job." That's what makes some people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spy Who Came In From The Crowd | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

...walked into the headquarters on Dzerzinsky Square, he said, "I'm home at last." But Moscow's top boys regarded the mere lieutenant colonel with disdain, says a former agent: "We considered Putin a little bit too short in stature." He went to work replacing top echelons with St. Petersburg friends and launching an unpopular campaign to cut jobs. Meantime, citizens were troubled by the way Putin's FSB continued to persecute environmental activists and initiated official monitoring of the Internet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spy Who Came In From The Crowd | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

...forging ahead, nearly all have joined forces with solid local firms with existing factories or other hard assets. And nearly all have chosen corners of Russia where the investment climate seems better protected from the political storms that buffet the country at large. Leningrad Oblast, the province surrounding St. Petersburg, is a favorite. In the town of Tosno, 30 miles south of Russia's second city, Caterpillar has just completed its biggest investment in 25 years in Russia--a $50 million factory to make component parts for its European assembly plants and also put together tractors for the Russian market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In From The Cold | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...With reporting by Dee Gill/St. Petersburg, Erik Gunn/Chicago, Anne Moffett/Washington, Adrianne Navon/New York and Jacqueline Savaiano/Los Angeles

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speak, Memory | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

...than they answer. "Although some now say Putin was involved in economic espionage in Western Europe, others say he was a low level political commissar type keeping an eye on the loyalty of Soviet staff," says Meier. "Then there?s a big question mark over his mission in St. Petersburg - whether he, as he claims, had turned into a liberal democrat determined to push the reform program, or had been sent there to keep an eye on the reformers." In the murky world of post-communist Russia, of course, those two options aren?t exactly mutually exclusive, either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grozny, Baby! It's Vladimir Putin, International Man of Mystery | 1/3/2000 | See Source »

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