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...Russia's budding democracy. It was in August 2000 that the Kursk submarine sank, and the Ostankino TV tower in Moscow caught fire. It was in August 1999 that apartment houses were bombed in Moscow, the second Chechen war started, and the political fervor it stirred helped usher Vladimir Putin to the presidency...
Indeed, eight years of the Putin administration's attempts to pacify the region have not worked. Last night's bombings occurred against the backdrop of a rapidly worsening situation in the Caucasus. In Chechnya, shootouts and combat engagements between Russian forces, pro-Moscow Chechnyan authorities and Chenyan rebels opposed to Russian rule have been on the rise over the last several weeks. Just this morning, a rebel attack in the Chechen capital of Grozny left one police officer dead and another wounded. And such ethnic tensions are not confined to Chechnya. Mass violence between Russians and people from the Caucasus...
...still too early to conclude that Chechnyan rebels were responsible for this bomb. The last train bombing in Russia occurred in June 2005, on a Grozny-to-Moscow train, but the perpetrators were an ethnic Russian Nazi group. Putin prepares to stand down once his second presidential tenure expires in May 2008. Kremlin insiders don't know who will succeed him, but throughout history, acts of terror have proven useful rationales to seize or hold on to power. The apartment bombings of 1999 helped make Putin president. A seizure of a school by terrorists in the city of Beslan...
...good that the two presidents are friendly and have confidence in one another, but they'll be defending narrow national interests in the end," Moïsi comments - noting that a happy meal in Kennebunkport isn't necessarily the recipe for diplomatic miracles. "Putin had a great visit there, but that has scarcely made U.S.-Russian ties better...
...homes. Hordes of tourists were forced to evacuate hotels and holiday resorts, fleeing Greece as local governors declared states of emergency in a raft of districts and islands. Bewildered by the crisis, Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis purportedly scrapped plans for an early election, turning instead to Russian President Vladimir Putin for urgent firefighting assistance (a fleet of water-bombers, helicopters and amphibious planes). Retinues of state officials were also dispatched to blaze-hit regions to assess the damage as socialist opponents riled against the government's handling of the crisis, billing it "catastrophic in this season of hell." With millions...