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...VLADIMIR PUTIN, President of Russia, denouncing British demands for extradition of the Russian spy accused of murdering Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in London last year...
...says the murder on British soil of a British citizen demanded action. The Kremlin, for its part, has been at pains to improve its image abroad, hiring U.S. and British public-relations consultants to help. Yet the country has grown increasingly pugnacious, picking serial fights with Western powers. Putin has recently appeared to draw parallels between U.S. interventionism and the aggression of the Third Reich, threatened to train missiles on Europe if America sited its planned missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, and this month suspended Russian participation in the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty, which places...
...important new economic player," says Denis MacShane, Britain's Europe Minister from 2002-05. And Western governments have wanted Russia's cooperation on everything from combating terrorism to tackling such tricky international negotiations as the future of Iran's nuclear program. Earlier this month President George W. Bush welcomed Putin to the Bush family spread in Maine for a general air clearing at the "lobster summit...
...such official told Time he saw Britain's expulsion of the Russian diplomats as part of an "anti-Russian campaign" backed by the U.S. "The West is pissed off we won the 2014 [winter] Olympics, so they sought a way to prick us," he said. Andrei Kokoshin, a pro-Putin member of the Duma, dismissed the British action as "a political novice [and new Prime Minister] Gordon Brown trying to win points." Speaking to state-run TV station Vesti 24, Kokoshin added, "Should it go further, British business stands to lose much more than Russian business, because Russia...
...question, it is. "Real disposable income is growing 10% a year, and has done ever since Putin came to power," says Barysch. That has boosted Putin's popularity, which is largely undented by his moves to assert control over the Russian media and to consolidate political power in the Kremlin. Westerners may lament the loss of freedoms in Russia, says Barysch, but "most Russians never knew they had them. What we are nostalgic about, the Yeltsin years, Russians perceived as a period of chaos, instability and great inequality...