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...statements of your Vice President ... are the same as an unsuccessful hunting shot." --VLADIMIR PUTIN, Russian President, replying to Vice President Dick Cheney's criticisms--he chastised Russia for restricting democracy--by alluding to Cheney's accidental shooting of a friend in February...
...real hero to the Chinese!" exclaimed a Chinese journalist at President Vladimir Putin's farewell briefing to press gathered for the G8 summit in St. Petersburg. Putin smiled modestly to thundering applause from the audience. Earlier, he had told them, "We believe that the summit has been a success." And it may have been, at least for Putin's own image. The agenda had been eclipsed by the flare-up of violence in the Middle East, and the U.S. had at the last minute denied Putin his coveted prize of World Trade Organization membership for Russia. But basking...
...Vincroft, a private company that runs a four-supermarket chain in Moscow. The state is set to destroy small businesses, and force others to enlarge, she believes: "It'll be easier to take them under centralized control that way." She may be right. Last summer, Russian President Vladimir Putin endorsed restoring the state monopoly on production and distribution of ethyl alcohol. And proposals for a State Shareholding Committee ( ssc) to take over the legal alcohol market, worth some $20 billion a year, are still before the Duma. Meanwhile, the new laws have not worked as planned. To get their stocks...
...wanted to stroke him like a cat, and it came out in this gesture." --VLADIMIR PUTIN, Russian President, on why he stopped to kiss a little boy's stomach while walking through the Kremlin...
HANDS ON Bush's Crawford, Texas, ranch is the Administration clubhouse. Vladimir Putin of Russia and Mexico's Vicente Fox have visited, but it was Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, now King, right, who last year got the warmest touch. Most guests settle for a ride in Bush's pickup...