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...streets to denounce the electoral farce that returned the authoritarian Alexander Lukashenko to power; Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice holds a security summit in Australia with her counterparts from that country and Japan. Yet those headlines, together with the ones announcing closer economic ties and strategic ties during President Putin's visit to Beijing, hint at how Sino-Russian concerns over U.S. policy elsewhere may prolong the Iran deadlock...
...Last July, Presidents Putin and Hu slammed Washington in a joint statement rejecting efforts by any power to achieve "a monopoly in world affairs" and "impose models of social development." Moscow and Beijing, it seems, have come a long way since the Cold War when, despite their common commitment to Communism, the two had a longstanding rivalry that was eagerly exploited by the U.S. Today, their strategic alliance is based first and foremost on doing business - China wants to increase its consumption of Russian oil and natural gas exports, and much of that growing Chinese defense budget about which Rice...
...these hardy souls to stand vigil, people in Minsk were making bets on how resounding a victory Europe's "last dictator," as Lukashenko is widely known, would claim in his third presidential race. Pessimists expected him to win hands down with some 78%, while realists expected Russian President Vladimir Putin to instruct his vassal to restrain his usual bad manners and go with a more reasonable...
...With an upcoming G-8 summit of Western leaders scheduled to take place in St. Petersburg, anger in Belarus is only beginning to build-not just against Lukashenko, and Putin, too, but also towards the West's lip service to freedom and democratic values. "Does it make any sense to have been carrying the now three-year-long bloody war in the Middle East for the sake of freedom and democracy-and let Putin and his proxy Lukashenko stifle these values right out here in Europe in the meantime? " asks Andrei Sannikov, International Coordinator for Chapter 97, Belarus' respected human...
...APPOINTED. RAMZAN KADYROV, 29, son of assassinated former Chechen president Akhmad, as the troubled Russian republic's Prime Minister; in the capital Grozny. Allied to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kadyrov became Chechnya's de facto premier after Sergei Abramov?who quit as P.M. last week?was injured in a car crash last year. Human rights groups accuse militia commanded by Kadyrov of widespread abuses, especially "disappearances" of thousands of suspected rebels, charges the new premier denies...