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...flexible and closer to current hot spots in the Middle East and Central Asia. Romanians are also, for the most part, happy to see more U.S. boots on the ground, which would not be true of U.S. allies in Western Europe. With a watchful eye on Russia and Vladimir Putin's increasingly authoritarian regime, Romanians are both grateful to the U.S. for its support during the Cold War and anxious for the additional security that could come with enhanced military ties...
...profits at will among state-owned and even private enterprises." From these proceeds Lukashenko maintains a Soviet-style welfare state providing basic medical services, education and pensions - though the payouts are meager. Yet relations with Russia remain uneasy: there is no love lost between Lukashenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin, says Andrei Sannikov, former Belarusian Deputy Foreign Minister, and the Kremlin is keen to bring Belarus back into Russia's fold. If Moscow were to shut off the oil, Lukashenko's regime would collapse. But for now, the ornery President holds off another democratic revolution on Russia's borders. Lukashenko...
...China by Bush, White House press secretary Scott McClellan told reporters on Air Force One: ?We have good relations with China, so we're able to speak frankly.? So in the next few days, Bush will face the same challenge he has in dealing with Russian President Vladimir Putin: How much is too much, and how much is too little, when it comes to jawboning human rights and religious liberty...
...casualty figures. A government source, who wished to remain anonymous because his estimate deviates from the official line, thinks at least half the attackers were killed. He put the losses among police and troops at more than 30, with about the same number of civilian deaths. Those who saw Putin that day say he was furious at news of the assault. He issued crisp instructions that anyone bearing arms in the city who resisted arrest should be "eliminated." But the Nalchik raid has forced the Kremlin to confront the fact that it is fighting a war on more fronts than...
...with the U.S. is fundamentally strong enough for us to disagree. Had we set out where we thought things were mistaken, it might have emboldened American critics of the policy. And why do we always feel obliged to leave a warm feeling in the air whenever we see President Putin, who to a considerable extent doesn't share our values? because europe needs russia's gas. Yes, but he has to sell his gas to us just as we need to buy it. He has nothing else to sell us. even after iraq, aren't european leaders still notably reticent...