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...continent, made little mention of the 1945 defeat of the Nazi regime. He focused instead on the brutal occupation of Eastern Europe by Soviet troops after the war’s conclusion. The president’s comments came as Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, wrote in a French newspaper that his government would not give in to demands from Baltic countries for an apology for Soviet domination during the Cold...
...president didn’t stop there, either. In comments that seemed bound to irk Putin, whom Bush visited on Sunday as part of his European trip, the president called for free elections in Belarus, whose president, Aleksandr Lukashenko, is among Putin’s remaining friends in Eastern Europe, where former Soviet republics, such as Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia, are turning westward in increasing numbers...
Bush’s very public pro-democracy stance on Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union is not likely to win friends in Moscow, where, last month, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that President Putin had become too powerful and ought to respect democracy. It does, however, demonstrate great apparent consistency in the president’s foreign policy. It seems that George W. Bush might actually be genuinely committed to spreading democracy to those corners of the world in which it is foreign. In that effort, Bush has shown himself ready to break the informal rules...
...working hard to show how well everyone was getting along. Rice and Lavrov held a joint press conference to put that letter writing business behind them. The two presidents embraced and smiled broadly as they greeted each other at the Russian presidential residence, then took a joy ride in Putin's Volga, a vintage 1956 Soviet automobile...
...officials argue, Bush and Putin's serious disagreements over trade and the pace of democratic reforms exist in the context of an adult relationship that transcends momentary spats. And they need each other. Putin needs Bush to help Russia get into the World Trade Organization and to support his efforts to contain Muslim radicals. Bush often praises Putin for his support in the war on terrorism and more specifically for his help containing Iran and North Korea...