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...train without risking electrocution. Some 500 people escaped. Despite the darkness, fire and the acrid smoke, witnesses said passengers were remarkably calm. Could they be getting used to such atrocities? The underground carnage was yet another reminder of how dangerous Russia has become since President Vladimir Putin came to power. While Putin has imposed draconian curbs on the media and created a tame parliament - some of whose members are now urging him to extend the presidential term from four to seven years - he has not been able to pacify Chechnya, the breakaway republic whose separatists were swiftly blamed...
...VLADIMIR PUTIN, President of Russia
...terrorist attacks, including the bombing of commuter trains in southern Russia and blasts at a Moscow rock concert and outside a luxury hotel opposite the Kremlin. Many of the attacks are the work of suicide bombers, often women. No one has yet claimed responsibility for the latest atrocity, but Putin and his allies had no doubt as to who was to blame. At a joint press conference with Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev, a rattled Putin accused Chechnya's deposed President and secessionist leader, Aslan Maskhadov, of being behind the bombing. Putin also denounced European politicians who had earlier called...
Warning Signal It was almost as if U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell had two sets of meetings in Moscow last week. Russian officials say he spent a "friendly and constructive" time with Russian President Vladimir Putin. But by the U.S. account, there was a "spirited" exchange in which Powell praised U.S.-Russian relations but dwelt in unusual detail on the Kremlin's dark side, warning that relations with the U.S. would ultimately be damaged if Russia failed to address concerns about its apparent slide toward authoritarianism. And in an op-ed in the Russian daily Izvestia, Powell wrote that...
...Absolutely. We are planning to crack down on corruption. There will be another wave of resistance here and this is when we'll need aid. Over the next 3-4 months we need $60-70 million. Then we hope investment will start coming in. Can you work with Putin? I hope so, but the reactions that are coming from Russia are very impulsive. They are very paranoid, thinking they are losing Georgia to the U.S. We need to let them feel we are open for good cooperation. And another thing: I have been congratulated by everyone except Putin - Blair, Bush...