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...campaign has included a strongly-worded letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, signed by six congressional representatives...
...letters will also be sent to Russian President Vladimir Putin, says McDowell...
...with the Lebedev case, but many believe his problems are political, not criminal. He is helping fund opposition parties in the December elections for the Duma, or lower house of parliament. This has broken an unwritten rule in Russia: oligarchs are either pro-Kremlin or rigorously apolitical. President Vladimir Putin has in the past crushed businessmen who crossed him. This time, though, he may be attacking one of the world's largest oil companies. And that could impact both the stock market and Russia's image among investors...
...held to draw up a response to Israel's siege of Yasser Arafat's Ramallah compound, the Italian Prime Minister had other things on his mind. "I have a solution to the vision of Europe," said Berlusconi, who had just returned from Moscow after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. "We must make Russia a member of the E.U." The foreign ministers in the room were flabbergasted, according to a diplomat who was there, not only because Berlusconi was ignoring the issue at hand, but because he didn't seem to know that Russia wouldn't qualify for E.U. membership...
...about the global economy but not about the falling U.S. dollar; about advancing global free trade but not about cutting agricultural subsidies; about weapons of mass destruction but not - heaven forfend - about Iraq. There was one topic, however, on which Messrs. Berlusconi, Blair, Bush, Chirac, Chrétien, Koizumi, Putin and Schröder talked real money: combatting aids in Africa, where it kills some 6,500 people a day, most of them women and children. It should have been the perfect topic for French President Jacques Chirac. As the host of this year's G-8, he invited leaders...