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Before the U.S. invasion, so resolutely opposed by President Vladimir Putin, the Russians had signed contracts to develop new fields in Iraq and produce an additional 710,000 bbl. a day. Whether a new U.S.-sanctioned Iraqi government will honor those contracts remains to be seen. But beyond gaining access to Iraq's oil fields, the Russians have little interest in seeing Iraq become a major producer on the scale of Saudi Arabia. That's because Russia is a major exporter itself, earning billions in oil revenue. Though Russia might ultimately open its spigots wider than Saudi Arabia's, which...
...Russia's antiwar president Vladimir Putin appeared to be enjoying Blair's predicament during a joint press conference, Wednesday, sarcastically suggesting that Saddam may be hiding in a bunker filled with weapons of mass destruction, waiting to blow up all of Iraq, and that such weapons would have to be accounted for before Russia could agree to the lifting of UN sanctions. Blair stoically insisted that evidence of the banned weapons would emerge...
...wing gay man who wanted to restrict immigration, Fortuyn has in death become an icon of modern Dutch life. Van der Graaf, who admitted shooting Fortuyn last May, might only serve 12 years. Political Crime Wave RUSSIA Sergei Yushenkov, a leading liberal Duma Deputy and critic of President Vladimir Putin, was shot to death as he was entering his Moscow apartment block, hours after registering his Liberal Russia Party to compete in December's parliamentary elections. Yushenkov's colleagues accused the government of inaction in the face of a wave of politically motivated crime. He is the second senior party...
...Athens. The hijacker used three razor blades and four candlesticks to commandeer the aircraft. A Greek prosecutor charged him with a string of criminal offenses; authorities did not immediately respond to Ankara's request for extradition to Turkey. Arming the Iraqis RUSSIA George W. Bush complained to Vladimir Putin about Russian firms' alleged sale of military technology to Baghdad. Antitank missiles used to knock out two American tanks in Iraq last week were Russian-made Cornets, U.S. officials contend. And they say a Moscow-based company supplied the GPS-jamming equipment that Iraq deployed against allied forces, and which...
...Security Council unanimously adopts a resolution requiring return of inspectors and threatening “serious consequences” for Iraq if it fails to cooperate. Iraq accepts the U.N. resolution, and weapons inspections begin. Russian President Vladimir Putin warns the U.S. not to go it alone against Iraq...