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...effect when sanctions are lifted; France's TotalFinaElf, Spain's Repsol, and Italy's Eni all have Iraqi interests worth millions of dollars. But Russia is king: in the Qurna oil field alone, Russia's Lukoil holds a majority stake in at least 11 billion barrels. When President Vladimir Putin hardened his antiwar stance last week during British Prime Minister Tony Blair's visit, some analysts believe he wanted Russia's contracts protected in return for support on any U.N. action. "But is it actually within his authority to make that promise?" asks Manouchehr Takin of the Centre for Global...
Russia may have lost its superpower status, but it still has the power of veto on the U.N. Security Council--whose approval could legitimize an attack on Iraq. With that in mind, the Bush Administration sent an envoy to Moscow last week in hopes of persuading Russian President Vladimir Putin to support a tough new U.N. ultimatum on Iraq. TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge reports on why Putin is playing hard to get, why he'll ultimately yield and how he'll try to use the negotiations to pursue his own agenda in neighboring Georgia. At time.com/putin...
...hiding weapons in his presidential com plexes or on mobile transporters, Washington insisted that U.N. rules on inspections be rewritten before personnel go to Iraq. Baghdad had refused to allow the surprise inspection of Saddam's 57 palaces. China and Russia disagreed with the U.S., and Russian President Vladimir Putin called for "the quickest possible deployment" of inspectors. But chief inspector Hans Blix said: "It would be awkward if we were doing inspections and a new mandate were to arrive." At week's end, the U.S. seemed ready to accept a compromise French proposal for two new resolutions, for inspections...
...distract attention from his domestic problems," she said. "That's a popular method. Even Hitler did that." Daubler-Gmelin says she was misquoted. Rather than blaming the Frau, however, Bush lashed out at German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder in private phone conversations with other world leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin. "He believes that Schroder created the environment for that kind of comment to take place," says a senior Administration official. Putin's reaction? He told Bush such foolishness would never happen in elections in his country...
...filming, Pankisi was a little-known backwater where no Georgian policeman dared tread. Now it is the center of an ominous dispute between the Kremlin and Georgia, as Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze struggles to hold together his crumbling, corruption-ridden state in the face of pressure from Vladimir Putin, whose policy is informed by a mixture of geopolitical frustration and personal animosity. Putin's demands that Russians troops "restore order" in the Pankisi have been rejected by the Georgians, who point out that tens of thousands of Russians troops haven't managed to do this in over three years...