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Early in his presidential campaign, George W. Bush was on a four-mile run with a reporter when he began ruminating on the nature of Vladimir Putin, the former KGB lieutenant colonel who had become Russia's President. "Anyone who tells you they've figured Putin out," Bush said, "is just blowing smoke." Months later, on the eve of Bush's inauguration, his soon-to-be National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, stood near a cocktail-party buffet table with a glass of white wine in her hand and predicted a gloomy future for U.S.-Russian relations. "There...
...post-Sept. 11 questions and recriminations and arrive in Moscow for what will be his first-ever visit to Russia, the President will hail the leader he once viewed with so much suspicion as a trusted friend - and Russia as a close American ally. He and Putin will sign a treaty committing both nations to slash their strategic nuclear arsenals from 6,000 warheads to a maximum of 2,200. Then the Russian President will give his American buddy a tour of St. Petersburg, Putin's hometown, reciprocating the hospitality Bush showed Putin at his Texas ranch last November...
...democratic reform. Rice even suggested in 1999 that U.S. policy should seek to "contain" and "quarantine" Russia. "The President and Condi didn't want anything to do with Russia when they came in," says a former top aide to the first President Bush. "They thought they knew who Putin was - a throwback to the old days - and they had no interest in finding out if they were right...
RUSSIA Parade Bomb More than 40 people, including at least 12 children and a number of World War II veterans, died in the Dagestani city of Kaspiisk, in southern Russia, when a remote-controlled mine was detonated during a parade to mark victory over Nazi Germany. President Vladimir Putin swore vengeance on those who carried out the attack and sent the head of the Federal Security Service to investigate. The authorities blamed rebels from neighboring Chechnya, where remote-controlled mines are common. Dagestan, however, also has Islamic militants...
...central Grozny. On the previous day six Russian soldiers died and 11 were injured in a mine attack, reportedly in retaliation for Russian mortar strikes on the southern village of Gorgachi, which killed two children and a pregnant woman. Two hours after the Grozny explosion, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared in his State of the Union address that the "military stage" of the conflict in the rebel republic was over...