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...this very evening. They'd been hard done because some cross-country skier had tested positive and Wednesday's hockey game was called too closely and there was still that thing with the Canadian pairs and, well, they were in fifth place overall and someone had to answer to Putin. (Or so speculated a Russian journalist at the press conference where Russia aired its many grievances. The journo was hooted down for treason by a team official...
...national crisis that followed the attacks, which were attributed to Chechen rebels, propelled Putin to popularity when he responded with military retaliation...
...Putin had the backing of only 3 percent of the population before the attacks, but after beginning military action against Chechnya his ratings shot up to 80 percent, much like President Bush’s popularity soared during the conflict in Afghanistan...
...audience of about 40 listened to Sergei N. Khrushchev, senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, discuss his thoughts on fighting terrorists at home and abroad during a speech entitled “Russia, Putin and the War on Terror...
...Putin was nobody then,” Khrushchev said...