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...bailiffs came at midnight. they turned off phones, e-mail and broadcasting equipment, and TV-6, the reincarnation of the independent NTV news team that so infuriated Vladimir Putin, went off the air last week in mid-sentence. As usual the government denied that the closure of an independent TV station had anything to do with politics...
...move against TV-6 confirmed a pattern that has been taking shape since Putin assumed office just under two years ago. Engaging and even ingratiating overseas, he can be implacable at home, determined to build a political system where you question or embarrass the state at your peril. NTV learned this to its cost last year, and TV-6 became a prime target when it adopted the same stridently critical approach to Kremlin policies. Since Putin endorsed the war against terrorism after the Sept. 11 attacks, the West has been mostly silent about Putin's continued crackdown on the media...
...only ones who run afoul of the law. On Christmas Day, after several unsuccessful attempts, the state was finally able to convict Navy captain and military journalist Grigory Pasko on treason charges. Pasko had leaked information to the press about nuclear-waste dumping in the Russian far east. Putin denied any involvement in the case: it was, he said, a "purely juridical affair" and invited Pasko to request a pardon. This was easier said than done, as a few days after the Pasko verdict the President abolished his pardons commission, founded by Mikhail Gorbachev and composed of unreconstructed civil libertarians...
President Vladimir Putin lauds Russia's industrial growth of 5.7% over the past year. Official statistics, released earlier this month, claim 5.9% growth in average income. Listening to these accounts on state-run TV, I should feel comforted. But once I go shopping, or start paying my bills, I'm beginning to feel like Putin and I live in two different countries. The government estimates 2001 inflation at 18.6%. But the real costs of living have gone far beyond that. As of the beginning of this year, prices started climbing further. The monthly rate for home telephones has gone...
President Bush's announcement on Thursday that the U.S. will withdraw from the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty in six months caused surprisingly few ripples. But that may not last. Russian President Vladimir Putin's response was relatively mild, partly because the Administration had smoothed the way beforehand. Secretary of State Colin Powell informed Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov two weeks ago of the impending move. Powell then held a series of meetings designed to soften the blow by focusing attention on another deal that both sides committed to last month: mutual cuts in offensive nuclear weapons. Putin stressed Thursday that...