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...sang from the same songbook. President Jiang Zemin condemned "terrorism in all its forms," while Bush, beaming, said Jiang and his government "stand side by side with the American people as we fight this evil force." Two days later, Bush met Russian President Vladimir Putin, into whose soul he had peered approvingly four months ago. Bush and Putin discussed the size of cuts the U.S. is ready to make in its nuclear arsenal in return for Russian acquiescence to America's missile-defense program. The aim: to conclude a grand nuclear bargain at the soul brothers' November summit in Crawford...
...momentum in international trade may have awakened a great bear. In July, Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Neill visited Russia, which he found to be a changed place. President Vladimir Putin, he said, had made great progress welding disparate, warring fiefdoms into one administration, an achievement reflected in the Kremlin's ability to con-duct potentially fruitful trade negotiations...
...CUBA Russia Closes Base Russian President Vladimir Putin said military officials had decided to close the Lourdes radar station in Cuba, which was set up in the 1970s and costs Russia $200 million a year to maintain. The U.S. welcomed the move, but Cuba said the issue had not yet been resolved. Around 1,500 Russians are based at the center, which houses electronic intelligence equipment and provides Russia with 75% of its military and strategic information about...
...President Bush may think he's as thick as thieves with his pal Vladimir Putin, but hopefully someone at the White House is reading the English edition of Pravda. The erstwhile communist mouthpiece reports that Russia's generals want to send troops back into Afghanistan, in the hope of backing up their Tajik allies against U.S.-backed Uzbeks in the battle for supremacy among rival factions of the Northern Alliance. Russia wants to restore the Tajik-led government overthrown by the Taliban in 1996. "Pakistan is against such development of the events, as well the U.S.A., due to the efforts...
...agreement with Putin could not have been reached but for the Bush administration’s willingness to make unilateral, significant cuts to America’s nuclear stockpile. This is an important step forward, both to reassure the Russians and to signal that the arms races of the Cold War are finally over...