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...that the Americans won't leave. But another faction holds that Russia has already lost some of its Central Asian possessions, and instead of trying to hold on against the tide should be cooperating with the Americans to advance Russian interests on a range of other fronts. President Vladimir Putin is believed to lean more to the latter view. And Russia's own interest in toppling the Taliban, manifested in its long-term support for the opposition forces, has made it more gung-ho than most allies on pressing for Western military action...
...view the ABM Treaty as a cornerstone of nuclear stability in the modern world. Before the tragedies of Sept. 11, Bush had declared that the U.S. wanted a complete overhaul of the treaty. He stressed that he would unilaterally pull out of the agreement if Russian President Vladimir Putin did not compromise. Upon witnessing the carnage in New York, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania, it became clear that there is no longer any time for revising or amending ABM. We need to withdraw promptly...
...Vladimir Putin is cooperating with the U.S. anti-terrorism effort, opening Russian airspace to U.S. aircraft and sharing intelligence on terrorist organizations in Afghanistan - but all that comes with a price. TIME has learned from well-informed and reliable Russian sources that Putin asked for several deal-sweeteners in an hour-long conversation with President Bush Saturday: The Taliban will be wiped out; Russia will be given higher consideration in world politics; the mammoth Soviet debt to the West will be restructured, or eventually forgotten; and the Bush administration will not nudge Putin on Chechnya...
...first three points seem easy enough, and Putin will probably get them. Few would mourn the disappearance of the Taliban. Showing more respect to Russia does not cost all that much, while getting badly-needed overflight rights and air bases in exchange for restructuring a bad debt unlikely ever to be repaid is a good deal...
...Still, Putin invoked the Chechen situation in an address to the nation Monday night, saying it "cannot be considered outside of the context of the fight on world terrorism." Putin offered the rebels 72 hours to surrender, or else...