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...progress. And that bodes ill for President Bush?s meetings with Canada?s Prime Minister Jean Chretien on Monday, and with Britain?s Prime Minister Tony Blair later this month. The British share many of Europe?s concerns, while Chretien issued a joint statement with Russia?s President Vladimir Putin late last year insisting that Washington respect the ABM treaty...
...Vladimir Putin, a former KGB agent and Russia's President, is a St. Petersburg native. He made his name as one of the energetic reformers who gave the city a rolling start as communism collapsed. But these days that momentum is gone, replaced by the languid inertia of drink, drugs and sex. Putin is desperate to change his country. The kids in these photos are desperate to change their lives. That should be a recipe for hope, but in this lawless, rotting city, it has become a prescription for despair...
...Vladimir Putin came to power in Russia; the Serbian people overthrew Slobodan Milosevic; South Korean President Kim Dae Jung put his country and North Korea on their best footing in 50 years; Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat failed to reach an Israeli-Palestinian agreement; and Vicente Fox ended 70 years of P.R.I. rule in Mexico through the ballot. To people outside the U.S., the presidential election was hardly the event that contributed the most to influencing the news, for better or worse, in 2000. JOAO LUIS HAMBURGER Sao Paulo...
VLADIMIR GUSINSKY Anti-Putin media mogul faces new charges. A big nyet for press freedom...
...know if he is involved, but if the reports prove true, it's a big blow to Putin because, as we say in Russia, his arms are too short to get Turner. He can put the screws on Russians, but not on Ted Turner. Putin generally believes all Russians are serfs to the Kremlin, but Turner is not Russian. If he invested in NTV, it would be a very good gesture of solidarity with what is left of freedom of speech in Russia. But of course nobody will help the Russians unless the Russians help themselves...