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...manipulation, the Internet and all kinds of unbelievable achievements. How could we not find a way to supply oxygen to that doomed submarine? The Russian ego has again proved that human lives are seemingly not worth a kopeck. The Kursk disaster was simply murder by the state. Shame on Putin! DIPTENDU CHAKRABORTY Toronto...
...this picture, Vladimir Putin...
...enjoys advantages unknown to other athletes. "There's not another wrestler in the world who travels with a helicopter and a massager and two or three doctors and coaches," declares Ghaffari, who says he and Karelin regard each other with mutual respect. Small wonder that when Russian President Vladimir Putin's Unity Party needed a boost last year, it picked Karelin to run for a legislative seat. Today the wrestler denies rumors that he wants to be President. "It's a totally different level of responsibility," he says, "and I am not ready for it." Just running for parliament...
...While the power summit marks President Clinton's curtain call on the international stage, it has been the U.N. debut for Russia's President Vladimir Putin, who appears to have reveled in the attention. Like an emerging rock star not yet comfortable with his celebrity, Putin has the disarming - in more ways than one - habit of signing autographs for just about anyone who asks. So when he finished a late-night press conference Thursday, he found himself mobbed by journalists and officials seeking his John Hancock on any available piece of paper. Simply to catch his breath, he was finally...
...picture that has emerged of Putin during the Kursk crisis is of a leader profoundly imbued with the political culture that has marked centuries of Russian history: the needs of the state always come first; individual concerns come a distant second. When forced by events--an election campaign or a televised tragedy--Putin will don a human face and show concern for the ordinary people. But left to himself, he is far happier in the embrace of his great love--the Russian state...