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Vlad, you've got mail: In the Net spirit, Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin suggested the Big 8 keep in touch via e-mail. Experts worried about security and snoopy hackers. We wondered about screen names on the Buddy List: "madvlad", "dcbubba," and "3rdwaytony...
...missile defense is on the fast track following the latest test failure, but Russia's President Vladimir Putin is proving adept at outflanking Washington in the diplomatic battle over the scheme. And that should sound a warning to the next U.S. president that the free ride from Russia is over. Putin visited Pyongyang Wednesday, and got North Korea's "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il to agree to scrap his missile program in exchange for help with civilian space exploration. The specifics of the plan - which include the somewhat unlikely scenario of the U.S. supplying North Korea with a civilian rocket...
...those might prompt this White House, or the next, to go ahead with the system despite the opposition of pretty much everyone else in the world. Then again, the system's poor performance and the growing clamor of scientific criticism may militate against rushing it into production. Either way, Putin's diplomatic offensive to create a consensus among traditionally divergent states may be a portent of things to come: Boris Yeltsin may have occasionally grumbled, but he mostly allowed the U.S. free rein to unilaterally shape the international agenda. But Putin clearly plans to put up a fight where Russian...
...Berezovsky is also concerned with protecting the rights of parliament and other elected bodies from Putin's attempt to centralize power. He concedes that Russia's democracy right now is deeply flawed, but insists that a flawed democracy is better than a dictatorship...
...tycoon's third concern, hardly surprising, is Putin's attack on the oligarchs and the businesses they control. Fortunes may have been made in Russia in the early years by less than ethical means at a time when the legislative framework was weak, but attempting to redistribute property now by executive order, he says, would simply result in further abuses. He wants these issues settled exclusively by the courts, rather than by the Kremlin or the public prosecutor...