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Call it Sovietology, if you will, but hey, that's where Vladimir Putin learned his stuff. And so the barely noticed presence of former prime minister Yevgeny Primakov in President Putin's entourage in Europe this week may speak volumes about the new leader's intentions...
...there's little cause for comfort in all this for the White House. Washington has already been served notice that Putin is no slouch, but Primakov's obviously influential presence in his court suggests that the new president may be guided by Russia's best coach in the art of competing with Washington from a position of weakness...
...depends on what you mean by "is," Mr. Putin.... Clinton administration lawyers appear to have come up with a classically Clintonesque solution to their missile-defense dilemma. The New York Times reports Thursday that the administration's best legal brains have eschewed conventional wisdom, which holds any effort to start work on deploying a new missile defense system as a violation of the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty. Instead, they reportedly argue that the U.S. can begin clearing the system's proposed site on the Alaskan island of Shemya, and even pour its concrete foundations, without technically violating the agreement...
...punt the issue of whether to scrap the ABM treaty into the next presidency, the Russians watch CNN, too - and they know that the concrete President Clinton would order poured on a frostbitten Alaskan island isn't for a barbecue pit. He may be better off whispering to Putin what some of his experts are quietly telling him - that the system can't work...
...Stalinism, the magnitude of Gusinsky's arrest is not being underestimated. "This spells the beginning of the end of freedom of speech in Russia, which has been the only tangible benefit the country has gained since the collapse of the Soviet system," says Zharakovich. And it's not only Putin critics who see the media mogul's arrest as an ill omen. Even Boris Berezovsky - the oligarch most closely connected with Putin's rise, and a mortal enemy of Gusinsky because of business and political rivalry - has expressed disquiet. "Berezovsky, who actually wanted Gusinsky out of the way, appears...