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Even Stalin was fond of citing the fiction that his prosecutors were independent and beyond his control. And that's why Russians will take little comfort in President Vladimir Putin's suggestion, while traveling in Spain, that he knew nothing about the arrest this week of anti-Kremlin media mogul Vladimir Gusinsky. Gusinsky, the oligarch whose Media-MOST company operates radio, TV and print media critical of President Putin's administration, was arrested Tuesday, purportedly on charges of stealing $10 million in state property, and taken to a 19th-century prison where he'll have to wait 10 days before...
...Zharakovich. "All of them came to their exalted positions and their wealth by crook rather than by hook. But he has, nonetheless, created the most honest and most professional media organization in the country, and its objective coverage of stories such as the Chechnya war has infuriated the Kremlin. Putin may say that this was an independent decision by the prosecutor's office, but nobody in Russia makes a decision of such magnitude unless it comes from the boss...
...VLADIMIR PUTIN Clinton summit lets you stand tall as a world leader--and yer kleptoeconomy's inching...
...make an existing arsenal smaller, cheaper or more efficient. The way the U.S. builds nuclear weapons is so sophisticated that most other countries wouldn't be able to replicate it, even if they had the blueprints - let's just say it is rocket science." But speaking of espionage, Comrade Putin may want a few explanations from his own security establishment about just what classified information on Russian nuclear weapons was doing at Los Alamos in the first place...
...left in office, Bill Clinton is desperate for a foreign policy triumph. Anything that helps push the Monica Lewinsky scandal to a footnote when historians write his presidency. Moscow won't be any help. Clinton flew to Russia on June 3 to try to convince its new president, Vladimir Putin, to accept an American missile-defense system combined with a treaty to cut deeply into both sides' strategic nuclear arsenal, but Putin wasn't a bit interested. So the President has now turned to the Middle East as his last hope for a foreign policy victory. ?He wants to spend...