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...Putin's Vision...
...Russian president-elect Vladimir Putin wants no part of a missile shield, and has told Washington that Moscow won't begin abiding by the Start II treaty until the Senate approves those side agreements. "The administration now finds itself caught between a Russian rock and the right wing," says Joseph Cirincione, director of the Carnegie Non-Proliferation Project. Clinton may face the embarrassing spectacle of having the Senate sink an arms-control treaty it has already ratified...
Pavlovsky dismisses the vote-fixing charges and plays down his reputation as the Kremlin's electoral wizard, describing his role as that of a modest analyst. But it is a sign of the times that Putin's election is not credited to a business tycoon or Kremlin staff member but to a professional political organizer--a former dissident and political exile who scorns the "intellectual poverty" of the Gorbachev years and is bullish on the Internet. His consulting firm, the Fund for Effective Politics, avoids the limelight but enjoys a reputation for achieving the impossible. One would-be client...
Compared with that, getting Putin elected was a pushover. The operation began last August, Pavlovsky told TIME, when Boris Yeltsin named Putin Prime Minister and declared him his preferred successor. The strategists' first step was to craft a political party for Putin to lead. They managed that trick last fall, constructing the Unity Party just months before the nation's parliamentary elections. The group was almost a parody of a Russian political party, led by a popular but tongue-tied Cabinet minister and a totally nonverbal Olympic wrestler. But Unity swept into the Duma, or lower house, triggering a wave...
...Russian President Vladimir Putin has many wondering how to pronounce his name (answer: POO-teen). To add to the confusion, variations of Putin take on new meanings in other languages...