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...Diplomacy and foreign policy is so much on a personal relationship basis. I not only had the privilege of meeting both Hillary and Laura-both of whom I admire, and both of whom I think did exceptional jobs as first lady-but also to meet Bernadette Chirac, Lyudmila Putin. The thing that always struck me is how exceptional all these women are in their own right...
Earlier this month, someone shot and killed Ruslan Yamadayev, whose family helped win the Chechen war for Vladimir Putin when it sided with him against Shamil Basayev's terrorists and their radical Wahhabi allies. The Yamadayevs, however, ran afoul of Ramzan Kadyrov, the man Putin installed as ruler of Chechnya. And so Yamadayev, a hero of Russia, a colonel of the Russian Army and, until recently, a member of the Duma, was dismissed as the Chechen regional head of Putin's United Russia Party. His brother Sulim, also a hero of Russia and a Lieut. Colonel of the Russian Army...
...VLADIMIR PUTIN gets tiger cub for his birthday, plans to teach it tiger-claw judo flip...
...Since Medvedev and his calculating predecessor-turned-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin intervened in Georgia in August, relations between Moscow and the United States and European Union have been frosty. Though many hawks argue the Western powers were not forceful enough, Russia has paid for its bellicosity with capital flight. According to Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, the country has lost between $10 and $15 billion of foreign direct investment and its stock market is down close to 50 percent this year. Despite the global financial crisis affecting all markets, a considerable part of such downturns for energy-rich Russia...
...stopped issuing credits altogether. Layoffs are expected, and Big Business even wants the government to reduce the required two months' severance pay for laid-off workers to a single month. Meanwhile, in the past two months, Russia's hard currency reserves have plummeted $51 billion down to $546 billion. Putin has just given another $50 billion to Gazprom, Rosneft, Lukoil and other energy conglomerates to pay their accrued foreign debts by the end of this year. Russian companies and banks are to pay yet another $115.7 billion by the end of 2009. Furthermore, Moscow will have to pick...