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...East - he meets all 25 leaders of the E.U. member states, and dines with the refusenik in chief, French President Jacques Chirac. He promenades along the Rhine with German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, then moves on to Bratislava to exchange views, and perhaps a few soulful glances, with Russian President Vladimir Putin...
...there under the umbrella of the U.N. We're taking international security very seriously. If you bear in mind that we're the third largest contributor to the U.N. budget, then to us it's appropriate to express the desire. Are you too uncritical of what many see as Russian President Vladimir Putin's move toward authoritarianism? We all want a strong, prosperous, democratic Russia. I think President Putin is on the right path to get there. Europe should see Russia as a strategic partner...
...elements: those of Benegal’s “working milieu.” Benegal listed a prodigious number of influences, ranging from American directors like Billy Wilder and John Ford to the French nouvelle vague and Italian Neo-Realists, from the works of Tarkofsky, Eisenstein and other Russian filmmakers—which were easiest to come by in his youth, he explained—to Kurosawa and, perhaps most importantly, Satyajit Ray, the director credited with founding the Indian “Parallel Cinema” of which Benegal is a self-proclaimed practitioner...
Stephen W. Stromberg ’05 is a Russian studies concentrator in Adams House. His column appears on alternate Fridays...
...Posner notes, it would take quite a large wad of cash—perhaps many billions of dollars—to convince most of us to engage in a round of Russian roulette, where the probability of death...