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...remember many Chelsea fans complaining when Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich bought their London football club last year; what counted was the size of his pocketbook and the amount that he was prepared to spend on talent. (Of course, Chelsea's supporters have always been a mercenary...
...hear Vladimir Putin tell it, he learned something about Chechnya last week. After a surprise helicopter tour of the breakaway republic, the Russian President returned to Moscow and informed his Cabinet that the capital, Grozny, looked "horrible." He apparently didn't mention that it looks that way because the Russian military has periodically pounded it with bombs and artillery shells as part of the Kremlin's campaign to quell a separatist uprising in the region. With last week's assassination of Moscow's hand-picked Chechen President, Akhmad Kadyrov, Putin might also have remarked that his strategy for pacifying Chechnya...
...Manchurian beer war took shape 104 years ago when a Russian man founded China's first beer factory just south of the Siberian border and named it after himself?Ulubulevskij Brewery. Japanese managers took over after Emperor Hirohito's forces conquered Manchuria, as that part of northeast China was known, and the company later fell into the hands of the Soviet Red Army. Only in the 1950s, after Stalin ordered the return of Chinese assets, did managers from the mainland take control; in the famine years that followed, they brewed the first Chinese beer from corn. These days the Harbin...
...populism he used in November, forced Abashidze out without firing a shot. Can he repeat the trick in Georgia's other rebellious regions, Abkhazia and South Ossetia? Abashidze's undoing began May 2 when the Georgian army carried out maneuvers near the Ajaria border. "He was spooked," says one Russian source close to Abashidze, who spoke to him in the days before his ouster. "He thought they were going to invade. It was May Day holidays in Russia and he thought there would be an invasion and the outside world would not even notice." Abashidze blew up the three Choloki...
Admitting, though, that the "world isn't ready for this kind of scheme," Morse labeled the failure of the neutrals at the Belgrade Conference to condemn Russian testing as the "biggest tragedy of the year...