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...seven years and $15 billion to construct). But to make the Bering tunnel accessible on the North American side, connecting lines would have to be laid from the strait to Fairbanks, Alaska (about 750 miles of track), and then to British Columbia, Canada (an additional 900 miles). On the Russian side, at least 2,000 miles of track would have to be connected. All that track could cost as much as $60 billion...
...Tribal Territory Since we're not allowed to reach the Afghan border, we decide to head north to Shakot, a village that makes guns--anything from a Kalashnikov AK-47 ($120) to Russian pistols ($80). They also sell a mind-sizzling hashish, and puff away while tooling the guns. "If it's complicated work, the hashish makes it easier," grins one gunsmith between tokes. He sells a lot of AK-47s to Afghans and local Pakistanis. "A gun is a man's jewelry," he relates, and assures us that the tribesmen on the Pakistani side--to a man--will join...
...other hand, support for the mujahedin, from whom the Taliban rose, did prevent the Soviets from gaining control of Afghanistan. Their military failure helped precipitate the downfall of the Soviet system and the collapse of the Russian empire. That probably would have happened anyway?but Afghanistan brought it forward by about 10 years...
...tools.) It was fought through economics: imposing higher costs of trade by limiting the Soviet Union's ability to sell natural gas, for example. It was fought through legislation, such as America's Jackson-Vanik amendment, which linked Soviet-American trade to improved human rights, especially the emigration of Russian Jews. Diplomacy played a huge role. The Soviet Union routinely and brutally violated the provisions of the Helsinki treaty on human rights, for example. But looking back we realize that the fact that Moscow signed this treaty provided substantial leverage both for homegrown activists (like Anatoly Scharansky) and the outside...
...came as nato declared its arms collecting mission to Macedonia a success, with 3,875 weapons handed in to nato troops. Ethnic Macedonian politicians greeted Ahmeti's announcement with some skepticism, believing that many weapons remain in rebel hands. CHECHNYA Talks About Talks In response to a proposal from Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chechens and Russians started talks to end the two-year war in the breakaway republic. Moscow has demanded that the rebels disarm before substantive negotiations begin...