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...Russian President Vladimir Putin has pledged a full range of assistance to President Bush in the U.S. anti-terrorist operation, including the use of Russian airspace. Putin also told Bush that he would personally urge leaders of the former Soviet republics in Central Asia, to join the anti-terrorist coalition as well. A ranking diplomatic source told TIME that Putin made the pledge on Saturday in an hour-long telephone conversation with Bush while the Russian President was taking a break from a six-hour cabinet meeting at his Black Sea dacha at Sochi...
...Laden himself, but also to sustain a consistent long-term effort to root out his cadres and their allies across the globe. And the need to establish the widest possible consensus behind a course of action may explain the furious diplomatic shuttling between U.S. leaders and their European, Russian, Pakistani, Arab and Asian counterparts underway this week...
...Tajikistan, the former Soviet republic whose six million people share strong ethnic ties with Afghan Tajiks has long been engaged in Afghanistan, particularly as a key rear base of opposition activity. Wracked by internal conflict, it continues to allow a Russian military presence and has been the staging ground for Russian assistance to Afghan opposition groups. Tajikistan could be an important staging ground for any U.S. military action in Afghanistan - if Russia gives its approval, which remains an open question...
...section of the Afghan population, faces an Islamist insurgency of its own, and that intensifies its opposition to Afghanistan's ruling militia. It has served as a rear base for opposition forces based in the north, and could be another important base for U.S. action - once again, if its Russian patron is willing...
...Asleep Overrated CIVILIAN SPACE FLIGHT Dutch firm MirCorp has signed a deal with Russian spacecraft maker Energiya to build and launch a private space station into orbit in 2004. Called Mini Station 1, the cramped craft is part of a $100 million project to send three touristronauts in orbit for 20 days at a time...