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...Boris Yeltsin, who had no appetite for the game. President Vladimir Putin, however, wants to play. And under the tutelage of such old pros as former foreign minister Yevgeny Primakov, Putin's no slouch when it comes to geopolitics. That much was clear earlier this year when the Russian president outflanked Washington among its own NATO allies in the diplomatic battle over U.S. plans for a missile defense system. Since then, he's managed, quite improbably, to revive a role for Moscow in the Middle East peace process, and has helped lead a growing number of European and Arab countries...
...agreement between Gore and then Russian prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin obliged Russia to stop shipping conventional weapons to Iran, in order to exempt Moscow from automatic U.S. sanctions against those who sell arms to countries on the State Department's list of states sponsoring terrorism. Despite the undertaking, Russia continued to fulfill orders for fighter aircraft, armored vehicles and submarines, but it has withdrawn from the Gore-Chernomyrdin agreement to take advantage of a $5 billion Iranian order for helicopters, surface-to-air missiles and new tanks and jets...
...contained to distant "third world" nations. But now there is a new hot spot for AIDS: Russia, where 300,000 people are expected to be diagnosed with HIV/AIDS by the end of the year - more than all cases from previous years combined. UNAIDS officials expressed deep concern that the Russian government was not capable of dealing with the explosion of infections, but pointed to successful AIDS prevention techniques in other former Soviet Republics as hopeful signs that the disease's spread in the region may yet be contained...
...from the latest edition because they felt it was obsolete. And take pity on the poor foreign-news outlets as they try to translate "pregnant chad." Parlo.com a languages website, offered suggestions: in Cantonese, dye toad tsee (big stomach paper); in German, schwanger Stanzabfall (pregnant punch waste); and in Russian, beremennaya confette (pregnant confetti...
...voice of James Baker and the monotone of Warren Christopher, David Boies cheerfully made the Democratic case to the TV crews. In a crisis atmosphere, he gave off an aura of confidence that somehow the system would work--not in weeks but in days. As he earnestly told a Russian TV reporter one night, "This doesn't happen very often here in this country. It's not a question of legal maneuvering. And it ought not to be a question of politics. It's a question of whom did the voters want." The Russian walked off, nodding in agreement...