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...Vladimir Gusinsky is certainly no better than any other Russian oligarch," says TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zharakovich. "All of them came to their exalted positions and their wealth by crook rather than by hook. But he has, nonetheless, created the most honest and most professional media organization in the country, and its objective coverage of stories such as the Chechnya war has infuriated the Kremlin. Putin may say that this was an independent decision by the prosecutor's office, but nobody in Russia makes a decision of such magnitude unless it comes from the boss...
...what President Clinton has been intent on doing in Moscow this week. He is deeply enmeshed in arms-control negotiations 1) to revise the treaty that radically restricts America's ability to defend itself from missile attack (the ABM treaty) and 2) to set new numbers for American and Russian offensive missiles (a START III treaty...
...Bush's idea is significant because it goes beyond questioning why we should be tailoring our defensive weapons to Russian wishes. He asks, Why should we be tailoring offensive weapons--indeed, any American military needs--to Russian wishes...
...latest Los Alamos security lapse may mean big trouble for Bill Richardson, but they're unlikely to trouble Bill Cohen much. Energy Department officials admitted Monday that computer disks bearing an undisclosed amount of classified information on both U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons went missing from a vault at Los Alamos National Laboratory earlier this month, in the wake of the brushfire that saw much of the facility evacuated. And while officials stressed that they don't believe at this stage that espionage was involved, the revelations certainly leave egg on the face of Energy Secretary Richardson, who ordered...
...sophisticated that most other countries wouldn't be able to replicate it, even if they had the blueprints - let's just say it is rocket science." But speaking of espionage, Comrade Putin may want a few explanations from his own security establishment about just what classified information on Russian nuclear weapons was doing at Los Alamos in the first place...