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...going to sit here and psychoanalyze the man.' GEORGE W. BUSH, on his initial meeting with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev; after first meeting Medvedev's predecessor, Vladimir Putin, Bush said he came away with a "sense of his soul...
What could end all this bad blood? One possibility is that Gazprom might buy out the Russian billionaires, then take control of TNK-BP. Given the acrimony between BP and its partners, it's not hard to see why the Brits might welcome Gazprom. Likewise, Gazprom may be more attuned to the benefits of having a foreign partner with deep pockets and a long-term outlook. To help develop a vast gas field in the Barents Sea, Gazprom teamed up with Norwegian oil firm StatoilHydro and French giant Total last year, indicating there's still an openness to such partnerships...
...Persian barrage came shortly after the Russians issued their own threatening response to a pact signed Tuesday between Washington and the Czech Republic to move into that country an aging missile defense radar system currently based in the Kwajalein Atoll in the South Pacific. "We will be forced to react not with diplomatic, but with military-technical methods" if the shield is ever deployed, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The tracking radar slated to move to the Czech Republic would be linked to 10 interceptor missiles Washington hopes to base in Poland. Russia has threatened...
Defense Department officials expressed exasperation at the latest Russian denunciation of the missile shield that U.S. officials maintain is designed only to protect parts of Europe as well as the United States. "No one's name [in the Russian government] is attached to it," Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told TIME shortly after the Russians released their saber-rattling statement. "It's being reported as a foreign ministry statement - and it's got strange wording in it like 'We would be forced to react with military resources' or 'technical means' - what does that mean...
...This system is not designed to counter a Russian threat - this system is designed to counter what is an emerging threat from the Middle East," Whitman says. "We have been very transparent with respect to our intent and purpose - we have offered the Russians a very attractive, robust collaboration opportunity and we have also offered what is unprecedented transparency...