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...Russian President has avoided explaining any new "national idea." This was a dig at the late Boris Yeltsin, who was forever re-explaining what he thought about Russia's destiny. Putin says he does not intend to release a political testament before he steps down in 2008. He insists that what counts is not rhetoric but action...
...operation in Europe. Gone are the days when Russia was content to be in the audience rather than onstage. And by playing along diplomatically with Kazakhstan, Putin hopes to enhance both Russia's prestige and authority and his own. Crucial to this end is the revival of Russian armed power. The address to the Federal Assembly touched on this in ways that have tended to escape the attention of foreign observers. Recognizing the inefficiency of a massive conscript army, Putin aims to increase the proportion of volunteer recruits and to modernize their equipment. More strikingly, he has announced a program...
...former KGB officer, talks about the priority for Russia to move beyond being a supplicant in world affairs. Equally forceful in his own country, he has done dreadful things. Chechnya's soil is sodden with blood and is ruled by a thug who has Putin's approval. The Russian media have been intimidated into submission. The rule of law is widely ignored. Businessmen kowtow to the government or else lose their businesses. Almost a fifth of Russians live in poverty, according to U.S. figures...
...enough old, overeducated journalists in a room and tell them to make a list of the world's 100 most influential people, and they'll pick people like paleogeneticist Svante Paabo and Russian opera singer Anna Netrebko. The only surprise is that the list doesn't include a good retirement planner...
...idea that somehow 10 interceptors and a few radars in Eastern Europe are going to threaten the Soviet strategic deterrent is purely ludicrous, and everybody knows it.' CONDOLEEZZA RICE, U.S. Secretary of State, dismissing Russian concerns that Washington's plans to deploy antimissile defenses in Europe would endanger Moscow's nuclear arsenal...