Word: russianizing
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...Russian president make clear that he sees himself in command of a rising power, casting off the degradation of the 1990s and asserting its own interests even where those bump up against Washington's. He also called for expanded investment in Russia's arms industry, suggesting it was "premature to speak of the end of the arms race...
...penury and dependent on IMF handouts; Putin is running a booming oil state, which earned around $113 billion from oil exports last year (and a further $30 billion from natural gas exports). Which is why rising global demand for oil created by economic growth may be bad news for Russian democracy activists, Western-inclined politicians in former Soviet states and a Bush Administration seeking Moscow's support on Iran...
...timely manner, some experiments and receiving some material and equipment. Such failures to declare are not uncommon among the NPT members. Remedial steps are envisioned in the Safeguards Agreement to address them, and Iran has done so. Moreover, it was no secret that we were in the European, Russian and Asian markets to purchase enrichment technology in the late '80s and '90s. Therefore, an Iranian secret weapon program is only hype, and the sense of urgency about Iran's nuclear program is rather tendentious. The world should not allow itself to be dragged into another conflict on false pretenses...
...issue that the U.S., European, Russian diplomats at the U.N. would be wise to add to their agenda this week in New York. After all, lest anyone think this is a crisis for the Palestinians alone, the World Bank warns, "destabilization of this kind, if protracted, could also lead to a deterioration of the bilateral security environment - with adverse implications for the security of Israelis...
ACQUITTED. Kazbek Dukuzov, 32, and Musa Vakhayev, 42, of carrying out the contract killing of U.S. journalist Paul Klebnikov; in Moscow. Klebnikov, the chief editor of Forbes' Russian edition, was shot dead as he left his Moscow office in July 2004. The prosecution had alleged that the two Chechens killed the editor on orders from Chechen separatist Kozh-Akhmed Nukhayev, the subject of Klebnikov's book Conversations with a Barbarian...