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...delay has angered Putin, believes Lilia Shevtsova, an analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center. Putin's second and final term as Russian President ends in 2008, and a successful reabsorption of Belarus would ensure his legacy as the first reunifier of the Slavic lands lost by his predecessors Mikhail Gorbachev and Yeltsin. Shevtsova also cites a more colorful theory: "Annexing Belarus could also create a legal way for Putin to stay on in the Kremlin." The constitution of the Russian Federation restricts any incumbent to two consecutive terms as President, but a new, expanded Federation could start with a clean...
...carry the day. Just before the Bush-Putin meeting, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin had said that differences had been settled and a final WTO agreement would be reached at the G-8 summit. "Such tactics only show how little the Russian leaders understand of how America works," says Lilia Shevtsova, a political analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center. What Putin did not understand is that his U.S. counterpart cannot make such decisions without congressional support. "If the U.S. system worked the same way the Russian one does, Putin would have won," Shevtsova notes. "Now, he has lost...
...elsewhere. The media has long been muzzled, the judiciary controlled; regional governors are now appointed by Putin rather than elected; and the activities of political parties have been harshly curtailed. "The trends that have been long accumulating," Illarionov says, "found their completion and finally shaped up in 2005." Lilia Shevtsova, senior analyst at the Moscow Carnegie Center in Moscow, laments that Putin has "abandoned even halfhearted attempts at deregulating the economy, pursuing administrative reform or curbing corruption." Instead, she says, "Russia is completing the creation of a post-Soviet state, which continues the Russian tradition of authority raised high above...
...Lilia Shevtsova, an independent analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center, says, "There is no doubt that many intelligence and security specialists share [Belkovsky's] views." Shevtsova thinks things really started going wrong last year. The massacre in Beslan in September, in which over 300 children and adults died after pro-Chechen rebels seized a school in North Ossetia, "underlined the failure of the Kremlin's Chechnya operations," she says. The final destruction of Yukos in December, when Baikal Finance Group, a consortium linked to the state-owned Russian oil company Rosneft, bought its main oil producing unit, Yuganskneftegaz...
Last week's bombing, says Lilia Shevtsova, a top analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center, "ruins the Putin image of the President in control and on top of things." While Putin is still poised to win a landslide re-election next month--his approval ratings are around 80%--the mood of those who turn out to vote for him may prove to be more fatalistic than triumphant. Just after last Friday's blast, Oksana Petrova, 32, shrugged when a reporter asked her if she was now afraid of taking the metro. "Of course, I'm scared," she said. "But what...