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...young Chechen males, can easily stay as long as they want merely by paying the odd $3 to $6 bribe. The guerrillas who carried out the Moscow theater siege in October 2002 even had their own weapons and explosives trucked in from Chechnya. 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." One thing it will not do, though, is damage his chances of re-election next month. His poll ratings are still around 80% and he seems...
...Putin Yedvinstvo party in November; two more Duma factions threw their lot in with the new force, giving the government a 235-vote majority. Though the Kremlin maintains its actions are financially motivated, many observers don't buy it. "This is a real media pogrom," says political analyst Lilia Shevtsova. "And it's no coincidence the Kremlin has carried it out at the same time it makes obvious plans to form a ruling state party...
Such tussles are becoming increasingly frequent, partly because parliament is increasingly fractious. The legislators, elected in March 1990, once divided into two main groups: Communists and their opponents. They have now splintered into at least 14 registered factions, plus any number of single- issue dissidents. Lilia Shevtsova, a professor at Moscow's Institute of International Economic and Political Studies, calls many of the country's proliferating political organizations "sofa parties" because "all the members of one party can sit on one sofa...