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...authority is unquestioned, his popularity overwhelming. Yet Russia's future under his stewardship is hazy. Four years ago, Putin's election was greeted as a symbol of renewal. Now Putin is increasingly seen, especially outside Russia, as personifying a restoration of the Soviet mentality, if not its menace...
Putin's image is that of an energetic, forceful reformer. He has restored Russia's self-confidence after a miserable decade of chaos and humiliation. Yet the buoyant economy is held up by oil and natural-gas prices--which once made the Soviet Union seem like the way of the future, until prices collapsed. Putin has not used the boom to diversify the country's economic base. He claims victory in Chechnya but has only devastated the tiny republic, not pacified it. Hard-line Chechen secessionists are waging a pitiless war of urban terrorism in Moscow and elsewhere. Russia...
First known to the CIA as one of the Arabs fighting on our side against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden became America's No. 1 nemesis a decade later. The malcontented son of a wealthy Saudi construction magnate, bin Laden found meaning in the Afghan war. When it was over, he organized its Arab veterans into a global network of terrorists seeking to overthrow governments to create fundamentalist theocracies. He named the movement the foundation, as in the base of a building--in Arabic, al-Qaeda. Bin Laden provided the seed money, the organizational ability...
Boym says this struggle for personal identity mirrors her own quest for self in the United States. Born in the Soviet Union at the height of Cold War tensions, Boym fled as a teenager. She says her personal biography demands from her a certain amount of exploration. She identifies herself as a refugee stuck somewhere between her history in Russia and her new life in America...
DIED. LARISA BOGORAZ, 74, one of seven Soviet dissidents who in 1968 participated in a risky demonstration in Red Square to protest the invasion of Czechoslovakia; of a stroke; in Moscow. The linguist and human-rights activist, who spent four years exiled in a Siberian woodworking plant, once wrote an open letter to KGB chief Yuri Andropov to inform him that she was keeping a record of Soviet oppression...