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...Internet, for as long as they can elude suppression. Last week the Kremlin went after TNT - a small Media-Most network that has housed many former NTV staffers since Gazprom's takeover - charging the network's accountant with tax evasion. Alexei Venediktov, the head of the popular radio station Ekho Moskvy, expects that "we'll be next in line," and sources tell Time that the Kremlin will soon kill off two liberal weeklies. The heat has also been turned up at TV-6, the channel controlled by exiled tycoon Boris Berezovsky and now run by a group of former...
...other contingents." Given their mandate that's difficult while on duty, but off hours reveal a different story. At the end of each day, Japanese soldiers jog with Canadians through the apple orchard outside the base, in the shadow of the balloon-shaped radar antennae of the Israeli listening station on Mount Avital. They play baseball with the Canadians and soccer with the Poles. Canadian soldiers eschew the beef lasagne of their own cooks and chow down in the noisy mess hall on tempura and miso soup prepared by Furusho's three cooks...
...launch gods cooperate this Saturday, a rocket will blast off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and loft a Soyuz capsule into space. A day or so later, the capsule will rendezvous and dock with the International Space Station (ISS)--thus earning a place in the annals of space history. For aboard that Soyuz craft, along with two Russian cosmonauts, will be a 60-year-old American millionaire named Dennis Tito. Amateurs have flown in space before--including three U.S. congressmen, a Russian politician, a Japanese TV reporter and a Saudi prince--but Tito will be the first paying tourist...
...also very nearly became the first visitor to reach an orbiting spacecraft and get told he wasn't welcome aboard. NASA, along with its Japanese, Canadian and European partners in the space-station project, made it clear it didn't want Tito to fly, claiming he would be in the way of the real spacemen, who will be working on the still unfinished orbital complex--installing a brand-new Canadian-built robot arm, for example, that just went up on the shuttle...
...late last week, after months of trying to keep Tito grounded, NASA backed off. It really had little choice. The Russians are partners in the space-station project too, which gives them the right to select their own crews. Kicking them out of the partnership was unthinkable. Not only do the others need Russia's Soyuz capsules (for emergency escapes) and expertise in long-duration space flight, they also want to keep Russian rocket scientists and engineers gainfully employed so that they aren't tempted to sell their services to rogue states...