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George W. Bush and Tony Blair may look back on last week's G-8 summit with a tinge of embarrassment. Not because the meeting of world leaders failed to solve global poverty or secure peace in the Middle East, but because a private chat between the pair was picked up by an open [an error occurred while processing this directive] mike and broadcast around the world. But the conversation - which saw Bush greet the British PM with a cozy, "Yo, Blair. How are you doin'?" - is just the latest case of politicians being caught on-air and unaware. Here...
...Just going to make it up. I'm not going to talk too damn long like the rest of them." --GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. President, to British PM Tony Blair before his speech to leaders at last week's G-8 summit in Russia. His remark was caught by a microphone that had inadvertently been left...
...Putin's efforts to restore Russian influence in the Middle East is based on his ambition to restore Russia as a world power. Still, even though the crisis in that region dominated proceedings, the best the summit could produce on the crisis in the Middle East was an oblique statement, open to opposite interpretations. The U.S. and Britain see it as emphasizing Israel's right to self-defense against acts of aggression; for Russia, it emphasizes the call for Israel to show restraint. The irony of Putin lecturing the Israelis about proportionate response to terrorist provocations was not lost...
...requests on banking and insurance, hoping that by making some last-minute partial concessions, it would 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...
...summit produced little to show for Russia - or for the rest of the world, for that matter. But the spectacle and the attention may have done a lot for Vladimir Putin...