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...similar constraints on the Chinese and 42% wanted to limit the influence of Jews. "The soft encroachment of nationalism increasingly permeates Russia," says Sukhachev. "What is happening is unprecedented. Milder forms of racism have long been part of the Russian political scene. The Liberal Democratic Party, led by nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, as well as the new Motherland Party and elements within the Communist Party, all espouse nationalist policies. The people of the Caucasus "must separate from us completely and never come over here!" Zhirinovsky recently told a reporter from the Armenian daily Novoye Vremya. Some 35% of the electorate supported...
...three years of stability." Until very recently, such pessimism was a minority view. The government hard-line was seen by business executives and analysts as a political power struggle, not a reassertion of the Kremlin's invisible hand in guiding the economy. The clout of the siloviki, President Vladimir Putin's coterie of security and military associates who retain a Soviet-style attachment to state economic control, was downplayed. Yukos, it was thought, would be allowed to pay its tax bills by handing over its 35% share in another oil company, Sibneft. Putin himself encouraged such optimism, saying...
...guards. The gunmen - apparently rebels from neighboring Chechnya - "appeared from nowhere," Aliyev recalls, and they left the same way, leaving the Ministry buildings and military sites in four towns in ruins, and almost 100 police, soldiers and civilians dead, among them the republic's Interior Ministry leadership. Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed for years that the war in Chechnya was over; last week, a new front opened up in Ingushetia. Until 2002 Ingushetia's President, Afghanistan war vet Ruslan Aushev, kept his republic out of the Chechen crossfire. He was sympathetic to the Chechens, even offering guerrillas medical treatment...
Once in office, the coping reflexes that brought Bush there have only grown stronger. He could trust Vladimir Putin because he looked into his soul, not consult his Secretary of State about going to war and not need to look for strength from his father, the former President, because he was consulting "a higher father," as he famously told Bob Woodward in Plan of Attack. It is at this point that his faith becomes more than a matter of conscience for some critics, who wonder whether his particular set of spiritual instincts both lift him up and close...
...President's lips. Last Thursday, shares of the oil giant Yukos were at a 30-month low and were dragging the rest of the Russian stock market down with them. The market feared that the Yukos affair was heading for the worst possible end - bankruptcy. But Thursday afternoon, Vladimir Putin told journalists he had no interest in seeing Yukos go bankrupt, and in less than two hours Yukos shares jumped by 35% and the market finished 10% up in record trading. Yukos' share price rose again Friday by almost 4%. Putin was careful to stress that he was expressing...