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...Germany. All in all, Europeans want the G-8 leaders to focus on the economy and fighting the war on terror, with other concerns such as protecting the environment and installing a new Iraqi government trailing far behind. European suspicions about the U.S. are shared by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Hosting E.U. leaders and Bush in St. Petersburg last weekend, Putin made nice with the Americans while urging the Europeans to pursue the dream of a multipolar world in an entente cordiale with Moscow. Europeans weren't buying that either. Putin was slapped down by the E.U. leaders, who demanded...
...people and injuring 200. Two days later, a bomb at a festival near the capital, Grozny, killed at least 18 and injured more than five times as many. Secretary of State Colin Powell, who had just landed in Moscow, called the bombings barbarous. Standing by his side, Russian President Vladimir Putin equated the Chechnya conflict to the "war on terrorism" and the bombings to those that rocked Riyadh last week...
Before the U.S. invasion, so resolutely opposed by President Vladimir Putin, the Russians had signed contracts to develop new fields in Iraq and produce an additional 710,000 bbl. a day. Whether a new U.S.-sanctioned Iraqi government will honor those contracts remains to be seen. But beyond gaining access to Iraq's oil fields, the Russians have little interest in seeing Iraq become a major producer on the scale of Saudi Arabia. That's because Russia is a major exporter itself, earning billions in oil revenue. Though Russia might ultimately open its spigots wider than Saudi Arabia's, which...
...Russia's antiwar president Vladimir Putin appeared to be enjoying Blair's predicament during a joint press conference, Wednesday, sarcastically suggesting that Saddam may be hiding in a bunker filled with weapons of mass destruction, waiting to blow up all of Iraq, and that such weapons would have to be accounted for before Russia could agree to the lifting of UN sanctions. Blair stoically insisted that evidence of the banned weapons would emerge...
...right-wing gay man who wanted to restrict immigration, Fortuyn has in death become an icon of modern Dutch life. Van der Graaf, who admitted shooting Fortuyn last May, might only serve 12 years. Political Crime Wave RUSSIA Sergei Yushenkov, a leading liberal Duma Deputy and critic of President Vladimir Putin, was shot to death as he was entering his Moscow apartment block, hours after registering his Liberal Russia Party to compete in December's parliamentary elections. Yushenkov's colleagues accused the government of inaction in the face of a wave of politically motivated crime. He is the second senior...