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...quickly fade away. But it's one more in a list of "unfriendly" disagreements between Washington and Moscow these days. There have been frequent rhetorical clashes over Moscow's decision to renew arms sales to Tehran, Washington's insistence it will go ahead with missile-defense systems, Russian President Vladimir Putin's efforts to drum up global resistance to the shield. The Russians were incensed by an interview in which Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld branded them an "active proliferator." Deputy Paul Wolfowitz chimed in, calling the Russian leaders "people willing to sell anything to anyone for money," who get billions...
...fruit, grapes, wine and dairy products abundant. There was a cosmopolitan population of over half a million: Russians, Chechens, Armenians, Azeris, Jews and other peoples of the Caucasus. Now Grozny is more like a post-nuclear nightmare, a city systematically leveled by the Russian military campaign that propelled Vladimir Putin to the presidency a year ago, where gunfire and explosions are still so common that they blend into the normal sounds of the city...
...unanimity in condemning the use of force by ethnic Albanians in Macedonia. "This situation in Macedonia could spell strike three for the Albanians altogether," says Baton Haxhiu, editor of Kosovo's leading daily Koha Ditore. "Our reputation is being ruined. Our Western friends are turning into enemies." Russian President Vladimir Putin, in Stockholm to meet with leaders of the 15 E.U. countries, said - with an eye to his own problems in Chechnya - "these aren't rebels, but terrorists...
Noted "Do not mistake bribe taking for corruption." VLADIMIR RUSHAILO, Former Russian Minister of Internal Affairs, defending officials in his department who sold influence. He was replaced last week
...Vladimir Guerrero, RF, Expos: Finished among NLs top five in all Triple Crown categories last season 2. Mike Piazza, C, Mets: Gives Mets lethal offensive production from the catcher position. That's value 3. Andruw Jones, CF, Braves: Performed better in 2000 than that center fielder in Cincy...