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...deep trouble ever since his opposition released tapes purporting to be recordings of the president ordering his interior minister to "get rid" of a critical journalist whose decapitated body was discovered late last year. As pressure mounts on Kuchma to resign, he met Monday with Russia's President Vladimir Putin. Given Kuchma's flirtation with NATO in recent years, Putin's got to be loving this scandal...
...little progress. And that bodes ill for President Bush?s meetings with Canada?s Prime Minister Jean Chretien on Monday, and with Britain?s Prime Minister Tony Blair later this month. The British share many of Europe?s concerns, while Chretien issued a joint statement with Russia?s President Vladimir Putin late last year insisting that Washington respect the ABM treaty...
...Moscow In a move meant more to calm criticism abroad than at home, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a partial troop withdrawal from the troubled region of Chechnya, where rebel guerrillas continue to take their toll on weary Russian armed forces. While Putin did not specify troop numbers, officials said that as many as 80,000 soldiers could leave Chechnya in the coming months. The pullout, however, remains merely a declared intention. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe welcomed the statement and restored full voting rights to Russia, which were suspended in April last year over Russia...
ARRESTED. ANTON TITOV, 34, finance chief of Vladimir Gusinsky's Media-MOST empire, on suspicion of conspiracy to commit fraud; in Moscow. The arrest is the latest move in a Kremlin crackdown against Media-MOST, in particular its subsidiary ntv--the nation's sole independent TV network. Those actions have been criticized both domestically and overseas as an attack on press freedom. Gusinsky himself is in Spain fighting extradition on embezzlement charges, which he says are politically motivated...
...Vladimir Putin, a former KGB agent and Russia's President, is a St. Petersburg native. He made his name as one of the energetic reformers who gave the city a rolling start as communism collapsed. But these days that momentum is gone, replaced by the languid inertia of drink, drugs and sex. Putin is desperate to change his country. The kids in these photos are desperate to change their lives. That should be a recipe for hope, but in this lawless, rotting city, it has become a prescription for despair...