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...Vladimir Putin came to power in Russia; the Serbian people overthrew Slobodan Milosevic; South Korean President Kim Dae Jung put his country and North Korea on their best footing in 50 years; Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat failed to reach an Israeli-Palestinian agreement; and Vicente Fox ended 70 years of P.R.I. rule in Mexico through the ballot. To people outside the U.S., the presidential election was hardly the event that contributed the most to influencing the news, for better or worse, in 2000. JOAO LUIS HAMBURGER Sao Paulo...
...VLADIMIR GUSINSKY Anti-Putin media mogul faces new charges. A big nyet for press freedom...
Russian media and the BBC report that Ted Turner is trying, in a personal capacity, to buy into the embattled Russian independent media corporation Media Most. Critical coverage of the Russian government has made the company a prime target of President Vladimir Putin, and its chairman, Vladimir Gusinsky, is currently under house arrest in Spain awaiting extradition...
...only via Deutsche Bank, with the blessing of Gazprom. But Media Most officials say that Gazprom had informed Deutsche Bank that they were backing out of the deal, and that leaves NTV free to dispose of its stock as it chooses. But Andrei Tsimailo, deputy to Media Most chief Vladimir Gusinsky, today told Russian TV, 'As soon as we find an investor, the prosecutor's office shows up.' Last night, the prosecutor general sent a team to search Tsimailo's private apartment, just as he was about to leave for London to have discussions with a potential investor - maybe Turner...
...toward benevolence all on his own: North Korea's quirky Kim Jong Il reached out kindly to the previously abhorred, non-communist South, summiting gaily with its leader and making Korea's pacification seem, suddenly, like a living prospect. Changes in Russia were more ambiguous as the blank-faced Vladimir Putin took charge. He was at least a sober antidote to the fitful Boris Yeltsin, but his unmoved reaction to the submarine Kursk's demise and his unapologetic bludgeoning of Chechnya showed him to be less than inspiring. Africa's news was bleak. The world awoke this year...