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...only American to work inside the St. Petersburg administration with Vladimir V. Putin (from 1992 to 1996), I commend TIME for the accuracy and completeness of its report on Putin and his election as President of Russia [WORLD, April 3]. He is an extraordinary man. I was assigned to his international-relations committee and found him to be charming (yes), drolly humorous, enormously capable and totally appreciative of Western democratic values. I predict that he will sometimes exasperate and disappoint us, often disagree with us, but more often please us with his bold and clever actions to strengthen Russia...
President-elect Vladimir Putin may have convinced Russia's lawmakers that there's a new sheriff in town, but that isn't giving those accused of corruption much cause for alarm. Putin on Wednesday succeeded where President Boris Yeltsin had twice failed - by getting Russia's upper chamber of parliament to dismiss general prosecutor Yuri Skuratov, Moscow's equivalent of the attorney general. But getting rid of Skuratov, who had refused to back down on an investigation into corruption inside the Kremlin - and then was publicly humiliated by a video showing him in bed with prostitutes - may be a sign...
After reading your story on Vladimir Putin [April 3], I realized why our leaders are probably worried about Russia's new President. The intensity, self-discipline, focus and pragmatism possessed by Putin are alien and scary to the louts we get to vote for. I wish we had a guy like that. MARTIN SMITH Chillicothe, Ohio...
...Russian president-elect Vladimir Putin wants no part of a missile shield, and has told Washington that Moscow won't begin abiding by the Start II treaty until the Senate approves those side agreements. "The administration now finds itself caught between a Russian rock and the right wing," says Joseph Cirincione, director of the Carnegie Non-Proliferation Project. Clinton may face the embarrassing spectacle of having the Senate sink an arms-control treaty it has already ratified...
...Peru's traditional guarantor of power is the military. Fujimori has worked assiduously for years to cultivate support among the generals, but even there, his leadership style may have alienated important elements. "Fujimori put his intelligence chief, Vladimir Montesinos, in charge of the military, and Montesinos has, in turn, put his own cronies in charge of the different branches," says McGirk. "But Montesinos was dishonorably discharged from Peru's army in the '70s for selling secrets to the U.S., and there's considerable resentment against him in the officer corps. And Toledo's not exactly a fire-breathing leftist...