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...Bomb has not been published because of financial woes since the spring of 2005, when it printed its second—and final—issue, according to former H Bomb business manager Vladimir P. Djuric...
...that referendum but ultimately became a failed President, a point affirmed at the end of 1999 when he suddenly announced that Vladimir Putin, a former KGB man from Leningrad and Yeltsin's Prime Minister, would take over. In the final, pathetic chapter, Yeltsin evidently agreed to vanish from the political scene as long as Putin didn't pursue corruption cases against him. Putin then undid much of what Yeltsin had accomplished--tolerance (usually) of a free press, for example--and began to mold a Russia that is stronger, surer of itself yet more like the unforgiving Soviet state. Russia...
...Playing Politics Garry Kasparov, one of the greatest chess masters, continues to attract world attention with whatever moves he makes, and his challenging of Russian President Vladimir Putin is no different [April 9]. But real-life politics is not as simple as predicting your opponent's moves. In trying to wade through muddy and turbulent waters, Kasparov may get quite wet if not submerge completely. After all, he will be dealing with the darkest impulses of human beings, which don't yield easily predicted moves. It may be more meaningful for Kasparov to keep igniting the interest of young chess...
...After more than a decade of what he sincerely believed was his fight for democracy, Yeltsin surrendered his country and his subjects - whom he had so persistently urged to become citizens - to former KGB colonel Vladimir Putin. A few members of the democratic opposition still left now reproach Yeltsin for choosing a successor who dismantled the fragile freedoms Yeltsin had inaugurated. But the point was not his choice of successor as much as the method of succession, forgoing fair and transparent elections, simply announcing his resignation and appointment of Putin as his successor on New Year...
...many world leaders and senior statesmen that included two former U.S. Presidents flocked to the Cathedral of Christ the Savior to pay their last respects. The Orthodox Christian funeral was the first such for a Russian leader in the last 113 years. And there were full military honors, President Vladimir Putin solemnly walking behind the gun carriage bearing the coffin, and the artillery salute at the VIP Novodevichye cemetery, while the nation observed an official period of mourning, albeit truncated to a single...