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...Chechen rebels' tactics over the years might at first simply conclude it was yet another front in the war on terror - a random act of violence perpetrated by Islamic militants bent on inflicting as much carnage as possible on the West, be it George Bush's U.S. or Vladimir Putin's Russia...
...Russia's Hermitage Museum, and his son, also Nikolai Zavadsky, 25; with theft; in St. Petersburg. Zavadsky senior confessed to helping his wife smuggle 53 items, including gifts to Russia's last Tsar, out of the Hermitage. A further 221 exhibits, worth some $5 million, remain missing, prompting President Vladimir Putin to order an inventory of all 50 million artworks kept in Russian museums. According to his lawyer, Zavadsky stole to buy insulin for his diabetic wife, whose curator's salary was well below the national average income. DIED. Robert McCullough, 64, who changed the U.S. civil-rights movement...
...called them "bastards" and promised to "crucify them." French President Jacques Chirac heated up the old Anglo-Franco rivalry at a 2005 summit in Russia. Unaware that a French journalist still had a microphone switched on, Chirac joked with German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Russian President Vladimir Putin that "the only thing [Britain has] ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease ... you can't trust people who cook as badly as that. After Finland [Britain is] the country with the worst food...
...real hero to the Chinese!" exclaimed a Chinese journalist at President Vladimir Putin's farewell briefing to press gathered for the G8 summit in St. Petersburg. Putin smiled modestly to thundering applause from the audience. Earlier, he had told them, "We believe that the summit has been a success." And it may have been, at least for Putin's own image. The agenda had been eclipsed by the flare-up of violence in the Middle East, and the U.S. had at the last minute denied Putin his coveted prize of World Trade Organization membership for Russia. But basking...
...summit produced little to show for Russia - or for the rest of the world, for that matter. But the spectacle and the attention may have done a lot for Vladimir Putin...