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...Lady Macbeth; wives without are dubbed dull. What's more, the most casual comment about your spouse can generate headlines. In a rare interview last week, Lyudmila Putin let slip that her husband comes home late and doesn't often discuss his day at the office. Russian President Vladimir Putin "works too hard," she said, adding that his long hours make him forget that "one needs not only to work but also to live." Judging by the recent chorus of complaints from leading ladies, there's more than one international leader who could stand to spend more time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Desperate First Wives | 6/5/2005 | See Source »

...giant Yukos, who became the country's wealthiest oligarch after the collapse of the Soviet Union; on charges including tax evasion and fraud; ending a nearly yearlong trial that critics claimed was part of a politically motivated campaign by the Kremlin to deter the billionaire from financing opposition to Vladimir Putin; in Moscow. Khodorkovsky, whose dwindled fortune was once estimated at $15 billion, was sentenced to nine years in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 13, 2005 | 6/5/2005 | See Source »

...massive slander of Stalin. The restoration of the country cannot happen without the full truth about him. To speak the truth about Stalin today ... helps strengthen the will and spirit of our people and contribute to the salvation of our fatherland in a difficult and dangerous time." President Vladimir Putin has not gone as far as Yazov, but he has long been unwilling to condemn Stalin. He recently described the collapse of the Soviet Union as "the greatest disaster of the 20th century." And earlier this month, Putin once again defended Stalin's infamous annexation of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hell No, We Want Joe! | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

...That's an assessment he shares with the U.S. President. "After a succession of statesmen?Jiang Zemin, Vladimir Putin, Kim Dae Jung, Sweden's Goran Persson, Madeleine Albright?have returned home to tell us how rational, well informed, witty, charming, and deeply popular Kim Jong Il is, President Bush's judgement that Kim is loathsome seems the only honest and truthful one," Becker writes. He measures Kim's odiousness not just in nuclear weapons but in corpses. Kim and his father, Kim Il Sung, are responsible for the deaths of millions of North Koreans, he estimates, including as many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Deadly Dictator | 5/14/2005 | See Source »

...continent, made little mention of the 1945 defeat of the Nazi regime. He focused instead on the brutal occupation of Eastern Europe by Soviet troops after the war’s conclusion. The president’s comments came as Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, wrote in a French newspaper that his government would not give in to demands from Baltic countries for an apology for Soviet domination during the Cold...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg, | Title: Cowboy Diplomacy | 5/13/2005 | See Source »

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