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...make their own decisions while Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov categorically ruled out "even a hypothetical possibility" of a NATO military presence in Moscow's former territories, which it still considers an integral part of its sphere of influence. To underscore that view, Secretary of the Security Council General Vladimir Rushailo and Chief Of General Staff Anatoli Kvashnin traveled to Central Asia. Kvashnin had said last week: "Russia has not considered and is not planning to consider participation in a military operation against Afghanistan" as he reminded the Central Asian "their relevant bilateral and other obligations" to Russia...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has pledged a full range of assistance to President Bush in the U.S. anti-terrorist operation, including the use of Russian airspace. Putin also told Bush that he would personally urge leaders of the former Soviet republics in Central Asia, to join the anti-terrorist coalition as well. A ranking diplomatic source told TIME that Putin made the pledge on Saturday in an hour-long telephone conversation with Bush while the Russian President was taking a break from a six-hour cabinet meeting at his Black Sea dacha at Sochi...
...lower one for Powell. She has expanded her original role as "traffic cop" to include public explanations of policy, like her speech at the National Press Club two months ago, while great communicator Powell has been strangely silent. Rice, not Powell, went to Moscow to jawbone Russian President Vladimir Putin into dropping the 1972 ABM treaty that is blocking Bush's missile-defense plans...
...lower one for Powell. She has expanded her original role as "traffic cop" to include public explanations of policy, like her speech at the National Press Club two months ago, while great communicator Powell has been strangely silent. Rice, not Powell, went to Moscow to jawbone Russian President Vladimir Putin into dropping the 1972 ABM treaty that is blocking Bush's missile-defense plans...
...President ordered the Kursk raised. But the President is not professional in this field. He has to trust his advisers. But neither (Deputy Premier Ilya) Klebanov, or (Russian Navy's C-in-C Vladimir) Kuroyedov are professionals in this field either...