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...Room--on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend. "It got zero coverage," says an aide. And the designated high point of Bush's trip to Europe last month--his speech in Warsaw calling for NATO expansion and a unified Europe--came a day before his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, so the press ignored...
...Room--on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend. "It got zero coverage," says an aide. And the designated high point of Bush's trip to Europe last month--his speech in Warsaw calling for NATO expansion and a unified Europe--came a day before his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, so the press ignored...
...Bush's visit for a summit meeting with the leaders of the 15 nations in the European Union, the most significant street protest was a mass mooning of the President. But once Bush had left for Warsaw, and then for a meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia, with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the mood turned ugly. The now familiar demonstrators against globalization tossed cobblestones at police, burned cars and smashed windows. Unable to move freely through the streets, the European leaders were forced to hold their customary dinner in the cordoned-off conference center rather than a classy restaurant. And police opened...
...President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that if the U.S. goes ahead and builds the system without agreement from Russia, his response will simply be to add to the number of nuclear warheads atop each missile in order to ensure Russia's ability to overwhelm a missile shield...
...politics are local for Vladimir Putin. For a few hours in Ljubljana this weekend he will be a world leader. He will look diffident and dignified in photo ops, engagingly youthful, speaking confidently and with apparent sincerity. Then he will go home to a country whose population once again declined by a quarter of a million people in the first three months of this year, whose infrastructure is on the verge of collapse and whose economy is crippled by corruption and bureaucracy. But while Bush and Putin are in their Slovenian castle, the Russian people will forget about their...