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Speaking through a translator at the Institute of Politics, as well as at an earlier question-and-answer session with reporters, Gorbachev said repeatedly that Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Russia should be respected. The elections, which President Vladimir V. Putin’s United Russia party won with 64.1 percent of the vote, have drawn criticism from international observers...
...possible. For his undisputed contribution to ending the Cold War, Gorbachev remains a source of hope and inspiration. Unfortunately, the transition to democracy that he initiated in Russia is far from complete. The parliamentary elections that took place on Sunday, which cemented the power of the autocratic Russian President Vladimir Puttin, were nothing but a tragic comedy. Putin’s party won the election—a run up to the presidential election to succeed Putin in title, but likely not power, next March—in a landslide. United Russia gained a projected 315 seats...
There was little surprise in the results of Russia's parliamentary election Sunday, with Vladimir Putin's party appearing to have won two-thirds of the vote. Given the extensive use of state resources to tilt the political playing field entirely in the favor of the ruling party, the outcome was all but predetermined. But the more telling fact may be that Putin's managed election victory has caused so little public discontent outside of small liberal enclaves of the middle class and die-hard supporters of the Communist Party. That lack of an outcry is just further proof that...
...sure, Bush isn't as good a diplomat as he thinks he is. He likes to tout two tactics: a hard-knuckle approach he credits with bringing the North Koreans to the table, and the personal rapport he claims to have developed with leaders like Russia's Vladimir Putin. Being able to look fellow leaders in the eye and call them by their first name, Bush thinks, makes it easier to put tough demands on the table. But foreign diplomats say he lacks subtlety in both approaches, forcing black-and-white decisions on adversaries and focusing on individual leaders instead...
...India's visitors are European. The country has also hosted high-profile visitors like Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Hu Jintao and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva this year. And among its "strategic partners" - a term India accords to countries whose long-term interests dovetail with India's - are not only the E.U., but the U.S., Japan, Russia, China, Israel and Iran. New Delhi, it seems, is flirting with all and promising marriage to none...