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...hopeful perspective comes to pass, the evolving reconciliation between the Poles and the Russians will be another milestone in the process of a larger European accommodation. It is only in recent years that a genuine and socially far-reaching reconciliation between Poland and Germany - bitter enemies in World War II - took place. And it is only a matter of decades since something similar happened between the Germans and the French. A Europe in which old enmities like that between Russia and Poland have been put aside will in turn make the relationship of the U.S. with Russia easier...
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...suicide bombers who blew herself up on the Moscow subway on March 29 had been hiding out in the area, and the security forces were bound to come looking for him and his cohorts. The hunt began on April 11, turning several square miles of forest into a war zone on Russia's southern flank. Now it seems clear that the more measured approach to fighting the insurgency in Russia, which had promised to bring development instead of more fighting to impoverished Dagestan, has been put aside...
Whatever the true connection between the subway bombings and the battle unfolding in the mountains of Dagestan, experts say Russia's war on terror has entered a brutal phase. "Now the heads of security forces have the green light to act with maximum harshness, including against the families of the terrorists," says Pavel Baev, an expert on the North Caucasus for the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo. It is a dramatic policy reversal. Just last year, Moscow was trying to create jobs and opportunities for young people while seeking to uproot the deep hatred many locals have...
Alexander Cherkasov, a board member of Russia's main human rights organization, Memorial, agrees that Russia appears to be returning to a harshness similar to the time of the war in Chechnya. "We're seeing a shift away from things like mass arrests and harsh interrogations toward the tactic of simply eliminating terror suspects," he says before turning sardonic. "Yes, of course this implies human rights violations. But human rights have been sort of a moot point in these regions for some time, and they will continue...