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...Yuri Kobaladze, a onetime KGB general turned businessman, says Putin's life changed when he bumped into former Leningrad law lecturer Anatoli Sobchak in a corridor early in 1990. Sobchak asked what he was doing. "I'm doing nothing," Putin replied. "My career's not a success because they told me to come back here. I have nothing to do here." "Join me," said Sobchak. Sobchak was dazzling the city with his promises of democracy and reform. Putin was ready to make a "real break," says a close Putin aide. "People had the feeling Sobchak was someone they could...
...which Putin signed off on only three weeks ago, defined the U.S. not as Russia's partner, but as its primary strategic rival. Analysts have likened Putin to former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet - who conducted free-market economic reforms under an iron-fisted political regime - and even to Yuri Andropov, the former KGB chief who ruled the Soviet Union in the early '80s and pressed for modernization of the economy while maintaining an authoritarian grip on society and a competitive relationship with the West. Putin appears to have made the right noises on economics and arms control, but stood...
...With reporting by Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow
...assume that the streets of Grozny are littered with corpses. Russia also confirmed that one of its senior generals had been either captured or killed by Chechen forces in Grozny. "Russia?s leaders are desperate to capture Grozny, and they?ll eventually do it," says TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich. "But the Chechens will make it a lot bloodier, and a lot slower, than the Russians expect." Part of the reason for Moscow's new sense of urgency is the specter of European economic sanctions, which may be imposed as early as next week. "While Europe wouldn't stop humanitarian...
...With reporting by Jay Branegan, Massimo Calabresi, James Carney and Mark Thompson/Washington and Andrew Meier and Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow