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...Belarus and Georgia to wriggle free of its tutelage. The Russian authorities have hinted that countries in Western Europe ought to avoid annoying them, too. Exports of gas and oil, moreover, have balanced the Russian budget and enabled the government to take unprecedented initiatives, which Putin mentioned in his address. As billions of petrochemical dollars pour into the nation's coffers, he seeks to reinvigorate its scientific base. The down-at-heels research institutes are to receive immense subsidies, and the brain drain of scientists to America is to be blocked off. Putin wants the state to play its traditional...
...Europe. Gone are the days when Russia was content to be in the audience rather than onstage. And by playing along diplomatically with Kazakhstan, Putin hopes to enhance both Russia's prestige and authority and his own. Crucial to this end is the revival of Russian armed power. The address to the Federal Assembly touched on this in ways that have tended to escape the attention of foreign observers. Recognizing the inefficiency of a massive conscript army, Putin aims to increase the proportion of volunteer recruits and to modernize their equipment. More strikingly, he has announced a program of shipbuilding...
...generation come up with new terms and new ways to promote the same offensive expressions? -C. Videgain, Brooklyn, N.Y.I hope so. I hope there will always be an outlet for pain in these communities. It's something we have to address...
...services, increase teacher pay by $300 million and reduce the state's overcrowded classrooms, convene a summit on global warming, promote stem-cell research and restore voting rights to felons who complete their sentences (which he did last month). At one point during Crist's State of the State address in March, delighted African-American legislators broke into call-and-response chants with the Governor, as if they were in a black church...
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