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...crackdown on contrary voices at home, exemplified by the arrest this week of anti-Kremlin media mogul - and erstwhile Primakov backer - Vladimir Gusinsky has been widely interpreted as a signal that domestic dissent will not be tolerated by the Kremlin's new leadership. But while Western leaders may have expected a more authoritarian regime from Putin in the wake of his ruthless handling of Chechnya and his staring down of Western criticism of same, his vigorous foreign-policy offensive against Washington has caught them off guard. Not only has Putin refused to accede to U.S. demands to renegotiate the Antiballistic...
Even Stalin was fond of citing the fiction that his prosecutors were independent and beyond his control. And that's why Russians will take little comfort in President Vladimir Putin's suggestion, while traveling in Spain, that he knew nothing about the arrest this week of anti-Kremlin media mogul Vladimir Gusinsky. Gusinsky, the oligarch whose Media-MOST company operates radio, TV and print media critical of President Putin's administration, was arrested Tuesday, purportedly on charges of stealing $10 million in state property, and taken to a 19th-century prison where he'll have to wait 10 days before...
...country that knows the capricious terror of Stalinism, the magnitude of Gusinsky's arrest is not being underestimated. "This spells the beginning of the end of freedom of speech in Russia, which has been the only tangible benefit the country has gained since the collapse of the Soviet system," says Zharakovich. And it's not only Putin critics who see the media mogul's arrest as an ill omen. Even Boris Berezovsky - the oligarch most closely connected with Putin's rise, and a mortal enemy of Gusinsky because of business and political rivalry - has expressed disquiet. "Berezovsky, who actually wanted...
...father in 1983 - and against whose supporters Hafez and Bashar, of late, have conducted a campaign of violent harassment. Rifaat made clear Monday that, having held the title of deputy president before his ouster, he, and not Bashar, should succeed Hafez Assad. Syria's security forces have pledged to arrest the outcast uncle should he attempt to come home, but that hasn't stopped him from stirring up trouble...
UNDER HOUSE ARREST. SUHARTO, 78, former President of Indonesia who resigned amid civil chaos in 1998; for an investigation into charges of corruption and abuse of power; in Jakarta...