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...apparent attempt to defuse tension over the issue, Vladimir Lukin, Russia's Ambassador to Washington, has been advocating a so-called zero-game agreement banning mutual snooping. At a recent Washington dinner party, Lukin turned to CIA director Robert Gates and asked, "So when are we going to get together and make some new rules for spying on each other?" Even as Washington decries Russian espionage activity, the U.S. itself continues to snoop. It spent $30 billion on espionage last year, and recently profoundly irritated Moscow by deploying the eavesdropping attack submarine U.S.S. Baton Rouge close to major Russian naval...
...Vladimir Lukin, who is about to become ambassador to Washington, has impeccable reformist credentials: as a young journalist in Czechoslovakia in 1968, he bravely opposed the Soviet invasion. Now he is urging patience on the part of everyone -- Ukrainians, Russians and outsiders. "An enlightened and balanced championship of both Russian and Ukrainian interests," he says, "is the only weapon against Zhirinovsky and the extreme nationalists." Translation: if Yeltsin yields too much, too fast to Kiev, he will be swept away by a coalition of demagogues bent on exploiting the hardships of the citizenry and die-hard believers...
...Lukin and Zorkin had traveled to New York City to meet with Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin, according to Dillon Professor of Government Graham T. Allison '62, who moderated the forum...
...Lukin has encouraged Yeltsin to take a strong stand in its dispute with Ukraine over control of the Black Sea Fleet, said Lloyd, a former British journalist of the year...
...Lukin has also said that Russian President Boris Yeltsin may need to cut his ties with the increasingly unpopular government, according to Lloyd...