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While his background includes both solid security credentials and an association with Russia?s reformist politicians, it?s clear that the former played the major role in bringing Putin to power - and therein lies a harsh message for the West. Yeltsin had established a working relationship with Washington based on...
Good thing Russia doesn't have chain restaurants spread all over the world, because the Chechens appear to have some very angry friends. Four rocket-propelled grenades slammed into the Russian embassy in downtown Beirut, Monday, killing two policemen and recalling that city's heyday as the mayhem capital of...
Although the early phases of the campaign - in which Russian losses were minimal due to a heavy-bombardment strategy - earned then-prime minister Putin unprecedented popularity for a neophyte government official, fierce Chechen resistance has slowed Moscow's momentum and raised the specter of heavy Russian casualties. That could pose...
To the disappointment of survivalists, millenialists, and journalists everywhere, the much-hyped Y2K bug failed to bring about the end of civilization. At the very least, weren't all those third-world markets still running on old TRS-80s supposed to drag our shiny new mainframes down with them? Apparently...
Of course they did. In Japan, for example, computers in the Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima Number 2 nuclear plant, located north of Tokyo, spontaneously reset their dates to February 2036. The date problem caused some important information on the position of the plant's control rods not to...