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Inscrutability is a prerequisite for spies, but it?s not traditionally a presidential attribute. Yet Russians woke up to their New Year?s day hangovers to find themselves ruled by a man who has never given a press conference and whose official biography is only eight lines long. Even those...
These things we do know about Putin: He's 47, married, joined the KGB?s foreign intelligence directorate after graduating college in 1975, and - officially, at least - spent most of his KGB career stationed in East Germany monitoring political attitudes there. He returned to Leningrad in 1989, where he took...
Putin?s years in the KGB, followed by his association with some of the key reformers in the post-communist period raise more questions than they answer. "Although some now say Putin was involved in economic espionage in Western Europe, others say he was a low level political commissar type...
And it's undeniably a part of the world, this killing of man by man; am I so lofty that the job should never fall to me? It probably won't; wars are too small these days to require the trigger fingers of a journalist in the Reserves. The Army...
PAST DISPATCHES He's in the Army Now. Well, Almost... Sgt. Bilko Was Much More Fun Than These Guys Hey! These Sweat Suits Aren't Camouflaged! Yes, Sergeant ? It Is Night and I Am Jogging These Boots Weren't Made for Marching Learning to Swallow the Big D ? Discipline Just...