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...life, warriors are judged by their prowess on the battlefield; in death, by the manner of their dying. When Russian special forces cornered Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov in a basement in the village of Tolstoy Yurt, Chechnya, last week, they offered him the chance to surrender. When he refused, the Russians say, they blasted the concrete bunker in which he was hiding, killing him in the process. That final gesture of defiance has transformed Maskhadov's reputation. For years, many former comrades disdained him as a weak political leader who, after a victorious war of secession against Russia...
...Around that time, he was hiding in a village in the high, densely forested hills of the Nozhai Yurt district, another 40 km to the east. As so often in the past, he was living under his enemy's nose. The village was nominally under the control of pro-Russian Chechen forces; Tsentoroy, Kadyrov's home base, is only around 20 km away. Maskhadov was planning to move on toward Achkhoy Martan in western Chechnya. When his security detail failed to make contact, the guerrillas started calling down the chain of Maskhadov's liaison agents. Using some of his many...
...pieces, “Petroleo,” grey-and-beige collaged images of anatomical drawings and sketches of a motorcycle are punctuated by vibrant red flags and red Russian text. The piece, White explains, celebrates the ingenuity of the Cuban people in the face of restrictive political circumstances. Made up of mismatched industrial parts, the motorcycle expresses the Cubans’ ability to manipulate a broken system and turn it into something...
...much and consumes too little. If the U.S. had not gone on a relative consumption binge from 1998 to today, wherein consumption went from 67% to 71% of GDP, we would have suffered not a multiyear bear market but a global deflationary depression precipitated by the Asian collapse, the Russian debt default and the failure of Long Term Capital Management...
...business in 1996; privatization began in 1998. The business that I launched was in trade. My past life does - and my future life will - show that I love my country and want to serve it. Russia has put your name on the Interpol wanted list for alleged bribes to russian military officials. I'm sure that now all those corruption charges will crumble. Russia has placed itself in an awkward situation, but I'm quite willing to help Russia get out of this with the hope that our relationship will be equal and friendly. How will you reassure people...