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...Sergei Ivanov, resolutely opposes U.S. deployments in Uzbekistan, for fear that the Americans won't leave. But another faction holds that Russia has already lost some of its Central Asian possessions, and instead of trying to hold on against the tide should be cooperating with the Americans to advance Russian interests on a range of other fronts. President Vladimir Putin is believed to lean more to the latter view. And Russia's own interest in toppling the Taliban, manifested in its long-term support for the opposition forces, has made it more gung-ho than most allies on pressing...
...world has become a terrifying place, but sometimes the terror is purely accidental. Although a Russian chartered airliner that crashed in the Black Sea Thursday with 77 people aboard appears to have been brought down by an explosion, early reports of possible terrorist involvement may have been premature...
...surprising that the Black Sea air disaster raised fears of terrorism. After all, the flight originated in Israel and most of its passengers were Israeli. The crew of a nearby Armenian Airlines plane reported seeing an explosion aboard the doomed plane, before it spun down into the sea. And Russian and Ukrainian media have been reporting for some time that ethnic Tatar villages in the Crimea had been giving shelter to rebel fighters from Chechnya, and that some Tatar Islamists had even volunteered to fight in Chechnya. Russia's President Vladimir Putin immediately expressed suspicions of terrorism...
...Although the airliner in question has a poor safety record - some 28 of 923 Tupolev 154s produced since 1968 have crashed - Russian State Civil Aviation Service chief Alexander Neradko rules out any technical malfunction, saying this incident was unprecedented in its suddenness. In all previous crashes, the crew had been able to inform air controllers of trouble aboard. The Tupolev in question was built in 1991, and had undergone a total overhaul in 1999. Yevgeni Garov, its captain, is said to have been an experienced pilot...
Weiss’s piece, “The Four Temperaments,” was originally choreographed by Balanchine, the Russian-born ballet dancer and choreographer who moved ballet away from fairy tales and fluffy tutus and instead emphasized balance and angular, technical movement...