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Having taken at least some lessons from U.S. politicians, Russian President Vladimir Putin says that his critics abroad are undermining his country's battle against terrorism. In a rare three-and-one-half hour meeting with foreign scholars and journalists, including TIME, Putin Monday claimed that "some circles" in the West were encouraging separatist movements in Chechnya and other parts of the troubled Caucasus region on Russia's southern borders in order to keep Russia weak and distracted. He accused unidentified politicians, security services and commentators in several countries, including the U.S., France, Germany and the U.K., of meddling...
...Putin's remarks, U.S. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said Wednesday that Washington doesn't talk to terrorists, but would continue its discussions with dissenting Chechen officials whether Moscow liked it or not. That brought an immediate rejoinder from Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who called Boucher's remarks "anti-Russian...
...Meanwhile, Putin's government and its Chechen opponents have begun a strange bidding war. The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) offered a reward of US $10.3 million to anyone who could help them capture Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov and his field commander Shamil Basaev, believed to be one of the architects of last week's school siege. A few hours later, Maskhadov's government-in-exile upped the ante by posting a US $20m reward for the capture of "the war criminal" Putin...
...Russian plane sabotage; why the swift-boat story won't go away; Rumsfeld and the prison scandals; homophobic reggae gets a little...
...makes some paintings especially valuable--fame--makes them very difficult to fence on the black market. The Scream, an image nearly everybody knows, is not the kind of thing an unscrupulous buyer could hang in his mansion in plain sight. For that matter, it's hard to imagine some Russian kleptocrat or Colombian drug lord lusting to own anything by the gloomy, sepulchral Munch, not so long as there's an Impressionist landscape to be had instead...