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Foreign policy never seems to come easily to the Bush Administration. Consider the controversial light-water nuclear plant that Iran is building, with Russian help, at the Persian Gulf port of Bushehr. The prospect of Iran's mullahs controlling a 1,000-MW reactor capable of generating plutonium has worried Washington for years. With Tehran facing an Oct. 31 deadline for coming clean on its nuclear ventures, you'd think the Administration would have a clear take on Bushehr. Think again. There's the conciliatory view: "We could conceive of them keeping the reactor," says a senior State Department aide...
Paul Quinn-Judge's report on the ongoing war in Chechnya was insightful [WORLD, Oct. 13]. For all Russian President Vladimir Putin's efforts to conflate Russia's bloody quagmire in Chechnya with America's global struggle against terrorism, the truth was made abundantly clear in Quinn-Judge's article. Chechnya is truly a forgotten heart of darkness, and its people are suffering the gravest crimes against humanity. The localized Chechen conflict has dynamics that are unrelated to al-Qaeda's terrorist struggle against the West. Thank you for reminding us of the Chechens, who seem to have been forgotten...
CHARGED. MIKHAIL KHODORKOVSKY, 40, chief of the Russian oil giant Yukos and the wealthiest of the country's "oligarchs," who made quick fortunes after the Soviet Union's collapse by acquiring cheap state property; with fraud and tax evasion; by prosecutors in Moscow, after special forces surrounded his plane at an airport in Siberia. The dramatic move, part of an ongoing probe into Yukos, was seen by skeptics as a Kremlin-led effort to keep the tycoon, who has funded opposition parties, out of politics...
...Number of Russian coal miners rescued after spending six days trapped underground. Mining accidents caused 68 deaths in Russia...
...added that the incident had not changed his views on the Russian economy...