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| Tue, 30 Aug 2005 08:00:00 EST Insiders talking up Rice's ?08 chances |
| Uninspired so far by the leading 2008 GOP presidential crop, administration officials are suggesting anew that Secretary of State Condi Rice would make a good opponent for likely Democratic candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. |
| Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:00:00 EST Correction |
| In my August 25 post I made a mistake. |
| Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:00:00 EST Empire of the czar |
| If you want to read something truly alarming about Vladimir Putin's regime in Russia, read Anders Aslund's report published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Aslund, who has been writing perceptively about Russia since the late 1980s, says that Putin since the March 2004 election has succeeded in removing all centers of power but his own, and that he has made one public blunder after another—launching the Khodorovsky prosecution, botching the Beslan school hostage seizure, intervening unsuccessfully in the election in Ukraine and ineffectively reforming social benefits. He writes that "the positive status quo ante can hardly be restored" and speculates that Putin may be forced to step down before his term ends in 2008, by a coup of KGB veterans or by a popular uprising. |
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