Outraged nations back retaliation
America's friends and foes around the world condemned the terrorist assaults Tuesday on New York and Washington with words of horror and outrage, and many called for an international counterattack...
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RUSSIA DENOUNCES OUSTERS AS `RETURN TO THE COLD WAR’
Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said Thursday that he expected Russia to expel 50 American diplomats in a response commensurate to U.S. expulsions linked to the Robert Hanssen espionage case. With...
GRIM PRISON BEING RESTORED AS REMINDER OF SOVIET-ERA CRUELTY
Russians still find it hard to face their brutal 20th Century. This is a lesson of Perm 36. Perm 36 used to be a maximum-security labor camp for Soviet Union...
LIKE BOSS, RUSSIA’S NO. 2 SHUNS SPOTLIGHT
Mikhail Kasyanov shares some qualities with his boss, Russian President Vladimir Putin. Kasyanov is youngish, 42 to Putin's 47. He is well-traveled and comfortable with his Western counterparts. He has...
GRISLY CHECHNYA VIDEO HAS RUSSIA ON DEFENSIVE
Graphic video footage of Chechen men piled into a mass grave has turned up international pressure on Russia over the conduct of its 6-month-old war in the breakaway southern republic....
PUTIN EMBODIES RUSSIA’S HOPE TO END DECAY, DESPAIR
Take a tour of Belaya Kalitva, and you take a tour of Russia. Take a tour with Alexander Yemelin, and you take a tour of the Russian psyche. Yemelin, the...
NIGHTMARE STRIKES AT DAWN
At 3 a.m., some of the men of Bela Crkva were still up, because they knew what might happen. Almost everyone else was awakened by the unmistakable sound of clanking...
THE KILLING FIELDS OF KOSOVO
Thousands of Yugoslav troops and police pulled out of the central Pristina area of Kosovo on Tuesday to meet a midnight NATO deadline for withdrawal, as ethnic Albanians reported at...
ANOTHER RUN OF SOUR NOTES IN OLYMPIC SCANDAL
Kim Un Yong of South Korea, the International Olympic Committee member already linked to the Salt Lake City Olympic corruption scandal through favors done for his son, also intervened with...
YELTSIN VOWS REFORM, WITH `ADJUSTMENTS’
An insistent President Clinton met with a beleaguered Boris Yeltsin on Tuesday and told the Russian president he has to stick with free-market economic policies even though his nation is...