Snow sure makes it pretty!
By Michael McGuire, Tribune Staff Writer.
news correspondent. Quickly the conversation turned to war.
four-decade era of superpower hostility.
calling for an increase in defense spending.
you did it in Yugoslavia, then Iraq,' a young professional said.
of partnership with the United States in solving the world's problems.
journal USA-Canada Economics, Politics and Culture.
Shakhnazarov, director of a think tank founded by Gorbachev.
Clinton, who sent Yeltsin a letter explaining his decision to bomb Iraq.
capable of asserting its influence.
are suffering because of Bill Clinton's love affair with Monica Lewinsky.
powerless to do anything about it.
Russian media covered the American and British attack on Baghdad.
think. Rarely has the aftertaste of Cold War defeat seemed so bitter.
and nor would relations with the International Monetary Fund.
what kind of leader succeeds Boris Yeltsin (whose term expires in 2000).
flourishing western remedies from Harvard textbooks.
pensions and their monthly pay packets.
why anti-westernism is on the rise.
he feels able to utter it is a measure of the current climate.
talks with NATO counterparts in Brussels.
United States went ahead regardless, saying no fresh mandate was needed.
size of US forces present in the region, the paper argued.
manoeuvres based on a scenario for World War III.
political collapse of the Soviet Union,' the paper concluded.
U.S.-Russian relationship, senior American officials said Friday.
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
common interest, including Moscow's financial difficulties.
Afghanistan, and the Soviets recalled their ambassador from Washington.
capitals than to give vent to pique.
the Iraq crisis, but their efforts have failed, producing frustration.
last February to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
By Fred Hiatt, a member of the editorial page staff.
ruins, tuberculosis flares in Siberia. Who cares?
suggesting that maybe Russia didn't matter so much after all.
the eve of a scheduled Duma vote on the START II arms control treaty.
for us, are huge.' They just aren't sure what to do about it.
those, too, are of dwindling value.
uncertain laws and taxes that keep most foreign companies away.
McFaul said, it has also moved to the periphery of U.S. foreign policy.
but not enough to derail U.S. policy.
from the strategic partnership envisioned at the opening of this decade.
Russia that normal rules won't apply to it.
the world will be very different, and far more dangerous.
That understanding motivates those who continue to search for a U.S.
less attractive, options than those available today.