http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/05/23/013.html

1500 Demand Media Freedom


http://www.bakutoday.net/view.php?d=13470

Putin: Military Presence in Georgia not Important for Russia


http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/05/24/011.html

Putin Lashes Out at Baltics and Georgia
The Rollback of Democracy In Vladimir Putin's Russia By Peter Baker and Susan B. Glasser This article is adapted from "Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution," published today by Scribner. On a cold afternoon in the winter of 2004, Vladimir Putin summoned his long-serving prime minister to his Kremlin office. "Unfortunately," Putin told him, "I have to fire you." Mikhail Kasyanov was stunned. The Russian president gave no reason for the abrupt dismissal. Facing a national vote on his reelection just two weeks away, Putin had chosen a surprising time to shift governments. As he absorbed the news, Kasyanov assumed he would have to leave after the election. No, Putin corrected the prime minister. "I mean now." ...


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wo...stv8jun08.story

Russia Will Air Its View of the World