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To: lurqer who wrote (39083)	3/8/2004 11:40:07 PM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

As I read the lines The Kremlin appears to be genuinely taken aback by the growing disaster that is President Vladimir Putin's image abroad. Both administration officials and Russian journalists ... find it hard to appreciate that what plays well at home often creates a quite opposite impression abroad. I couldn't help but think of a similar reaction closer to home. Putin's image problem abroad The Kremlin appears to be genuinely taken aback by the growing disaster that is President Vladimir Putin's image abroad. Both administration officials and Russian journalists ... find it hard to appreciate that what plays well at home often creates a quite opposite impression abroad. The hard line taken by Putin over Chechen separatism, for example, is popular in Russia, while it is condemned as ruthless and shortsighted abroad. The enforced exile of several "oligarchs" and the continued imprisonment without trial of Sergei Khodorkovsky, former head of the Yukos oil company, are applauded by many Russians, who see these super-rich individuals as thieves and parasites. They do not realize that abroad their treatment looks more like political persecution, laced with anti-Semitism, as most of the targets have been Jews. The "all Putin all the time" newscasts on state-owned channels and the closure of independent television stations are greeted with equanimity in Russia. iht.com lurqer