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To: Bucky Katt who wrote (16498)	4/20/2005 2:02:33 PM
From: Bucky Katt	Respond to of 20773

Russia's Putin Has Too Much Power, Says Rice MOSCOW (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday Russian President Vladimir Putin had too much personal power and that Washington was closely watching the trial of oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Rice, ending her first visit to Moscow as Washington's top diplomat, said she had talked "pretty pointedly" to Putin about foreign investors' rights. A Moscow court is to hand down a verdict on April 27 in the fraud and tax evasion trial of Khodorkovsky, founder of the YUKOS oil firm. The case is widely seen as orchestrated by the Kremlin to punish him for his political ambitions. "People are really watching that for signals that indeed there is rule of law in Russia," Rice told reporters en route to her next stop, the Baltic state of Lithuania, where she touched down on Wednesday evening. _________ The pot calling the kettle black?