It is no surprise that Russia's idea of a second Europe centred on Moscow has little appeal to former Soviet republics.
The Russians have consistently refused to limit their tactical nuclear arms, and will surely continue to do so in the future, especially since Moscow has little incentive to negotiate limitations on such weapons when the numbers are so asymmetrical.
"Thus far, Western financial aid to Moscow has had little to do with catalyzing genuine economic reform and everything to do with compensating foreign suppliers who have been encouraged to invest and trade with the Soviet Union, " said Frank J.
But ideas mean little without funds and back in Moscow progress on implementing Kyoto is slow.
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But Mr Lukashenka could do little about the exchange rate in Moscow, where also the Belarussian rouble is bought and sold.
Under American pressure, the Palestinian Authority has now been persuaded to edge back a little from wholehearted support for the Moscow line.
But overall, she's doing a little bit of a sprint through Paris, a little bit of a sprint through Moscow -- just spending a day in each locale.
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Indeed, "success" regarding U.S. dealings with Moscow seems to amount to little more than doing whatever Boris Yeltsin demands.
There can be little doubt that the brewing crisis between Moscow and the Baltic states poses a far more significant challenge to the Soviet Union even than the loss of its Eastern European empire.
Absent what would amount to a new occupation of East Germany by the Soviet Union -- which each passing day makes more and more problematic for Moscow -- there is little that either the USSR or the Western allies can do to prevent the German peoples' decision to reunify.
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Although Russia had a lot of possession we controlled the first half and I was expecting a little bit more from Guus Hiddink's team in Moscow.
The BBC's Jon Leyne in Cairo says the meeting has revealed bitter divisions between the League and Moscow, with Russia finding out just how little support its policy on Syria has.
The mortgage market is still young: a startling aspect of Moscow's wild property-price boom is how little it is driven by mortgages.
According to Chechnya's Moscow-backed President Ramzan Kadyrov, the Tsarnaevs spent little time in Chechnya, a republic devastated by war between Russia and separatist rebels in the 1990s.
In truth, though, as Masha Lipman, of the Carnegie Moscow Centre, comments, today's Kremlinologists are little more reliable than were their predecessors, who would spend hours minutely scrutinising photographs of the politburo at Red Square parades.
Once Germany was defeated, Moscow would revert to prewar form, and the United States would have little leverage.
Lee has accumulated irrefutable, unclassified evidence of a dirty little secret: Those responsible for designing and deploying the Kremlin's ABM system around Moscow (which was allowed under the 1972 ABM Treaty) were under orders to use its radars and 8, 000-10, 000 surface-to-air interceptors to assemble an illegal nation-wide missile defense.
The fear is not that Messrs Putin and Bush will find it hard to talk, but that there is little left to talk about: the main argument over Iraq is over, the delayed Moscow treaty on disarmament has been ratified, and Russia is said to be paying more heed to American worries about its support for Iran's nuclear programme.
And then the authorities exhaled, relaxed a little bit, and remembered that there are more effective instruments than a call to die near Moscow.
Whether the greatest problem emerges from the Russian executive or legislative branches, there should be little doubt that the United States and its allies will shortly be confronted with a slew of serious new challenges from Moscow -- and must adjust its policies and personnel accordingly.
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