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Putin's shift away from the West linked to Beslan and Bush era ties
Washington Post columnist David Ignatius discusses declassified Bush era memos showing Putin felt betrayed by U S leadership after Beslan in 2004. The piece traces how a faltering counterterrorism alliance, U S asylum policies for Chechens, and NATO expansion shaped Putin toward a harsher stance, culminating in today’s conflict.
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Vladimir Putin
Ukraine
KGB
Soviet Union
NATO
George W. Bush
Bush
United States
Russia
Putin
America
Belsan
North Ossetia
Pravda
Osama bin Laden
Beslan
European Court of Human Rights
Syria
Kremlin
West
Thomas Graham
National Security Council
U.S
Eurasia
Graham
Barack Obama
Obama
Condoleezza Rice
Rice
Afghanistan
Bush Nsc
CIA
al- Qaeda
Uzbekistan
Kyrgyzstan
George J. Tenet
Northern Alliance
Sergei Ivanov
Ivanov
Belfer Center
Harvard Kennedy School
Belfer
Ilyas Akhmadov
Akhmadov
John McCain
R-Ariz
National Endowment For Democracy
Chechnya
North Caucasus
Viktor Yushchenko
Viktor Yanukovych
Bush Administration
Munich
William J. Burns
David Ignatius
Washington Post News Service & Syndicate