posted on March 1, 2003 05:49:16 AM new
The New York Times has a very good article on the pressure that the Bush administration is placing on Russia. It also underscores how desperately it needs the UN support. The article contains a fairly detailed analysis.
MOSCOW
Putin Again Rejects U.S. Calls for Support of a War, Fearing Effect on the Mideast
By MICHAEL WINES
MOSCOW, Feb. 28 — Once again and with fervor, President Vladimir V. Putin today rebuffed American calls to support a possible military campaign in Iraq, arguing in an interview that war could throw the Islamic world into turmoil and that "a crisis of this kind should be solved by exclusively peaceful means."
