Posted on 11/26/2004 1:24:39 PM PST by Cutterjohnmhb
Power Struggle Russian President Vladimir Putin engaged in a decisive battle for Ukraine yesterday at the Russia–EU summit in the Dutch city of The Hague. In the opinion of special Kommersant correspondent Andrey Kolesnikov, by the end of the press conference all of its participants had lost their taste for life except the Russian president. The Russian president's advance plane with part of the delegation and journalists took off from Moscow for The Hague a little before the “main flight”. There had been fine weather in Amsterdam and The Hague the day before. The sun was shining (this is important). The flight from Moscow to Amsterdam takes two hours. Of course, the fact that there was fog there had been known since morning. But apparently there was hope that it would dissipate.
Hope died when the plane began circling above the airport. This went on for about half an hour. As a result, it was decided to send the “advance flight” to Brussels, closer to the European Commission headquarters. At a military airport there we waited more than two hours for a decision on our fate.
(Excerpt) Read more at kommersant.com ...
Plus, there is family somewhere...
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Hi unspun, I'm just getting back online after 4 days so missed your ping earlier.
I'm disappointed in Putin, I thought he was a nice guy when he was over here talking to the school kids and talking about wearing his Mothers gold Cross.
You never know about people.
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