with David Sattervia Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty
Friday, June 29, 2007
As the July 1-2 summit of Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President George W. Bush approaches, RFE/RL Washington correspondent Vladimir Abarinov asks former "Financial Times" Moscow correspondent and author David Satter what he believes will be accomplished at the Bush family estate in Kennebunkport....
You can expect to see pictures of President Vladimir Putin, not exactly your seafaring type, being whipped around the choppy Kennebunkport waters by Father Bush in his beloved sleek-nosed fast boat....
On the eve of the Bush- Putin summit meeting in Kennebunkport, four members of a Russian-American study group organized by the Hudson Institute said today that the present Russian regime is moving toward "a durable system of anti-Western authoritarian rule" and called on the U.S. to counteract this tendency by demonstrating strict fidelity to democratic principles...
For well over a century now, the idea that something about modernity will ultimately cause religion to wither away has been practically axiomatic among modern, sophisticated Westerners...
