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The political scientist said that President Viktor Yushchenko was well aware his authority as the president would be undermined if "gas princess", who made a fortune in the energy business before entering politics in the mid-1990s, regained a leading role in the Cabinet. The Ukrainian leader fired Tymoshenko as prime minister a little over eight months after they had come to power.
A regional security alliance of Russia, China and four ex-Soviet Central Asian nations can become a global player in the fight against terrorism, a senior Russian official said Wednesday. 
Any ideas of a military solution, which officials in Washington have refused to rule out, "are counter-productive and could not be supported," Lavrov said.
"We have received a list of questions from our American colleagues that require additional agreements that we thought had been settled long ago," Putin told a meeting of top businessmen at the Kremlin. "The negotiations process is being artificially set back."



