9. US-Russia Relations
The Financial Times, "(Stefan Wagstyl, "CHENEY HITS AT PUTIN OVER ENERGY 'BLACKMAIL' *FIERCE ATTACK ON KREMLIN'S GROWING AUTHORITARIANISM," May 5, 2006) reported that Dick Cheney, US vice-president, yesterday criticised the rule of Vladimir Putin, Russian president, warning the Kremlin against using gas and oil supplies as "tools of intimidation and blackmail" and accusing the Russian authorities of "unfairly" restricting citizens' rights. It was the strongest public rebuke by a senior US official of Russia's growing authoritarianism and its increasing willingness to employ energy policy for political ends.
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