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Article: RUSSIA: DUMA FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE HEAD SAYS RUSSIA SHOULD NOT IGNORE OPINION OF WEST.(Brief Article)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
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- September 19, 2004
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Addressing U.S. concerns about President Putin's proposed political reforms, Duma Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Konstantin Kosachev (Unified Russia) said Russia cannot simply brush off the criticisms of its policy from the West, TV-Tsentr reported. "We should not be so confrontational as [former Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei] Gromyko, but not as pro-Western as [former Foreign Minister Andrei] Kozyrev," he said. "We should explain to the United States and the ...